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Le Regard Sonore and Amopix presents
Created by Karen FINGERHUT
& Arnaud SOUFFLET
26 x 7’ HD
age 4/6
27 oct.. 14
CONCEPT 2
« Lilooba » is a live action animated series intented to 4 to
6 years-old children. The goal of this show is to answer in 7
minutes to many questions children of that age wonder.
A character made of fabric, Lilooba, who lives in a world
made of the same material, will have to answer their questions.
The posing of those questions will be the closest from child-
ren’s, which will make it sometimes comical !
For example :
- What is chocolate ?
- Why does a mosquito bite scratch us ?
- Where does the sun go to sleep ?
- How people get to enter into the TV ?...
Thanks to those questions, we will deal with various subject
matters, classic and unusual, as sleep, time perception, food
chain, eyesight, the mechanism of some items, weather, bota-
ny...
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AUTHORS’ INTENTION NOTE 3
As parents of a 5 years-old child, the idea of this concept
came up very naturally to us. Indeed, we could notice a lot of The latter has a great variety of voices associated to a wide
questions bustle around those little minds. Sometimes misun- range of rhythms, which draws all the attention.
derstandings and misinterpretations give those questionings
the freshness of their innocence.
We wanted to end on a joyful and swinging note : Lilooba’s
Children questionings are essential to build their own perso- song. It’s an easy tune to remember and children like it a lot.
nality. They form their own bearings and their refer to us. It’s
a way for them to grow up. Behind this huge amount of ques- Karen FINGERHUT & Arnaud SOUFFLET
tions, our children look for themselves. Authors
So we thought about an original show to answer to children.
Original by its form : choosing an animation technique using
materials which are only made of fabrics and threads.
Original by its substance : imagining a half-animal, half-scien-
tist character, who entertains and teaches children.
One of our main concern is to draw and catch children’s
attention, during the animation. For this, we take particular
care of the script. It has to be in the same time, meticulous
with the answer it brings, a symbol of understanding and fun
to entertain children.
Sound has a paramount role to play as well. Music is various
and matches visually the world of ered. Sound design is fun
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and surprising. It helps to keep children alert.
Finally, Lilouba’s voice, played by an extremely experienced in
post-sync comedian, has been chosen with a lot of thought.
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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT OF WORK 4
In all my projects, I try to bring an originality or a type of ani-
mation I’ve never used before...
When Karen and Arnaud offered me to work on their project,
I’ve immediately been interested in the challenge involved.
The goal was to distance the production from other existing
models. Simple questions deserve a simple method of produc-
tion.
The idea was based on a basic principle, as we could have
done with cut-up papers, but using fabric materials which give
warmth to the visual aspect.
The diversity of weavings, patterns and colors are a real
asset.
Graphic design of all different components and the image
composition doesn’t include the notion of perspective. There’s
only sideways and face views, with always a matter of simplifi-
cation.
All of this serves the explanation, bringing a lot of clarity to it.
Thomas GUERIGEN
Director
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CHARACTERS 5
Children for this show will be chosen with care.
For this pilot, we have settled on a 5 years-old little boy (Nathan).
He’s the same age as the children targeted. He’s been chosen for
his mischievous side and his big inquiring eyes.
We want to get involved with ethno-cultural diversity. Throughout
this show, we’d like to put forward dif erent children as a symbol of
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the cultural wealth offrench Society.
Lilooba’s character has been defined to please children concerned,
and especially both boys and girls.
We’ve opted for a lion, of an indeterminate age. He’s dressed in a
retro way which makes think of a professor. His voice is deep and
comforting, his tones are very various, in order to keep children
attentive all along the show. He sometimes produces « onomato-
poeias » that will make them laugh.
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MECHANISM 6
The opening credits makes the episode title appear. It makes
way for a rural view which ends on Lilooba’s cottage. The lat-
ter is comfortably installed in his living-room, in front of the TV
screen. In the same time, Lilooba’s voice explain to children he’s
got enough knowledge to answer all their questions. He adds
he never miss his favorite TV show : « Question of the Day » .
Then appears the face of a child embedded in the fabric TV set
asking his question to Lilooba. Lilooba answers to the child in 5-6
minutes. During the explanation, the latter speaks in a voiceover.
At the end, we meet the child back on the TV screen
who thanks Lilooba for his explanations. Lilooba says
goodbye to him and he takes leave of all the children.
The closing credits appears to the sound of Lilouba’s song.
