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A Credit To Us All
Well it has been a long time since my last post for which I apologise. Only small things not worth talking about have happened since the last blog so I’m going to pick up from the last BANG event with Jayne Kirkham. I thought it was excellent; my thanks go out to Jayne for her presentation/talk and also to Sarah and Abbie for organising the event.
Undoubtedly it was the most informative event we have had, I was learning so much I had to remind myself I wasn’t wearing a silly uniform and being forced to call people Sir, Miss or Ma’am as it was in my flamboyant high school. The main discussion was on the development of a story and the progression of characters; I had coincidentally just started writing short stories during my “free” time at work so I was particularly interested in what she had to say. I feel like I may have learnt too much though, my story writing has taken a down turn and I’m struggling to utilise all I learnt.
Anyway, the evening began with, ARGH…ice-breakers. I hate ice-breakers; I noticed Sarah managed to avoid having to say anything so I was sitting behind her giving her evils for the rest of the talk. She didn’t know, and if she had turned round to me I’d have smiled sweetly of course. At one stage we had to choose our most hated character, our most memorable and our most loved, one each, from our childhood and from now. When Jayne asked the group why we thought we hated a certain type of character Rex Monster gave my favourite answer,
“Because they are all bas***ds”
That gets a subtle shrug of the shoulders, a down turned mouth, raised eyebrows and a nod of agreement from me.
We were shown some various animations displaying different levels of techniques to drive a story forward; it was shortly after we finished watching “I’m with stupid” a Sponge Bob Square Pants episode that I was rudely awoken from any temporary lapse in concentration. The episode had consisted of Sponge Bob pretending to be more stupid than Patrick in an attempt to convince Patrick’s parents that he wasn’t that dumb. During a discussion post-episode we were informed by Jayne:
“You can’t get more stupid than Patrick.”
Ouch….that hurts!!!
Before I move on, I have to ask how many people acted out the shoulder shrug, down turned mouth, nod when they read the sentence a moment ago. I’ve been writing this in my office at the council and I think my colleagues may think I’m a bit strange, I can’t read it without doing a bizarre Hunchback of Notre Dame/nodding dog impression.
A previous job I had with Abbie and Maria that Jim Chaytor offered us (thanks Jim) and which I have spoken about in the past finally came to fruition with an almighty bang of buzz and excitement. OOglies was aired on CBBC at 17:45 yesterday and I was on the edge of my seat, still sweating from the dash home ready to watch the results of our hard work back in January and February. It began with a fan-fair, the presenter showing it all the respect that I’d imagined it deserved, and then…..it began. Ooglies is an extremely fast paced comedy sketch show aimed at the under 12 market. There are over 70 characters based on various household items and things like fruit and vegetables, each character has their own 30 - 40 second sketch where they are inevitably splattered or made to look foolish. The jokes are slapstick and predictable but it does have its moments. I was overjoyed to see one of the sketches Abbie had worked hard on open the whole series….well done. There were more characters to follow which I hadn’t seen before and then a couple I had worked on. Within what seemed like slightly less than, the fifteen minutes were up. I hope there is no correlation between the length of the episode and my new found fame, however, I do fear the worst. As it came to an end it was time for me to check the credits, this was something we were unsure we would be given. My eyes were peeled and I had accepted that they would dry up from the “not wanting to blink and miss anything” frenzy I had worked myself into. The credits starting flying in. Then flying out. All with a rapidity my eyes and brain couldn’t contend with. Man those credits were swift! I didn’t see my name, it was there, as I have found out since, but I hadn’t managed to catch a glimpse of it. I suspect this is a torment I will be putting myself through every day now until the series comes to an end. It was all very exciting though, and it did make me feel pretty proud of myself.
Patrick Green, Abbie Stanton and Maria J Parra : Story Artists on OOglies.
To watch the first episode and to make sense of what the hell I’m going on about, here is a link:
OOglies Episode 1
Ta ta for now
Undoubtedly it was the most informative event we have had, I was learning so much I had to remind myself I wasn’t wearing a silly uniform and being forced to call people Sir, Miss or Ma’am as it was in my flamboyant high school. The main discussion was on the development of a story and the progression of characters; I had coincidentally just started writing short stories during my “free” time at work so I was particularly interested in what she had to say. I feel like I may have learnt too much though, my story writing has taken a down turn and I’m struggling to utilise all I learnt.
