Watch this wonderful animation in aid of Saint Francis Hospice featuring Adam Buxton as narrator

Adam Buxton recently lent his narration skills to a charity animation video for Saint Francis Hospice in Essex. The idea behind the project was that people donated money to the hospice and then were able to write the next line in the story. Sean Sears of Prawnimation was behind the wonderful animation and Daniel Marks was the designer.

The project has reached its fundraising target of £750 but please still consider making a donation to push it further :)

www.justgiving.com/Sean-Sears1

Take a look at the awesome completed video and read the transcript below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTiw7cgx510

Transcript

When a man left St Francis Hospice, he went home to his farm, where he kept Zombie Chickens.
Sean Sears

Tom Waits was there, in a Scarecrow costume, tending to the man’s undead flock as Latin Jazz crackled from an old wireless.
Matt Coppolaro

As the music continued, it caused one of the entranced flock to pull out a jewel encrusted penguin.
Andy Antoniou

The penguin, named Sean, curiously announced to the chicken – “David, you’re the best friend ever, much better than Kyle”.
David Game

They could hear some observational stand-up. It was Dave. The chickens were concerned at this point, as they knew David’s feeble attempts at comedy was the reason he was third in line for best man at Sean the Penguin’s wedding.
Andy Day

Ignoring this incessant bickering amongst the chickens, the man continued to his barn to feed live chickens to the undead zombie chickens.
Anonymous

A young lady named ‘Christine’ and a cat called ‘Totoro’ suddenly appeared in a cat bus (which is not in any way based on the copyrighted Studio Ghibli character)
Christine Santa Ana

The man, who we shall call ‘Norm’, hopped on the cat bus. The bus then purred merrily down the lane.
Laura Filipe

After a short while, the bus came to a sudden halt. Everyone looked shocked as they saw that in front of the bus stood… (Narrator pauses) … Jeffrey Lebowski in only sunglasses and a bathrobe.
David Filipe

Everyone shouted “are you getting on?!”
David Filipe

He slowly took off his glasses, then reached behind his back and pulled out…
David Filipe

…a rather large photo of a Mr Richard Gere. Before he knew what he was doing he had fallen to his knees and began crying uncontrollably.
Kyle Staab and Central Line Signals

Jeff looked to the sky and shouted “WHY RICHARD WHY?!”. Then the heavens opened and Richard Gere, displaying angel wings, floated down to rest beside Jeff… They both slowly faded away to a better place where Jeff Goldbum is King.
David Filipe and Sean Sears

But Jeff didn’t notice as he was already a Zombie chicken, pecking away furiously at the rotting corpse of Bruce Willis.
Daniel White

But Bruce wasn’t dead at all! He sprung to his feet shouting “I have been looking for you partner! I need your help finding my trousers. I last remember seeing them on the vicar.”
Daniel Marks and Larry Sears

The Vicar, Southend’s most notorious hit-man, appeared in Willis’ favourite chinos booming “YIPEE KIYAY THIS” firing poisoned tuna in his direction…
Kevin Dawson

NARRATOR
…but ‘The Vicar’ didn’t know that poisoned tuna was Willis’ favourite dish. Willis pinned The Vicar down and reclaimed his chinos!
Avgousta Zourelidi

Simultaneously Bruce’s helium gland kicked in, inflating him like a toad and ascending him to the safety of king cumulus’ foggy breast.
Martin Sardar

Willis looked down at the Vicar. Riddled with gout in his bare limbs. He exploded into the shape of Ashton Kutcher’s youth in a flesh soup across the tarmac
Kevin Dawson

Meanwhile, the zombie chicks, as is their way, took this odd start to the day in their stride. The males displayed proudly in their quest for an undead mate.
Paul Cooper

Taking flight, they caught the eye of some flying pigs who were wearing piggy-wigs.
Theresa Cooper

“HELLO!” said the suave Gloucester Old Spot, “Were off to a banquet at Trotter Hall. Tell the bus to follow!”
Angela Hatt

“But bare in mind though, they don’t take kindly to your sort so make sure you ‘Binarjay’ as much as you can when you arrive or else you will turn into Danny Glover”
James Coleman jnr and Anonymous

