Storyboard Explorations

So both Erin and Emily came up with two varying styles of storyboards for our plot line. Erin's had some dark humor in it while Emily's was light and child friendly. Both main characters wanted to discover fairies, one just wanted proof they existed with his camera the other was just following a map (later evolved to him needing fairy wings for a potion).

   

Getting some inputs on our drafts, Here's some from Sara. Next up was Sandy.

So the story's these two put their two cents on goes as follows...

Emily's: Our character is on a mission to prove fairies exist. He's been teased for believing in them for as long as he can remember, so he wants to prove everyone wrong. Along his adventures he stumbles upon Nessie, who upon seeing his camera makes sure to give him a pose or two, the boy who won't be deterred just puts up his map and continues on. Nessie was not pleased. He continues on and thinks he hears a fairy, only to scare a Wulver who was delivering fish to a family. He stumbles across one or two more characters on his journey, all he ignores cause they are not his target. Finally he comes across a fairy and takes his pictures. The fairy though, asks him not to keep them. As fairies are a secret no one should know of, or else they'd take advantage of the folk. Our character is undecided, in the end he does the right thing and deletes the photos. He receives a gift from our lovely fairy and is happy to have done right by the creature he cared about. However he has his camera, and it's empty. What to do what to do, so he follows his tracks and makes a photo collection of all those other creatures he underrated. To come home with a memory card full and no idea what to do with all the photos of Nessie.

 

Photo of a page of Emily's first Draft

Erin's: in her tale of woe, the main character is stumbling on all sorts of creatures he doesn't need. Exaggerated faces on both creatures and characters adds humor throughout the storyline. Finally as he takes a break for food, a Kelpie stumbles upon him. Kelpies being a water spirit that drowns it's victims. He's disguised and has a sign saying free ride to the Fairy's but our character isn't fooled, he smells something fishy going on and he takes off running! The kelpie disliking its meal leaving, transforms to its tar like gruesome form and takes off after the boy, while running a fairy flys the boy, moving as if in slow motion. It frustrates the boy his goal was so close, and with this slight distraction the kelpie over takes our character and forces him to be stuck to his hide. Then gleefully the end clips show the kelpie prancing back to the water so as to drown and eat our character.

 A photo of a page from Erin's draft.

After a few days of working on these storylines and creating two roughs, we decided on the dark humor of Erin's plot line. Both Emily and Erin will create a third draft of the same plot line, that we will combine with favorite shots and scenes from each. We will then import that into photoshop and work on creating a digital and final version. In the mean time, I am working on sound bits and finding Celtic/Gaelic music that will be used as our audio sound track.


Emily and Erin Discussing the drafts at Rose Angle Cafe.