Lobster
by Andrea Neagu
A sadistic chef gets kicked out of the restaurant’s kitchen by an animal loving intern after abusing some lobsters in their last moments of life.
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Synopsis While attempting to make the last days of the restaurant’s lobsters more bearable and ‘humane’ by feeding them, the newly hired chef assistant intern gets interrupted by one of the older chefs who. The chef grabs one of the lobsters, raises it as high as possible and cruelly drops it on top of the others. At the sight of it, the intern, snaps, shouts, swears and kicks out the chef for a short while before resuming their service, slightly more uncomfortable than before.
Story Treatment The story follows Ann the purple kitten, a newly hired part time chef assistant intern, in her struggles at work. The animation starts with Ann at the beginning of her shift, struggling to open the heavy doors of the kitchen from the staff room and falling into embarrassment with witnesses everywhere. Starting her shift by checking the fridge’s contents she stumbles upon the last 3 lobsters in a frozen tray and feeling sorry for them she decides to try to do something nice for the poor little creatures. After seeking advice from the head chef, Brad the blue bear, Ann acts upon it only to get interrupted half way through by Dan, the cruel orange fox. While Ann leaves the shot looking for bread to feed the lobsters, Dan comes in and sees the tray just sitting on the counter and decides that it would be fun to mess around with the helpless crustaceans by picking one up and dropping it over the others, causing them pain. At the sight of this action Ann stands up against the chef by kicking him out of the kitchen. Simple animal humanoid characters with flat colours and no shading will be animated with Photoshop, the background will be created in Photoshop and/or TV Paint. The overall animation will heavily use Photoshop with slight influences from TV Paint and After Effects. The film starts is using the kitchen as the only space of action with a brief shot of the staff room at the beginning. 5
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Brad Humanoid blue bear 43 year old 200 cm tall English Head Chef Nonchalant, confident, calm, warm Helps only and whenever is asked to Makes himself invisible
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Ann Humanoid purple cat 19 year old 145 cm tall Romanian Chef assistant part time intern Shy, self-doubting, low self-esteem Cheerful, adaptive, hard-worker, emphatic A ball of emotions
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Dan Humanoid orange fox 38 year old 180 cm tall English - nationalist, patriotic Chef - 15 years in the company Selfish, mean, racist, sadist, evil, coward, cold Quiet, hard - worker
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Lobster(s) Various lobster designs Only 3 Lobsters made it into the final No animals have been hurt during the production
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Concept
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Storyboard Shot
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Time Panel Time 01:17 1 00:20
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Time Panel Time 01:17 2 00:21
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Time Panel Time 09:07 1 00:21
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Time Panel Time 09:07 2 03:11
Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is picking up her chef hat and closes the locker
Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann tarts walking to the left of the screen
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is walking towards the doors Dan is reading a magazine
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is standing in front of the doors and takes a deep breath
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Time Panel Time 09:07 3 03:16
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Time Panel Time 09:07 6 00:18
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is struggling to open the doors Dan looks at Ann behind the paper
Action Notes Full Shot The doors start opening
Action Notes Full Shot Ann falls down Dan is laughing at her
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is n the floor, Dan is still laughing, Brad stops and looks
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Time Panel Time 03:20 1 00:12
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Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is getting up
Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is rushing herself off
Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is rushing herself off
Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is walking towards the camera
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Time Panel Time 04:14 1 03:11
Action Notes Full Shot Lobsters on the tray inside the fridge shivering
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Time Panel Time 04:14 2 00:03
Action Notes Full Shot The fridge door starts opening
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Time Panel Time 04:14 3 00:03
Action Notes Full Shot The fridge door reveals Ann’s silhouette
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Time Panel Time 04:14 4 00:21
Action Notes Full Shot The lobsters look back at Ann, surprised and scared
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Time Panel Time 01:17 1 00:21
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Time Panel Time 01:10 1 01:10
