Ariel Griffiths Pre-Production Blog

Squidgy was quite a simple and easy Character to design and finish

These images show the drawings of Ellie and how she ended up the character she is now.

This is the Animatic. Voices were recorded by myself and friends, while other sounds were taken from royalty free sites

This is the storyboard for a two minute excerpt of that is listed in the Script

This is the Script for the Pilot Episode of Ellie's World, which features an introduction to Ellie and the World she is dreamt into. (Establishing shot of a car driving down a road, the camera stays with the car until it stops outside of a small school.) (The camera shows a little girl (Ellie) looking behind the camera where her mother is and stays on Ellie as she leaves the car) Ellie’s mother-Remember to walk home tonight sweetie, I’ll be home for an hour before you go to bed (Ellie holds a disappointed smile) Ellie’s mother- Do you have your key? Ellie-Yeah mom, Love you. Ellie’s mother-Love you too (The camera follows Ellie out the door and into the playground, she sits on a bench, pulls a book out of her bag, but doesn’t open it, instead she looks at the camera with the same disappointed smile) (While Ellie stays in the same sitting position and facial expression, the scene around her changes from sitting in class, being picked last in a PE...

While the Pilot will be posted in full-detail, here are Synopsises for three concept episodes Working Episode Title “ A Magic Encore ” “I’m gonna put more than a spell on you wise guy!”-Magic Man MCE Ellie wakes up to her mother calling through the ajar door, she looks at Tyson sleeping in his cage and thinks of the weird dream she just had, she walks downstairs to see the door open and her mom calling from outside, saying they’re both late and need to eat in the car and get to work/school.  After another lonely day, while her mother watches TV, Ellie returns home and draws some of the characters she met in her dream using the light of the TV, as night falls she goes to bed wishing she could go back, amazingly she does indeed wake up at the exact same spot of the park, with Tyson and Squidgy acting as if nothing’s happened. While enjoying the park again, Ellie accidentally creates Magic Man, a teenage wizard superhero based on the movie Ellie’s mother wa...

These Concept Drawings are based on the idea that the Park is boundless, instead of Space themed rides and Shows, Ellie could literally take a Rocket into Space and travel. Instead of a Swinging Pirate Ship Ride, Ellie could literally take a ship to Sea and Travel the Seas

These are Location Backgrounds for: Ellie's Room The Main Park

Here are the Facial Expressions for Ellie and Squidgy For Ellie, she uses quite typical expressions for a character of her age. The Character of Squidgy only has a Happy Facial Expression, however his face acts as a screen and can show different pixelated images.

Tyson the Ferret:  An uninterested and bad tempered ferret that Ellie spawns after growing tired of all the happy go-lucky residents of the park that she makes initially. Tyson follows Ellie and Squidgy throughout their adventures and despite appearing like he’d rather be anywhere else, has grown attached to his friends. -Rocket (Guardians of the Galaxy) -Dr Cox (Scrubs) -Squidward (Spongebob Squarepants)

The Full Story for Ellie's World follows: The story of a nine year old girl who lives with her single mother, who is forced to work two jobs to keep ends meet. Feeling especially lonely one night, Ellie falls asleep to wake up in a fantastical and endless amusement park, with all the attractions she could ever want to ride, every food she could ever want to eat, and every person she could ever wish to meet. Indeed, when she enters this world for the first time, the park is completely empty, save for a few guiding robots who run attractions and serve food. However, Ellie soon finds she can literally imagine anything to life. Soon however, she wakes up and returns to the real world, never to return to this world of dreams again. Until the next night when she finds herself there again, and the next night, and the next. Ellie’s World has opened up to her, however she may soon find that being in control of your own world, may lead to discovering who she really is. ...

The Log-line is the story of my TV Show summed up in a single sentence. For Example the Log-line of "Pokemon" would be: "A young boy travels the world encountering many interesting species called Pokemon" Or the Log-Line of "Fairly Odd Parents" would be: "Ten year old Timmy, is granted two Fairy God Parents to grant him all his wishes" For my TV Show, the logline is: "A Lonely Little Girl wakes up in her own amazing and endless Theme Park"