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Pre-school animation 39 x 7 minutes Autumn 2014
Transcript of Pre-school animation 39 x 7 minutes Autumn 2014europacreativamedia.cat/rcs_media/Puffin.pdf ·...
Pre-school animation39 x 7 minutesAutumn 2014
Puffin Rock is a pre-school series for 3–5 year olds, set on a wild and beautiful Irish island.
Packed with exciting adventures and lots of laughs, Puffin Rock will spark the imaginations of our young viewers.
Cartoon Saloon is one of Europe’s most exciting Animation Studios, credited with inspiring a revival in 2D animation with Oscar-nominated The Secret of Kells, BAFTA-nominated series Skunk Fu! and current feature length production Song of the Sea.
www.cartoonsaloon.ie
Penguin Children’s is home to the best-loved children’s brands including Eric Carle, Peppa Pig, Moshi Monsters, Wimpy Kid and Roald Dahl. Penguin is the first new kind of publisher creating and investing in IP, including The Snowman and Peter Rabbit and is currently a co-producer of several tv projects including Peter Rabbit and Topsy and Tim.
www.penguin.co.uk
Dog Ears is a children’s media company based in Derry, Northern Ireland, and we develop and tell stories, on paper and screens of all sizes. We make books, apps and TV, and produce innovative events including the Humdinger! Children’s Book Festival.
www.cheersdogears.com
Puffin Rock Team
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Welcome to Puffin Rock
Find out about the wonderful creatures that live on the island and the sea and air around it . . . most of them friendly, but some foe.
Laugh along with our enthusiastic narrator and puffin lover, Chris O’Dowd, whose funny, playful style adds a unique touch to life on the island.
So if you’ve got your binoculars and raincoat ready, we’ll begin the tour . . .
Let’s explore. . .Meet our Puffin family. Our hero is Pip, a charismatic and adventurous young puffin who lives in a burrow with Mama and Papa Puffin and her ever-curious little brother, Baba.
Follow Pip and Baba’s exciting adventures on Puffin Rock: a natural adventure playground full of wide-open spaces to run in, shady hidden nooks to explore and new friends to discover, and where the unexpected can be just round the corner.
Be amazed at the puffin adventures. One minute they’re swooping through the skies, diving under the waves or exploring an echoey cave, the next buffeted by high winds, swept along on fast currents or being chased by a predator. It’s all part of a normal day on Puffin Rock!
PipA charming and adventurous little puffin – and the star of the show! Plucky and determined, she is striving for independence, although she still has a lot to learn!
In 3 words: Smart, headstrong, fun.
Most likely to spot her: Everywhere! Pip loves exploring all over the island with her brother, Baba.
Traits: Walks with a quick little hop that gets faster when she’s excited.
Fun fact: Puffins can flap their wings up to 400 times a minute, reaching speeds of 55 mph.
BabaPip’s baby brother is amazed by everything from a bouncy dandelion head to his reflection in a stream. He is not yet able to fly and often needs a helping hand.
In 3 words: Curious, adorable, trusting.
Most likely to spot him: Following Pip and trying to copy everything she does.
Traits: Expect some odd sounds to come from this wee one’s beak.
Fun fact: Puffin chicks depart for the sea under the cover of night, out of sight of predators.
MossyA pygmy shrew and Pip’s best friend. He lives life at a million miles an hour. Despite being small, Mossy is utterly fearless, and he can’t stop eating!
In 3 words: Excitable, quick, naughty.
Most likely to spot him: Almost impossible – he’s just so quick.
Traits: An amazing sense of smell, which he uses to sniff out food ALL THE TIME!
Fun fact: A pygmy shrew’s metabolism is so fast that two hours after a meal they’re starving again.
SilkyIn 3 words: Playful, cautious, fun.
Most likely to spot her: Diving in the waves.
Traits: Claps her flippers when she gets excited.
Fun fact: Seals have sensitive whiskers that help them to detect prey in murky waters.
OttoIn 3 words: Precocious, lazy, inquisitive.
Most likely to spot him: Swooping over the island at night, or fast asleep in a tree during the day.
Traits: Although he thinks he’s an expert on everything, he’s often wrong, much to everyone’s amusement.
Fun fact: Owls cannot move their eyes so they must turn their entire head to see in a different direction.
A young owl who thinks he knows it all – but doesn’t!
A seal pup who’s eager to please although mollycoddled by her mum, who can often be heard calling for her.
CrabbyAn elderly crab who lives by the beach playground, he often falls foul of the Gulls playing knock-and-run on his shell.
