In this version of the script I have refined some of my steps and worked out the transitions between each step in preparation for making the storyboard.
Adaptation A – ’10 Steps
to Becoming Less of a Burden on Society’
Script 2.0
Title Page:
10 Steps to Becoming Less
of a Burden on Society
Note: Title is
drawn onto the screen, in a rough way but still easily readable.
Transition - Title moves off-screen
or fades.
Screen zooms out to reveal a TV set on standby.
Step 1:
Turn off the standby light
on your television.
You are wasting over £80 a
year leaving all of your appliances on standby. The average television still
uses 10% of its energy when on standby.
Transition - Standby light turns
off, screen goes dark.
Multiple plastic bags drop from the top and pile up at the bottom.
Step 2:
Stop using plastic bags.
They are not biodegradable
and they end up in places that cause damage to the environment and its
wildlife.
Transition - Reusable bag moves
off screen to the left.
Empty dinner plate moves onto the screen from opposite direction.
Step 3:
Eat less meat.
You will be significantly improving
your own health by eating more greens than meats. It will also make you a
healthier, happier worker.
Transition - Hand comes in from
left and grabs full plate, pulls it off screen.
Pipe(s) come onto the screen and an on/off switch, then water begins to
pour down from the top to bottom of the screen.
Step 4:
Take shorter showers.
If you shower every day,
you could save around 3650 gallons a year by reducing your time in the shower
by 4 minutes. That’s a lot of water.
Transition - Hand comes in from
left and turns the shower off, then the pipe(s) exit the screen as they
entered.
An envelope with ‘overdue’
stamped on the front enters the screen from the top. It opens and a letter
comes out, the envelope drops and the letter is centred.
Step 5:
Don’t
take out loans you know you can’t pay back.
They
will build up and you will have wasted precious time and money.
Transition - Many envelopes drop
from the top, obscuring the letter on screen and clearing the screen.
A desk is revealed behind the letters, an ‘employee’ drops from the top
to behind the desk and is giving a ‘thumbs up’.
Step 6:
Be Happy.
Be content with where you
are in society, your job is important in sustaining a healthy community.
Transition - Government building
(parliament) falls and lands on the employee (shadow forms under employee
building up to this).
Same figure rises and pushes (supports) the government building with
hands above head.
Step 7:
Support your Government.
Your government works hard
to keep you happy and healthy, be sure to support them whenever and wherever
you can.
Transition - Figure stays still,
building moves up and out of view quickly.
Two baskets/bags drop down and the figure catches them (arms still above
head), then products rain from the top and fall into the baskets/bags.
Step 8:
Consume.
Buy regularly from your
local businesses and enjoy their premium products.
Transition - Figure and the
baskets move downward off of the screen.
Next an image of a figure painting onto an easel rises up from the
bottom of the screen to the same position. Partway through step 9 the easel
gets knocked off-screen by a blackboard, showing the figure writing an equation
or doing a lecture (shown as a better job). Note: Perhaps change the figure slightly at the transition between
easel and blackboard, he is slouched and brooding when painting but when it
changes, he is slightly straighter/more positive.
Step 9:
Contribute to the system.
Instead of doing something
‘creative’ like studying art, you could apply to get a real paying job.
Transition - Figure turns around
from the blackboard, notes on blackboard become the 10 steps and the title of
the infographic.
Step 10:
Be a model citizen. Show
your friends and family all you have learned here and teach them the correct
way to behave and fit in.
End screen - Zooms into
blackboard on screen, notes on blackboard become the credits (or the credits
roll after the screen is completely black).
No comments:
Post a Comment