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Scattershot.

Directed by Jade Smania

8 months of work, a hell of a lot of caffeine, and only a couple mental breakdowns all packed into 4 minutes of chaos (otherwise known as my thesis film).

After being tasked with looking after one of their relative's homes, when messing around, three teens encounter terrible and demonic consequences. A Thesis Film by Jade Smania

Patrick Mealey Joshua Waters Nola Klop Amber Garcia

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Jade Smania

Sheridan College Jade Smania & Scattershot Productions 2020

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SCATTERSHOT (A Thesis Film)

Comedy Animation

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25 jul 2020, releases by country.

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Review by Ashtyn Parkinson ★★★½

“Dude your grandma SUCKS”

Review by ☆Rosa☆ ★★★★½

Holy shit, I remember watching this 3 years ago and now it's on letterboxd!? Cool!

Review by FlyingPig3 ★★★½

Really good animation and voice acting, funny silly goofy. Definitely one of the smoother student films I’ve seen. The physical gag with the phone continuously stretching was a highlight.

Review by FellowEnby ★★★

Really cute! The voice actors are great, and the comedic timing of everything is perfect! It relies more on jokes than actual substance, but there is potential there! Overall, a fine fun thesis film

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Scattershot (2020)

8 months of work, a hell of a lot of caffeine, and only a couple mental breakdowns all packed into 4 minutes of chaos (otherwise known as my thesis film)..

• Release Date: 2020-07-25
• Runtime: 0h 4min
• Language: English
• Production Company: Sheridan College
• Production Country: United States of America
• Director: Jade Smania

After being tasked with looking after one of their relative's homes, when messing around, three teens encounter terrible and demonic consequences. A Thesis Film by Jade Smania

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Project Overview

I'm a 4th year student at Sheridan Animation and am looking for voice talent for my thesis film! 

Scattershot  is a 2:30 minute long film about three gremlin kids that get a job packing up someone’s house, and accidentally wreak havoc when one of them gets possessed by a haunted demon skull.  It's a comedy film with some horror motifs, very inspired by Adventure Time , Over the Garden Wall , and   most Guy Ritchie films. The film is very dialogue heavy, so I'm looking for people who will really be able to get into the headspace of the characters, as well as hit certain beats. As far as payment goes, I prefer applicants that are able to work for free, but am open to negotiating prices. 

You can watch the leica here: https://smaniape.myportfolio.com/story  

If you have any questions, please email me at smaniajade11 (gmail)  or DM me on instagram @Pretzellus  

Thank you so much for your interest in my film! 

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Nine is kind of the 'mom' of the group. He's constantly stressed, very particular and ocd about just about everything. His tone throughout the film goes between frantic and annoyed. References include:

 Wirt (Over the Garden Wall)

Dipper (Gravity Falls)

Hiccup (How to Train Your Dragon)

Watch leica for reference, and if there's any additional lines from it that you want to use in your audition, please do so! The more reference the better! 

"Sebastian! You have to help us! The house is flooded and everything is on fire and I think Kid’s possessed-" - very frantic, panicky, said all in one breath / quickly

"No why would you say that that’s a horrible idea don't - aaand it’s already on fire" - Sort of monotone, annoyed, first half of the line blends into the second half - watch leica for reference. 

"Apparently she thought it’d be funny to-" Annoyed, but calm, not too vengeful, more irritated than anything. 

Sebastian is the 'adult supervision' in the film. He sort of looks after the 3 chaos kids, but didn't really intend on adopting them, they just latched onto him and now he's stuck with three kids. He's a fisherman, so a little scruffy but he's still pretty young, about 25, and has a faint irish / cockney accent. References include: 

Turkish (Snatch) 

Thomas Shelby (Peaky Blinders)

You can watch the leica for reference, and if there's any additional lines from it that you want to use in your audition, please do so! The more reference the better!  

"Calm down, calm down, I’m on my way,  Just tell me what happened" - Calm, deadpan

"Pack up my ma’s house, she’s moving out and has a hoarding problem, you know how it is." - sort of matter-of-fact, uninterested

"You’re telling me the head came to life, attacked Kid, and then she ate it?" - Still pretty monotone, but with a hint of disbelief

Kid is a girl, but has a very androgynous voice. She's bored pretty much all of the time, and pranking Nine / investigating creepy things entertains her. She looks and sounds really emo, but on the inside she's just a little shit. When she gets possessed she'll sounds very much like Bill Cypher from Gravity Falls, laughs a lot, still trying to entertain herself by messing with Nine. I'll be doing some of this with audio editing (layering voices and adding filters) but the cadence is very much Bill. Don't worry about the distortion on possessed Kid for the audition, I'm mostly looking for the right tone / cadence. 