The skies, coves and meadows around Puffin Rock are also home to some fearsome foes and beastly enemies...
In 3 words: Grumpy, solitary, curmudgeonly.
Most likely to spot him: Beside the beach. He hasn’t moved from the same spot for many years.
Traits: When he’s disturbed, he swipes his pincers, clicks his claws and goes on a crazed rant.
Fun fact: A crab’s teeth are in its stomach.
FlynneA teenage fox who dislikes Pip and her friends.
In 3 words: Haughty, superior, bully.
Most likely to spot her: Lurking in shady areas.
Traits: She takes particular delight in teasing the other animals.
Fun fact: Foxes are the only type of dog capable of retracting their claws like cats.
The Gang of GullsThe natural enemies of puffins, the Gulls are a band of crooks who roam the island wreaking havoc and stealing food.
In 3 words: Noisy, messy, opportunistic.
Most likely to spot them: Maurading around the island in large numbers.
Traits: Bickering and silly one-upmanship means they never achieve what theyset out to do.
Fun fact: A small claw halfway up their lower leg enables them to sit and roost on high ledges without being blown off.
Other friends on Puffin Rock
Stories from Puffin RockInspired by the adventures of Pip and Baba as they explore the island with their friends, the stories are told with humour and drama, and sprinkled with fun facts to entertain our young audience
Stormy WeatherWhen Pip and Baba see lots of puffins on the lighthouse rock, they set off to explore it, with Pip giving Baba a little help on the way. But when bad weather draws in and the older puffins fly off, Pip and Baba are left stranded.
Unable to fly in the strong winds or swim in the crashing waves and with the Gang of Gulls circling Pip needs help. . . from Mama and Papa who, hearing her calls, follow the lights to bring them both home.
Making A Nest Pip wants to find new bedding for the nest. Baba wants to help too and Pip promises that she will take good care of him. They hop around the island gathering objects from the sea, the sky and the land.
Pip’s beak is full of treasures, but when Baba goes missing, she’s more concerned about finding him. Then she spots Baba, just as he finds an extra-soft feather. SQUAAAWWWWK!
Oh dear, the feather is attached to a baby gull and his dad is not happy. RUN! They lose everything they’ve collected except for one special feather still in Baba’s beak!
Sea Flight Diving for fish with Silky and Baba, Pip is distracted by some puffins taking off from the sea into the sky. She wants to do that too!
After several funny attempts (Silky even carries her along on her nose and flips her up into the air to help her) Pip still can’t do it. It’s hard.
But when she sees Baba being bullied by a bird, without thinking, she rushes along the water and up into the air, chasing the bird away before landing with a huge bellyflop in the waves!
She’s done it . . . and managed to get a beakful of lovely fish too!
Mossy’s FoodWhen Pip and Baba help Mossy on a food hunt round the island, they learn that fish are not the only food. Rabbits eat berries. Frogs eat flies. Mossy eats – a lot! And he’s getting really hungry now. He hasn’t eaten in a whole hour!
Snuffling through the undergrowth, Mossy is finally on the scent of a juicy beetle…unfortunately Flynn the fox is on the scent of food too. What do foxes eat? Shrews!
Pip steps in to save Mossy. She grabs him by the tail and they race out of Flynn’s way, over the sand dunes, sliding into the path of some passing ants. Mossy is delighted. Ants! A feast! Thank you! Pip and Baba are hungry now too. But they don’t want ants. Fish are not the only food, but they are the nicest!
Sometimes bright and breezy, sometimes dull and dreary and sometimes rumbling and ominous, the ever-changing weather plays a large part in the adventures on Puffin Rock.
Come rain or shine...
There’s a lot to explore Underground, overland, through the air or in the sea, Puffin Rock has lots of places to discover and find adventure!
Kelp Forest
Overground Burrows
Lighthouse
Sand Dunes
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Your local guide, Chris O’Dowd!Who better to take you round Puffin Rock than Irish born and bred actor Chris O’Dowd? Despite his attempts to channel David Attenborough as a narrator, he can’t help commenting on our heroes’ exploits. His silly jokes,funny observations and wry commentary are comforting for children and provide humour for mums and dads.
Chris O’Dowd’s credits include –
Film: Epic (2013) Bridesmaids (2011) Gulliver’s Travels (2010)
TV: Monsters vs Aliens (2013)Girls (2013)Moone Boy (2012) Animation by Cartoon SaloonThe IT Crowd (2006–2010; 2013)
“I love the whole idea behind Puffin Rock and the style of the artwork.I can’t wait to be involved in it, but then I do love anything with puffins.”
Chris O’Dowd
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