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Film 6: Animatic

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Rough idea now

  • Monster haunts little girl
  • Girl pops under her bed – starts looking for something
    • Her hand reaches out and she’s looking for something and moving things around
    • Her eyes grow widen as she notices something
  • She bounces back up on her bed – eyes still wide
    • Then we see her lifting up a toy (wooden) sword and saying “Yay! Found it!” with a bright smile on her face
  • She proceeds to turn to the make shift “monster” she made which is composed of random objects piled onto a chair – books/ lamps/ toys etc…
  • Play fighting with it, pretending its a monster etc… as if she was a brave knight or something
  • In a victory she plunges the sword into the “monster” heart and “yanks” it out screaming “Victory!”
  • Only to then realise as she’s got her hands in the air in victory, the sword isn’t there
    • Instead it is in the “monster”
    • Curious and very confused, she goes to pull it out yet struggles immensely
  • As she tries her best to get the sword out – she’s hanging tightly onto the sword
    • The sword moves up slightly with her hanging onto it
  • She lets go and watches the sword arise from the mess of a “monster” on the chair
  • As the sword goes up something begins to emerge from behind the mess – something with glowing eyes and a low growl
  • In fear she tries to rush for the door as it seems to come her way
  • Yet as soon as she reaches the door knob
    • Her fingers barely touch the door knob
  • She gets dragged away
    • And we see the monsters hand and arm dragging her back down and across the room
  • She backs up against the wall where the window is
  • The monster crawls towards
    • She notices that the only way to get away safely is out the window
  • She throws something at the monster as a distraction
    • She climbs on top of the box thats placed under the window and rushes out of the window
    • Safely landing on the snow
  • Straight away heads for the woods for for safety as she hears a loud growl from angering the monster
  • As she hides behind a log clutching her knees to her chest looking around to make sure she’s safe
    • She closes her eyes tightly shut
  • A shadow appears over her
    • She slowly turns around
      • Gradually looks up and screams as soon as she notices its the monster looming over her
  • Loud growl – screen goes black
  • The End.

Storyboard

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  • Monster haunting little girl
  • Girl gets ready for bed -becomes suspicious of something in her room
  • Parents come in to reassure her that everything is going to be okay and tucks her into bed
  • Leaving the door slightly ajar and turning the lights off
  • Some peace as the girl slowly starts to fall asleep
  • Just as she’s about to close her eyes she hears something drop
    • This causes her to be alert quickly sitting up in her bed
  • Glancing around the room – panning shot
    • To find any abnormalities
    • Sees something in the corner
    • Goes back to it and seems normal
  • This leaves her a little confused
  • Her bed shakes
  • She pauses – shocked and scared
    • Checks under her bed – sees nothing – moves boxes out of the way – still nothing
  • Gets back up normally in bed
    • Sighs in defeat
  • Shadow comes over her
    • Behind her
  • She slowly turns around eyes wide open
  • Looking down at first but slowly looks up to the face of a monster
  • Monster growls
  • Girl screams
  • Screen goes to black
  • The End.

Rough Film Plan/ Idea

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  • “Where The Wild Things Are?” Inspiration, especially for the setting.
  • Starting with a child playing in her room with a hand made unusual toy – replicating a creature
  • In the middle – noticing something in the background/ in the corners/ slight shadow of something/ moving the smallest of things in a peculiar way?
  • The child notices something across the other side of the room/ a sound of something maybe – rustling?
  • Quickly turns and looks and sees a forest/ woodsHalf of her room has transformed into some sort of forest/ woods
  • Magical soft/ warm lighting
  • The child starts to explore in awe – clutching her toy tightly in her hand – giggling and laughing at the weird change but happy to be wondering around
  • However, soon notices something lurking around in the shadows again – alarming the young child even more and disturbing her peace and excitement
  • The lighting eventually and gradually getting colder and darker (losing its “magical feel”)
  • Eventually the creature pops up behind the child – revealing to be an exact replica of the toy in her hand – however, much scarier and gruesome and larger
  • The girl slowly turns around – But as soon as she sees it – she drops her toy immediately and screams – mid scream the screen goes pitch black and all you hear is a low growl
  • When the screen pops up again – the camera is angled at the floor with the dropped toy in focus and you see the girls limp arm fall slowly besides it.
  • Then “The End”!