Final Storyboard for Orange Light

Theresa ChenWei-Ting Du

David Kjos, Jr.Elizabeth Liu

Lindsey Snider

• Opening shot is a wide view of girl walking down an urban, grimy city street• No cars, no people. Sounds of rustling trash and debris.

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• Cut to front view, girl walking toward camera

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More walking

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• As she approaches the viewer, we see a light shining on the left, in an alleyway. Her necklace glows with the light.

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She quickly turns to look at the light

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• Cut to a view from behind. We see the light in the alleyway, the girl is silhouetted against the bright light. The surrounding city street becomes dark in contrast.

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• The girl runs down the alleyway, following the light.

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• She chases after the light. The alleyway has become a vast, dark space

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• Cut to a closer shot of the girl running. She chases after the light, but where has it gone? At end of shot, we see her briefly slowing down, then in the next cut… 00:16:0000

• … she comes to a full stop. Cut to a close-up of the girl. She stops and looks around, worried and confused. There’s no sign of the light. 00:17:0700

• As she turns and looks around, stars begin to fade in from the background 00:19:0700

• The stars become even brighter. She turns and looks around, amazed.• Character animation will be important to this scene in order to convey a

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• Cut to a zoomed-out shot of the girl from behind. We see she’s in a vast space, surrounded by nothing except stars

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• As the scene continues, we start to see something fading in from the background

• Girl should probably be moving during this time? 00:25:0700

• We see a scene of warehouse rooftops fade in, and the girl is standing atop one of the roofs. The stars are fading out.

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• We see the girl standing atop a warehouse rooftop.

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• Cut to a shot of her feet slipping, to emphasize the change of environment

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• Cut to a shot of the girl above to show her regaining her balance. The light appears near her.

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• Cut to a shot of the girl running across the warehouse rooftop, chasing the light

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Cut to an overview shot. We see the girl running over one of the rooftops, chasing the light.

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• The girl runs to one of the rooftops, and knees down, appearing to be watching something

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• Cut to her sneaking a peek at whatever she’s looking at

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• Cut to her from behind so we can see what she’s looking at. There’s nothing except for the light.

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As she watches, she sees the silhouette of a figure fade in, caused by the lightNo detail, just a pale, light silhouette, a white translucent shadow.The figure moves in slow, lethargic motions. Side-shifting from side to side, very

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• She continues to see the figure fade in• (Next slide is a diff. view; keep this view or switch to that one?)

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As the first figure is slowly moving, it stands more upright and becomes slightly more solid. As he does so, another figure emerges from where the first figure stood, moving in the same slow motions and more translucent

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Continued slow, lethargic movements, hypnotic. More figures. First figure becomes more solid, second one more solid, etc.Girl continues to watched, transfixed. 00:53:0200

• Cut to close up of girl’s face

• Show reflections in eyes?

Cut to a close-up of the girls eyes, transfixed, with the light-figures reflecting in her irises

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The combined movements of the now-four figures will have a very hypnotic, mesmerizing effect. Transparency effects will occur as the figures overlap each other. 00:58:0200

Slowly, but deliberately, all four figures stand erect in unison.

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• Cut to close up of girl’s face

• Show reflections in eyes?

Cut to a close-up of the girl again, she stares on in amazement

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One by one, the figures begin to disappear, starting from the most solid/opaque figure.

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Only one figure is left, and, already translucent, he begins to fade out even more.

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The figure can only be vaguely seen, but the orange light appears again and glows by his head.

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Cut to a close-up of the figure. We see part of the outline of the figure illuminated. The shape of the figure is invisible except for the part where the light traces his outline. 01:13:0200

The light moves downward - tracing his outline - and as it does so we see the figure become more solid and less transparent.

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Light moves down his outline again, figure becomes more solidified.

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Light moves down outline again, figure becomes less solid.He fades in and out as the light traces his outline.

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Light moves up again, figure becomes more solid.

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Finally, light extends to his back, and the figure becomes more solid than before, and illuminated by the light.

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• Girl is intrigued, and rises up slightly to get a better view.

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• At first, figure doesn’t respond01:29:0600

• Figure turns his head towards girl. As he does so, the light moves to illuminate his face. We see no eyes, but a pendant around his neck glows in response to the light. The pendant is the same as the girl’s that we saw in the beginning of the animation. 01:31:0600

• Close-up of a scary image of the girls face. She gasps, surprised and wide-eyed, when the figure turns to her.

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• Cut to a farther away shot where the figure and the girl are on opposite sides of the screen. The figure is fixed to the spot, the girl has risen or is rising slightly.

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• Cut to a shot of the girl’s feet stepping up onto the ledge of that rooftop, towards the figure

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• She runs toward him, arms extended. The background is warmer in color. The light and his pendant, as well as her necklace (not shown in this frame), are all glowing

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• She embraces him, the light moves out of her way, and he raises a timid arm around her.

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• Close-up of the boy’s featureless face

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• He turns his head down

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• Cut back to the scene from before, only now the boy has his arm around her

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• As they embrace, stars begin to appear once again

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• As the stars become more solid, our two figures start to fade away

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• They fade out even more, the stars become brighter

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• They disappear completely. Nothing’s left but the stars. The screen fades out to black, and the credits appear.

• End. 01:54:0600

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