Storyboard for Becky's Project

So Becky asked me to do a "Story Board" with her, I don't think this one can be classed as such, it was more a massive conversation with a few sketches at the pub. I think this really helped her think about how much she had to do, and to refine the narrative of the project.

I started off by googling ideas of things she was talking about, so I had good reference for the sketches.

Becky has since accidently lost panel 1, but that was a long shot of the farm and rolling hills.

Panel 2:

Shot zooms in to Norm at a long table with fruit and veg.

Action - norm waves excitedly maybe rubs hands together.

Sound? -Country Music

Panel 3:

Norm picks out all the weirdly shaped veg.

Suggestion - Superimpose faces on all the veg in 2D post and have all the weird veg have gremlin troll faces?

Panel 4

Shot of crates of veg and Norm fill in’ em cut to the crates and then pans to the back of Norm

Action: Norm stands and goes to crate, pans back to see the truck pulling in

Panel 5

Crates/Bags being put in the truck

Panel 6

Shot of supermarket, zooms out to show the bins at the back of the building

Reference, Kwik-e-mart, Simpsons

Tree & Background Green Screened

Panel 7

Pans along from the super-mart to the restaurant, truck pulls in.

Panel 8

Inside the kitchen of the restaurant, Chef doing Chef things.

Panel 9

Walk in fridge

Chef checks food dates, throwing out food that is past it’s decent date

Panel 10

Chef throws food from fridge out of the back door into the bins

Panel 11

Young man popping out of the bins

Panel 12

The same young man making meals in his healthy cafe

I had fun doing this with Becky, I think you can tell the style gradually gets worse as you go along, but I think it was important for her to visualise this process. I personally said, that there's a lot of content, a lot of locations and characters for her first attempt at stop motion. Which concerns me, as a worrier, but it's her project if she thinks she can deliver it this concisely good for her. I think it's best for me and Anna to stick to one set and make a character each and then we can really focus on making it a special short.