Animation: Final Script

Animation: Synopsis, Logline, Premise, Step Outline, Treatment

The Ebullient Toadstool

Synopsis

A toadstool has a lust for excitement so decides to go skydiving.

Logline

An excited toadstool decides to have a skydiving adventure, the camera goes along for the ride.

Premise

A small toadstool diving a big sky.

Step Outline

Opening scene, a toadstool is excited and warming up, preparing for something, the viewer doesn’t know what yet. A zip appears opening a doorway, the toadstool prepares, then jumps out of the doorway. The camera follows his jump as if recorded by a fellow skydiver. He does maneuvers in the sky, part way down he crashes into a bird and they tumble for a few seconds, they separate, the bird flies away and he continues to fall. The toadstool then braces himself, his cap puffs open and his gills turn to cables, his parachute is open. He glides down to the ground, does the landing roll, jumps up, runs over to his cap/ parachute, and summersaults popping it back onto his head. He stands in the field after his adventure, looks around, shows he is now bored, then zooms off camera to his next adventure.

Treatment

Opening scene, a toadstool is in the white space, he is excited and warming up for something, there is a slight humming noise in the back ground. A zip appears, it opens with the sound of a zip, creating a doorway, now there is a sound of extreme rushing wind. The toadstool prepares, then jumps out of the doorway. The camera follows his jump as if recorded by a fellow skydiver, this captures some spins, tricks and flowing camera moves, sometimes going slightly out of frame to add the impression there is somebody else filming the event. Part way down he has an encounter with a bird, he crashes into it, they roll around in the air trying to untangle, then they separate and the bird flies away as he continues to fall. The toadstool then braces himself, his cap puffs open and his gills turn to cables, his parachute is open. He glides down to the ground, doing some turns with the parachute, does the landing roll, the strings disappear as he rolls. He jumps up, runs over to his cap/ parachute laying on the ground, he summersaults popping his cap back onto his head. The toadstool stands in the field for a moment after his adventure, looks around, shows he has become bored already, perks back back up, then zooms off camera to his next adventure.

Animation: More Idea Notes

After talking to Phil in one of the many lift journey conversations, it has been suggested to stay away from any Magic Mushroom ideas. The frisbee idea was mentioned though, so I've noted some more ideas, but still no solid story idea yet.

1. Life of a mushroom - Pops up out of the ground, jumps around excitedly, a giant fork arrives, he gets eaten - that's a mushroom's life goal so he is excited to have reached it.
2. A little bug scuttles under the mushroom for shade from the sun, the mushroom can't keep still, the bug continues to follow the shade of the mushroom, a big chase (for the bug).
3. Mushroom in a packet on a shelf, doesn't want to be eaten so keeps jumping around trying to pop through cellophane seal. - not sure how he could be happy about that- maybe he's trying to get out because there's something he's excited to try getting to.
4. Toadstool watching two people, he's excited, they're playing frisbee, as he is jumping around watching them, he notices the band around his waste, he pulls it off and throws the frisbee for himself. (I thought of a way he could do this, in image 13 & 14 HERE)
5. Alternative to number 4, the cap of his mushroom image is just like a had and he can flick it off his head, then when he goes to collect it he does a summersault and pops it back on his head, I've drawn an illustration for this idea: 

Animation : Initial Ideas

Here are some notes I've jotted down to begin with....

1. The Verve Video (Link), Toadstool with things coming from left and right as he dances along, he bumps them away with hips, head (a football appears and he headers it away) etc. - A happy version of the video .
2. Ring colour of a toadstool, he pulls it off and it becomes a frisbee. 
3. Top and bottom separate for some reason?
4. Instead of the toadstool rotting, he could just pop back into the ground- some toadstools pop up in the morning, but he outdoes them and really pops up, he then spends the whole day bouncing around playing while the others just stand there, he doesn't want to stop, but as the sun goes down everyone else gets sucked back into the ground and he is left lonely, so he goes too.
5. Pigs sniffing for truffles, toadstool is too energetic for pigs to catch him.
6. Wakes up with an object next to him (dropped coke can or something), he doesn't know what it is but wants to be it's friend- energetically trying to find things to do with his new friend.
7. Wakes up, fellow mushrooms are standing still as usual, but he wants more, he sees the forest as a playground, slides down trees, swings across stuff etc.
8. Some people having a picnic, they have a radio blasting, the mushroom hears it and starts dancing - breakdancing or something.
9. Grows up next to footpath, the people that walk past all have different types of music playing, as they walk past the mushroom starts doing different dance styles to each piece. 
10. Bunch of fungi, he's the most enthusiastic, but he is stuck in the middle of them all, they're all grumpy but his energy to try and get out eventually gets all the other toadstools enthusiastic.
11. Bunch of toadstools, person having a picnic nearby puts music on, the toadstools start bopping along to it but the one toadstool springs out and does the main dance role.
12. A basket of button mushrooms and the one odd toadstool on a kitchen side, he was picked by accident and wants to go home, the animation takes us through terrors of the kitchen like escaping the knife, the frying pan etc, but he is happy to be having an adventure....
13. Somehow he bites himself and gets high off his magic mushroom properties.
14. Feet walking through a field, toadstool jumps or gets snagged onto the foot, the feet then get into a plane and it's a skydiving scene.