STORYBOARDS

BEAT

SYNOPSIS

There is a person in a room shaped like a box standing absolutely still. A noise is being played into the room, and has been playing for all the time the person has been in the room.

The person suddenly has a whole body twitch and instantly the noise stops. This person can now move freely and looks to both the left and right. All four walls are graced by the person's presence until there us nothing more to do. After returning to the original spot the person waits for something, anything. Nothing happens and the person breaks down. After committing suicide, the person is replaced by another person.

FINAL STORY IDEA

I have decided to choose my first story idea about the person in the box shaped room. It is partly based on Socrates 'Analogy of the Cave.

The box shaped room comes from the concept of 'thinking outside the box' and once the noise stops, the character realises his life has lost its purpose and is free. This becomes too much for him and he can't live this way anymore.

TECHNOLOGY STORY IDEA

Technology is something that has interested me a long time. This is mainly to do with my obsession with James Cameron’s Terminator films. I watched them at a young age, and the idea of a robot skeleton really intrigued me. They are my favourite films because they show the importance of humanity and that we rely on Technology too much. I also grew up watching other 80’s Sci-Fi films such as Robocop, Aliens, Predator, The Running Man and Blade Runner.

I hate technology, as I could never buy something without it not working. My first MP3 player refused to work for me for nearly a year. My home computer didn’t let me use the USB ports, and I have had a lot of phone troubles in my life. I usually look after my stuff, but when something didn’t work after weeks of looking forward to it, I sometimes threw my items at a wall.

Finally, these problems do not persist me anymore. All the technology I have now works fine.

During the last summer holidays, our TV at home finally broke down after around ten years. My parents wanted to immediately get rid of the TV, but I was more reluctant. There have been so many good times I have spent with the TV, such as running home from school to watch all the cartoon’s that I loved as a child.

This made me think that technology is not treated like we treat ourselves. If a family member becomes old and of less use, we don’t get them replaced. This got me thinking of the following question. If technology were to bleed, would we treat it differently? If a piece of technology was to bleed, like a human, instead of getting a new one, you would fix it like a human. A story that shows this could be quite interesting.

SECOND STORY IDEA

Once upon a time there was a clichéd kingdom which was protected by a cliché protagonist with the usual hero traits.

Everyday this hero would do the usual cliché quests to bring happiness and other such feelings to the kingdom.

One unexpected day the villain enters the kingdom and kidnaps the princess!

He takes the princess to his own kingdom and destroys the heroes home village on the way.

The hero angered by the villains onslaught of his kingdom, the taking of his princess and the destruction on his home begins his next and most epic quest.

The hero travels to the villains kingdom and quests many perilous days to reach the villains castle where the princess is held captive.

The epic battle commences between good and evil, and the hero comes out on top defeating the evil villain once and for all.

The hero and the princess fall in love and return to their own kingdom.

After rebuilding his home village, the princess and the hero get married and the cliché comes to an end.

FIRST STORY IDEA

Once upon a time there was a box shaped room, and a person in the room.

And everyday a noise played into the room.

Until on day the noise stopped.

And because of that, the person began to hear.

Until finally the person felt lonely and killed himself.

And since that day, another person took over.

STORY WORKSHOP

Exposition, inciting, progressive complications, crisis, climax, resolution.

Exposition - background information

Inciting - call to action for the protagonist

Progressive complications - a change to the order

Crisis - something negative happens

Climax - the last battle etc

Resolution - order is returned