Script to Screen: Animatic

Script to Screen: Art Of

Script to Screen: Character Design Sketches

The Tattooist

The Mermaid

The Ringmaster

Script to Screen: Bird Design

Script to Screen: Circus Interior Designs

Goldfish Bowl Attraction

Tattooist and Mermaid Final Attraction

Script to Screen: Circus Exterior Designs

Circus under the ownership of the Ringmaster

Circus under the ownership of the Tattooist and the Mermaid

Script to Screen: Mermaid Colours #3

Gold and Silver

Blue and Green

Out of all of the designs I prefer the Gold colouring for the Mermaid, as she can have a yellow/gold shine to her, as well as that being it would be more fitting to have a goldfish mermaid to live in a goldfish bowl.

Script to Screen: Mermaid Colours #2

Blue and Dark Blue

Light Blue and Dark Green

Red and Lilac

Light Grey and Dark Grey

Script to Screen: Mermaid Colours

Colour Scheme 1

Colour Scheme 2

Colour Scheme 3

Colour Scheme 4

Script to Screen: Mermaid Appearance Experimentation

Face Design Experimentation

Tail Design Experimentation

@Phil Script to Screen: Newer Idea **Textblock Version*

After receiving my OGR feedback I tried to add a more darker theme to my story.

Outline 

• Posters show new attraction, and then falls upon the Tattoo artist who is performing his act in front of a small crowd. Showing off his illustrated body of moving/living tattoos.
• Crowd move on to next act around corner. Tattooist doesn't know act but catches sight of large curved glass. Follow crowd and stands in awe at large goldfish bowl. Ringmaster is whipping at a lion, hears crowd and turns to stand in awe of the new attraction.
• Mermaid begins to perform and catch eye of Tattooist. After the act the two meet between the glass. Ringmaster watches on enviously.
• Tattooist shows his act while mermaid shows hers. Tattooist paints on glass, Mermaid performs with the moving ink, attracting audience. Glaring at the in the distance is the ringmaster.
• Tattooist visits her again but she keeps staring at everyone's feet. Ringmaster again watches. Mermaid gestures to her tail and to the Tattooist, the at the glass separating them.
• Tattooist draws on glass to show idea of transforming her tail to legs. Both more cheerful and plan to run away together. Ringmaster holds up his whip and grins evilly as mermaid is waving cheerfully goodbye to the Tattooist.
• The Tattooist returns the next day with several designs on paper in his arms. Stops in shock before running to an 'Attraction Closed' sign, and broken glass scattered on the floor. *
• Tattooist runs around the sign and finds the Mermaid floating in shallow water. (Either alive with no lower half, her tail cut up into pieces around her, or dead.) Tattooist drops designs and holds Mermaid in his arms while the Ringmaster stands behind him laughing/grinning. Tattooist glares at Ringmaster and before standing up, grabs a design off the floor as well as his tattoo gun, and closes in on the now fearful Ringmaster.
• New attraction on posters, and shows the Tattooist performing (either alone with a mermaid tattoo on his chest, or with the near-dead tailless Mermaid, now slightly more tattooed, sitting beside him.). New act which has a clear view of the Tattooist (Alone or with Mermaid), and is surrounded by audience jeering and poking at it, the Ringmaster now a morbid horrific monster covered in ink and monstrous tattoos.

• *Alternatively, the Tattooist gets to the Mermaid as the Ringmaster is closing in on her. Goldfish bowl still shattered. Tattooist sees whip marks and cuts on Mermaid, who is helpless in shallow water, and grows angry, turning on the Ringmaster with tattoo gun in hand.
• Tattooist and now Legged Mermaid character are new ringmasters but still perform as Tattoo couple, while the monster Ringmaster is forced to watch on next to lion pen which he tortured originally. Mermaid and Tattooist now together.

@Phil Script to Screen: New Idea **Feedback Welcome**

@Phil Script to Screen: Online Greenlight Review 20/01/2016

Script to Screen: Influence Maps

@Phil Script to Screen: Story Ideas **Feedback Welcome**

Based on my feedback from my mind map and previous ideas I've looked more into the 'freak show' variety act side of my traveling circus, and would have the artist as a tattoo artist, perhaps with ink that moves or changes color on his skin, being a living canvas, and the goldfish bowl to be a large container-like stage for a 'freak' mermaid-like character. The general gist of my ideas for my story if there were to be a romance between the artist and the mermaid would be;

Idea 1: A Performance 

The artist performs his act of moving inks/living canvas, sees the mermaid on centre of the circus in her large goldfish bowl performing, leaping through hoops and other water acrobatics. As crowd leaves artist meets up with her through the glass. The bowl is rather empty so he paints a fish onto the glass, which begins to move into her bowl and acts like a real fish. The two then encorporate this into a sort of double act and attract many people to the circus, such as the mermaid swimming around with objects created by the artist's ink.

Idea 2: The Little Freak

Much like idea 1 the artist performs and soon the mermaid catches his eye. The mermaid is less enthusiastic about her water act/swimming and is far more interested in walking as she keeps on staring at the audiences' feet. The artist then proceeds after some design planning to tattoo her legs with ink, to create a design of legs on her large fish-like yet humanly morbid tail. As his tattoos come to life so does hers, obtaining legs. The two then either escape the circus or again make an alteration to her/their acts.

@Phil Script to Screen: Story Ideas

Based on my feedback from my mind map and previous ideas I've looked more into the 'freak show' variety act side of my traveling circus, and would have the artist as a tattoo artist, perhaps with ink that moves or changes color on his skin, being a living canvas, and the goldfish bowl to be a large container-like stage for a 'freak' mermaid-like character. The general gist of my ideas for my story if there were to be a romance between the artist and the mermaid would be;

Idea 1: A Performance 

The artist performs his act of moving inks/living canvas, sees the mermaid on centre of the circus in her large goldfish bowl performing, leaping through hoops and other water acrobatics. As crowd leaves artist meets up with her through the glass. The bowl is rather empty so he paints a fish onto the glass, which begins to move into her bowl and acts like a real fish. The two then encorporate this into a sort of double act and attract many people to the circus.

Idea 2: The Little Freak

Much like idea 1 the artist performs and soon the mermaid catches his eye. The mermaid is less enthusiastic about her water act/swimming and is far more interested in walking as she keeps on staring at the audiences' feet. The artist then proceeds after some design planning to tattoo her legs with ink, to create a design of legs on her large fish-like yet humanly morbid tail. As his tattoos come to life so does hers, obtaining legs. The two then either escape the circus or again make an alteration to her/their acts.

@Phil Script to Screen: Bulletpoint Story Ideas

Script to Screen: Story Ideas Quick Mindmap

Just a quick mindmap before I write up these ideas and develop them more in a more presentable and readable format