BDM127, 2D animation, Getting the Pitch done. 4 August

Examples of good pitches are on the internet by googling "animation pitch bible"

The pitch must have the following elements:

◦Title Page

◦Graphic

◦Title

◦Name

 Contents Page

◦Title

◦Contents

◦Graphic

 Story Page

◦Graphic

◦Title

◦Log Line

◦Treatment

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 Character pages (Artist Monkey, Graffiti Girl, Madame Le Snob, Painter, Little Girl, Patron)

◦Character name

◦Short Biography

◦Graphic

 Storyboard Pages

◦Graphics – using A3 template

◦Should be in the style of your final animation

New Treatment: 

A small park square separates an old brick building covered in graffiti and a gleaming art museum filled with million-dollar paintings.  The Museum Director, Madame Le Snob, thinks the graffiti makes the museum look bad and calls a painter to spruce the place up.  A free-spirited Graffiti Girl has developed an unlikely friendship with the painting of a Monkey Artist she can see in the museum.  As she starts getting painted over, she calls out for help: Help me!  Help me!  Artist Monkey can see that it’s up to him and he leaps into action.  He swings from painting to painting, changing his appearance as he goes through the paintings.  He reaches the end of the paintings but can't quite make it to the door... until he sees a patron in a colourful t-shirt with a cartoon on it go by.  He leaps "onto" the shirt and goes through the door.  From there, he jumps to the yellow painted curb across from Graffiti Girl.   He's so close.  By now, the Graffiti Girl is up to her neck in white paint.  There is no more paint for the monkey to jump onto, no way to reach the Graffiti Girl.  If only Artist Monkey hadn't left his paints behind in the museum!  A little girl is sitting at a cafe table colouring in her book.  She looks up and offers the Artist Monkey a fistful of crayons.  He grabs them with all four paws (and his tail) and busily colours himself across the road to where the eye of the Graffiti Girl is being covered over with paint.  He's too late!  Dejected, he slumps against a fire hydrant.  But!  He remembers seeing the fire hydrant being used earlier by the fire department to put out a small fire at the nearby cafe.  He grabs the plug and sets off the spray of water, blowing away the painter and Madame Le Snob, and washing off the paint that hasn't dried.  Graffiti Girl is saved!  The painter and Madame leave in disgust.  But is this the end?  Is she safe?  The next day, the painter and Madame return to find the Graffiti Girl has a big fancy frame painted around her which has lots of brass plaques from the museum on it and a crowd of admirers taking photos. 

Do a test print on normal paper to make sure that all is as it should be.  If not, adjust colour, lightness and darkness settings.
Setting up the printer to properly print with the fancy paper
5 mm left margin all around,
go into printer properties and set landscape or portrait, colour, one-sided printing and guttering is on the correct side.
"Multi-tray" and "one-sided" means it won't get caught in the printer.
design layout with enough room for clipping or binding.  Better to have too much than not enough.
choose graphics options
paper is heavy 3 because we're using 200 GSM paper
Due Monday 10 August, midday!  Hooray!!!!