DES 251 Digital Media Design III

Angela Delgado- Five Nights at Freddy’s

Film Research

A previous security guard gone through Freddy’s and didn’t survive the night.

This wall is filled with a bunch of kids drawings which will be important. It's to say that it is a way of communicating with these "dead kids".

Here is the introduction of the protagonist Micheal Schmidt. He wakes up to start the day. Him sleeping will be one of the main scenes throughout the story.

Here is Micheal’s little sister Abby. She is Mike's little sister and loves to draw.

Micheal explains to his coworker about the concept of "Dream Theory". Meaning while the proper pills and things required, he is able to revisit a certain memory of your life over and over. In Mike's case, the time when his brother Garret went missing.

We learn Mike used to be a security guard in a mall. However, he loses his job due to him attack a shopper at a mall.

Steve offers Mike a new job as security job but only works at nights. Since Mike is unable because his schedule is tight and his sister Abby. Steve offers his contact info in case he change his mind. Steve seems nice but he recognizes Mike for much darker reasons.

Nebraska poster, mikes only way to revisit the same scene in his past where he tries to find missing clues to his little brother’s whereabouts. Every night Mike sleeps and haves the same dream in order to find the man who toke Garret, Mikes missing brother.

This is a recurring dream Mike has where his little brother Garret was stolen.

As Mike finally accepts the job offer, he goes to Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaria. Its abandoned and his job is just to go in the night and make sure that no one breaks in.

Part of Mike's new security job is to watch out any activity through the cameras.

Mike also meets the animatronic for the first time. Name's are Foxy, Bonnie, Chica, and the main face Freddy.

Starting this new night shift job, Mike continues to have this recurring dream however, there is something different this time. As he sleeps through his job, he now sees kids, Mike get more curious to maybe they are a link to finding out who toke Garret.

These kids are not normal. As Mike continues to sleep in the Pizzaria, he will see these kids and find out a deeper history to what happened to them and his brother.

Mike soon meets Vanessa. She is known to be a cop but also takes care of the Pizzaria.

Vanessa introduces the animatronics and as well telling the history of what happened to the Pizzaria. She states that kids went missing and this place was left to be forgotten.

In Mike personal life, his aunt wants to take custody of Abby since she believes he is not fit to raise her. Due to this, the reason why Mike toke this job is to show for it on court. His aunt did not like this so she sent people to destroy the Pizzaria in order to fire Mike. This did not end well since these animatronics are not normal.

Abby finds out Mike and his aunt and try to make amends. Vanessa comes by and tells Mike to stop sleeping at the job and to take it more seriously. Due to this he finds out that someone broke in.

Since Abby babysitter never came, Mike had no choice but to take Abby with him to his job. As he sleeps the kids finally talk to him.

As Abby befriends the animatronics, Mike finds out that there is actual spirits living in these big robots.

Mike realizes that Abby knows more about these kids he saw in his dreams and especially Garret, whom she never meets before. Abby is connected and linked somehow and hopes to find out more about his missing brother.

Not only Abby learning about the animatronics and the kids' spirits, but Vanessa also kept this secret all along.

Mike tries to find out who toke his brother on his own. Instead, Mike accidentally makes a deal with the kids, and he finds out his aunt and Max suffered a terrible fate as well as Mike.

After mikes deal for Abby, these kids find their way to get Abby and lore her back to the pizzeria in order to make her suffer the same fate as they did.

As one the kids, the leader he was stuffed in this old Golden Freddy suit and he wants Abby to be with them.

Vanessa after finding Mike hurt after he escape, she reveals not just what happened to Garret but who and what happened to those kids in those suits. We find out that the yellow bunny not only killed these kids but stuffed them into these animatronic suits.

Not only the yellow bunny was Steve, but he was now known as William Afton, Vanessa's father, to be the killer.

Abby and Mike reveal and show this animatronics, or these children, the real killer, the yellow rabbit, as they only understand drawings.

Mike Vanessa and Abby escaped barely but William is now stuck and just like his victims is stuck in the spring lock suits and will be there forever.

Essay

Micheal Schmidt, a troubled security guard who begins to work at an abandoned pizzeria called “Freddy Fazbear's Pizza”, only to discover that he is not alone. Surviving each night with the help of Vannessa and her “other friends”, he soon discovers there is a much darker history behind the Fazbear’s face. Missing kids, a murderous past involving yellow bunny and somehow a link to his missing brother, all clues begin to fall as Micheal realizes that Freddy’s is not a place where fantasy and fun come to life.

This movie links back to all FNAF games as well the books all created by Scott Cawthon. The plot is directed towards its original games and follows a form of the books as well.

Words to Idea + Thesis Statement

Thesis:
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Five words: supernatural, vengeful, spring-locks, eerie, animatronic, mysterious

Visual Research (Inspiration Board/Collection)

just a few more to include into consideration: robotic type behavior, Childrens pull toys (applied to type maybe, playful but sort of robotic as well)

Video Collection for Motion

Exploration/Formulation (Style Board/Examples/Studies)

I want to incorporate the characters heads somewhere.

Another style I was exploring was Kids drawings. Since this has been a big part of the movie, this would be pretty creepy as well as simple.

I wanted to explore the second approach which was the kids draws and maybe draw in simple yet creepy kids drawings

Possible integration of type. In most of the sketches the type is too separate/different still.

Exploration/Formulation (Motion Tests)

Story Board

This comes together nicely! A few comments: For the sake of consistency everything but the names should be handwritten font ("presents", "from the mind of", "Based on", "Games and Books"). The treatment of the final title screen is a bit bland. Don't use centered text and be a bit more creative with it. I think the happy-to-horror change in the drawings should be in there whenever possible (see you sketch with the bunny-like figure). Even with the balloons (they could pop) or the pizza (it could rot). The "It's me" part is a bit confusing when it appears with things like "Music By". Better fit is the "Based on..." screen. Open question is still how to transition from one comp to the other. Really looking forward to see this animated!

Final Film Titles