Writer info:
We are all working on speculation as
we all make this happen and we all need to do a great job and get a top
deal with either the networks or cable.
We have started the animation progress
and in that process we have to take each caricature and draw it with 5
different angles as well as make sure each looks correct. Sometimes we
will need more than 5 differed angles. FYI. The five angles are only half
of a full 360 points of view and it ends up coming to about 9/ 10 differed
points of view to get the 360. This is done when the 5 angels are flipped.
Sometimes it takes more for more detailed
work.
Each caricature has to go through
this process. We are still a little bit a ways from having the 60 opening
animation, but as these steps are done, then the caricatures are not only
ready for the opening 60 second musical animation, but the caricatures are
also ready for animating episodes.
We will need to get all the episode
scripts up to par. The goal is 13 scripts ready to go scripts and we have
5 scripts now, but each is going to need to be redone for show continuity
and keeping the flow and each caricature within its correct personality
and interaction with other caricature personalities, and we need to punch
the script to be extremely funny.
Also, let's keep in mind that in
the next few weeks the opening animation will be getting done and when
those caricature are all given art approval and then the 5 different views
are done, we will have a tank of ready to go caricatures, and will be
ready for animating the first episode and or start to do many episodes.
The script is what starts it all.
Second is doing the voice overs or voice recordings then the mixed with
the story boards and then the animations.
So please put your potential Phone
Room script on the front of your daily thoughts and action. Also
in writing them we need to keep in mind that the story should be in the
Phone Room. Seems as if the caricatures want to go off set to often and
each time we do we are not getting the true feeling of the phone room and
will also have to start to develop new caricatures, and the 5 points of
view for each new caricature and have to design each new set. E.g. like a
waiter or other people in a restaurant scene. Each new person/caricature
and set will be needed to draft up and go through the process.
Its better when going off screen or
off the set, that we do it when we have an interesting callee interact
with an employee. E.g. When a Phone Room employee calls a customer and a
funny interaction needs to go off scene or we see a funny reason to take
the viewers into the customers world. Many times we might do a balloon cut
out of the customer that will float within the Phone Room and not go off
set. (Not to be confused with the occasional avatar balloons)
Keep in mind that the comedy is in
a few places, it’s with the caricatures interactions between each other
in the Phone Room set, and the interaction with the public/customers. In
real life, the public in America is mostly annoyed when a phone
solicitation disturbs their daily life. So the interaction with the
employees is one thing, but making the annoying fact of phone solicitation
needs to be played out and in a funny way.
(The public in general hates callers and they come up with funny or
cruel ways to get at callers. Sometimes a customer likes what he hears and
responds favorably, but in general the phone room employees need to have
the audiences hate them but love them at the same time.)
Keeping the show in the Phone Room
is important because of two strong reasons. First we are telling a story
about the interaction between Phone room employees and the people they
call. Second, each new caricature or caricatures and off set locations can
take weeks to months to fully develop and do an animation.
Writers that are new to animation
TV don't always know how hard it becomes when taking main caricatures of
set.
So please keep in mind this is
about the phone room and needs to stay in the sets and confinement of the
currently developed caricatures. This not the rule of order, but needs to
be a main thought when writing for The Phone Room.
We don't want it to be boarding and
only have the employees, so the interaction with employees And secondary
is the interaction with employees and customers should be the main task of
your writing skills. And yes we will go off set in non-customers
interaction and have a few scripts that do that, but we have found this is
causing a big issue and if your script is focused with the phone room and
interactions, it has a better chance of being a script we work with first.
Again, thank you for your time and
interest in The Phone Room and if we can do our best and then reach higher
in getting each scene, each word, and each movement to be defined and
funny in unison with the dialog to be funny and NEW and in the context of
what it would be like in a phone room, then we shall all have a great
2010, and so on.
Also as noted on the web site, if
you have submitted or are truly working on a script, you will see your
name as crew when hitting the left Producer button.
Anyone that has a script that makes
it to animation and airs on tv will be compensated in an equal share with
you, the head writer, and anyone else that contributes to that given
script or episode. Compensation will be based on what we get for the
completed animation and or WGA minimum with possible bonuses.
Also just so you know in the Join
the Crew Section, we have not put this out to anyone or submitted the web
site to search engine, however they may pick it up, but for now its just
us. We know if we listed postings on writers sites and other avenues on
the web, we would get overloaded, so for now, do your best in what we are
striving for and get locked into being a part of the actual finished
episodes.
Best,
Fred M Davis
www.thephoneroom.com
produced by
www.HollywoodAnimation.com
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