art of: problems at christmas

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Art Of:Problems at

ChristmasBeckie Ryan19/02/2016


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Concept Art


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Environment Design


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Character Design


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Prop Design


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Character

Biographies


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Jake Name: Jake

Age: 19

Gender: Male

Jake is a young intern, desperate tomake it in the toy industry. Heapplied for an internship to aninternationally renowned companyand is overjoyed when he wins a

spot. Loyal and hardworking, heimmediately makes a strong bondwith most of his co-workers. He isalso very inquisitive and desperateto ind out what is behind themysterious door


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Santa Name: Santa

Age: Over 9000

Gender: Male

Santa is the owner of the toyfactory. Its a front for his real

identity and allows him to fit intotodays world. Stressed by thecurrent state of the world and indesperate need of the workers tosupply the children around theworld each year, he resorts tosome very dramatic lengths tomake this happen


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Mickey

Name: Mickey

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Won an internship at the same

time as Jake. Known as the

trickster due to his joking

nature. Hopes that he and his

sister Amanda can follow in

their fathers footsteps to

become toy makers.


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Chris

Name: Chris

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Although working as an intern,

he is also working part time inthe offices and inducts the

new interns from time to time.


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Amanda

Name: Amanda

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Sister of Mikey. Hopes to followin her fathers footsteps tobecome toy makers. Becomes

friends with Jake from day 1 ofworking together andintroduced Jake to Amanda,her former school friend alsoworking in the factory.


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Karen

Name: Karen

Age: 21

Gender: Female

Young and stylish, Karen one

day wants to create her own

line of clothing for childrensdolls. Went to school with

Amanda and can natter for

days.


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Final Storyboard


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Final Script


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Premise & LoglinePremise

An intern uncovers the truth

about the elves and Santa

while working at SantasWorkshop.

Logline

An intern thinks he has startedwork as a toy maker in a world

renowned toy factory but soon

uncovers the hidden truth

about the elves and Santa.


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Step Outline A young intern wins one of several placements and must battle it out to be named as Santas

Little Helper at a world renowned toy workshop. Little does he realise that this factory has a darksecret. His colleagues are slowly going missing and there is an ominous locked door in thefactory that he has seen people enter but never leave from. When he arrives he is ushered into aroom with balloons and a banner saying Congratulations! You have been chosen! A workerallocates their work and sets the rules.

His suspicions are first aroused when one of his co-workers goes missing. More interns joins thefactory each week but more of his previous co-workers disappear with no warning.

He sees workers in hazard suits enter the mysterious door daily and becomes more and morecurious, until a worker leaves the mysterious door ajar and he seizes his opportunity to scramblethrough, only to discover a terrible secret. The room is filled with ceiling to floor cutesifiers

turning his old coworkers into overly cute elf figures. Huge tubes with his old co-workers areseen, connected to vats of liquid with signs saying sugar, spice and everything nice. Othersare strapped into chairs with large balloons floating above.

He runs out only to have Santa appear. Santa places his hand on his shoulder and says Son,where did you think all the elves came from?. Finally we see Jake undergo the finaltransformation from human to elf.


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