VP-W2 The Art of Storyboarding - From Concept to Production AND BEYOND
Scriptwriting/ Concept Art/ Storyboarding
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Transcript of Scriptwriting/ Concept Art/ Storyboarding
Contents
Pages 1-6 . . . . . . Script
Pages 7-8 . . . . . . Concept Art
Pages 9-10 . . . . . Mood Boards
Pages 10-14 . . . . . Storyboards
Pages 15-19 . . . . . Sketch Work
THE JOYS OF AN EARLY MORNING COMMUTE
by
Sam Brown
20 Alderwood Close,
Ormesby,
Middlesbrough,
TS7 9PU
07947295049
“THE JOYS OF AN EARLY MORNING COMMUTE”
FADE IN:
EXT. BUS STOP – EARLY MORNING
The camera fades into a close up of a set of very tired and heavy
eyes, occasionally blinking slowly. The only audio at this point is
the sound of a strong, bustling wind. The camera then begins to pan
out to show the head and shoulders of the main character; a
University student. He looks extremely tired, possibly hung-over and
miserable. His neck is retracted slightly into his tense shoulders;
he is wearing a dark grey woollen hat with the hood, from his black
‘hoodie,’ pulled up over it. There is a faint musical beat coming
from his MP3 Player’s headphones.
The camera continues to pan out to show the main character stood at
a bus stop; the only background is a grey sky with a small amount of
dark green grass at the bottom of the screen. The main character is
yet to move apart from the occasional blink.
A thin whisper of cigarette smoke then begins to flow across the
screen, passing just underneath the nose of the Student. He looks
comically down at the smoke, looks contemptly back at the camera and
sighs, blowing the smoke away slightly before accidentally breathing
some in; this causes him to cough violently before quickly turning
his head to his left. The camera then pans to the right to show a
stereotypical old man smoking heavily. He occasionally removes the
cigarette from his mouth, only to cough, splutter and spit on the
ground.
The camera pans back to the student, just as a group of four young
school girls arrive. They are all laughing very loudly and playfully
pushing each other. One of them is drinking a can of pop, two are
eating packets of crisps and the other is eating a chocolate bar.
The main character looks over to them, turns his head back to the
camera, sighs and shivers; this indicates that it is cold.
Immediately after this a young ‘chavvy’ woman arrives to the bus
stop, holding a baby. She is wearing a pink, suede track suit which
appears to be too small for her, her face is bright orange from
make-up and yet her neck is pale white against her peroxide blonde
hair.
The woman’s baby then begins to cry, to which her only response is
‘sshhhh’, with no other attempt to silence the baby.
The old man coughs, splutters and spits again. This silences the
baby as it looks over, completely bemused at the spectacle it has
just witnessed.
OLD MAN:
Bloody busses these days.
A close-up on the main character shows him rolling his eyes, sighing
and shivering again. The school girls then begin to laugh loudly
again and start pushing each other playfully. One of them bumps in
the main character. He turns his head to look at the girl that
bumped into him.
SCHOOL GIRL #3:
Sorry, Mister. It was her;
She pushed me, her there.
(laughs)
The main character turns his head back, sighing heavily at the same
time. He then looks left down the street. The camera switches to a
shot of the street to the character’s left. It is an empty and misty
street with street lights dotted down the pavement, none of which
are working. The camera changes back to the bus stop as the
character looks back to centre and then to his right. The camera
switches to that end of the street; much the same as the other side
but with one difference. There is a very old woman in the distance,
shuffling slowly along the pavement dragging her trolley with one
hand and walking her small, white dog with the other.
The baby begins to cry again.
YOUNG WOMAN:
Sshhhh, come on now. Sshhhh.
The main character sighs heavily; this time looking down to the
ground as he does so, shaking his head slightly. Before raising it
slowly.
The street light next to the bus stop, illuminating the close area,
then begins to flicker and buzz. This annoys the main character more
as he looks up at it and looks back to centre, frowning.
Just at that a crisp packet flies past the characters head, blown
across by the wind. Followed by another crisp packet and a chocolate
bar wrapper. The character follows the three wrappers with his eyes,
looking at them in a disgruntled fashion. A can then flies in from
the left of the screen, unknown to the main character, as if it had
been thrown by someone. It hits the main character on the side of
the head; his expression immediately changes to surprise before
anger as he sharply turns his head to his right. The camera moves to
the left to show the school girls and the main character on the
screen at once. Three of the girls are giggling in a mischievous
manor, whilst one is looking very apologetically at the main
character.
