Testing, Testing

Testing, Testing

October 14, 2009 TV Episode Roy

Series title: Badly Drawn Roy

Studio
Jam Media, Rule of Thumb Productions
Distributor
RTE, British Broadcasting Corporation, CBBC

Characters

Roy.
Live Action: Bill, Maura, Becky, Tommy, Sinead, Jack, Conor, Kathy, Mr. Hammond, Miss Sheringham

Credits

Directing

Director
Alan Shannon, Ian Bevitt

Producing

Producer
Mark Cumberton
Line Producer
Michael Walsh
Executive Producers
Sue Nott, John Rice

Writing

Writer
Paul Smith

Voices

Voice
Scott Graham (Roy), Richard Albrecht (Narrator)
Live Action
Simon Delaney (Bill), Cathy Belton (Maura), Martha Byrne (Becky), David Green (Tommy), Rebecca Barry (Sinead), Fionn O'Shea (Jack), Lewis Harris (Conor), Chloe McCormack (Kathy), Mark Lambert (Mr. Hammond), Maud Fahy (Miss Sheringham)

Music

Music
Darren Hendley

Crew

Casting
Thyrza Ging
Production Design
Jason Carlin
Art Direction
Francis Taaffe
Assistant Art Director
Graham Williams
Trainee Art Director
Laura Glynn
Property Master
Marc Dowds
Props
Barry Davenport
Key Animator
Barry Reynolds
Assistant Animator
Mark Ingram
Set Dresser
Jerome McDonnell
Set Decoration
Colm Bassett
Costume Design
Aisling Byrne
Wardrobe Supervisor
Mary Fox
Key Makeup Artist
Barbara Conway
Key Hair Stylist
Terry Ralph
Production Supervisor
Angela Belyea
Production Executive
Tina Jaffray
First Assistant Director
Sean Griffin
Cinematography
P. J. Dillon
Music
Darren Hendley
Sound Mixer
Robert Flanagan
Boom Operator
Paul Naughton
Visual Effects Supervisor
Niall Mooney
Digital Compositor
Steve J. McLeod
Gaffers
Simon Magee, James McGuire
Transportation Captain
Dan Breen
Controller
John Pyper
Script Supervisor
Chris Roufs
Network Administrator
Zorion Terrell
Assistant Production Coordinator
Jane McCabe

Production notes

Roy O'Brien is the first cartoon boy living in the real world.

This original new comedy, filmed as a fly-on-the-wall documentary series, combines hand-drawn animation with real-world drama as it follows how one boy struggles to fit in. Roy thinks he's just like any normal 11-year-old. Born into a real world, he is an everyday kid living in an everyday house in an everyday street in a suburb of Dublin, and inside, he feels just like an ordinary kid. He shares the same hopes, aspirations, friendships and fallings out. The trouble is he's animated.

How do you blend in with the crowd when you can squash and stretch, involuntarily turn blue when you're sad, green when you're jealous, and produce a flock of twittering birds when you get a bump on the head? Follow Roy as he tries to figure it out.

Budgeted at an estimated 5 million euros.

Based on the short film "Badly Drawn Roy," also produced by Jam Media.

Awards

RTS Television Award, Best Children's Drama, Royal Television Society, 2010.
Nominee, EA British Academy Children's Award, Drama, Mark Cumberton, Alan Shannon and Paul Smith, 2010.
Nominee, EA British Academy Children's Award, Writer, Paul Smith, 2010