Animatic Style Test

This is ONLY A PRELIMINARY style test for the animatic and may or may not be the final style. The character is obviously the grim reaper.

Animatic Target Audience

Genre- Dark/Dramatic Comedy

Main theme- Comedy

Target Audience review

Gender- males and females, but more predominantly geared towards males.

Age- 20s to 50s.

Interests- work, online activities, relationships.

Habits- Finding humor in things, understanding how things work, repressing disappointment in society.

Other things they like to watch- Anime, The Daily Show, Family Guy, YouTube clips.

What they do in their spare time- Creative tasks, travel, drinking.

Things they buy- Tech devices, contemporary furniture

Where they live- Cities and urban centers.

Income level- 30,000/yr to 75,000/yr

Max education level- masters degree

Animation Short. A man who is a little slovenly and in his 50’s is sitting around a dining table eating dinner with his family. The doorbell rings and after a brief debate with his wife the man loses out and goes to answer the door. When the man answers the door he quickly and angrily throws the door open wide having been perturbed by the interruption to dinner and his one millionth loss to his wife. After a second of the door being open the man realizes that the person at the door is the Grim Reaper. Death tells the man that he is here to collect him and gives him news that his obituary will say he died of a heart attack at 8pm. The man looks at his watch and the minute hand clicks to 58 after 7. Death tells the man to go and pack. The man thinks about arguing his case, but thinks about his terrible family and resigns to heading upstairs to pack as his family continues to eat away not noticing his absence. The man opens a suitcase on the foot of the bed and begins to think about what he would need to go to heaven. In a couple of seconds of trying to think of what would be needed in heaven the man starts wondering if he would be going to hell instead. The man recalls bad things he has done. The man has now convinced himself that he is going to hell and sadly resigns himself to the horrifying task of imagining what he would need in hell and packing it into the case. (Ideas for the packing jokes and scenes will be added in later draft, but are largely formed.) The man finishes packing and wearily tells Death that he is ready to go. Scene skips to the man in heaven wearing red with other silly objects meant for hell in his possession. On a cloud of white surrounded by people in angelic robes he stands out with an embarrassed and regretful look on his face.

END

Animatics Character Obituary

PAUL STANTON

Paul Theodore Stanton, 56. Paul Stanton of Paterson, New Jersey passed on Tuesday, April 2, 2010 at approximately 8pm of heart attack. Beloved husband of Rachel Stanton. Devoted father of Britney Stanton. He was a collator at Ace Reprographic Service, Inc. in Paterson a company he was with for 26 years. He won the Fabricator’s Industry Award in 1996 for his fast-file collation conference keynote. Funeral on Sunday from Davis & Sons Funeral Home at 9:30 AM; thence to House of Faith Church of Christ Church (402 Summer St. Paterson, NJ 07501) for Funeral Mass at 10:30 AM. Interment, Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Paterson. Visitation, Friday 6 - 8 PM and Saturday 2 - 4 & 7 - 9 PM. Family suggests Memorial Gifts to Camp Moore, PO Box 1596, Woodbridge, NJ 07095. Davis & Sons Funeral Home 628 Market Street Paterson, NJ 07513 (973) 278-6330.

Animatics Short Premise

A man who is a little slovenly and in his 50’s is sitting around a dining table eating dinner with his family. The doorbell rings and after a brief debate with his wife the man loses out and goes to answer the door. When the man answers the door he quickly and angrily throws the door open wide having been perturbed by the interruption to dinner and his one millionth loss to his wife. After a second of the door being open the man realizes that the person at the door is the Grim Reaper. Death tells the man that he is here to collect him and gives him news that his obituary will say he died of a heart attack at 8pm. The man looks at his watch and the minute hand clicks to 58 after 7. Death tells the man to go and pack. The man heads upstairs to pack as his family continues to eat away not noticing his absence. The man opens a suitcase on the foot of the bed and begins to think about what he would need to go to heaven. In a couple of seconds of trying to think of what would be needed in heaven the man starts wondering if he would be going to hell instead. The man recalls bad things he has done. The man has now convinced himself that he is going to hell and sadly resigns himself to the horrifying task of imagining what he would need in hell and packing it into the case. (Ideas for the packing jokes and scenes will be added in later draft, but are largely formed.) The man finishes packing and sadly tells Death that he is ready to go. Scene skips to the man in heaven wearing red with other silly objects meant for hell in his possession. On a cloud of white surrounded by people in angelic robes he stands out with a embarrassed and regretful look on his face.

IUPUI PARKING SUCKS!!!

