Dr Sweet-Tooth's Show of Wonder (Animatic)
Note: This animatic is meant only as such. Only as ideas and guidance, I have ideas far beyond this and I know animators and illustrators will bring their ideas on pacing, scenes and their own style to the table. This was created in an afternoon to help better explain an idea and nothing more. Cheers.
// WANTED //
VOICE OVER ACTORS
- Older English-gentlemen type (30 years old+)
- Young English Boy (6-10 year old)
- Older Cockney Ring-Master (30 years old+)
Picture a pop-up book, with moving parts, but very dark and crooked. Macabre and gothic. Very interested in people's character design. The music is a slightly edited version of Megan Carnes' Waltz of the Freaks - noteably slightly off in the last stanza. Megan is very interested to make an alternative version to this, so we have her on board. If you want to do a reading with the version I have, currently, contact me on Skype - EdwardShallow or send me an email (same name) @gmail.com
ANIMATORS AND ILLUSTRATORS
Preferably this title would be the same person. There's a very consistent feel that I feel needs to be held throughout this, and working with ones own illustrations makes this easier to achieve. So, a primary illustrator and animator for lead characters would work. A secondary set of several illustrators for backgrounds, the crowd, the tent, etc.
Leave a comment or contact me on Skype - EdwardShallow or send me an email (same name) @gmail.com, if you have any questions regarding any of this.
// BEGINNING AND ENDING //
They are thrown over at the moment for place holders and there's a suggestion that currently isn't very clear. The narrator of the story is a Mime/clown, who is telling a story of this circus - folklore, an urban legend, a ghost story, then in the last stanza it's made clear in the line "but everynight that *I* heard, 'welcome ladies and gentlemen'" that he was part of the circus, that's why he knows, but the implication furthermore is that he himself is Dr Sweet-Tooth, and he infiltrates circuses as mimes, clowns, jugglers, so he can kill their ringleader and keep the rest of performers captive (where he's mad and performs surgery on them, because he's a nutjob). What I'm thinking is a flash between both characters, and a wink to the camera as he puts on a very distinstive top hat as he says "Welcome, Ladies and Gentlemen" everyone is like. OMFG! HE'S SWEET-TOOTH AND SHIT. Thank you for reading, and let's get this started in heeaaah.
