One-liner
“A sister is an embodiment of your greatest foe and closest ally”
Animatic
Synopsis
This story is about two contrasting sisters. The eldest sister, Emileena Plank is a person who likes to stick precisely to rules. Emileena is in the kitchen preparing to bake a Madeira cake. However Emileena’s little sister, Roberta Plank, playfully keeps interrupting Emileena’s industry. Eventually, Emileena completely loses her patience and or discarding Roberta’s artwork, which Emileena sees as an untidy mess. The two sisters fight over a picture, it starts to rip which causes Roberta to let go of it. Emileena looks at what she is left with in her hand and discovers that it is a picture that Roberta has been drawing of both of them. Seeing how upset Roberta is Emileena, with a little remorse, calms down and offers a slice of her cake to Roberta. Instead of taking the fair sized slice that Emileena is offering to her she grabs the remainder of the cake. This action starts the two sisters start squabbling all over again.
Treatment
“Fy Chwaer” is a manifestation of a regular relationship between two sisters. This film is influenced by Hanna Barbera’s “Tom and Jerry” characters in their slap stick cartoons. The audience for this film will be universal. I did not want to make a film “just for kids” I want it to be viewable for adults too. I am doing this by not including overt adult themes of sex, violence and coarse language, however, it will not be so childish as to make it unwatchable by adults. It will not spoon feeds the audience with information in simple terms.
The style of this film is influence by UPA animation style. I settled on this style because the animation style suits the design in these cartoons. Also I wanted to have an aged feeling hence the story of “Fy’ Chwaer” is set in 1972. The reason why this film is set at 1972 is pretty random but I settled on it because that is when my parents first met each other.
Since this film has a universal audience, there is be next to no dialogue in “Fy Chwaer”, though voices will be communicating if unintentionally in yells and yawns etc. Music will be heard through this film, I chose the jazzy modern classical music of George Gershwin because its changes in tempo and mood matches well the action and the differences in character of the sisters. Emileena would be the more clearly classical elements and Roberta the more uninhibited jazz.
This short film will be 1050 x 576 HD screen size, and will only be between two to three minutes long. I did not want to create a long film, from my experience in the Annacy Animation Festival the shorter the film is the punchier and to the point the story is, and even members of the audience with the shortest attention span will see it in full This film will be created on the program Toon Boom, to shorten time on animating it on paper.
The style of this film is influence by UPA animation style. I settled on this style because the animation style suits the design in these cartoons. Also I wanted to have an aged feeling hence the story of “Fy’ Chwaer” is set in 1972. The reason why this film is set at 1972 is pretty random but I settled on it because that is when my parents first met each other.
Since this film has a universal audience, there is be next to no dialogue in “Fy Chwaer”, though voices will be communicating if unintentionally in yells and yawns etc. Music will be heard through this film, I chose the jazzy modern classical music of George Gershwin because its changes in tempo and mood matches well the action and the differences in character of the sisters. Emileena would be the more clearly classical elements and Roberta the more uninhibited jazz.
This short film will be 1050 x 576 HD screen size, and will only be between two to three minutes long. I did not want to create a long film, from my experience in the Annacy Animation Festival the shorter the film is the punchier and to the point the story is, and even members of the audience with the shortest attention span will see it in full This film will be created on the program Toon Boom, to shorten time on animating it on paper.
Emileena PlankEmileena Plank is the eldest out of the two sisters. She is very studious and dislikes disorder. She finds it hard not to get annoyed by her constantly chaotic younger sister, when she tries to stick to her plans, especially if she is trying to work.
She is the newer design of the two sisters, created in August 2011. With her design I had in mind for her being a big sister and her being “squarer” than Roberta. Her colour design contains red, oranges and yellows, warm colours, showing even with her squareness, she if very familiar and homely. Also the animation style is traditional Disney, with little exaggeration and precise. As her personality, there have been many influences from my big sister when she was younger. Very bossy and very much like a second mum to me, she was there to stop me getting in trouble, at the time I thought she was a spoilt-sport. Now looking back I can see that she was looking out for me. She is my best friend and arch-nemesis. |
Roberta PlankRoberta Plank is the youngest out of the two sisters. She is very laid back and hates rules. She always wants to play and create but her big sister, Emileena keeps stopping her.
Roberta is a character I have be developing since early 2011. She came about when I was working on another project. There have been a few changes from her original design to suit this short film, when in the original, her colour design is similar to Emileena and wears a school uniform, in this film her colour pallet consist with blue, purple and green, cooler colours, to show that she is the opposite to her big sister, showing that there is something unnatural almost extraterrestrial. Her hair is longer and weightless for this film, not to mention naturally purple. The animation for Roberta will be like the old hose-pipe style of animation and very exaggerated. For this film, Roberta’s personality is based on a younger me (about 6 to 8 years old), when I was very playful and believe the only reason I was so strange is that I was abandoned by my alien parents. |