The series would be made up of 26 episodes of 7 minutes
for 4/6 years-old children. Lilooba’s explanations
will lead them to broaden their knowledge, while
entertaining themselves and arousing their curiosity.
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PILOT’S SCRIPT 7
Ext / Lilooba’s house Narrator, Lilooba voice over :
Tracking in So, what’s today’s question ? Hum !
A wide space opens in front of a welcoming and springlike On screen a little 5 year old boy.
forest, horizon of majestic soft green trees, multicolored
flowers cover the ground, a beautiful sun is shining over this Nathan :
little piece of heaven. Tell me Lilooba, how is chocolate made?
A bird pass through the clear blue sky.
Bushes slowly give way and make appear a nice little cottage Narrator, Lilooba voice over :
at the end of a lane, it’s Lilooba’s House. Hum, ho, ho, good question !
Birds and forest sounds.
On screen, a table.
Narrator Lilooba voice over Lilooba’s getting in the shot and takes place behind the table,
Ahhhhhh ! How can birds fly in the sky ?, why the Earth is with several chocolate blocks, more or less dark on it.
round ?, why leaves are green ?, why this and that ?
Ah... Children ! Children ! You ask yourselves a lot of ques- Narrator, Lilooba voice over :
tions. So I, Lilooba, know all the answers. Chocolate is made of cocoa paste, sugar, cocoa butter, ... and
The door is opening. also sometimes a bit of milk.
Lilooba’s living room Ingredients come in one by one from the right side of the
Inside Lilooba’s living room, the decor is very cosy, an arm- screen, slipping onto the table and stopping in front of Lilouba.
chair, a cof ee table, (wall bookcases, some paintings and
f A transparent jar of sugar, an other one with cocoa paste, a
pictures of Lilooba in the savannah, dressed in an explorer...), packet wrapped and tagged « Cocoa butter « and a bottle of
a TV set, which is switched on. milk.
Narrator, Lilooba voice over : Then Lilooba takes the dark chocolate block and starts to eat
I never miss my favorite show. it.
Lilooba eating chocolate + chewing sounds :
Lilooba’s watching TV, comfortably sat in his armchair. The more there is cochoa, the darker is the chocolate
Musical sound or jingle of the show : « Question of The Day»
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Pilot can be watched on YouTube !
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PILOT’S SCRIPT
Nathan voice over :
What’s cochoa ? Lilooba :
Cocoa trees grow in hot and humid countries.
Swallowing sounds. Lilooba clears his throat or roars loudly !
His bow tie goes back and forth While speaking, Lilooba’s moving, he’s passing through the
screen from left to right. The sun comes up, yellow rays go
Lilooba (finishing eating) + (slightly amused tone) : out of it and bounce of Lilooba’s head. He puts his sun glasses
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No, not Cochoa, COCOA ! Cocoa is made from beans. on, he sweats. Sun rays go out the shot. Clouds come in, rain
pours down like a curtain in front of Lilooba.
Nathan voice over (surprised) : (Lilooba drips, his mane is all wet, he vigorously shakes off the
Does chocolate grow on a tree ? water and then sneezes.)
CUT Lilooba’s sneezing :
Lilooba moves aside, making appear an empty space on Atishoo !!
screen.
A tree comes out of the ground, kind of a fruit tree, branches Lilooba’s getting in front of a cocoa tree. It’s full of pods. He’s
are growing very quickly, chocolate blocks are coming out, getting under it.
growing and quickly covering the tree.
Lilooba :
Lilooba voice over : The cocoa pod is the fruit of the cocoa tree.
Yes, ... well no, not this way.
A pod falls down on his head.
The tree collapses. Broken glasses sounds
Lilooba :
Lilooba : Ouch !!
Cocoa is made from cocoa tree beans
(French joke on the french name of cocoa tree) Bouncing ball sound ... It almost knocks him down.
The pod opens when it falls, we can see white beans inside of
Nathan voice over : it.
Hihiiiiii (Laughing out loud) Nathan voice over (surprised) :
Is that chocolate ?
Lilooba coughs or slightly roars and looks serious.
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PILOT’S SCRIPT 9
Lilooba voice over : Captain Lilooba sails the seas on the boat. The ship full of bags
No, no, no, not yet... In the pod, there are big seeds. It’s the goes up and down.
beans. They’re picked and then put in wooden boxes or some- (Ship related music...)
times, under big leaves...
