This is the script for our animation, codenamed ‘Ow, didn’t realise apples hurt that much. I think I’ll brush my teeth next time to be safe’. Bit long but we’ll come up with something smaller, in the meantime here you go:
It is a bright, colourful day. There are birds tweeting in the distance and the low sound of the wind whistling by. In the distance, surrounded by a few trees and patches of grass, four young children are chasing one another. Even from a far.
Orange, being completely orange in colour, is also short and a bit stout. Red, again being completely red, is also slim and tall. Pink, being obviously pink, has a large red bow in her hair (on her head is more like it) and blue, you guessed it, has glasses.
All of the children are participating in a game of tag, with red being it. As the others are chased by red to across the field, red catches up to orange and tags him, making him it. The others suddenly turn and run in the opposite direction, followed by blue, which is slowly followed by orange as he waddles on to try to catch them.
In his anticipation to catch one of the others, orange was completely oblivious to the large brown object right in front of him and charges head first into it. Dazed, he opens his eyes and stares up at the force that interrupted his mad dash. It was a tree, but not like the other trees in the field. This tree was much bigger, greener and hanging from its branches it had some unusual red bobbles hanging from it (They’re apples, they just don’t know it).
Pink, blue and red are stood on the other side of the tree, staring up at the curious fruit. The sounds of wind whistles through the air as they all stare intently at the fruit. Pink then points up at the fruit.
Orange, on the other side of the tree, stands up, shakes his head and looks up at the fruit also. Although bewildered, Orange looks back at the tree trunk in front, then back up. He then attempts a jump towards the fruit; arms raised high in the air as he attempts to pull some of the fruit of the branch. He misses by a little bit, lands back on the floor and immediately bounds for another leap, again just in reach of the fruit. On the floor again, he leaps and this time flails his arms wildly in an attempt to gain more lift and snatch the fruit, but to no avail. He lands hard on the floor and falls back over.
Pink, with the aid of red, climbs up onto red’s back. With red holding onto pink’s legs, pink is piggybacked towards the fruit and attempt to straighten up and grab some of the fruit. With pink just out of reach, she forces forwards and red loses balance, toppling forwards a little. With an attempt to regain balance, red pulls back and they tumble backwards, also hitting the floor hard.
Blue pulls out a gun from his pocket, and shoots down one of the apples from the branch. He catches the fruit and with a small pause he bites into the fruit with the others watching, with his head suddenly exploding. Bits of his skull, teeth and brain matter fly everywhere and splash across the others. Pink squeals with a terrified motion and all of them begin running around on the spot like frightened headless chickens.
A message slowly fades in, reading ‘Brush your teeth after every meal’.
I hope this is clear on the sort of approach that we plan to take for the narrative of this stop motion. Next time I’ll upload the storyboard for the animation so that it becomes more visually clear of whats going on.
