the bot and the snail storyboard

The Bot and the Snail
Storyboard
Jake Lewis
Panel 1
Camera view is of a snail that looks the right way up,
although it is evidently upside down by the drops of water
splashing "upwards". The snail unfurls it's eye stalks and
the camera rotates to the correct orientation as the snail
crawls off the frame.
cut
Panel 2
The camera view snaps to a a very close view of a
sleeping alarm bot, shown by the "Z's". As the snails head
comes into frame the camera slowly zooms out and shows it
leaving a trail behind it as it goes round through a door...
Panel 3
The camera follows to see where the snail is going and
gets to see it's tail going round the corner along the corridor.
As it disappears the alarm bot puffs out of it's chimney stack
and wakes up falling over as it does so.

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Panel 4
A montage of dramatic swoops and pans follow the alarm
bots transformation ultimately ending up with it upside down
and scrabbling however. Using it's horn it finally rights itself.
Panel 5
The camera pans out to show the slime trail. The alarm bot
approaches it gingerly and, much like a cat, touches it with
one foot before jumping backwards.
Alarm bot jumping backwards.
Camera in same place.
The bot then decides to follow the trail and the scene fades
out to black.

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Panel 7
The camera fades in from black to show a room filled with
half eaten iron lettuces and the snail on the ceiling. The alarm
bot walks in still following the trail and gives a slight hoot of
alarm, shown by the horns on his head expanding suddenly,
and continues to walk into the room not noticing the snail on
the ceiling.
Panel 8
The camera cuts to an over shoulder view following the
alarm bots view as it looks along the floor, up the wall and to
the ceiling.
Panel 9
Cut back to camera view of panel 7. The alarm bot has seen
the snail and hoots loud and angrily, it's light and horns going
off.
Fade to black
Credits.

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