This is a part of our storyboard that is supposed to be our prologue. We have a detailed world setting and we want to show it to others. These four scenes shows starvation, natural disasters and more wars. if you read our storyboard in my another post, you’ll see there are far more scenes about the story and its settings.
We followed the school’s advice to choose only the essence of the story, so here comes these three:
I would like to tell the story in detail here:
First part: The girl was drilling ice with an engineer. It is a daily job for them to get water supply for the whole colony. The girl convinced the engineer to allow her into this ‘saving the world’ project.
Second part: The girl finds out that she actually needs to do a time travel to save the whole world. She then starts training and preparing for the trip. This is the most important part of the story as she understands what hero is here for, what she`s actually saving. The term ‘world’ no longer being a vague concept or a title on a world map, but a very precise group of person she loves and willing to protect.
Third part: All traning and preparing is nothing if you don`t do it real. The girl starts the time jump and certainly the plan fails and she’s about to die. She then understand what it actually cost to be a hero, the fear of losing life, the burden of duty on her shoulders. She understands the idea of heroism and finally did the ultimate sacrifice.
This is the journey of her mental development of accepting and becoming a hero. We want to make sure that our audience can follow up her decisions as being a hero and save others is not a normal thoughts in common folks. That is why we choose to elimate the information gap between the audiences and our protagonist. They receive the amount of information at the same speed, they ask questions and get answered at the same time as our protagonist. So that hopefully audiences can find the decisions protagonist made reasonable as they stands on the same side facing the problem. There`s only a very thin paper between asking too much and calling it duty for heroism.
If you watched the animatics before, You may wonder what`s the role of protagonist’s mother in this plot. She is what we called a ‘pioneer’. She died a couple of years before becasue of the time travel plan failed. We designed her to be the hero our girl is trying to become and understand. we want to make this connection to be known but weak. A invisible bond between her and her mother that somehow leads herself to the same track.
She will be giving the answers to our question and she is the one who gives the message of our story.
1, Value the trip itself instead of valueing the final outcome.
2, Family and friends support in the back support us to do great works
3, No matter how much it takes, laugh at setbacks and get through it.
We want these messages to show up not only at the final part but also throughout the whole story, instead of merely saying it but showing it through protagonist’s life.
Let`s hope that can be done.