storyboards

first one:

(the one that should have been up here last week but i was vomiting violently)

the ident starts with a yellow blob jumping on screen (which is plain white), morphing and suddenly obtaining some eyes. he then blinks a couple of times, and yells CUSTARD!! the background suddenly bursts into colour, and the camera then zooms into his mouth.

when then find ourselves in a "magical happy joy land" akin to YO! gabba gabba. there are strange men in costumes jumping around and acting crazy in an innocent childish manner. the footage of them frolicking is then imposed onto a moving rainbow background. then the end screen appears, which features real footage of pink custard being dropped into yellow custard, with the program information on top.

this idea developed a bit more:

(oooh colour)

yellow blobby thing plops onto screen, starts stretching himself into different shapes.

a set of eyes pop into existence, he blinks at us a couple of times, in a daze maybe.

he finds his voice and screams CUSTARD!! the bright rainbow background starts spinning around him. the camera then zooms into his mouth mid-scream.

here we find ourselves in a strange world populated by bunny men, (video of some volunteers in front a green screen or more likely just pratting around in hyde park.) jumping around and generally having fun in an innocent child like manner.

a rainbow then descends over the scene, and there is still shots of the bunny men on top of the rainbow. (lots of fast editing to keep it interesting)

the background then flashes different colours, with the bunny men strutting their stuff on top. the background then changes to a circular rainbow design.

the bunny men disappear and the camera zooms into the yellow circle at the centre of the rainbow. the final shot of pink custard being dropped into yellow custard is then shown, with the program information on top.

the reason i decided to go with video footage of the bunny men instead of illustrated world and characters is that it will make making the ident simpler and take less time. it's much easier to film volunteers messing around in costume rather then animating several characters and designing them. i would have liked to design the costumes but i don't have the time or the resources to.

the yellow blob will most likely be stop motion. since it's more textured and stop motion is sometimes used in childrens programs.