Strange hill high

Strange hill high

This talk was from Mark Oswin, one of the writers working on strange hill high, gave us a brief but interesting analysis of how they write the episodes for strange hill high. they are all written using the same method to create successful episodes keeping originality. Here is the guidelines that they use:

Act 1

Set up:

Setting up the scene, the characters and the environments

Inciting Incident:

An incident that occurs that will drive the rest of the episode

Act 2 (part 1)

Playing with fire:

The characters start to play with fire

Midpoint

Act 2 (part 2)

Down Hill:

after playing with fire the characters receive the burn

Lowest Point:

the characters are in a position that doesn't seem escapable 

Act 3

Fight back and fail:

the characters fight back but fail and makes everything seem lost

Out of the bag:

Something comes up which helps the characters somehow get out of the situation, a third party influence.

So this is an insight as to how the professionals formulate their episodes, if I were to do a series of animations I would definitely consider using this method!

Strange hill high also uses Mackinnon and Saunders to create their puppets! it seems as though they are the main distributor to high end puppets for animation. it would be beneficial to research into them further to discover how much influence they actually have on the world of animation.