S T O R Y B O A R D S

I have been going through old comic books from my younger brother to focus on style and layout of comics. I found this to be quite intersting as I like layout's when it come to free hand drawing or designing a front cover on illustrator / photoshop. Here are some ideas for a story for my fashion comic book. I have tried to keep the stories based around fashion without using related fashion scenes such as catwalks and photoshoots, I have kept the stories around day to day things that happen in genrual to wired messded up subliminal dreams. I have done some sketches for each story to show camera view and layout of page.

SPLASH DASH DREAM:

1. Girl is asleep in her room.
2. Phone starts to ring downstairs.
3. She wakes up.
4. Goes downstairs to answer the phone.
5. Phone stops ringing.
6. Now she is VERY angry.
7. Walks back up the stairs.
8. Climbs into bed, clock is saying 04.34.
9. Starts to daze of into dream.
10. Parade in the woods, involving woodlen creatures.
11. Woodlen creatures holding sticks, garments are hanging from the sticks.
12. A gush of wind comes and blows the graments of the sticks.
13. The wind controls the direction of the garments and are being dragged up into the clouds.
14. Their going up and up ...
15. Reaches space.
16. Floating around in space.
17. A GIANT shooting star shoots pases by going through the clothes destroying them.
18. All of the pieces get drawn together to form one garment.
19. Still goin up, the garment reaches the moon.
20. Lands heavily on the moon creating dust particals to float around the garment creating a mist around the outline.
    

A PANDA'S DISASTER:

1. In the kitchen getting food from the fridge wearing P/Js.
2. Radio is on.
3. Walking towards radio, with plate in hand.
4. Turns of radio.
5. Starts to walk into bedroom.
6. Put plate down.
7. Walks onto scales.
8. Ahhh scales showing weight.
9. 'I'm so fat!' starts to cry.
10. 'What to wear?'
11. Image of wardrobe , full of clothes and nice things.
12. Starts to pull all the clothes out.
13. Trying to match clothes, putting them against herself.
14. Still trying to find clothes to wear, putting them against her.
15. Doing the same thing as 14.
16. Screams, still crying.
17. Drops to the floor surrounded by her wonderful clothes.

ALTERNATIVE PEGS:

1. Washing machine has nearly finished it's cycle.
2. BUUZZZZ ... washing machine has finished.
3. Boy comes with washing basket.
4. He emptys the washing machine.
5. Walks outside.
6. Crows are flying around the tree where the washing line is attached.
7. Boy starts to peg clothes on the washing line.
8. One of the crows poo's on the boy.
9. Boy leaves, crows start to laugh.
10. Crows start to go through the clothes.
11. BANG, BANG, BANG ... the crows have been shot.
12. Silhouette of a wired creator appears.
13. Picks up the crows.
14. Slice's them open and gets the intestines out from the crows.
15. Starts to hang the clothes with the intestines, basket in the creators house.
16. Continues to hang the clothes.
17. Drops the basket hangs last garment.
18. Writes in blood with the last garment saying 'who's laughing now.'
    
    
    
    
    

SWIMMING POOL DRAMAS:

1. Walking to lesuire centre.
2. Opening the door to lesuire centre.
3. Getting key for locker.
4. Walking to changing rooms.
5. Phone starts to ring.
6. Girl answers phone.
7. 'Hey, you good?'
8. I'm fine just at the swimming pools, Gonna for a dip, what you up too?'
9. 'Oh ok want me to meet you in 45mins?'
10. 'Cool see you then, bye'.
11. Goes to changing room.
12. Getting undressed.
13. Opens door wearing swimming costume.
14. Goes to locker, opens locker door.
15. Drops tee on the floor.
16. Picks up tee and forgets to lock locker door.
17. Goes swimming.
18. Comes back to find clothes missing.
19. Starts to cry 'What am I supposed to do now.'

FASHIONABLY LATE:

1. Email on computer, confirming date and time of a Dress to arrive.
2. Girl reading email.
3. Door bell goes.
4. Goes to answer door.
5. Dry cleaners delivery - 'Hi your drying cleaning is here'.
6. Take things - 'Thank you how much do I owe you?'
7. Man smiling ' 600 yen'.
8. Girl gives the money 'bye'.
9. Door shuts.
10. Time goes by - 16.53.
11. 'Where is my dress?' Girl thinking.
12. Goes online to find contact details.
13. Calls the shop, dialling number.
14. 'Hi I placed an order and it was suppose to arrive today but it hasn't turned up yet.'
15. 'Well it's not here and the post stops delivering at 17.00.'
16. Hungs up the phone, stressed.
17. Starts to panic and trys to find something to wear, all clothes on the floor.
18. Door bell goes.
19. Answers the door.
20. Dry cleaning man, smilling 'sorry I forgot to tell you, your delivery is in the pile of dry cleaning.'
21. Shut's the door.
22. Runs to pile of dry cleaning.
23. Finds the dress.
24. Smile, hugging the dress.

I had a tutorial with Tammy and we discussed my stories and came to an idea of mixing the stories together so it will be longer. I'm going to have a talk with Marcello (the guy who is doing the illustrations) to see if he is up or doing more work than I asked him too.


I have decided to do a none worded story with just visuals so it doesn't take away the focus of the clothes as they will be based around the seaons trends. I have combinded two stories together:
Time: DUSK
NEED TO THINK JAPAN!
3 CROWS
WORDS SOUNDING THE NOISE'S

1. Washing machine - straight view, main focus on washing machine door.
2. BUZZ.
3. Girl collects washing, puts into basket.
4. Side view of door and door frame, leading to the garden.
   
5. View of garden ... Giant tree, washing line tied up with tree, peg bag hangging from washing line ... EVERY VIEW OF GARDEN HAS THESE FEATURES.
6. Womens back view, crows flying around the tree, crow is about to poo on her head.
7. Sadness on womens face.
8. Women walking back indoors - view of garden still! with basket left behind.
   
9. View of crows laughing.
10. BANG, BANG, BANG.
11. Crows dead on the floor.
12. Silhoutte of weird creator appears - RANDOM SHAPES.
    
13. RANDOM HAND, holding crows with knife in other hand.
14. Cuts open the crows.
15. Garden View ... creator bending down to pick up washing basket.
16. Starts hang up clothes on washing line with crows intestines.
17. Continues to hang washing on line with intestines.
18. drops basket on graden floor.
19. Creator walking away from scene.
20. Then a shot of the garden and washing line, with the clothes hanging from the intestines.
21. A gush of wind, making the clothes come of the washing line but still attached to the intestines.
22. The clothes are being taken up in the atmosphere but not to far .
23. Clothes with intestines attached entering a woods.
24. (birds eye view from the clothes view) of woodland creators holding sticks with random flags on the end ... think of paprika!
25. Woodland creators having a parade .
26. Horizon view of the woodland creators with sticks and flags.
27. Clothes hanging from intestines going higher and higher in atmosphere.
28. Going through the clouds.
29. Up to space.
30. The clothes are just drifting up.
    
31. Image of shootin star.
32. Shooting star coming towards the clothes which are STILL TOGETHER BY INTESTINES!
33. Shooting star goes through the clothes.
34. Clothes are in tiny pieces still being hold together by intestines.
35. Still goin up.
36. Intestines starts to make random shapes.
37. Intestines still makin random shapes but getting smaller.
38. Intestines in a tiny ball.
39. Words ... PUFF! bold and bright.
40. Then image of final garment ... background still space.

This is what I have sent to the Illustrator by email just so he knows what to expect, He will be coming down next week to get strated on the making of the comic book ... :)