Adventure Project Pro-forma

1. Adventure

2. Equilibrium
Bart and Homer are playing dares and they
are having fun.
Bart ands up naked in the Krusty Burger
window and Homer teases him for it.
Disruption
Everyone is dumping waste in the lake,
causing mass pollution, resulting in them
banning dumping in the lake. However
Homer is in a rush for doughnuts and
dumps toxic waste in the lake. A giant dome
is then put over the town.
Recognition
Everyone finds out it was Homer and they chase
after him angrily. But the family falls through a
sink hole to the other side of the dome and
escape. They move to Alaska and decide to live in
peace and harmony.
Attempt to repair the damage
The family decide to return to Springfield and help
them out, as they are outside of the dome. Homer
doesn’t want to help so they leave him behind, he
then later decides to do the right thing and return
to help, by riding a motorbike up the dome with
Bart and drops the bomb outside the dome and
shatters it, setting Springfield free from the dome.
New Equilibrium
Springfield have a restored order and they all
come together to rebuild the town as a team,
Homer is forgiven by his family for his actions and
praised for saving Springfield.
Todorov’s Equilibrium
Theory- The Simpson’s
Movie

3. Character type How they appear in your story
The Hero Homer, as he comes back to save Springfield, despite him being the one who causes the
problem.
The Villain Russ Cargill and Arnold Schwarzenegger, as they are the authority of the film and put the
dome over Springfield to trap the people inside, following the waste dumping incident.
The Helper Homer’s mind- he has an imagination that he must help Springfield while in Alaska.
The Donor -
The Dispatcher Bart, as he accompanies Homer as they ride the motorbike to the top of the dome
seconds before detonation.
The Princess or prize Marge, they are already married, but after saving Springfield, they are able to reconnect
after being away from each other due to Homers’ actions.
The Princess’s Father -
The False Hero -

4. WWWWWH
Who Simpson’s Tv show characters, main focus on the Simpson’s family, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and most importantly Homer- as he
causes the problem but then resolves it by becoming the Hero of the film.
What After failed attempts to engage with Springfield about the waste they are creating, dumping rubbish in the lake is banned. Homer has a
pet pig which created him a lot of waste that he was in a rush to get rid of, so he breaks the rules and dumps it in the lake, turning it into a
toxic waste environment. This results in a huge dome being put over Springfield
Why Pollution in the lake caused by excessive waste being dumped in the lake- causing the government to put a dome over Springfield.
When The film is set in 2007- the same year as it was released.
Where Springfield/ Alaska- cartoon interpretation of these places.
How Homer saves Springfield by biking up the dome and throwing out the bomb, which blows up and smashes the dome, setting Springfield
free from isolation once again.

5. Initial Ideas

6. Idea 1
Who 3 ferret heroes, Bill, Yogi and Ted. 3 ferret princesses Mindy, Louise, Tess. Evil rabbit kingdom-only ever seen as
a change in scene colour. Mork- helps the heroes complete their quest by sending them in the correct direction
and gives they special power to use against the rabbits. Lennie- father of the princesses, tells the heroes they
can marry the princesses of they can bring them home safe.
What On a great mission to save planet ferret and rescue their 3 princesses from world destruction and captivity.
Ferret world is taken over by evil rabbits who are never seen, only ever heard and had their presence felt. They
have captured 3 beautiful princesses who the heroes go to rescue, encountering many elements of danger
along the way. The main storyline is focused on the quest they take on in order to save the princesses. They
eventually make it to the girls where they face a battle but defeat the restraint and save the girls, they take
them home and get married with their fathers’ grant.
Why Evil rabbit kingdom have taken over and captured the 3 princesses who are desperately trying to escape to a
better place, the heroes are told of their whereabouts and told by the princesses’ father they can marry them if
they bring his daughters back safe and sound.
When November 2031, as the ferret world is taken over by evil rabbits.
Where Planet ferret, in a far away galaxy
How Bill, Ted and Yogi go on an insightful quest to save their princesses, fighting through the hardships that come
their way, and fighting down the evil rabbits that took over planet ferret

7. Idea 2
Who Buffy the bear, Derry the dragon, Tory the king T-Rex, lollipop the llama
What Buffy is on a quest to save a rare endangered dragon whom she fell in love with as a child, he was captured
by the evil king dinosaur, tearing their love apart.
Why The dinosaur wanted to preform experiments on the dragon to see if he could change him into thinking he
was a dinosaur and make him become the slave of his kingdom.
Buffy wants to save Derry and is joined by Lollipop the llama who helps her rescue him before it is too late
for Buffy and Derry to ever see each other again.
When July 3045
Where Forest island in a land far far away
How Buffy and Lollipop travel across the ocean to find Derry on a rowing boat which causes them complications
along the way- they fly back with Derry on the way back.

