OGR Presentation 1

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The Ebullient Toadstool

Synopsis

A toadstool has a lust for excitement so decides to go skydiving.

Logline

An excited toadstool decides to have a skydiving adventure, thecamera goes along for the ride.

Premise

A small toadstool diving a big sky.

Step Outline

Opening scene, a toadstool is excited and warming up, preparing

for something, the viewer doesnt know what yet. A zip appears

opening a doorway, the toadstool prepares, then jumps out of the

doorway. The camera follows his jump as if recorded by a fellow

skydiver. He does maneuvers in the sky, part way down he crashes

into a bird and they tumble for a few seconds, they separate, the

bird flies away and he continues to fall. The toadstool then

braces himself, his cap puffs open and his gills turn to cables,

his parachute is open. He glides down to the ground, does the

landing roll, jumps up, runs over to his cap/ parachute, and

summersaults popping it back onto his head. He stands in the field

after his adventure, looks around, shows he is now bored, then

zooms off camera to his next adventure.

TreatmentOpening scene, a toadstool is in the white space, he is excited

and warming up for something, there is a slight humming noise in

the back ground. A zip appears, it opens with the sound of a zip,

creating a doorway, now there is a sound of extreme rushing wind.

The toadstool prepares, then jumps out of the doorway. The camera

follows his jump as if recorded by a fellow skydiver, this

captures some spins, tricks and flowing camera moves, sometimes

going slightly out of frame to add the impression there is

somebody else filming the event. Part way down he has an encounter

with a bird, he crashes into it, they roll around in the air

trying to untangle, then they separate and the bird flies away ashe continues to fall. The toadstool then braces himself, his cap

puffs open and his gills turn to cables, his parachute is open. He

glides down to the ground, doing some turns with the parachute,

does the landing roll, the strings disappear as he rolls. He jumps

up, runs over to his cap/ parachute laying on the ground, he

summersaults popping his cap back onto his head. The toadstool

stands in the field for a moment after his adventure, looks

around, shows he has become bored already, perks back back up,

then zooms off camera to his next adventure.


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The EbullientToadstool

By

Nat Urwin

Draft 1

Nat Urwin

BA (Hons) CG Art & Animation

UCA Rochester

www.skygecko-nat.blogspot.co.uk
http://www.skygecko-nat.blogspot.co.uk/http://www.skygecko-nat.blogspot.co.uk/


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INT. TITLE SEQUENCE.

The animation starts with a blank page. A few blank sheets of

paper with faint ripple repeat for a second. Then lines start to

squiggle across the page to form the title The Ebullient

Toadstool. Followed by some thicker lines which form the words

By NU. The title is held on screen for five seconds. The wordsthen dissipate back into squiggly lines which then form the

character of the TOADSTOOL.

INT. CHARACTER INTRODUCTION.

The toadstool character is seen to be excited and warming up for

something, at this point it is not known what he is preparing for.

There is a faint humming / engine noise to this scene. As the

toadstool is preparing, a large zip appears in the right side of

the image and starts unzipping a doorway. There is the sound of a

zip un-zipping for this section. The engine hum sound begins to

get louder, now with a heavy wind noise. The toadstool, now in the

left section of the screen becomes ecstatic and gets ready to head

through the door. The toadstool runs toward the door and jumps

out. As he jumps, his shadow disappears from the ground to signify

theres nothing below him to cast a shadow on. The camera follows.

There is a lot of heavy fast wind sound and the engine sound

becomes gradually distant. The camera films from lots of different

angles, allowing the illusion of a fellow skydiver maneuvering

around as they both fall.

INT. PHASE TWO, ENTER THE BIRD.As the toadstool is falling, a spec begins to show in the shot,

and gets bigger. This spec then comes into view as a BIRD. In a

cartoon style, the bird turns its head and squarks with

anticipation of collision seconds before they crash. The toadstool

and bird tumble in the air for a few seconds. There is the sound

of muffled rustling and flapping material along with the wind

sound. The bird and toadstool manage to separate, the bird irately

flies off, while the toadstool continues to free-fall. The camera

goes back to following the toadstool at different angles again.

INT. PARACHUTE.The toadstool sucks his body in to brace himself. He then

stretches back out and his cap flies off, and puffs up into the

opening parachute, here there is the sound of flapping fabric and

a large boom as the air is captured in the parachute. The gills

from under the cap turn into the parachutes cables. He goes out

of shot as the speed difference between the cameraman and the

toadstool change. The toadstool then floats into shot with his

open parachute, the sound in this section is less windy, with

quite a calm slight flapping material noise coming from the

parachute. The camera films as the toadstool maneuvers his chute

in a fast spiral to get more of a rush and as he gets closer to


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the ground. The wind sound picks up slightly with more fabric

sounds.

INT. LANDING.

The camera shot changes to the toadstools point of view, showing

him watching his feet as the ground gets closer. As the toadstool

touches the ground the camera shot changes to seeing him performthe landing roll. Here there would be the sound of tumbling onto

grass. While he is rolling the strings of the chute zip back into

the parachute / cap. The noise of a retractable pull cord is

inserted with this visual. The cap goes out of shot during his

roll. From the roll he bounces out into a standing position. He

then looks around to find his cap. The toadstool spots his cap and

runs towards it. As he is running the cap comes back into the shot

as he gets closer to it. He summersaults, diving his head back

into his cap, here would be a cartoonish style pop sound. The cap

is reattached and follows his in the exit of his summersault

action. The toadstool is the right way up again. He does a little

wiggle of re-adjustment, with a soft fluffy sound to accompany the

movement, and settles into his standing position. He holds this

position for a few seconds. Then the toadstool lets off a sigh as

a now bored signifier. He looks around. He perks up as if he has

seen something to excite him. This is accompanied by a slight

noise of an engine starting up. With this, he zooms in a run off

camera to his next adventure.

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