I like to draw it frame-by-frame using a software called Paint Tool SAI.
Keith is the only character that features in the animation (apart from a brief visit from the dog) and I wanted to keep his design very simple, yet have some very distinctive features.
The flat cap is a very obvious feature to add on to a Yorkshire man's character, so I'd have been silly not to. The glasses are very similar to Brian Potters (inspiration - mentioned in previous post) and I think they're a pretty good addition to his character design.
I decided to do the animation very vector based as it is a particular style of animation that I find visually appealing and one that I can kind of pull off myself.
I guess I have been pretty lazy when comes to the actual animation, things just move slightly in each scene. This is due to the little time I had to do it, but because I knew I wouldn't have much time to make it technically great, I made it very story driven so that it may go slightly unnoticed.
The title sequence and credits are both pretty straight forward as I didn't want anything too flashy, as it wouldn't go with the tone of the animation.
I went with a picture of the Yorkshire dales for the opening, with the title of the animation fading onto it. Thought it would be apt.
Here is the script for the animation:
Are we rolling? -pause- right.
Hello, my name is Keith Dobson and today I’ll be showing you how I make my famous Sunday dinner.
Also, thank you to my grandson Stephen for wielding the camera.
Right, I’ve got me carrots, chicken, peas, taties, yorkshires.
-looks up- you what?
What do you mean am I not making my own Yorkshires? Its a bloody 2 minute long video Stephen, I don’t have the time to do that.
Anywho, here is how I make the magic happen.
-CHICKEN- Right, so get your chicken, ya gonna want to give it a good rubbing of salt, pepper and a nice dollop of melted butter on top. You can even shove an onion up its arse if you’re feeling daring.
Bang it in a baking tray on 190c, 170 for fan or gas mark 6. Leave it in there for a good hour and half.
-POTATOES- Next up, get your taties cut up and boil them for a couple of minutes. Drain em, get them in a baking tray, sprinkle a bit of salt and pepper and give em a shake. Now what I do is that i sneak a bit of rosemary in to liven them up a tad. coat them in a hot fat and give em a good hour in the oven, I’d say.
-PEAS AND CARROTS- Now get your peas and carrots on the hob, fill up the pans with water and put in a good dash of salt in each and bring them to the boil.
The carrots’ll take about 8 minutes but the peas only take 3ish, so keep your eyes on both.
-YORKSHIRES- Put your Yorkshires in the oven for 4 minutes. Shut up, you.
-GRAVY- Give your gravy granules a good mix with boiling water.
Plate up and there ya have it, Keiths famous sunday dinner. -at dog, raises voice- Get out of it ya little shi- -realises still filming and cuts to credits-
I'm very fortunate to have a boyfriend who has a ridiculously thick Yorkshire accent so after a lot of bribing, he agreed to voice Keith.
I experienced a few glitches when I was trying to import my voice and my backing music into iMovie at the same time - neither worked at the same time for some reason.
I ended up adding just the backing music to the animation, exporting it, reimporting it into iMovie and then cutting it up again and adding the voice over. Pretty time consuming but it seemed to work.
The backing track I used 'Use the Farce, Luke Betty' by composer Vik Sharma. I've messaged him on Facebook (which he invites you to do), to ask permission to use the track.
I highly recommend listening to some of his stuff, it's enchanting.
https://soundcloud.com/audiobuffer
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