Storyboard For Final

I have decided that for my final piece, I will create an animation which features around ten different idioms, all sourced from www.idiomsite.com. I will also be using several different types of animation to keep the content varied. I believe that linking all the idioms together to make a story, rather than just having a lot of shorts one after another, is a better idea as it will hold the audiences attention and have a more coherent plot. I think this piece will be very ambitious and take a lot of time and effort to be a success.

I plan for my animation to open with a drawn animation, using a white board to introduce the video with the title 'My Idiom Story'. This shot will then fade to show a bedroom, with a girl getting up and stretching with the sun rising behind the curtains. This will all be created using stop motion photography, but I will edit the sun rising after the animation has been made. This beginning portrays 'Rise and Shine'.

The camera will then move onto the wall, which, being painted the same colour as the kitchen, will be a smooth transition as the camera reappears from the kitchen wall. Still using stop motion photography, the girl will be standing at a kitchen countertop next to a small handbag. From this handbag, she produces a range of materials, such as milk, icing sugar, a kettle, a bowl, flour etc. This will be possible as before each object comes out the bag, I will have emptied it from the last shot. The girl will then glance at the sink and shrug. This portrays 'Everything But The Kitchen Sink'. I will then have these objects seemingly move around and then move off screen.

To get to the next location, I will film the distance between one side of the kitchen to the next, then speed it up when editing to give a smooth and fast transition.

At the next location, the girl, with another younger girl, will be half way through cooking something. There will be mixtures stirring themselves and things being diced etc. Through the comotion, a glass of milk gets spilled. This causes the younger girl to cry, meaning 'Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk'. The crying girl will then suddenly have a sock in her mouth which stops her crying. Hence, 'Put A Sock In It'. For the next transition I plan to zoom right up to the sock till the screen goes black, then fade up from the darkness to the next scene.

The next shot will be a short one, of 13 cupcakes ('A Bakers Dozen') going into an oven and the two girls 'Crossing Their Fingers'. The camera will then zoom into a photoframe with a photograph of a clock. The clock will move and portray the passing of time.

After this, the cakes reappear from the oven cooked, and the girls 'High Five'.

For the next transition, I will follow a pair of feet to the next location. The first girl will be sat at a table eating a cake and licks her fingers- 'Finger Licking Good.' This girl then begins to show signs of what she is eating, I.E icing on her skin, sprinkles. 'You Are What You Eat.' The girl then feels her face, seems shocked, and puts her hand up to cover the camera.

When the hand is removed, the location has changed to that of the original bedroom. The girl is in her bed, with a themometer in her mouth, still appearing to look like a cake. She then looks at the dog sleeping next to her. - 'Sick As A Dog.'

The girl then 'Hits The Hay' (Literally) and rolls over, asleep.

The camera then cuts to a lightswitch being flicked off, and there is darkness. From this darkness, some white writing appears saying 'The End'.