Storyboard

Here are the images from my storyboard:

Scene 1:

Image:

• Fade in to tire swing hanging from an old, lifeless, dead tree outside a modern house. In the background is a city covered with smoke/smog and rust/dirt. Fade out.

Sound:

• Tire swing creaking as animation fades in
• Faint meowing of cat

Scene 2:

Image:

• Fade in to cat sitting on window ledge of house, paw on the window peering in. Kids seen at side view watching huge TV. Fade out.

Sound:

• Meowing of cat loud
• Faint sounds of TV/ buttons being pressed etc coming from inside the house

Scene 3:

Image:

• Fade in to kids sitting in front (backs to camera) of Tv with violent/sexual imagery displaying (actual video or animation??)
• Kids surrounded by pill bottles

Sound:

• Keyboards, buttons, instant message notification, scratching, TV

Scene 4:

Image:

• Teen from side close up, show social networking site or MSN and fingers typing

Sound:

• Same as above (his sounds louder?)

Scene 5:

Image:

• kid from side close up, Fingers digging into her arm

Sound:

• Same as above (her sounds louder?)

Scene 6:

Image:

• Toddler from side close up, show right thumb hitting button and left thumb on joystick on games controller

Sound:

• Same as above (his sounds louder?)

Scene 7:

Image:

• Close up of hand opening pill bottle a pill falling into an open palm

Sound:

• Pill bottle opening, pills pouring

Scene 8:

Image:

• From side view show all stop and put a pill in their mouths

Sound:

• Same as above
• pill being chewed

Scene 9:

Image:

• Repeat these close ups for the remainder of a minute – maybe show them from different angles

Sound:

• Same as above

Scene 10:

Image:

• Repeat these close ups for the remainder of a minute – maybe show them from different angles

Sound:

• Same as above

Scene 11:

Image:

• Repeat these close ups for the remainder of a minute – maybe show them from different angles

Sound:

• Same as above

Scene 12:

Image:

• Repeat these close ups for the remainder of a minute – maybe show them from different angles

Sound:

• Same as above

Scene 13:

Image:

• Show kids from front view watching TV – blank expressions
• Behinds kids are posters “I want to believe” etc,
• Clock hand rotating very quickly
• Kid’s eyes are blank white and reflect the flickering of the TV with static.

Sound:

• As above
• Static loud

Scene 14:

Image:

• Focus on poster behind kids, blurring them

Sound:

• As above, static etc

Scene 15:

Image:

• Close up of Poster, fade out.

Sound:

• Static/white noise