new idea- The child

Rough idea

The scene opens up and we see a screw driver digging out the weeds in between the slabs of a concrete floor. As the camera pans up we see a young child looking quite misserable as he looks up to the sound of childrens laughter as they play on the street. The camera then cuts to the children playing.

The camera then cuts back to the child as he looks at his mum and points to the children playing on the street. We see his mum in the background with folded arms and a stern look on her face nodding her head from side to side. We then see the childs face as he looks sad. The camera cuts to the child cleaning the windows, again with the children in the background playing. The childs face again looks sad as he glances at the happy children. The childs mum comes to the window and the boy points at the children to go and play, again the mum nodding her head... no. We'll then see cut scenes as we see the child doing more jobs for his mum, his mum over his shoulder making sure he is doing his jobs right. We see the boy giving his mum a sad expression hoping for her to feel guilt but has no success. fade to black

The scene opens up with an over view of the child and his mum in the garden, we then see a close up of the mum as she holds out a hammer and points to her side. The camera cuts to a huge pile of wood and then back to the mum as we see her hand an instruction manual for a shed. We then see the childs shocked face as he glances at the manual and then back to the wood. The scene cuts to a hammer hammering nails, then we see a long shot of the child building a shed. As he builds the shed we see a change in the background as the sun sets and the moon pops up showing the passing of time. fade to black

The sun rises as we see the boy finishing off the shed; nailing the felt on the top. The boy turns to look at the children playing on the street (children laughing in background) but this time we see a happy expression as the boy hammers in the last nail. Jumping down the ladder the boy again points at the children playing and yet again his mum nodds no. The camera cuts back to the child as he points at the finished shed. We then see the mum holding out a brush and pointing to her side. Camera cuts to hundreds of leaves scattered on the floor and then back to the boys face as he looks sad. As the boy gazes at the children playing on the street we see his mother in the background putting some tools in the new shed. We see the boy looking at his mother in anger and the his expression changes as he comes up with an idea.

The camera cuts to a front view of his mother as she hangs her tools up in the shed, the camera facing out of the shed. We then see as the boys pearing into the shed at his mother with a cunning grin slams the door (we hear him locking the door and nailing it shut) as his mum shouts at him through the door.

The camera then cuts back to the boy as he finishes nailing on strips of wood over the door. As he finishes we see his guilty face but as he turns around to see the children playing his expression changes to a big grin and runs off to play with the children. The camera cuts to a behind view of him as he runs away towards the children.



Objective- to go and play with his friends
Obsticle- his mother won't let him until he finishes off his jobs- conflict with the situation
Action- finishing off his jobs

How will my target audience relate to my main character?

My target audience will emphasize with my main character as we have all been children and know how it feels to have no control over a situation between your self and a parent. We know how it feels to want to do something but can't.


I am going to give this story board some treatment as i'm not sure if it's quite there yet, I am perhaps hanging around too much on the same objective, as Ed Hooks stated "don't hang the audiences heads there, you don't want to loose their attention" maybe I need to start off with a new objective but can't achieve that as he has to do his jobs first, or maybe have a different obsticle too.

As my Film will have no dialog I have been lookig at Charlie chaplin to get a good idea of how to project my characters body language, I must make it so that it is obvious to what I am trying to comunicate to my target audience. Charlie's face expressions tell alot about his feelings and emotions; I need to make the expressions obvious too. By also having music to reflect my animation will also help with the feeling of it and will help me to achieve getting what I want from the audience; empathy and sympathy.

rough animatic- part 1