Storyboard Story Idea

Starting on the storyboards yesterday, I ended up with a coherent storyline, so thought I’d run it past you both before I started sketching it out fully. If you really disagree with it, then I need you to tell me straight-away, so I can mush together something else and get sketching before Wednesday.

CHARACTERS:

Main Person

Anyone about our age. I gave them a hoodie(to hide the face if necessary) and an iPod (cos they’re gonna listen to music).

The Rock

Literally. I’m still on the rock idea, but I’ve turned it into more than just a rock. I’ve taken the statement “She/he’s my rock.” literally. This Rock (it requires a capital) gets kicked and thrown and kicked again, but still comes back to our main character. It’s got more of a pet rock status and tends to follow the main character (MC) around.

Friends of Main Person

They have the car for the road trip. Oh yeah!

THE PREMISE:

I have written the story as it would be filmed in real-time, but I want the whole thing to play in reverse. So we start the shot with the rock in screen, with the main person walking backwards towards it, before it shoots up out of the screen from where it landed. The next shot will start at the point where the person has kicked the rock then follow it back to it just sitting on the pavement with the person still walking towards it, in reverse.

So read the story as it happens, then imagine it happening in slow-motion reverse, drifting along much like the music is at the moment.

THE STORY

We start with a person sitting in their room, surrounded by everything they’ve bought and ever wanted, content with the way things are. There’s a rock sitting innocently on their window-sill (or somewhere obviously in shot).

They check their watch, then dart out of the room, picking up their back-pack as they go out the door. Walking to the train-station, our attention is brought to a rock sitting innocently on the pavement, which is absent-mindedly kick out of the way as they walk past.

On the train now, it’s just them listening to their iPod (or not) and watching the scenery fly-by.

Next is them walking into sight of their friends, who are waiting near the meeting point with a car, ready for a road trip.
They go out into the bush (or wherever we decide to film) and eat and play and have a good day. The main person goes off by themselves for a while. Standing in a field with the wind going thru their hair and nothing technological around them, they realise all the troubles of the world dwindle in the face of the raw wilderness of mother nature. They breathe in the fresh air deeply. Wandering back to the others, the person spots a rock that looks remarkably like the one they kicked this morning. Picking up, they look at it thoughtfully, before skimming it out across a body of water.

The trip home is quieter, with people snoozing in the back and the others talking over the days events.

Happy, the main person gets dropped off at home and goes straight to their room. Sitting down in the same place as before, they look around and suddenly the room full of all the stuff they’ve ever wanted isn’t good enough anymore.

Irritated, they quickly stalk out of their room again, heading off to the station again.

Events repeat, with the same angles as before, except our main person is stalking along this time. Once again, our attention is brought to the rock sitting innocently on the pavement, except this time it’s soaking wet. It gets kicked violently out of the way again and the final shot is it landing disparagingly into the middle of the frame, as the person stalks off down the street, leaving it to fend for itself.

EPILOGUE?

If I haven’t confused you yet, that’s good. It’s confusing writing it. So let me know what you think asap, because I don’t want to wait any longer than tonight (at the latest Sunday) to start sketching it out.

Pretty please / onegaishimasu / dankeshun(sp?)