04/01/2016

Tv Series - Episodes and Script

Tv Series

Episodes & Script



Episodes


I first looked at shows like Mickey Mouse Club House, Agent OSO, Dora the Explorer again for the kind of stories they had. i had gotten a few ideas for my tv series. I later just looked at the titles of episodes of Agent OSO on Wikipedia and got a few more ideas.


E01: Welcome to Fairy school (Pilot)
The fairies Anna(the cooking fairy) , Liz(Elizabeth, the tree fairy) Wake up excited knowing that today is the day a new fairy, Jane, who is really shy, is going to join them in the quest to help kids solve their problems. Anna and Liz help Jane learn about the process while helping a kid make friends on the first day of new school with a few simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 - introduced yourself to others.
Step 2 - talk to them about their likes and dislikes.
Step 3 - ask them if you can join them playing.
Step 4 - let the magic do its job.
This also helps Jane become friends with the other fairies and are awarded the Friends Gold coin.
                                    
E02: How to clean a room
Jane, Anna and Liz have messed up their room pretty bad and the Grand Fairy Luna Violet is angry at them. She tells them to clean up after finishing their mission, which is to help a little girl clean up her own room which is in a similar condition. They help the girl in a few simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 - separate out the things.
Step 2 - organise things in cupboards and drawers neatly.
Step 3 - take out the trash.
After cleaning the girl’s room they are awarded The Room Cleaner Gold coin. Later, they clean their own room from all they have learnt.

E03: How to Grow plants
Liz and Jane are trying to grow a flower in there room but they fail, at the time Luna calls to them and Anna and gives them a mission to help two friends who are trying to grow a flower patch in their backyard. The Fairies use these simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 - dig a small hole.
Step 2 - plant the seeds.
Step 3 - fill hole the mud.
Step 4 - water the seeds.
Step 5 - nurture with love daily.
They are awarded with The Gardener Gold coin after the mission and Jane & Liz successfully grow their flower in there room.

E04: How to Make a Gift card
It's Luna's birthday and Jane, Liz and Anna are trying to make a gift card for her, when Luna calls them for a mission. Luna tells them about a brother-sister duo trying to make a mother’s day card for their mother and need their help. The three fairies swish away to help with a few simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 - cut out a rectangular piece of paper.
Step 2 - write down the wishes.
Step 3 - decorate with glitter and stickers.
The fairies are awarded The Card Maker Gold coin. They come back and finish their card and give it to Luna.

E05: How to Clean Your Pet
The young Fairies are trying to catch and bath their pet Bee but is hiding somewhere, when Luna gives them a mission to help twin kids to wash their pet dog which keeps hiding from them. They help the twins with a few simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 - lure the dog to the bath tub with the dog's favourite food.
Step 2 - apply soap on the dog.
Step 3 - rinse and repeat in needed.
Step 4 - dry with a fluffy towel.
After the bathing the dog they are awarded The Pet Cleaner Gold coin. When the comeback they lure their pet Bee and give it a bath. 

E06: How to go to Sleep
Jane is having trouble sleeping, when Luna wakes up to give them a emergency mission at night a young boy having trouble sleeping because he is scared of the monster in the closet. After showing him nothing is there, he still has problems which they help him with a few simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 - check for monsters in closet.
Step 2 - drink some warm milk.
Step 3 - read a story book.
Step 4 - count 100 backwards.
The Fairies are awarded The Lullaby Gold coin. Jane is also gone asleep with the boy and the other 2 carry her back to bed.

E07: How to Break a Break-up
Anna and Liz have a fight and Jane tries to patch things up when Luna gives them a mission to Break a Break up between 2 girls and a third girl trying to help them come back together with a few simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 - apologise to your friend.
Step 2 - give a simple gift.
Step 3 - hug your friend.
Step 4 - make your friend a charm bracelet to remember forever.
The 2 girls and the Fairies all patch things up and are awarded The Best Friends Forever Platinum Coin.