Normal Kid References: 

Marshall lee (Adventure Time - Kid's a girl but her attitude / cadence is very similar to Marshall - just a bit more androgynous of a voice) 

Haruhi (Ouran Highschool Host Club - dubbed version)

Wendy (Gravity Falls)

Possessed Kid References:

Bill Cypher (Gravity Falls)

"Ahaha scared ya" - said pretty calmly, not over exaggerated (making fun of Nine) (Normal Voice) 

"Don’t worry guys, we just have to fight water with fire!" - said a bit lazily, she knows its a bad idea but thinks it will be funny) (Possessed Voice)

"Right on the money honey" -she's talking to Sebastian, has stolen the phone from Nine, talking calmly, but teasing (Possessed Voice) 

Sticks is the youngest of the group, she's the biggest gremlin, very optimistic, happy, dramatic. She screams  a l o t. References include: 

Flapjack (Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack) 

Buttercup, but with the personality of Bubbles (Powerpuff Girls) 

"Water...Don’t worry, I read this works!" - 'water' is said in kind of a cowboy accent, she also spits between 'water' and 'dont worry'. 'don't worry' is said very optimistically, kind of a drop of the hat attitude change 

"AAAAAAA" - just a variety of screams, she screams a lot. Very scratchy, high pitched, kind of funny 

"Guys this book is leaking Ketchup!" *licks / smacks lips* "It's not Ketchup!" - Both lines are said in the same tone, happy. excited. 

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RAMSHACKLE: The Thesis Film (Transcript)

(The film starts off with one of the three main characters Vinnie wearing pink heart-shaped glasses, a sun hat, and a pink and yellow fur coat)

VINNIE : Go Fish.

STONE : Vinnie we're playing poker.

VINNIE : I know what I'm doing!

SKIPP : Actually, I think we just won!

VINNIE : See!?

GANSTER 1 : How the hell I lose to a bunch of street rats!?

GANSTER 2 : They must be cheating!

VINNIE : Cheating!? Do we look like cheaters to you?

(CARD SOUND EFFECTS COMING OFF OF FUR COAT PLAYS)

(SHOTGUNS GLOCKED NOISE)

SKIPP : (COUGHS UP CARDS)

(The next scene show gunshots at the doors’s bar and Vinnie , Skipp and Stone running out)

VINNIE : And now all we gotta do is get out alive!

(Bullets shots miss directed towards them, after the Stone looks at Vinnie slightly peeved)

VINNIE : What!?

STONE : I’m planning the next scheme

VINNIE : Hey, you wanna survive on these streets you gotta be a little chaotic

SKIPP : Guys over there!

( Skipp points to transportation, it then pans toward a coach carriage)

VINNIE : See! be more like Skipp .

(They go behind the coach carriage to a mine cart)

SKIPP : No Stone, you're perfect the way you are!

STONE : Throw up.

♫  Come out and meet me where the sun never shines ♫

VINNIE : Hey that’s where we live!

♫  It smells like aged piss  and it’s ridden with crime ♫

SKIPP : Sure is!

♫  Gotta beg, steal, lie and cheat just make ends meet ♫

VINNIE : Oh my god were like Aladdin!

STONE ! (GROANS)

♫  Oh that’s just how it be on these ol’ ramshackle streets ♫

STONE : This is why I drink.

(Gunshots misses them)

VINNIE : Oh come on!

(It pans toward the Gangsters in a coach carriage)

GANGSTER 1 : Were gonna get you … PUNKS!!

VINNIE : New plan, I'm just gonna punch the bullets!

SKIPP : All I have is this gun.

( Skipp throws away the gun, the next scene shows stone with a lighter and his drink flaming)

STONE : Hey, this is why I drink.

VINNIE : Huh, not bad.

(Stone throws the flaming drink at the Gangsters ’s coach carriage, just for it to miss. It then cuts to the Gangsters )

GANGSTER 1 : Ha! Idiots.

GANGSTER 2 : (LAUGHS)

(It cuts to the outside of the coach carriage to exploding, it then cuts to Vinnie and Stone )

VINNIE : Ha! Idiots!

(UNINTELLIGIBLE TALKING FROM VINNIE, SKIPP AND STONE)

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