8. Idea 3
Who Sam, Vicky, someone called Jason
What Go to a Moroccan desert to save the royal family who have been kidnapped by gorillas las trying to take over
human kind, and torture the royal family. The gorillas give the heroes 24 hours to save the royal family or
they will destroy the earth and rule the world.
Why The gorillas want to take over the world and want everyone to be formed back into pre-evolution and live
their way of life once again. They desire to show the humans what life once was and force them to live their
way of life again.
When Set in 1982
Where Morocco/ uk
How They make a deal with the royal family to let them go, bribing them with a lifetime supply of bananas and
freedom to live their way, despite what the humans have against it.

9. Ferret planet
Who: 3 ferret heroes, Bill, Yogi and
Ted. 3 ferret princesses Mindy,
Louise, Tess. Evil rabbit kingdom.
Mork- helps the ferret heroes.
Lennie- father of the princesses.
What: The rabbit kingdom have
captured the three ferret princesses,
so the heroes take on a quest to save
them from captivity. They face many
dangers and fights along the way,
with the help of Mork, who helps
boost their powers to reach the
princesses.
When:
November 2031
Where: planet
ferret, in a far
away galaxy
Why: Evil rabbits have
taken away the freedom
of planet ferret in
attempt to take control.
And make it a world
dominated by rabbits.
How: Bill, Ted and Yogi go
on an insightful quest to
save their princesses,
fighting through the
hardships that come their
way, and fighting down
the evil rabbits that took
over planet ferret.
Setting: mythical
setting, forest setting
along the journey,
where the princesses
are captured, they
are kept behind bars
and all separately.
Character styles:
• Bill: Leader of the three brothers, likes to act like the big
tough figure, sometimes gets over enthusiastic but is a big
softie at heart.
• Ted: More laid back than Bill, likes to wait for the right
opportunity to do things, thinks carefully about things before
acting upon them.
• Yogi: The pretty boy of the 3 brothers, has the most charm
and affection to offer to the princesses, uses this to his
advantage. Has the biggest heart which he isn’t afraid to
show.
• Mindy: The bossy sibling, is easily angered yet easily scared,
wears her heart on her sleeve. Keeps the other siblings in
order by organising things such as the plans Louise makes.
Has a soft side which occasionally forms in the film.
• Louise: Mother like figure to the three sisters, the oldest and
sidestep of the group. Makes tactical decisions to help the
others’ get through things when they are tough.
• Tess: The dumb one of the three, let’s herself into situations
she can’t get out of, uses Louise to get her out of the mess
she has for herself into.
• Evil rabbit kingdom: never seen physically, only by the change
in colour of skies and lighting.
• Mork: Speaks words of wisdom and holds many powers that
he is willing to give to the brothers’ to save the princesses.
• Lennie: The old, wise figure, father of the 3 ferret princesses,
grants the heroes permission to marry his daughters
providing he brings them home safe and free from captivity.
Storyline: Three princesses have been captured by the evil
rabbit kingdom, for breaking the rules after the kingdom
has been taken over, the father of the princesses seeks help
from 3 heroes who he askes to rescue them in return for
each princess's hand in marriage. The story focuses on the
mission they go on to rescue the princesses and the fight
they must bring them home safely to their father safely.
Along the way they meet an old wise ferret who gives them
powers to aid the fight they are about to face.

10. Mood board

11. Research

12. Existing Product- Onward
• Onward is an American computer-animated urban fantasy adventure film produced by
Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film is set in an
suburban fantasy world and follows two supernatural elf brothers who set out on a
quest to find the artifact that will temporarily bring back their deceased father.
• The film appeals to a younger audience, as it includes supernatural figures setting out on
an adventure in a fantasy world.
• In terms of animation, the producers aimed for the film to be “abstract” but they also
wanted to “personify it” so they had to converge the idea of magic and go back to a
basic level of sequences and the spells, so that a level of complexity would be given to
the film. They chose to give the film’s magic a unique style after studying several
animated films featuring magic such as ‘Fantasia’, ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Hercules’ in order to
create the magic of the film to fit with the suburban fantasy setting.
• in May 2019, two images from the film, featuring Barley, Ian and their mother, were
revealed. The following day, the film's teaser poster was released, and the teaser trailer
debuted during ABC's broadcast of the 2019 NBA Finals. The trailer was also shown with
Toy Story 4 and Spider-Man: Far From Home in the summer of 2019. Full trailers were
released in October (shown with Maleficent: Mistress of Evil) and December 2019
(shown with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker).
• The color scheme of the film uses a purple and blue theme, which fits with the
adventurous, urban setting with the film and portrays to its audience the overall ideas of
the film, signifying the magic and the quest that the characters are about to take on.

