Mike Milo’s Journal

When you come to Frederator and do one of their nifty lil’ cartoons, the first thing you have to do when you start the short is repitch it to the team here so they can officially give notes and suggestions. I have been told that you don’t necessarily have to “take” those notes and use them but to not listen would be foolish as the team consists of all pros and any insight into trying to make someone laugh should always be welcome in my book.

Anway, so on Thursday I repitched Flavio and it went very well despite the fact that I was not happy with my performance. Pitching a cartoon is in some ways like doing a standup routine except you have the luxury of having art there to propel the humor. Either way you have to make an ass out of yourself and really get into the characters, by doing voices and acting out the actions to get it to work well. I’m usually pretty good at making a fool of myself as some of my friends will attest but for some reason I felt I was a bit “off” during the repitch. They seemed to go for it anyway and laughed in all the right places which is awesome.

So I basically got a few small thoughts and suggestions but only one real note and even that is just re-wording dialog so the board is pretty much done.

Next step is to transfer it to official Random Cartoon storyboard paper. There are still a few notes forthcoming from BS & P (Broadcast Standards and Practices) and also the Network has yet to give me their thoughts but hopefully that won’t be too big of an issue as they too have seen the board once before. The major thing I was worried about with Flavio saying “I poop better inventions that you!” ended up being a non-issue and instead one line where Flavio mentions Bossman dying is actually more likely to get cut. Funny what the Network allows and disapproves.

I’m still working on the models and will pst Flavio’s boss Bossman soon.