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Group 3 Storyboards

Addy Sewack, Deekshita Vedula, Emma Hu, Lauren Platt, Nicholas Clark


Description:

Our design will highlight the emotions from the movie Inside Out – Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger, and Sadness. It will start out showing that the 5 emotions are not working well together with rigid motion of white light (with possible tinges of other colors to indicate an imbalance and fight within the emotions) as white light is the combination of all of the colors. The bridge will slightly flash like a malfunction or glitch. Then, the white light will fade away to focus on each different emotion depicted with different colors for each emotion. In each emotion’s section, the movement and type of light will reflect the idea of the emotion based on how the movie depicts that emotion. Each section should convey the feeling of that emotion. In the end, the emotions will begin working well together, the lights will merge together into a smooth moving white light, and all the colors will dance along the bridge with fireworks bursting from a white light to color. This is similar to the plot of the movie and will showcase each emotion’s strength and the ability to come together.

Storyboard Sketches:

Beginning

  • Start with blobby/rigid/movement of white (walking along movement), split into colors
  • Slow movement, almost fighting due to largeness of light mass
  • Brief introduction to each of the characters/emotions/colors as they walk down the bridge in a line (like this video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v0gJug91HyyRgPTqU31G08k8kpLOo7tc/view?usp=share_link)
  • All colors in harmony, “holding hands” and switching their positions, happily together as a whole
  • Back to large white light, all of a sudden, something is wrong, the bridge slightly flashes like a malfunction, and the emotions disperse (small colored lights moving quickly away from center)

Joy

  • Yellow colors
  • Yellow lights bounce back and forth between the ends of the bridge
  • Yellow lights appear and disappear quickly around the bridge like Joy is jumping around the bridge/playing hide and seek
  • Very fast motions and bright colors to show excited/energetic personality

Fear

  • Purple colors
  • Introduction is a slow movement of purple light, going forward slightly then taking a step back as if timidly approaching something
  • Slower movement of color, once approaches center quick flash of color as if jumping back in fear (perhaps alternating top and bottom panels, like sweater vest in movie)
  • Rapid running around, quick beats
  • Holding breath, then rapid breathing and quick movement, then slower breathing as the light slowly goes back to the edge more timidly

Disgust

  • Green colors
  • Other colors bouncing off of a central green color as if disgust is rejecting a bunch of different options
  • Green color stumbling into a bunch of other colors then running as far away as possible to get away
  • Slower moving, almost judgy/sassy

Anger

  • Red colors
  • Could be red lights coming from the two ends, and both become stronger and stronger until met in the middle
  • Then act as fire spreading everywhere (explode from the middle)
  • Also could be red with intensity / width gradually increasing from one end to the other
  • While other characters (colors) are around, splash an exploding red ball and devour all the other colors, (plot as in the pic above)

Sadness – Blue, heavy breathing movement, slow/weighted/steady, calm? 

End

  • All colors eventually merge and fade to white light, more calm than in the beginning, then slowly fade to dark

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