E08: How to make Easter Eggs
Easter is near and the fairies are trying to help the Easter bunny decorate Easter eggs but something is not right. The Grand fairy Luna gives them a mission to help a boy who is trying to decorate eggs. They help the boy with a few simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 - chose the right egg.
Step 2 - due eggs using colour water.
Step 3 - paint a pattern on the eggs.
Step 4 - finish with glitter or stickers.
After completing the mission they are awarded The Easter Decorator and finish the decorating their eggs and hide them.

E09: How to Make a Volcano
Anna is trying to make a chocolate volcano, but it keeps blowing up when Jane,Liz and Luna enter and get covered by Chocolate sauce. Luna laughs and gives them a mission to help out a boy who is making a baking soda volcano for the science fair. The Fairies help him out using few simple steps from the magic manual.
Step 1 -Make a volcano shape mould
Step 2 -Add some warm water
Step 3 -Add some detergent
Step 4 - Add some baking soda
Step 5 - Slowly pour vinegar in the mix
The three fairies help the boy and are awarded The Scientist Gold coin. Anna comes back and successfully makes her Chocolate volcano.

E10: How to Sell Some Lemonade
It's a hot summer morning and the fairies are all thirsty and lazy on the bed when Luna gives them a mission to help out two friends make and sell some lemonade. The three fairies jump up at and run to help the friends with help of the magic manual.
Step 1 - Squeeze the lemons
Step 2 - Add some sugar
Step 3 - Set up a stall with the board Lemonade
The three fairies help sell all the lemonade and they themselves drink a nice amount of it and are awarded The Merchant Gold coin.




In Agent OSO all titles had a theme, they all sounded like James Bond movies and another show called 2 Broke girls, all the Episodes start with "And"(except the first one) like telling a stories. So, I decided to give a theme to my tv series episode titles. I thought about the show,which is teaching the audience on how to do thing and decide on "how to" as tag line for each episode. 

Script


For the script, it was easy, I already had a episode sturcture decided(in my previous blog- http://ankush-abm.blogspot.in/2016/01/tv-seires-aims-and-synopsis.html ) and started writing the story.


E01: Welcome to Fairy school (Pilot)


SCENE 1. FAIRIES BEDROOM.

LIZ and ANNA are sleeping in their room. The room has three
beds next to the three walls.
ANNA wakes up suddenly with her eyes open wide and a huge on
her face. She is cheerful and enthusiastic.

ANNA
(She is happy and a bit of excitement in her voice.)
It is the day! It is today. It’s finally today.

ANNA runs to LIZ in the next bed and starts pounding on her.

ANNA
Wake up LIZ its the day. Wake up.
LIZ wakes up, still sleepy and runs her eyes.
LIZ
I am up. I am up. Stop pounding me.
ANNA flys half way to the door.
ANNA
Let’s go already, we might miss it.

LIZ gets out of bed and both fly out of the room.

SCENE 2. THE STUDY.

The Grand Fairy LUNA VIOLET is standing in the corner next
to a pod tending it. The pod is emitting a light in uneven
intervals. ANNA and LIZ fly in to the room.

ANNA
Did we miss it? Did we?
LUNA
No you are just in time.

All three Fairies surround the pod when the pod starts to
shake and pops. The whole room fills with fairy dust and as
the dust settles a fairy emerges out where the pod was. The
Fairy looks shy. ANNA and LIZ cough a little and clear the
air in front of them. Luna goes towards the JANE.

LUNA
Hello there. My name is Luna. What
is your name?
JANE
(Shy fully)
Hi there. I’m Jane. I am a leaf fairy.
LUNA
Welcome to fairy school.
ANNA
She is so beautiful. I could just eat her.
LIZ
Hey I’m Elizabeth but always, I
mean always call me LIZ.
JANE
That’s a nice name.

JANE looks at her back and takes a step forward. She shakes
her back and her wings open up wide and release some fairy
dust.

ANNA
Wow those look beautiful. You need
to try flying let’s go.

The telescope in the background lights up and LUNA notices
it.

LUNA
Wait! I think you have mission.

