Final Animatic - From Script to Screen

Crit - From Script to Screen

Crit

From Script to Screen - Prop Camera Concept Art

From Script to Screen - Character Biographies

Character Biographies

From Script to Screen - Script amendments

From Script to Screen script final

From Script to Screen - Caroline's Office Progression

From Script to Screen - Submission Disc Artwork

From Script to Screen - Art Of - Caroline and the Clown

My wacom tablet has developed a fault and these two concepts were almost done except the face, I was going to revisit them at a later time to complete them further. 

From Script to Screen - Insuranco Interior

This is as far as I got before my Wacom tablet developed a fault, I needed to do the concept art for Caroline's office and also the burned out property. I am hoping I can complete these tomorrow as well as my final concepts and animatic.

From Script to Screen - Insuraco Exterior Step by Step

I have decided to go for an oil pastel look in my production art, I wanted to try a different style and I think it aids my projection very nicely. This is Insuraco the building where Caroline is pulled from in the beginning and end of my production. Developed from a simple thumbnail to a considered final above.

From Script to Screen - Clown Costume Variations

Some of the variations i covered for my clowns attire for my script to screen project. The slouching position is how I want him to appear, also looking through his eyebrows up with an evil smile could be interesting.

From Script to Screen - Caroline Costume Concepts

Not entirely sure which design to give Caroline the main character of my story. She is an insurance claims adjuster in her mid thirties and I cannot choose. Please advise if you can :)

From Script to Screen - Clown + Claims adjuster Influence maps

From Script to Screen: New Logline, Premise and Step Outline

Logline: an insurance claims adjuster visits a burned out derelict property and searches for the cause of the initial outbreak, but what will she find?

Premise: memories never truly decay and neither does pain.

Step Outline:

1. Insurance claims adjuster, Caroline is pulled out of her work building which is set ablaze.
2. Laid down onto an ambulance flatbed she is given oxygen and witnesses something truly terrifying in the direction of the fire. 
3. Cut back in time earlier that day where she enters the office and takes a seat at her desk.
4. She turns on her computer and readies herself for work.
5. She takes out her camera and places it upon the desk
6. The photos upload to the computer and she begins the playback.
7. Her eyes widen. She clicks the back button and we see what she sees.
8. A mysterious figure moving slowly closer to the camera, someone who appears as an apparition. Finally we see it is a clown embraced by fire glaring menacingly out the computer screen to Caroline.
9. She clicks past the image and the clown disappears from sight. She pauses and senses somethings wrong. she scans the room and unbeknownst to her the clown is standing right behind her.
10. Cut forward to her wrestling the emergency servicemen to warn them of the clown and we zoom in to the doorway where the clown is standing observed by no-one other than Caroline.  

From Script to Screen - Script idea (untitled)

From Script to Screen- 1st Draft Script

From Script to Screen : Forming a story (PostOGR)

After the feedback I received from my OGR I have taken into consideration my tutor's advice and I believe that my environment has indeed fallen away from the 'Joke shop' theme. The scare at the end I think will help round off the experience but I think this jokeshop should have once resided in a space, that is now occupied by living space or storage of some kind.

My tutor advised to introduce a character into a property situated in a terrace of houses and from their drop in strange happenings like novelty items appearing or laughter in the dead of night. Then reveal through the use of a old cine-cinema 8mm camera the truth of the matter. I wish to incorporate these ideas and my own to establish a new story.

So I brainstormed a few ideas of my own and they are as follows..

1. A theater owner opens a new highly anticipated film that is based on a mad clown that is supposedly possessed by a demon. He puts it to play and sits in the auditorium. We are put into one of the scenes of the film where we see the clown scare a woman to death in a joke shop enclosed nightmare and we cut back to the theater with the clown seated behind the owner.
2. An estate agent is tasked with shifting an old derelict property and she takes photos of the exterior and notices a figure in the downstairs window of one of the photos taken. She enters the property and examines the room for the intruder and she is welcomed by the burned out joke shop ruin and she hears laughter from upstairs. She goes up the stairs and the figure follows her silently up the stairs, tele-porting around the property and she is trapped by the reflection of her seeing the ghost in a mirror knowing her haunter is right behind her.
3. A father and wife are on a sofa mourning the loss of their child and they view old pictures through a camera output to TV and they cry over the joy of seeing their child once more. His 5th birthday party at a joke emporium was the last birthday he would have. Slowly a figure appears in an image and seems to be stalking their child, almost ghost like until finally the figure is right behind the child. The parents look at each other in shock and we the audience see the ghosts of the Clown and son standing behind the sofa.

These kind of ideas are the general direction I want to take my idea. 

Feedback welcome! What do you prefer? What should be added or taken away :)

From Script to Screen OGR

From Script to Screen OGR

From Script to Screen : *New Story

Polaroid camera flashes as another victim meets their demise in a string of related murders all involving entertainers. A circus clown battered to death with his skull caved in and it would be unrecognizable it wasn't for his height. The detective pins it to the wall and marks off an X on his profile list, the only lead he has is a picture taken of all the victims at the fairground. Someone is killing them off but who? The belongings were taken from the evidence locker and littered the crime lab. Comical items, gag toys it's literally a joke. Cold leads and the tension has grown high in the department but then it hits. The murder weapon. Where is it? The detective looks at the board and focuses on the one thing he hadn't accounted for. The mallet held relaxed above a characters shoulders. Rushes out of the scene grabbing his keys.

Door hinges go flying as the detective and his police detail crash through the door to reveal the culprit passed out from alcohol with the bloody mallet placed at his feet leaning against his chair. Hand cuffs come from the detectives pocket.

Detective returns to the crime lab and begins taking down the images and pauses on the unfolded image.. His face fills with terror as he notices he overlooked one thing, the smallest clown looking up menacingly at the mallet. The light flickers as the clown appears behind him and a cut to complete black.   

From Script to Screen : Changing idea

Reviewing my idea with my tutor has highlighted many creative errors and I think the main being that there isn't a sense of conflict in the story. The whole experience is reminiscent of a music video maybe good cinematography but the story itself is lost.

Also we overlooked the three words and I admitted that I tend to become generic when I look at 'Joke Shop' so now I am prying it apart and warping its components so you can see the references faintly.

From Script to Screen : Naming my characters #1

The Photographer

• Maria 
• Anna
• Giuseppina
• Rosa
• Lucia
• Caterina
• Francesca
• Anna Marie
• Antonietta
• Elena
• Claudia

The Prankster (Host)

• Aldo - Originally a short form of Germanic names beginning with the elementald "old", and possibly also with adal "noble".
• Alonzo
• Benvenuto - Means "welcome" in Italian. A famous bearer was the Renaissance sculptor and writer Benvenuto Cellini.
• Durante - Italian form of the Late Latin name Durans which meant "enduring".
• Gioia - Means 'joy' in Italian.
• Sebastiano

The Hellequins

• Ebony and Ivory - Ebony is a heavy blackish timber from a tropical tree and Ivory is a hard cream white composing the main part of a tusk. 
• Nox and Lucifer - Nox is the Italian goddess of night and Lucifer the god of sun and light.

*Current favorites of mine.

Please comment if you can name any references that may aid my quest for names :p