13. Existing Product- Stardew
valley gameplay videos
• Stardew valley is a stimulation role-playing video game, which takes the player
on an interactive adventure. The game was developed by Concerned Ape,
released for Microsoft windows in 2016 and later released for wider platforms
such as macOS, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, iOS and Android.
Players take on the role of a character who takes over from their deceased
grandfather’s farm, the game is open ended, allowing players to take on many
activities on and around the farm.
• The game was developed by American indie game designer Eric Barone. The
game began as a modern fan-made alternative to the Harvest Moon series, as he
felt the series had degraded and he wanted to create his own “better” version.
He aimed for the players to have the feeling of immersion in a small farming
community, stating that he wanted it to have real world messages as well as
fantasy life messages.
• The color scheme of the video is mainly blues greens and oranges, which
suggests to its audience there is an adventure in the game, before they play. As
it has a heavy influence from another game series, this may also entice and
audience, as they would want to see how this differs from the original series.

14. Existing Product- Empire
magazine
• Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer
Consumer Media. The first issue was published in May 1989 and is
edited by Terri White.
• The magazine always features film characters on the front, usually
from movies that have come out ag the time of publication, which
attracts an audience as they would want to know what the
magazine as to say about their favorite films and allow themselves
to learn more about the film itself and educate themselves with a
potentially different interpretation of the film. The magazine
reviews both mainstream and art films but featured articles
concentrate on the former. Each magazine contains a transcript of
a notable film scene, which gives the reader an insight to films
they may not have seen before, or those who have an opportunity
to remind themselves of the film.
• The color scheme varies per magazine as it greatly depends on the
main film featuring each month, this keeps the audience guessing
as they will have a completely different copy to read each month, it
keeps them guessing what each new copy will be like.

15. Existing Product- gameplay
videos.
• Sonic Adventure 2 is a 2001 platform game developed by Sonic Team
USA and published by Sega. It was the final Sonic the Hedgehog game for
the Dreamcast after Sega discontinued the console.
• The game was developed in 1999, soon after the release of Sonic
Adventure, its development took around 18 months. It was produced in
commemoration of the Sonic series’ 10th anniversary and was designed
to be a much faster-paced and more action-orientated than the original
game. They also expanded the presence of characters, mainly ‘Chao’
characters. Together, Dreamcast and GameCube sold more than 2 million
copies worldwide, it was also released as a download for PlayStation 3,
Xbox 360 and Windows but this was not until 2012.
• The game is a 3D platform which was divided into two campaigns: hero
and dark which offers its audience a range of things they can do within
the game. As well as this they can raise and train ‘Chao’ as virtual pets.
The different elements to the game allows adventure, just as the title
suggests, the audience are able to explore each element of the game as
they choose to and have control at each point of the game which part
they are playing.
• The development team ran the game at a 60 frames per second with
tempo, giving Sonic a variety of actions, rather than only focusing on his
main theme of speed, which allows the audience to explore the
character in more detail and learn of his new features.

16. Research Summary
• What have you learned from your research?
From my research I have learned that the colour scheme of adventure based products tends to be similar, using blue, yellow
and green as the main theme of colour.
I have learned that game layouts are often simplistic and don’t always need a lot of detail like I expected them to have.
Magazine covers for films typically have the main characters on the front cover with a few tag lines to support the film,
which usually consists of feedback about the film- quotes and ratings, tag lines and teasers for what is to come inside the
magazine.
Film advertising for adventure films is usually simplistic and features the main characters, which immediately introduces the
audience to the main characters so they will instantly recognise the film when it comes into cinemas, they will be more likely
to want to watch the film, if they recognise it.
• What aspects of the research will you include within your on work?
I intend to use a similar colour scheme to the one used in Stardew Valley as I feel this will fit my idea well, especially for the
game as I feel the colour scheme fits the mood of the narrative I am planning to use in my game.
I like they layout of the magazine, I intend to create a similar version of this for my own magazine cover, as I feel this will
represent my film effectively and would attract an audience.
I love the style of the film poster for Onward, as I feel this represents the film in a positive light, which I intend to do with my
marketing materials, I would like to create a film poster similar to this as I feel it would be appealing to its audience and
encourage them to share these materials with others.