Singing music, he’s proud to be captain, he sings loudly and bra-
Inside the pod, beans are coming to life, getting out and laying vely. On the right, a wharf comes in and a truck is parked along-
down the ground. Banana leaves are flying from left to right to side. The ship moors. Bags jump out the ship to the truck. The
lay down and cover up the beans. truck gets on the road and drives to factory.
Lilooba (trying to take of the leave) :
f Lilooba voice over :
...for few days. Their taste and color change then. They finally get to chocolate factories.
Banana leaves lift up by the wind and go back the other way. CUT
Lilooba : Lilooba (up on a stepladder) pours a bag in a huge pot, ten times
... They are spread out on the ground then and sun dried. bigger than him.
Under the pot, flames.
The sun comes back and its rays bounce of the beans.
f Lilooba, up on a ladder, looks in the pot, he sticks his head into it.
From purple, beans’ color gets brown.
Lilooba’s voice over (from inside the pot with echo) :
Lilooba, sun glasses on, sits on a deckchair by the beans. Now, beans have to be roasted.
Lilooba’s face without his glasses, he has tan lines.
When he comes out, his head is roasted, covered with roasted
Lilooba voice over : beans, his mane is full of it..
Then they’re put in bags and transported by sea. They often
have to travel far to be transformed into chocolate. Nathan voice over :
Is it good ? Is it ready ?
On screen, a row of 5 bags lined up, filled in next to a wharf,
where a ship is moored to. Lilooba is in the ship. He wears a Lilooba (putting a bean in his mouth):
sailor hat on his head. A huge bag land on the ship and makes Hum ! So let taste it to see...
it pitch heavily. Lilooba doesn’t look safe, tries to hold on. His He chews the bean and shakes his mane
tail moves around. (Losing balance sound).
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PILOT’S SCRIPT 10
Lilooba : Lilooba (making ef orts) :
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Eeeeeeeew !!! Pff f pff f (he spits). It’s really not good. It has to be squeezed, squeezed, squeezed
Smoke comes out the cauldron. Lilooba :
The pot pours onto the ground and make Lilooba and his ste- Ouh, just a a little more patience...
pladder fall down. By squeezing, we get on one hand, cocoa butter and on the
hand, what will give cocoa powder. (Apart, whispering) You
CUT know it, it’s the powder you take the morning to make your
Lilooba drives a steamroller. He gets in shot. He starts to crush hot chocolate, mmmmmh, I love it (he purrs)
beans.
We can see both ingredients, an oil-like one on one side, and
Lilooba : a dry paste on the other, getting out each side of the pot and
(Yelling) Beans are crushed , completely squashed. filling up containers.
Lilooba goes out of shot. CUT
Lilooba voice over :
A mechanical digger comes in picking up some of the cocoa So, to get a chocolate block, we need... cocoa paste, cocoa
paste and pouring it into a pot, which comes from the ground, butter, sugar... and you can add of other things like milk, rai-
on the left. sins, hazelnuts, spaghettis, huh ? No, no, spaghettis, that’s a
dif erent story...
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Lilooba voice over :
Let put that away to make our chocolate block. While speaking, all those various ingredients get into the pot.
Once full, the pot goes out of shot. Lilooba stirs with a big spoon or the spoon stirs by itself.
A huge pot comes in taking place of the other one. Lilooba :
Then we stir, we mix, we knead
Lilooba voice over :
The rest of it has to be squeezed. Lilooba bustles around and some of it gets out of the pot.
Lilooba stands up into the pot, overflowing with paste.
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Lilooba voice over :
Lilooba stares at them. His eyes get out of control and turn
We shake it all !
around in every direction.
The pot shakes like a leaf.
Behind him, chocolate rabbits come in on another treadmill,
and then bells (tracking out)
Nathan voice over (very impatient) :
The screen is full of treadmills with chocolate on them.
So what !!
CUT
Lilooba voice over (calm) :
Back to the show. Edge picture TV. Nathan waves us.
Oh, oh, easy, it’s almost ready.
Then the smoking pot pours into a rectangular mold shaped
Nathan :
as a block.
Thank you Lilooba, I got it all !
Lilooba voice over (calm) :
Reverse shot on Lilooba (american shot). He looks at the
Pouring it all in a mold and cooling it down, the chocolate
camera and waves his hand.
gets hard and there it is, a delllllllllicious block.
