Planning and development for group collaboration project

Planning and development 

Story board development 

Script final development 

Cross collaboration project- “Business as usual” script:

Introduction

(Background information about “Inudata Island” with paper cut animation and appropriated clips)

Ozone script:

(Shot of the island and appropriated clips)

Narrator: “A beautiful day on the island of “Inudata”, boosting a wonderful climate of 59 degrees.”

(John appears)

Narrator: “Here is John, a rubber dingy and arm bands seller on the island. John wants to go outside, but now that the post United Kingdom has now become hotter than “”, John burns every time he goes outside- making it a popular destination for pale tourists.”

Narrator: “Don’t worry John, for special preparation can be undertaken in your own home to protect against this deadly environment that we call earth…”

(Transition, John is beamed into the kitchen looking surprised)

Narrator: “We will begin my creating a mixture of science of the highest complexity. John will now gather the ingredients to create what scientists are calling: “Sun cream””

(John frantically grabs anything, grabbing an object by mistake and throwing it in a hurry)

(Shot of strange “ingredients”)

Narrator: “You will also need these scientific instruments:”

(a bowl, wooden spoon, other weird unneeded objects and a microwave pop into Johns hands taking him by surprise)

(John begins mixing)

Narrator: “Good work John!”

(Poof! Sound and visual effect as mixture is done)

Narrator “John assembles the mixture and places safely in the oven/microwave at “100000” degrees to activate the creams sun bearing properties to protect our average friend from the sun”

(Shot of John placing bowl in oven with “1000” caption)

Narrator: “John now removes the mixture and puts it into a container. John adds a label and makes it into a product. John is a capitalist pig.”

(John puts on cream, goes outside and sits on a deck chair with sunglasses looking relaxed)

Narrator: “You are now ready to go outside thanks to this easy DIY”

(John enjoys himself and reads magazine. John suddenly sets on fire with an expressionless face) (Or something similar with the doll set on fire after the next line)

Narrator: Oh no. John has forgotten to reapply the sun cream every 5 seconds.

John spontaneously combusts.”

(The End.)

(Transition)

Cooking show script:

(Shot of John walking towards fish market with a happy expression)

Narrator: “John just arrived at his local fish market, to pick up some dinner.”

(John walking towards house and going through door, entering kitchen and rolling up sleeves)

Narrator: “Once John retours home, He begins to prepare his food. John will show you it’s done.”

(Fish appears with plastic. John follows instructions)

Narrator: “Due to the pollution in our waters, we must clean the fish toughly as most sea life is more plastic than fish meat. John doesn’t throw away any of the plastic just put it into a neat pile.”

Narrator:  “As you can see this is a common problem.”(Pause)

(Shot of bin then John smirking guiltily)

“Naughty John and his mates haven’t been recycling. “

(Microwave noise and elevator music)

(Friends hoover at window and scratch at door, john looks puzzled and slightly startled)

Narrator:  “Oh-no! Looks like the smell of fish and plastic has attracted some of Johns starving friends, guess he’ll be sharing the food tonight”.

(Friend dramatically dies, cartoon like “X”s appear on his eyes VFX)

Narrator:  “Oh dear, come on John you should know better, our poor friend seems to have been brutally murdered because John forgot to remove the bones not just the plastic, chocking is a serious problem John”.

(John looks disappointed)

(The End)

(Transition)

Extreme weather script:

(John putting on coat, fixing his hair and looking excited)

Narrator: “Now John is getting ready to leave the house, he has a big date with the AI bot from across the street, as the population of real woman and men seem to have depleted due to unforeseen climate change.”

Narrator: “Oh dear, the wind is looks quite strong today John. You wouldn’t want to get swept away like Betty did the other day”.

(Hurricane/women screaming)

Narrator: “Maybe you should put something heavy on to insure you don’t get blown away like Betty”.

(John starts to put on weights running around and finding and struggling with anything heavy)

Narrator: “Good work John, that’s the ticket!”

(John starts to attach silly items such as knifes and pets to himself)

Narrator:  “Don’t be silly John knifes are dangerous, and pets are a no go too!”

(cat meowing/duck-tape sounds)

Narrator: “Okay fella, now give this a try”.

(John smiling and ready to go out in his string and weight contraption)

(John doll goes outside and fly’s through the air)

Narrator:  “Oh dear John, you don’t seem to be heavy enough. Come back and try again”.

(John straps more weights to himself while narrator talks)

Narrator:  “When attempting to leave the house doubling your body weight with these homemade masses is an essential way of remaining on the ground, and is government tried and tested, this method of remaining ground ridden needn’t cost a fortune. Simple household objects will do the trick!”

(John thumbs up and leaves house)

(John gets all wrapped up in string and falls to the ground)

Narrator: “Oh no John! Looks like you got a bit tied up with your date. But don’t worry, you seem like a very down to earth fella.”

(John on ground close up of face looking annoyed and exhausted)

(The End)

(Final transition)

(John takes off VR headset at university surrounded by fellow students on laptops and working on project)

John: “What an awful scenario, who came up with the project?”

John: “ Hopefully the other groups come up with something less shit”

(Laughs)

End of video

                                                                                                                                                                                             

Reflection 

Developing our ideas into a final edited script was easier then expected, everyone pulled together and worked well as a team, and there was lots of energy and enthusiasm for the project. Personally I helped my fellow team mates by research ideas for the project, drawing out the story board, hiring the equipment, writing the bad weather script, and directing some of the filming on the day. If we had the chance to go back and do it again, I wouldn't change anything other than improving the time keeping and communication of the group overall. Due to the fact we all had different schedules and obligations to forfill, it was difficult at stages to know when certain people were going to be free to participate in the project. This made it vital that we were always organised and that a handful took the role of driving the project forward, so that the ship didn't run aground. Lastly, it was a big help to the group as a whole that we had at least one person from VFX within the group, to largely take the reigns on the editing front. It was ultimately down to the balancing personality's of our team that the process and end result was as successful as I think it was.