17. Bibliography
1. Wikipedia . (2020). Onward (film). Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onward_(film). Last accessed
24th November 2020
2. Wikipedia . (2020). Empire (film magazine). Available:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_(film_magazine). Last accessed 24th November 2020
3. Wikipedia. (2020). Sonic Adventure 2. Available:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_Adventure_2#Gameplay. Last accessed 24th November 2020
4. Wikipedia. (2020). Stardew Valley. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardew_Valley. Last accessed
24th November 2020

18. Pre-production
and Planning

19. Style Sheet
This is my intended colour scheme as I feel it fits with the forestry that I intend to use as my
main setting, to emphasise the significance of the quest that they follow to find and rescue the
princesses.
As my film characters are ferrets, I intend for my characters to look like this, but to look like each
character in my film. These will be used in my game to distinguish the narrative of the game, if I
were to make it. I intend for my characters to be featured in most parts of the game, even if they
are just part of the setting e.g. on the menu screen have them somewhere on the screen.

20. Magazine and Advert layouts

21. Magazine and
Advert layouts

22. Video Game layouts

23. Script

24. Sound Effects
Sound Effect Needed How I Will Create the Sound
Ferret running Record my ferrets footsteps
Whistle Whistling in a quiet room
Ferret digging Record my ferrets digging in different
places

25. Actors/Locations
Actor Role Location for recording
Bill Ferret hero My house, forest area
Ted Ferret hero My house, forest area
Yogi Ferret hero My house, forest area
Mindy Ferret princess My house, forest area, her cage
Louise Ferret princess My house, forest area, her cage
Tess Ferret princess My house, forest area, her cage
Mork Helper/ Dispatcher My house, forest area
Lennie Princess’ father/
dispatcher
My house
Sam J-Smith Voices/voiceover College

26. Music
Band Name Track Name Link
Fall out boy The Phoenix https://youtu.be/5hDZbroaQDc
Fall out boy Young volcanoes https://youtu.be/2ZvHkOAtUYQ
Fallout boy Immortals https://youtu.be/l9PxOanFjxQ
Myself- created in
GarageBand

27. Contingency
What can go wrong? What can you do if it does?
Can be quite hard to get footage of ferrets as they have a short
attention span
Get footage in short intervals and use their favourite toys to distract them into what I
want them to do, ask someone to help me to make it easier.
Unable to travel to the location desired for filming/
photographing
Find an alternate location and make the best out of the situation I am in
Something unexpected may happen to one of the ferrets, as
they are very vulnerable animals.
Use whatever footage I have managed to get, or if I haven’t got any then use a different
ferret for the role so that I am not missing a character out.
Weather conditions change before/during the time I have
planned to get footage
Change my plan about to fit weather conditions e.g. change a filming day to an editing
day if the weather is forecast rain, to avoid the weather spoiling my production.
Device used for getting footage runs out of charge
unexpectedly
Make sure I have a spare device and a portable charger just to make sure I will not be
without charge in the device, monitor it while getting footage so I will know when it is
running out of charge.

28. Risk Assessment
What could be a risk to you, others or the
equipment?
How can you make sure that doesn’t happen? What
will you do if it does?
Filming location may not be suitable for animals, they
may hurt themselves on something sharp.
Check the area is safe before taking them to take
photos there. If it is unsuitable I could film the
background and the action separately using my green
screen.
COVID cases rise, making it hard to photograph in a
location where we can socially distance from others.
Find a different area to photograph, or use existing
photos to avoid the risk of going out near others.
Wooded areas are usually unstable ground This may make it hard to photograph and may cause
harm to the ferrets. To avoid this I could use green
screening for taking photos of the ferrets, and take
extra care when photographing.

29. Production

30. Using your plans, produce:
• A synopsis for your film
• A video game that would support your film, to include a menu screen,
demo level and cut scene
• Sound track for the video game
• A magazine front cover, promoting the film
• Additional advertising to promote the film
Include synopsis, magazine cover and advertising in this pro forma.
Animation to be embedded in your blog.

31. Evaluation

32. Research

33. Planning

34. Time Management

35. Technical Qualities

36. Aesthetic Qualities

37. Aural Qualities

38. Audience Appeal

39. Overall strengths and weaknesses of the final
package.