From Script to Screen: Original Storyboard sketches

Original Storyboard sketches

From Script to Screen: Final Storyboards

The Sculptor

Final Storyboards

From Script to Screen: Character/Prop Designs

Character Designs

David and the Sculptor

Prop Design

The egg before and after it hatched

From Script to Screen: Outline of story

Outline of story

• Silhouette of two adults arguing in window
• Main Character David leaves house
• Looks back at parents arguing and continues to walk away
• While walking long distances David stops briefly for a sandwich he packed in his bag 
• After walking for a long while he comes across the 'Sunset Fairground'
• He goes in and meets the Sculptor sculpting the dragon sculpture for a new ride called 'Dragons Nest'
• They get to know one another whilst the Sculptor finishes up whats left of his sculpting which is the prop dragons egg
• The sun goes down and the clock strikes 12
• As the Sculptor is entertaining David over a fire the sculpted egg begins to move
• The egg hatches and a baby dragon appears out of it
• As the two gaze down at the egg the larger dragon made before the egg also began moving and was gradually rising up behind them
• When they turn around to see the dragon, the menacing look it had on before becomes a comical wide mouthed smile
• They turn back around to the egg to find that the baby  dragon has escaped
• They chase after it
• Meanwhile, sculpted mummies from the 'Mummy Mines' ride step down from their platforms and the sculpted ponies from the merry go round leap off
• David and the Sculptor still chase the baby dragon as the sky begins to get lighter
• The sun begins to rise as David chases it into a dark entrance of a ride he hadnt noticed
• He looks up to see that the ride is called 'The Sculptor' and there seemed to be a missing sculpture from it
• David turns around to see the Sculptor who had been walking and talking with him before, stiff like a sculpture he had made

From Script to Screen: Sculptor Character designs

The Sculptor

From Script to Screen: Story behind Sculptor [Revisited 3]

Story #1

A murderer called the sculptor sculpts eggs and hides his victims in them and puts them in a very unexpected place. Meanwhile, Detective Whalts who was assigned to the case of two missing teens in a fairground is unaware of what he is chasing and will uncover. He ultimately discovers that what had appeared to be a mere disappearance of these teens is the plan of a murderous and psychotic genius who had been killing people, sculpting eggs to hide their bodies in and leaving the eggs in the indoor 'alien invasion' ride where they seemed completely normal to blend in and even complemented the theme of the environment.

Story #2

Sculptor has job at fairground to sculpt dragon model for a dragon roller-coaster being brought to the grounds. After making the main dragon he finds what appears to be a dragon egg behind the sculpture which he finds peculiar.  While inspecting the egg he feels heavy breathing on the back of his neck. Its the dragon he created come to life. looking around the park he realizes all the sculptures in the grounds had come to life including the mummy from the haunted house ride. Turns out that after 12am the models in the fairground come to life till the sun comes up. The mummy ended up taking the dragons egg to restore his life using the new life of the egg sealing himself in his coffin only opened with a key.  Under the demand of the dragon (who was sculpted chained to its post) he has to sculpt a key and get it before the sun comes up and the mummy is left with the egg in its coffin to restore his life at the expense of the egg.

From Script to Screen: Like-for-Like Storyboard

Like-for-Like Storyboard: X-Men Origins 

Wolverine

The chase scene just after wolverine was injected with adamantium and stayed with the old couple.

0:5-0:25

From Script to Screen: Story behind Sculptor [Revisited 2]

The Sculptor [Revisited 2]

• Sculptor who does wax works for fairgrounds is hired to sculpt horses for a merry-go-round

• On his lunch break he takes out an apple, sandwich and a boiled egg

• After finishing his sandwich and apple he prepares to eat his boiled egg

• A seagull takes the egg just before he is about to eat it and flies up to its nest in the top of fairground Ferris wheel

• The angry sculptor climbs Ferris wheel to get his egg

• The sculptor and seagull struggle for egg

• Egg falls and both seagull and sculptor stare in horror

• But egg lands unharmed on road outside the grounds and both sculptor and seagull are relieved

• Then a car comes and runs over the egg

From Script to Screen: Story behind Sculptor [Revisited]

The Sculptor [Revisited]

After realizing my previous story line was a bit too long for a 60 second script I simplified it by getting rid of the characters background story and focusing on what he is actually facing in the main duration of the script:

Sculptor who sculpts prizes for a fairground game he lives behind in the countryside

Not many children play his game

Along comes a spoilt rich woman offering him money to sculpt her a decorative silver egg

He spends day and night making it

After making it he goes to sleep

A magpie sees the egg through the window and takes it to its nest on the top of the grounds Ferris wheel

On discovering a feather in his room he realizes it was the magpie and climbs the Ferris wheel to retrieve the egg

After getting to the magpies nest, the sculptor and the magpie wrestle for the egg and in the struggle it falls off the edge of the Ferris wheel

The rich woman who paid the sculptor happened to be walking to see him and catches egg

As they all rejoice at the wellbeing of the egg, a huge eagle flies by and grabs it straight out of the woman’s hands

They all stand frozen in astonishment  

From Script to Screen: Story behind Sculptor

Roger the Sculptor

Roger Philis was a young orphan boy who lived with his uncle a poor sculptor in a small town in the country. Growing up he would watch intently as his uncle would sculpt large garden figures for wealthy business men in neighboring towns and although highly underpaid by his clients he showed an immense dedication and love for his work which Roger picked up. After his uncle died Roger left his town in search for work and shelter where he came across an abandoned fairground that had been maltreated and defaced.

Roger stayed at this fair and set to work sculpting and restoring it to its original state, in particular he worked on an old merry-go-round which he sculpted a set of new horses for showing the same love and dedication his uncle had.  

One night he realized that there was something menacing about the fair when he was visited by a character from one of the fair rides who took him through a portal to an alternate realm where all the creatures sculpted or painted on the sides of the fairground rides thrived. The character that brought him there, which was an owl from a pendulum ride, gave him a golden egg which he claimed if gotten hold of by one of the demons from the haunted house ride it would unleash the rest of diabolical creatures from the underworld prison they were banished to and in effect destroy the entire fairground completely.

From Script to Screen: Chosen words

From Script to Screen: Chosen words

Once again being the last to pick from the 'bunch' of folded papers in the bag I was left with the words:

Egg
Fairground 
and Sculptor

So my character ( the Sculptor) has to be in a Fairground with an egg in his hand and my task for this project is to create the bounds behind this odd scenario. My first step to generate a story behind this character is to list a number of things that come to mind when I think of my words individually.

Egg: Foods, Chickens, Chick, Farm, Breakfast, Morning
Fairground: Fun, Children, Rides, Colourful, 
Sculptor: Sculptures, Art, Creativity, Imagination

After analysing these words and what they mean to me I will be posting the back story for my character and the reason he is in the situation he is in.