Wednesday, 17 January 2007
STORIES FROM BOXTON - BAGSVILLE
Boxton-BagsvilleWhats it all about?
A hand-operated puppet, studio based, live action series telling stories from Boxton-Bagsville,
a small friendly country village in the imaginary county of Carryshire, middle England.
Aimed towards children of 5 to 10 years. The two main characters are the twins, Jenny and Peter SATCHEL, two children aged approximately 8 years. We follow the stories with them and through their eyes. As the series develops we can see Jenny and Peter together with their friends are always helping to solve the problems of the so-called grown-ups of the village, who at the best of times are eccentric (bit barmy).
Boxton-Bagsville has various quaint characters based on Boxes and Bags. Their personalities and vocations within the village society reflect the type of box or bag they represent.
Each story is 12 minutes, contains 1 song and has a subtle moral to the tale
The Village
The series is set in the beautiful rural setting of Boxton-Bagsville an idyllic and friendly village, where everyone knows every ones business. The village is set in the imaginary county of Carryshire, somewhere in middle England. The Village green and Market square form the centre to this idyllic village. A number of shops and houses surround this quaint market square. Mrs Yum Yum’s Cake shop and café holds an important position. With its protruding bay windows and traditional squared rubble walls, it is a main meeting place for the locals.
The Village
The series is set in the beautiful rural setting of Boxton-Bagsville an idyllic and friendly village, where everyone knows every ones business. The village is set in the imaginary county of Carryshire, somewhere in middle England. The Village green and Market square form the centre to this idyllic village. A number of shops and houses surround this quaint market square. Mrs Yum Yum’s Cake shop and café holds an important position. With its protruding bay windows and traditional squared rubble walls, it is a main meeting place for the locals.
Mainly because it sells the most mouth watering cakes. Opposite is Rob Moneybox’s’ corner shop, which seems to sell just about absolutely everything. Next to the corner shop is the old post office, run by Penny Postbag. Old Gladys Trolleybag can usually be found in one of these establishments poking her nose in other peoples business and catching up with the gossip.
Also living on the market square are Jenny and Peter Satchel and opposite them is the Doctors house and surgery. Dr Say-Ah is quite new to the village, having moved out to the country from a busy city down south. He is helped by Nurse Florence.
The dominant feature of the market place is the clock tower, whose clock has never been right ever since it was struck by lightning a few years back. It always chimes one extra time, but everyone in the village is used to it now. Through the arch in the clock tower and up the hill to the left is the Church and Vicarage where the ever-forgetful Rev Collectionbox lives.
Further on up the Hill and to the right is the big Manor house, Colonel Caddy lives here.
The twins love to come here its like a museum. The Colonels ancestors have lived in the village for about, ooh, 400 years or so. Along the main road eastwards is the local garage, run by Grace Toolbox. She is very good at fixing things and does all the repairs around the village.
Back the other way, past the corner shop is where Bernie Lives, he’s the Fire chief who runs the volunteer fire brigade. If you carry on down the road for about a mile or so you come to the sea and lovely beach. Here lives probably one of the most eccentric characters, Jenny and Peters’ Uncle Roger Treasurechest or Cap’n as he prefers to be known. He lives in an old pirate galleon that had been wrecked on some rocks and washed up onto the beach about two hundred years ago. It’s been in the Cap’ns family ever since, being kept livable using driftwood that has washed up onto the beach over the years. The school is just over the other side of the village green, where the children’s teachers are the very stern, Miss Sharp who takes care of all academic subjects and Henri, who takes care of the more artistic and free thinking side of the children’s education. All in all its just about the best place anyone can live. Well that’s what Jenny and Peter think anyway.
Myself and my partner Glen Macmillan went into production 5 years and worked on 'Boxtown and Bagsville' amongst other ideas. We called ourselves 'JGP' 'Jolly Good Productions'.
All the research and development has taken a long time, as we both work . Its a funny thing when we are both in work we don't have the time and when we have the time we don't have the money, it's a never ending circle, but we are getting there. We may try to get 'Boxtown' into book form first as this is the most possible and cost effective way of getting it on to the market place. Getting into the public eye is what we are after at the moment, seeing it on the shelves would be a fantastic thing.
Glen Macmillan is 47 years old, the same as myself. He works as a cad designer in the car trade, he also has 3 children all girls, so we understand children between us, as we have so many of our own.
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