Class 5, Session 507 - Storyboards / Animatic

I finally made it to Class 5 at Animation Mentor and now it's time for me to make my short film. YAY!!!! I've decided to go with the short film "Piggy Bank."

Pre-Pitch Structure:

What is the setting of the film? Opens on the front yard of a house.

What is the time of day of your film? Mid afternoon on a summer day.

What and who are your characters in your film? First character is a 6 year old girl, Second character is a mother figure in her mid-thirties.

We open with…. A young girl (who is 6 yrs old) is sitting in her front yard playing with her doll. She is waiting for her mom to come home from the store when…

Until…. she sees an ice cream truck coming up the street. She becomes extremely excited, drops her doll on the ground and runs into the house and to grab her pink piggy bank. She’s turning the piggy bank in all directions trying to figure out how to get the money out. She becomes frustrated that the pig isn’t giving her the money.

And then….she takes the piggy bank with both hands and shakes it to make sure the money is still in there.

And then…. She has figured out that the only way to get the money out is to break the piggy bank. So she gives the piggy bank one last look...

Until then….she kisses her piggy bank and smashes it onto the ground. She looks down on the ground depressed b/c she just broke her piggy bank since she's had since she was a baby. Suddenly, she hears the ice cream outside (snapping her out of her sadness from the broken piggy bank) so she quickly grabs some money from the floor, runs out to the back porch ready to get a Popsicle from the ice cream man but the ice cream man is gone. She looks from right than left but he is nowhere in sight but noticed her mom is home taking the groceries out of the car. Now she is terribly upset (dropping her head and shoulders with disappointment) because she can’t get a Popsicle and she broke her piggy bank.

Until finally…. The mom walks over to her daughter, puts the grocery bag down on the ground, reaches into the grocery bag and gives her daughter a Popsicle (with a smile) that she just purchased (pulls it out of the grocery bag). The little girl takes the Popcisle from her mom extremely happy.

The moral of the story….Patience is a virtue.