Why do so many stupid people get put in charge of everything? You know what I am talking about; the government, wall street, and obviously the people handling parking at IUPUI. Everyone who attends classes at the school knows what I am talking about. Paying hundreds of dollars a year for parking only to be made to park down the road and wait outside for a shuttle to arrive. Chugging in a slow moving line up the slope of a parking garage and then back down it watching what would have been early to class turn into late. One of the times I was late waiting for a shuttle that didn't show to move me the approximately 1.5 miles I had to park from class I took the opportunity to talk to some people from parking services, I was told that previously there had been 2 to 3 cars sold parking permits per space and now there were approximately 4 to 5 cars sold permits to space and that was the problem. More cars same number of spaces as if that couldn't have been guessed. What I want to know was why would they oversell the spaces to that degree and if there are more cars to fewer spaces why did the school feel justified raising the parking rates, that's right they are having their cake and screwing it too. All of this was the good news. Now for the bad news the parking gods in all of their infinite wisdom have decided in the middle of the year when people have had to use the grass outside of the library as parking to go ahead with construction of a new parking garage. A new garage? A garage sounds like a good thing except for two things;

1. This is copied directly from the IUPUI Parking and Transportation Services web-page:

"the campus is building a brand new parking garage (California St Garage) just east of Blackford Street, providing 1,300 convenient spots. Construction begins in a few weeks and will be completed in time for the start of classes next fall. Unfortunately, as the new garage goes up, we’ll lose 550 parking spaces. It’s very likely that your favorite spot may be in the construction zone."

2. THIS GARAGE WILL NOT BE DONE BY NEXT SEMESTER!!

When there were already major problems with parking why would construction that will eliminate an additional 550 spots start over a three week break when the ground is frozen solid? It is called summertime people, it' s the 3 month period with few people on campus with the great weather. Collegeprowler.com gave the parking situation a letter grade of D and had this to say:

"Most students get a very sour taste in their mouths when someone mentions anything about parking, especially at the beginning of the semester, during midterms, or during finals. The students that drive to campus (which includes most of the students that attend IUPUI) usually cannot get a parking spot and be on time to class unless they show up at 7 or 8 a.m. This is the best time to try and find parking, and if students can force themselves to get up this early, then it is a perfect opportunity for them to find some quiet time to study before class. In other words, the early bird catches the worm—and the late bird flies into class like a bat out of hell. The decisions IUPUI Parking Services makes are very closely scrutinized by the students. There have been articles in the school newspaper, the Sagamore, about the discrepancy between the amount of parking passes sold versus the amount of spots available. There are many more passes sold than there are spots available."

the collegeprowler.com article also made reference to bumper stickers made by the students in the School of Liberal Arts that said "Food Parking why not both" that was a parody of the IUPUI slogan. Prediction for the following fall? Higher parking prices on the horizon.

James Cameron's Avatar needs new ads.

After James Cameron spent years and over $300 million dollars to create a film that he has thought about for most of his life why would e leave the promotions to just anyone. Cameron, a director that is known to be domineering stopped just shot of the finish line and just totally handed over the reigns of the Avatar marketing blitz. The television trailer spots, even the movie previews trailer are terrible. The scenes were cut badly, the glimpse at the story seems childish, and the clips of trite cliché dialogue I can only pray is not indicative of the entire move. The movie has gotten good reviews though, so what gives? Rottentomatoes.com gave it an 89%. Roger Ebert who let's admit hasn't been on his game since the 1999 death of Gene Siskel the real brains (no pun intended) of the At The Movies duo likened the the experience of seeing Avatar to viewing the original Star Wars release in 1977. High praise, bad marketing. Do I think that Avatar will not make a ton of cash because of the poor marketing? Of course not. Avatar will rake in the cash, it has grown to a spectacle everyone will want to see simply from the hype and budget rumors alone. What is problem with the marketing then? I am just not fond of having a preconceived notion of crapiness pushed on me by the very medium that is supposed to be bolstering opinion. James, next time use just a little more follow through with the portrayal of your content. The trailers were just badly done or else you guys just purposely started the first publicity machine that drums up negative feelings for a movie knowing that with the $300 million budget the only thing that people might hope for more than cinematic perfection might be to get the next Waterworld in which case I owe you an apology.

Olivia Munn Maxim Magazine January 2010 Issue

As a big fan of tech shows and hot girls that have interest in geeky and guyish hobbies I am happy to say that G4's Olivia Munn has a article and picture layout in the January 2010 issue of Maxim magazine. While other G4 girls like Morgan Webb have been featured in Maxim and she is certainly the better gamer I personally have always been bothered (only slightly) by her total lack of lips. Here is an excerpt from the Q&A portion of the article:

When did you first realize you were…well, kind of a nerd.

"I think it was eighth grade. I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I’d lived in six different places. I remember looking around that year and realizing that the one group that always takes you in is the geeks."

Did you have a geek idol growing up?

"Punky Brewster. At the time I found her I was living in Utah—Mormon central, all these blond-haired, blue-eyed, all-American people. Then there was me, a complete tomboy with natty hair and polyester pants. I saw this girl on TV who looked and talked just like me and played with boys and didn’t care about getting dirty."

You’re in The Slammin’ Salmon, and soon we’ll see you in Iron Man 2. Has the jump to film been intimidating?

"I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun. For Iron Man I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, “Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she’s rocking it right now.” I was so happy I went through a McDonald’s drive-through on my way home and ordered two cheeseburgers and some fries."

We have to ask: Are you dating anyone—or is there hope for us?

"I just broke up with my boyfriend, so I’m officially single. But one thing I find unbelievably annoying is all these guys in my life who want to save me. They’re like, “Do you feel alone?” Everyone’s turned into Oprah!"

Olivia Munn also did a covered up shoot for Playboy that will be out soon making people wonder why they would ever even bother reading that magazine, because it's not for the articles. Well thanks for the article maxim and maybe next time you'll do one on Alison Haislip.