Treatment for Imagine That

In translating the dialog of Imagine That into visuals, my choices were motivated by the absurdist and non-sequitur language of the sketch. Rather than following a literal approach of representing a gameshow, I opted for a piece that was part of a surreal landscape inspired by some of my favorite directors: Terry Gilliam and his cobbled together animations, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and his dark fantasies, and the gothic humor of Tim Burton. Using these inspirations, I have turned Imagine That into a darkly humorous mad tea-party, a gameshow with an imaginary audience and delusional contestants, presided over by an ominous all-imagining brain in a tank.