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Megan Howett

Story-telling and Commission:

From Script to Screen

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Environment Concepts


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Prop Concept


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Character Concepts


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Character Designs


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Final Storyboards


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Final Script

EXT. The joke shop - EVENING

Soon before closing time, the camera pans down street to the

joke shop. Pans through the door.

Title appears Fade:

INT. the JOKE SHOP - CONTINUOUS

A rubber chicken is asleep in an empty box of party poppers, on

the top shelf. A hand moves into shot and lifts the chicken

away. The chicken wakes, panicked.

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A child stretches and twists the chicken, then drop it on the

floor.

While the camera focuses on the chicken,feet are seen walking

past. The chicken's eyes can be seen darting from side to side.

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The shop keeper walks to the door, turns over the 'open' sign.

Walks to the door at the back of the shop, turns off the light

and leaves.

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INt. THE JOKE SHOP - MOMENTS LATER

The chicken suddenly jumps up and looks around, panicking. She

looks up at the top shelf and squawks. She is clearly nervous

and distressed as she begins to finds a way to climb back up.

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On the first shelf, the chicken encounters a closed jack-in-

the-box. As she tries to sneak around, Jack jumps out, scaring

the chicken.

Jack advances until the chicken uses her rubber texture and

springy limps to jump over the toy and reach the next shelf,

she continues up.

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The next shelf is covered in spilled fun snaps. The chicken

bends and stretches to make her way across the shelf without

stepping on any of the snaps. However, after clearing the

majority of the snaps, she loses her balance and knocks a whole

box off the shelf. They fall in slow motion to the floor, where

the bang and crack like shower off machine gun bullets.

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Close up of the chicken looking over the edge of the shelf.

Footsteps on the stairs from the flat above the shop can be

heard. All of the items in the shop freeze as the owner comes

through the door and turns on the light.

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Close up of the shopkeeper as he looks around. He sees the fallen

box.

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Point of view shot of the shop floor and fallen snaps.

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Close up. The shop keeper 'tuts', then returns upstairs to bed,

turning off the lights on the way.

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The chicken breathes a sigh of relief then continues her journey.

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The next shelf is home to a family of whoopee cushions. Unlike the

jack-in-the-box, the whoopee cushions are eager to help the chicken

reach her nest. They lay themselves out in line, to be used as

trampolines.

The chicken jumps across the cushions and grasps the edge of thetop shelf.

INT. TOP SHELF - LATER

The chicken pulls herself up onto the shelf and the camera pans

around to show her nest. She clucks excitedly and runs over to the

nest. She looks around to check the condition of her 'eggs' before

sitting down on top of them. She sighs happily and goes to sleep.

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