Anyway, the evening began with, ARGH…ice-breakers. I hate ice-breakers; I noticed Sarah managed to avoid having to say anything so I was sitting behind her giving her evils for the rest of the talk. She didn’t know, and if she had turned round to me I’d have smiled sweetly of course. At one stage we had to choose our most hated character, our most memorable and our most loved, one each, from our childhood and from now. When Jayne asked the group why we thought we hated a certain type of character Rex Monster gave my favourite answer,
“Because they are all bas***ds”
That gets a subtle shrug of the shoulders, a down turned mouth, raised eyebrows and a nod of agreement from me.
We were shown some various animations displaying different levels of techniques to drive a story forward; it was shortly after we finished watching “I’m with stupid” a Sponge Bob Square Pants episode that I was rudely awoken from any temporary lapse in concentration. The episode had consisted of Sponge Bob pretending to be more stupid than Patrick in an attempt to convince Patrick’s parents that he wasn’t that dumb. During a discussion post-episode we were informed by Jayne:
“You can’t get more stupid than Patrick.”
Ouch….that hurts!!!
Before I move on, I have to ask how many people acted out the shoulder shrug, down turned mouth, nod when they read the sentence a moment ago. I’ve been writing this in my office at the council and I think my colleagues may think I’m a bit strange, I can’t read it without doing a bizarre Hunchback of Notre Dame/nodding dog impression.
A previous job I had with Abbie and Maria that Jim Chaytor offered us (thanks Jim) and which I have spoken about in the past finally came to fruition with an almighty bang of buzz and excitement. OOglies was aired on CBBC at 17:45 yesterday and I was on the edge of my seat, still sweating from the dash home ready to watch the results of our hard work back in January and February. It began with a fan-fair, the presenter showing it all the respect that I’d imagined it deserved, and then…..it began. Ooglies is an extremely fast paced comedy sketch show aimed at the under 12 market. There are over 70 characters based on various household items and things like fruit and vegetables, each character has their own 30 - 40 second sketch where they are inevitably splattered or made to look foolish. The jokes are slapstick and predictable but it does have its moments. I was overjoyed to see one of the sketches Abbie had worked hard on open the whole series….well done. There were more characters to follow which I hadn’t seen before and then a couple I had worked on. Within what seemed like slightly less than, the fifteen minutes were up. I hope there is no correlation between the length of the episode and my new found fame, however, I do fear the worst. As it came to an end it was time for me to check the credits, this was something we were unsure we would be given. My eyes were peeled and I had accepted that they would dry up from the “not wanting to blink and miss anything” frenzy I had worked myself into. The credits starting flying in. Then flying out. All with a rapidity my eyes and brain couldn’t contend with. Man those credits were swift! I didn’t see my name, it was there, as I have found out since, but I hadn’t managed to catch a glimpse of it. I suspect this is a torment I will be putting myself through every day now until the series comes to an end. It was all very exciting though, and it did make me feel pretty proud of myself.
Patrick Green, Abbie Stanton and Maria J Parra : Story Artists on OOglies.
To watch the first episode and to make sense of what the hell I’m going on about, here is a link:
OOglies Episode 1
Ta ta for now
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Comment by Kate Genevieve on August 18, 2009 at 11:44pm - OOGLIES!! That's great- well done, guys. Splat!
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Comment by JimChayts on August 12, 2009 at 4:00pm -
It looks great.
I'm glad you are all happy to be credited. I was very specific with the Beeb about that so I would have been annoyed if they didn't credit everyone.
Congratulations and I hope it can form the centerpiece of your CV for the next few months.
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Comment by Luke Hay on August 12, 2009 at 9:39am -
Great blog post again Patrick.
Congratulations to all involved! OOglies looks great (I wonder if this means I'm mentally in their "under 12's market"?) and I'm glad you got the credit you deserved.
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Comment by Maria J Parra on August 11, 2009 at 5:07pm - I have to say... Fantastic blog! I was thinking about writing something about OOglies! You have read my mind, Patrick! I was so happy yesterday that I've taken a screenshot with our names on the credits and I am going to frame it! Woo woo!
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