revised rough boards /2

make it four!

rough storyboards

fruit tag

moment-to-moment

practicing moment-to-moment transitions and experimenting with a different style. seriously, these were delicious.

beatboard: complete. ba-rum-ba-bum

non-sequitor transitions

they all have to do with something. i promise. think arcade...

Story Treatment

WIDE. LOG CABIN SET

Tourist silhouette’s come in from scene left and move into foreground. Abe prances onto the set of the log cabin designed to look like the cabin where he grew up. He waves he arms around showing off the set. There is a kitchen like area, a rocking chair with a stand, and a fireplace. He goes to sit on the 

 rocking chair.

MEDIUM. ROCKING CHAIR

Abe finished sitting on the chair, demonstrating how it rocks (haha, pun). He gets a little too excited about rocking on the chair and he hears a crack.

CLOSE UP. BROKEN ROCKING CHAIRLEG

*crack*

CLOSE UP. ABE’S FACE

His eyes widen and his eye lids twitch.

WIDE. LOG CABIN SET.

 The rocking chair violently crashes to the ground. He falls backwards and his feet flip into the air. When his feet fall back down, one of his feet falls into the fireplace.

CLOSE. FIRE PLACE.

His foot starts to simmer. Because he is actually on stilts, he doesn’t notice right away.

WIDE. LOG CABIN SET.

Abe notices his foot is on fire so he screams and scrabbles off stage right, falling off the edge. Abe pops his head back onto the frame, embarrassed and sheepish, and call the tourists to follow him. Disappearing once again off stage right.

WIDE. GETTYSBURGH ADDRESS SET.

As the tourist shuffle onto the scene from the left, Abe is already on the stage, seated on one of the chairs behind the podiums. The stage is a replica of the stage he gave his Gettsburgh address on, with red, white and blue banners.

CLOSE. SPEAKERS SEAT.

Abe acts as if his name has been called and clumsily get to his feet.

MEDIUM. STAGE.

He bows and smiles as if a huge crowd was cheering him on. He gets in front of the podium and acts as if he was giving his speech once again.

WIDE. GETTSBURGH ADDRESS SET.

As he starts to get into his speech, moving his arms dramatically and walking around.

CLOSE. STAGE FLOOR.

While moving around, a floor board on the stage breaks and his foot/stilt falls.

MEDIUM. STAGE.

Unable to remove his tilt, Abe gets worried and tries to pull his leg out of the hole. While yanking, he actual foot dislodges from the stilt. Wobbling on only one stilt, Abe decided to step onto the podium instead and act as if everything was just fine.

WIDE. GETTSBURGH ADDRESS SET.

The loose stilt falls to the ground but Abe acts like nothing is wrong. Abe finishes his speech, smiles, bows and motions to the tourists to follow him to the right. He tries to exit on the right but as he his hopping he looses his balance and falls to the ground. Embarrassed, he curries off stage awkwardly, considering his pants are now two times too long. The tourist shuffle and exit off the right.

WIDE. THEATER SET.

As the tourist make their way onto the next scene, Abe is already on the personal balcony of the theater. He is acting out what happened that night he "died."

MEDIUM. BALCONY.

Being still very dramatic, he tried to regain the people's confidence. He pulls up his finger to his head like a gun, symbolizing the gun booth used that night. When he pulls the trigger to his finger gun, he reacts to the fake explosion. He stumbles around and accidentally falls off the balcony.

WIDE. BALCONY.

Luckily, one of his long pant legs catches on the posts of the balcony. As he swings there, the wall of the stage starts to wobble. The Abe's misfortune, the wall of the stage collapses, followed by the other two side of the stage. Dust rises to cover the frame.

CLOSE. ABE'S FACE.

The dust settles and Abe's face uncovered, bruised and broken. Abe signs.

FADE TO BLACK.

the end.

uninspired

i had some sweet ideas but they all involved people and drawing people intimidates me.

it's real nice.

this was my first longboarding whipeout. i was going fast and this couple decided to hog the sidewalk. i could have hit a tree, gone into the lake, or ate some grass. i decided on the last option and only got some scratches on my elbow.

totally worth it.