SCHOOL GIRL #1:
I’m really sorry, I didn’t mean for it
to hit you. I was just throwing it away.
Sorry mister.
The main character continues to glare angrily at the girl before
turning his head back to centre very slowly.
He reaches into the back pocket of his jeans and pulls out a small
piece of crumpled up paper. The camera switches to an over the
shoulder shot of the character to show the writing on the piece of
paper. It reads:
“UNI START – 9
BUS - NUMBER 9, 8.15”
There is then a spot of rain on the paper and as the character puts
it away the camera changes back to its normal position. The rain
then becomes much heavier.
OLD MAN:
Urgh, bloody rain. (Coughs,
splutters and spits).
The main character then nestles his head deeper into his hood;
heavily sighing, he becomes angrier with the overall situation.
There is then a very faint ‘chugging’ noise in the distance, similar
to that of a tug boat. Every character, including the baby, look to
the left optimistically; hoping that a bus is arriving. The camera
switches to show the end of the street where a small, dilapidated,
old bus has emerged from the mist and is just visible. It is barely
moving with a large cloud of black smoke trailing behind it.
The camera zooms in on the bus driver; a short, fat, balding man is
behind the wheel. He has the soulless, empty eyes of a person whose
hopes and dreams are steadily becoming a faint and distant memory
due to his monotonous, spirit-crushing day job.
The camera switches back to a shot of the bus crawling along the
street; a shot of the bus stop follows as all of the bus stop
occupants’ expressions change from optimistic, back to how they
were.
As the Old Man snorts, splutters and spits again; the entire bus
stop seems to be in a disgusting and annoying harmony. The Old Man
is chain smoking as well as spitting, the school girls and laughing
and pushing, the baby is crying and the young woman is repeatedly
saying ‘sshhhh’. This angers the main character more, his jaw
becomes tense and his head begins to shake slightly, overcome by
anger.
As the rain gets even heavier, another noise is heard by the
characters. As they all look optimistically over to the left again;
the camera switches to a shot of the end of the bus. The noise was
another bus appearing behind the old, dilapidated one. This bus is
much newer and in a lot better condition. As it overtakes the old
bus, the camera switches to a shot of the driver, a young, fresh
faced man with a large smile on his face.
The camera switches to a shot of the main character; he reaches for
his back pocket and takes out the small piece of paper again. The
camera shows the piece of paper by way of an over-the-shoulder
shot’. You have just enough time to read what it says on the paper…
“UNI START – 9
BUS - NUMBER 9, 8.15”
…before it is completely disintegrated by the rain. The main
character checks his watch and sees that the time is 8:04. The
camera then shows a shot of the front of the bus, this bus is ‘the
63’.
University Student/Main Character:
Totally worth it
The main character is then shown by the camera as he pulls a devious
grin and rubs his hands together. As the bus is getting closer to
the bus stop, the Main character pulls his bag around so that it is
in front of him and begins to rummage through it. He seems to take
something out and put it in his pocket but you cannot see what it
is.
The bus then screeches to a halt at the bus stop and the automatic
doors open.
INT. ‘THE 63’ – EARLY MORNING
As the main character steps on the rest of the bus stop occupants
remain where they are. He then reaches into his pocket and pulls out
a green hand-grenade. There is a small sticker on it that reads:
“EMERGENCY USE ONLY”
The student takes another step into the bus and just as the doors
begin to close he pulls the pin out of the grenade and throws it
over his right shoulder. The grenade just makes it through the doors
before they close and lands on the floor in front of the bus stop.
The bus then speeds away to show the bus stop; all its occupants are
stood silently, like rabbits caught in headlights, staring at the
grenade.
The camera then switches to a shot of the very old woman who is
still shuffling slowly along the street; trolley in one hand, dog
lead in the other. There is then an off screen explosion and the old
woman and her dog immediately stop in their tracks. They stand
perfectly still for a second before her jaw drops and her eyes open
as wide as they possibly can. The dog then does the same.
A few seconds later the camera cuts to a close up shot of the
students face; he is peacefully smiling. The only background noise
is quiet chatter from fellow bus passengers. The camera then zooms
out to show that the main character is sat next to a young, ‘chavvy’
woman, very similar to the one at the bus stop, holding a baby. The
baby begins to cry very loudly. The student then looks in annoyance
to the baby before he begins to furiously rummage around in his bag.
As he does so, the screen begins to fill, from the edge inwards,
with a blank black screen and it stops to leave a circle in which
the student’s head and shoulders are shown. He looks up with a very
sad expression and he begins to cry very loudly himself. The circle
is then filled by the black screen.
THE END