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Time Panel Time 13:10 1 01:23
Action Notes Close Up Ann is looking back at the lobsters Brad is preparing food in the bg
Action Notes Close Up Ann is looking surprised and curious at the lobsters
Action Notes Full Shot The lobster back down, hugging in fear, shivering, looking scared
Action Notes Close Up Ann is looking sad at the lobsters
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Time Panel Time 13:10 2 05:09
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Action Notes Close Up Ann is looking behind her and talks to Brad
Action Notes Close Up The camera focuses from Ann to Brad
Action Notes Close Up Brad is explaining to Ann how she could feed the lobsters
Action Notes Close Up Brad is explaining to Ann how she could feed the lobsters
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Time Panel Time 13:10 6 00:21
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Action Notes Close Up Ann is taking the tray out Brad is walking away with the food
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is walking to the counter with the lobster tray
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is putting the tray down on the counter
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is leaving to the left of the screen to get water
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Time Panel Time 09:02 4 00:13
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Action Notes Full Shot Ann is coming back from the left of the screen with water in hands
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is pouring the water in the tray
Action Notes Full Shot Ann is leaving on the right side of the screen behind the fridge door
Action Notes Full Shot The empty kitchen
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Time Panel Time 09:02 8 01:01
Action Notes Full Shot Dan comes from the right side of the screen, behind the counter
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Time Panel Time 09:02 9 00:19
Action Notes Full Shot Dan walks in front of the tray
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Time Panel Time 09:02 10 00:16
Action Notes Full Shot Dan looks at the lobsters
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Action Notes Full Shot Dan puts his hand in the tray
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Time Panel Time 01.13 1 01.03
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Action Notes Close Up Dan looks down
Action Notes Close Up Dan looks down, evilly
Action Notes Close Up Dan picks a lobster up
Action Notes Close Up Dan raises the lobster higher
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Action Notes Close Up Dan raises the lobster to his chest
Action Notes Close Up Dan raises the lobster to his chin
Action Notes Close Up Dan raises the lobster to his head
Action Notes Close Up Dan raises the lobster above his head, camera start zooming in
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Time Panel Time 05:21 7 00:23
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Action Notes Close Up Camera zooms close on the lobster
Action Notes Close Up Dan lets go of the lobster
Action Notes Close Up The lobster falls over the tray
Action Notes Close Up The lobster falls on the other lobsters
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Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is looking through the products on the shelf
Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is looking behind her shoulder at Dan
Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is coming towards the camera shouting at Dan
Action Notes Medium Close Shot Ann is coming closer towards the camera shouting at Dan
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Time Panel Time 05:23 5 01:19
Action Notes Close Up Ann is coming very close to the camera shouting at Dan
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Action Notes Full Shot Dan is looking down
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Action Notes Full Shot Dan is walking to the right of the screen
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Action Notes Full Shot Dan is walking to the right, Ann is coming in from the left
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Time Panel Time 04.15 4 01:18
Action Notes Full Shot Ann picks the lobster up
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Time Panel Time 04.15 5 01:07
Action Notes Full Shot Dan comes back from the right of the screen, Ann looks back at him
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Time Panel Time 02:21 1 02:21
Action Notes Close Up Dan looks upset at Ann
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Time Panel Time 02:20 1 02:20
Action Notes Close Up Ann looks angrily at Dan
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Schedule 25 March Submit Animatic and Production Bible
Projection Crit
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15 April
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22 April Colouring
29 April Final edits
06 May Export and submission
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26 March
23 April Colouring
30 April Final edits
07 May Deadline
24 April Colouring
01 May Final edits
25 April Colouring
02 May Final edits
26 April Colouring
03 May Final edits
27 April
31 March
07 April
14 April
21 April
28 April
Colouring
04 May Final edits
05 May
Andreea Neagu AndreeaTNeagu@gmail.com 07479960278
Fancy Pumpkin Studio FancyPumpkinStudio@gmail.com https://FancyPumpkinStudio.wixsite. com/FancyPumpkinStudio
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