“What’s Binarjay?” the chickens inquired
Gemma Filipe donated (written by anonymous)

The pigs replied “its when you bring a copy of speed 2: Cruise control on VHS as an entry fee. They don’t accept cash at Trotter Hall.”
Gemma Filipe (written by anonymous)

Meanwhile, Norm noticed Radiohead’s Thom Yorke outside of the bus, knitting his next album out of recyclable wool and biodegradable needles made from the finest
cat poo
Anonymous

“HELLO!” said Norm to Thom, who then lectured Norm on the carbon footprint and the danger of charging retail for albums.
Andrew Day

A bird then gently landed on a tree branch and Thom looked up at it and smiled.
Marisa Cohen

But Norm, ENRAGED by Thom’s preaching, ate the bird!
Tom Disbury

“NOOOOOOOO” Thom cried out “NOT COLIN THE RAVEN! HE ONLY HAD TWO DAYS LEFT TILL RETIRMENT!!!”
Tom Disbury

NARRATOR
Thom, in revenge threw a special lentil-stuffed lemon grade at Norm and danced his way onto the bus. Fumbling with the grenade, not sure what to do or where to throw it. Norm decided to put it in his top pocket and relaxed, wiping sweat from his head
Jason Hounsell and Ben Fordesman

NARRATOR
John Lennon entered, who turned to Ringo and said “I thought the magical mystery tour was weird – where’s Paul?”
Dave Payison

NARRATOR
Norm, confused and scared, used his magic wish stick to get out of there and suddenly appeared in the Pulp Fiction Diner scene
Juliet Osei-Owusu

NARRATOR
Norm was sitting next to a pretty lady. He told her he is the famous Tony Duncan.
Angelo Lo Presti

NARRATOR
Norm’s flirting had a real class and pnash about it, something he learned from Darius Danesh. However, he knew couldn’t hang around.
Darren Quinton

NARRATOR
During this flirting, a NEW Norm came along on a bike, wearing a yellow jersey after returning from le tour de isle of dogs.
Jason Leigh

NARRATOR
Just behind was Isla, his cousin. She thought he looked very dapper and dog-whistled in appreciation of his success. “MY HERO!” she cried.
Patricia Leigh and Bob Leigh

NARRATOR
But the New Norm was actually original Norm’s evil twin brother… AND he was half-man-half-baguette!
G. Martin

NARRATOR
Original Norm decided to wish himself away from this chaos back to the barn, where he watched the hit HBO series ‘The Wire’ in his pants with Kevin Keegan.
G. Martin

Norm slowly nodded off into a flashback of when he and Omar from The Wire were in nappies together. They held up a Nursery using a gun-shaped rattle, emptying the tuck-shop of all the Milky Bars. They fled in their red and yellow cosey-cars.
Richard Carey

They came past The Bloated Cockney Prince of Old London Town. His foul gastric bowel movements brought about a severe…
John Robinson

…gas cloud of impending doom. To make matters worse, his local Burger factory was brought to a standstill after MORE horse meat was found.
Matty Lawless

The clouds then dispersed, and water trembled. A big dinosaur foot squashed the cockney prince and Dr Grant from Jurassic Park swung down, and scooped Norm up in his arm…
Daniel Marks

… and dropped him safely back at St Francis Hospice, who provide support and care for those suffering with life-limiting illnesses. He stood there and simply thought … “What a day”
THE END

Post – Animation donations:
Anonymous, various
Keith Crompton
Ben Le Tourneau
Natalie Hudson
Malcolm Condron
‘Norm’
Karen Taylor

YouTube description:

Published on Apr 8, 2013
If you enjoyed this animated madness and would like to support Saint Francis Hospice then please feel free to donate here: www.justgiving.com/Sean-Sears1

Credits:
Written by The Public who Donated to St Francis
Directed, Created and Animated by Sean Sears
Developed by Sean Sears and Daniel Marks
Illustration and Artwork by Daniel Marks
Sound Design by Tom Lowe
Narration by Adam Buxton

Thanks to Adam Buxton, Anthea Perry, Peter Stremes and All donors

Additional sound from www.freesound.org

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