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OK here’s my boards, but like I said. I’m not going to do much more until the M&S is over. If someone wants to refine the boards or start working on a animatic that’s fine, I’ll give some additional feedback (time permitting). It looks like most of the other Mods pulled their work that was done already. I’ll see if I can’t find a copy of Roberto’s animatic that he made.
Reading from left to right and top to bottom …
[ul][li]Intro sequence/Titles/Credits - A series of beautifully composed images of the cubes in their environment. Animation of characters is minimal and they should just be “hanging out” doing nothing as to distract from the credits.[]After the credits end the camera fixes on a set of gray cube characters and our orange fellow walks into the scene from behind the others. He looks around a bit to see where he fits in the group as the others cast him a look behind his back (i.e. the cube at right might look him up and down as he’s turned away. When orange turns back the gray will snap his gaze away as if he wasn’t just checking orange out).[]Orange makes a move into the heart of the group and the others slowly back away from his position.[]There’s a little bit of a hesitant withdrawal before they all break out into a panic and run away from Orange.[]Orange POV as he looks at the others gathering together at the furthest most part of the room from him.[]Orange makes another attempt to be a part of the crowd and the others react in shock/terror. This stops Orange in his tracks.[]A bit shocked and surprised Orange looks on the others in bewilderment or a “WTF?” type of reaction.[]Realizing that he’s not wanted, he turns to sulk away from the crowd.[]Shuffles/drags feet as he mopes away to the other side of the room[](I added this extra gray one as comic relief in an otherwise downer scene.) The gray one is hanging out on the other side of the room kind of oblivious to what has happened thusfar. Seeing Orange shuffle into his area he is startled to find all of his other friends are huddled on the other side of the room. He (in a “oh crap!” sort of way) hurries off to meet with his friends.[]Orange finds a wall and begins to bang his head on the wall in frustration.[]On a down-stroke towards another head banging, he suddenly stops and bends back to look up at something that has caught his attention.[/ul]
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[ul][li]POV - Orange looks up at a circular opening in the wall that has an orange color visible that mimics his own hue.[]Reverse angle looking down at Orange to show the task at hand. This is a pivotal portion of the story in which Orange realizes that this space on the other side of the wall is where he’ll most likely “fit in”. The height of the portal on the wall is to display that the task of getting from the gray world to the orange one isn’t going to be a small task.[]In a trail attempt, Orange jumps up and down a few times trying to get a peek into what might be on the other side of the wall.[]View from inside the hole, shows the top of Orange’s head as he desperately tries to get the right altitude to see.[]Confused, curious yet determined he pauses at the ground level debating his next move.[]Turning to look back, he begins to develop a plan of operation.[]He hops back about half the distance of the room and turns to face the opening.[]POV - Orange looks across the room at his goal for a brief instant.[]Then he burst into a run across the room towards his destination.[]With a charged leap he bounces himself up towards the portal high on the wall.[]But his aim is off and he smacks hard into the wall just to the left of his target.[]He hangs there for a brief moment and then slowly slides down the wall.[/ul] 
[/li][ul][li]Orange slumps to the floor and looks as if he’s going to give up.[]But persistance is the key so he gets up and goes to the other side of the room for another try.[]Here he goes again! Isn’t he determined![]He slams into the wall again, and falls to the ground.[]The next four panels are a series of quick shots from the same camera angle showing Orange hitting the wall in different places and at different angles. He’s not giving up so easily.[]After the last hit we see him fall down towards the camera (worm’s eye view) in a slow motion display of defeat.[]He hits the ground hard very close to the camera’s POV looking up at the hole in the wall. Mockingly.[]He lays there for quite a while breathing heavily. Then lifts his head and looks over his shoulder at something that has caught his attention.[]On the other side of the room, the gray cubes have been watching this desperate endeavor by Orange and are mockingly laughing at him. When they realize Orange is looking at them. They stop and turn to pretend they’re not interested in whatever Orange is doing.[/ul]
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[ul][li]Orange (semi-defeated) gets up and has another long look at his seemingly impossible task.[]And then turns decisively and with determination towards the other cubes.[]POV - Orange surveys the crowd of gray cubes on the other side of the room (ignoring him).[]Finally, he makes one last trip to the other side of the room.[]But this time he doesn’t stop halfway. He goes all the way to the opposite wall and the gray cubes hurridly get out of his way when he approaches.[]POV - Orange turns to face the crowd of cubes now gathering in the center of the room. Above them, the orange portal looms in the distance.[]Taking a deep breath and gathering up every last bit of determination that he has, Orange bolts as fast as he can towards the gray cubes and the portal on the other side of the room.[]The gray cubes are startled by Orange’s sudden advancement on them.[]And in a panic they charge off towards the opposite wall in an herd-like effort to escape the quickly approaching orange oddity.[]A gray cube trips and falls to the floor sliding along behind the others, as Orange catches up to them. Orange jumps onto the fallen gray cube.[]Using the gray as a springboard, Orange vaults into the air above the pack of nervously retreating grays.[]Orange lands in the thick of the pack and begins to crowd surf them towards his destination.[/ul] 
[/li][ul][]Over the shoulder camera follows group of cubes as they run towards the hole & carry Orange on thier tops.[]Orange bounces up and performs a spectacular gymnastic maneuver bouncing from one gray to the other towards the front of the pack (flips and twirls would add to the character).[]Reaching the front of the pack (they’re still running) he hits one of the grays in the front hard and launches himself in a tight spiral towards the portal. The last gray springboard falls to the ground.[]Camera follows Orange as he spirals up overhead and towards the hole (in a Free Willy shot). He punches into the hole about halfway and after a brief pause we see the downed Gray slide into camera view along the ground.[]Orange wiggles and squirms, forcing himself and his square body through the round hole.[]The grays can only watch as Orange dissappears from their lives forever.[]Eventually they get bored and just slump off to doing whatever they were doing before Orange made his appearance in their world.[]Meanwhile on the other side … camera fixes on the portal looking back into the gray world then begins a slow pan down.[]It stops on our square friend laying on the ground, who is now in the shape of a cylindar. He gets up from the ground.[]Camera stays on Orange and doesn’t reveal the room (yet), as he first checks his new shape and then looks around the room. Then jumps in shock …[]The camera quickly zooms out to reveal the rest of the room and a population of spheres.[*]Orange slumps down realizing his mistake and new environment is no better than the previous gray world.[/ul]Fade out … the end.