Lilooba :
The mold turns over and the block falls down.
Goodbye Nathan ! Goodbye children ! See you soon.
CUT
Lilooba carries a piece of chocolate in his hand.
Lilooba :
And this is how chocolate is made.
He takes a block and eats it.
Lilooba :
Really delicious, and it can get a lot of dif erent shapes.
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Chocolate eggs come in from the left on a treadmill, Lilooba
stares at them. Chocolate chickens come in from the right.
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Pilot can be watched on YouTube !LIST OF QUESTIONS 12
1. Tell me Lilooba, how chocolate is made? 20. Tell me Lilooba, do dinausors exist ?
2. Tell me Lilooba, how does the spider spin its web? 21. Tell me Lilooba, why we are scared sometimes?
3. Tell me Lilooba, how do people get into television? 22. Tell me Lilooba, how do fish breathe?
4. Tell me Lilooba, how do bees make honey? 23. Tell me Lilooba, why the ants move in single file?
5. Tell me Lilooba, why we hiccup? 24. Tell me Lilooba, how to make cheese ?
6. Tell me Lilooba, why we go to school? 25. Tell me Lilooba, why do I laugh when you tickle me?
7. Tell me Lilooba, why we have a fever when we are sick? 26. Tell me Lilooba, how does my wool scarf keep me
warm ?
8. Tell me Lilooba, why a mosquito bite itches?
9. Tell me Lilooba, why Grandad has white hair?
10. Tell me Lilooba, where does salt come from ?
11. Tell me Lilooba, why is it so dark at night?
12. Tell me Lilooba, what is a rainbow in the sky?
13. Tell me Lilooba, why the leaves are green?
14. Tell me Lilooba, do ogres exist?
15. Tell me Lilooba, how does water come out of the tap ?
16. Tell me Lilooba, why we have nightmares?
17. Tell me Lilooba, why mom makes me wear a hat at the beach?
18. Tell me Lilooba, can you sit on a cloud?
19. Tell me Lilooba, why do grown-ups always have a phone in their
hands ?
© Le Regard Sonore /Amopix 2014THE TEAM 13
KAREN FINGERHUT THOMAS GUERIGEN
Author, Fabric Conception Director,
After 10 years of sculpting Exploring various animation
for Cinema and Advertising, techniques, from puppets to
Karen Fingerhut works now as generated images, through play
an art decorator (Institutional dough, Thomas Guerigen evolves in a fantastic and a poetic
Films, stands...) and as an items designer for prestigious fashion science fiction world.
photographers. She collaborates on books as writer about creative
leisure and cooking (Editions Nathan / Editions Solar). Lastly, she
creates fabric made fashion accessories for women and kids in her
workshop in Bagnolet.
ARNAUD SOUFFLET ISABELLE MIGNARD
Author Writer
Working for many years within a big Isabelle has always written and she
broadcasting group, Arnaud Souf letf
works for children’s publishing for
has worked for DVD production, video 15 years (pseudonym Marizabel,
contents for mobile phones and now for 20 titles) specialized in 3/6 years-old. She also knows a little of
the Web. After a MBA in Broadcasting English, a bit of Ethnology, and a lot of Cinema, she followed a
Production, he got into developing script writing course and she’s now well experienced. She has
animation projects (institutional, kids shows, feature film) two kids and many stories to tell every night.
© Le Regard Sonore /Amopix 2014THE TEAM 14
PETER HUDSON FRANCK PREVOST
Comedian, Lilooba’s voice Musician, Composer
His comedian career started with a one With his classical music
line role in a Claude Lelouch film, «Viva and jazz training, Franck
la Vie», after what regular film and TV Prévost is a pianist who likes
work began, in English and in French, different kinds of music and
particularly in Canada, where he filmed can work with singers, dancers as well as comedians.
on several series, notably in the role of James Horton, a recurring As a composer, he creates pieces of music for his
villain in «Highlander». jazz band and for some instrumental bands . For now
several years, he also writes music for ballet or for
He now works regularly with directors of renown, in very different plays and also for documentaries and Cinema.
styles : Alain Resnais, Luc Besson, Norman Jewison, Mathieu Amalric,
Paolo Barzman...
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LE REGARD SONORE
Tel : +33 1 83 39 57 21
contact@leregardsonoreprod.com
www.leregardsonoreprod.com
AMOPIX
+33 (0)3 88 35 82 46
www.amopix.com
amopix@amopix.com
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