LUNA looks through the telescope and sees a lonely girl at
new school trying to make friends.
LUNA turns to ANNA LIZ and JANE

LUNA
Here is your mission. Go help her
out to make some new friends.

JANE goes to go out of the room. ANNA stops her.

ANNA
Where are you going?
JANE
To help the kid.
ANNA
Yes but we first need to get some
stuff from the magic closet.
JANE
What is the magic closet?
LIZ
Woow! You really need to learn a lot.
ANNA
Follow us, you will love it.

ANNA, JANE, LIZ, and LUNA all walk out of the room.

~END~

Tv series - Character & Environment Design

Tv Series

Characters & Environment Designs



Fairy School is going to be 2D animation made in CelAction. I thought of a puppet style kind of animation to make the show kid friendly. With this in mind I started some sketches but nothing good was coming. When a Tutor told me about a show called Angela Anaconda. It has a photo collage style, where the images and textures are used for different parts of the characters or backgrounds, like in the image below



Similar style


I wanted to keep it simple so instead of images and textures, I used Plain colours for my characters.












And for my environments I used the similar style but with a bit more detailing by giving double shades and also shadows for lighting effects. 












TV seires - Aims and synopsis

TV Series

Aims & Synopsis 

Aims


The TV series is aimed to teach kids to do simple day to day tasks. The series is going to break down these tasks into simple step by step algorithm for the kids to remember. With help of gold coins the show is going to motivate and encourage kids to help parents in household chores and teach them new hobbies. Kids are also entertained with singing and dancing while being educated, also actively participating in things like locating the object on screen and counting.

Episodes :- 13 * 11 Minute episode

Target Audience :- 8 and below

Genre :- Entertainment and Educational



Synopsis


The show is about 3 fairies whose job is to help kids to do their tasks. The Grand Fairy gives the other three fairies missions to help kids finish difficult day to day tasks. The fairies use their magical manual to breakdown the kids task into simple steps and with the help of stuff from the magical pouch, they together help the kid overcome his task, which also helps the fairies in their problems. The show is filled with singing and dancing, also active participation from the viewers in things like spot the object.


Research


While writing the aims and synopsis I looked at similar Tv shows like Agent OSO, Mickey mouse club house, Dora the Explorer. I wanted to keep the show simple and basic. These show all had a similar story style every episode. They were repetitive plot line with change in the story. I created a similar episode structure.


Show starts with a song and the fairies wake up from bed and fly around their tree located in a park in a residential area.

They land in a room where the grand fairy is seating.

The fairies ask for their assignment/mission, the grand fairy looks through a telescope and searches for a kid stuck in a problem on how to do it.

The fairies go to (a room/magical closet/or something) which contains anything you want.

A closet attendee comes ask them wat they want. They tell him the mission and he gives them some random stuff which they put in a small magical pouch.

They say bye to the grand fairy and go to the kid.

The kid sees the fairies and greets them. He explains his problem and fairies take out a magical manual which gives the solution.
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When they finish helping him a (badge/gold coin) with kid face pops in front of them.

They take to their tree's trophy room and hang it up and they break in to a dance and recall the whole day.

(It had a bit missing in the center).

I was also thinking from a marketing view rather than a creative one. So I saw what the kids usually attracted towards and what would make the show bring the more audience.

3 Minute Short Film - Animatic

3 Minute Short Film

Animatic



The video part of the animatic was easy. Everything was planned in the storyboard and script breakdown and it was just the matter of assembling different parts. There was very little editing done most of it was in timing. There was also not much research to be done. Nothing at all

The audio part was really hard. I saw my video a few times and made a list of sounds the film would need. Went to Google and found this website with royalty free sounds  www.freesound.org and found some of the stuff. When I started to arrange the sounds, doubts started to arise from the film's timing. If I would change the timing the film would extend too long. So, I decided to change it to a silent film style with only music in the background (except for two dialogues). I went on looking at all types of movies and videos on internet and on TV for inspiration and am still looking at new ones daily.


This is the animatic I have right now, the audio is still in progress.