Tears of Remorse Storyboard

" A 9-year-old Alabama girl is dead after her grandmother and stepmother … Police say the girl was ordered to run for 3 hours as punishment for lying to her. "

This one I am working to illustrate and animate. Here is the verse: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/AllMyTears/1057943/ 

How I came to write Tears of Remorse: I was very moved by the story of this young girl’s death. I selected a name, and oddly found a composition that matched. I only listened to the first few stanzas when I knew it was a perfect fit.

I opened my laptop and notepad, dimmed the lights " turned on the music, closed my eyes and typed. One word was changed.

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Multimedia Project Worksheet:    Tears of Remorse

Link:  http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/AllMyTears/1057943/ > Tears of Remorse

by: Debbie Lyn Jones 
 

Technical

1. Dimensions:  YouTube Size ( need to find this out)
2. Font: Not sure, something medium weight, a bit of a softness to it
3. Colors: Bold and vivid Golds, reds, hint of green (softer/fern) and rusts (create a color palette)
4. Player:  Start/Stop/pause/vol control - no scrubber

Resources Needed

1. Reference Photos > Background

• Maple Tree
  • Maple tree leaves in various sizes/shades
  • Leaves fluttering down / around
  • Leaves on the ground
• Sunshine from right to left
• Plant life you would find around maple trees > in the Fall > consider light source
• Rocks and other inanimate objects found around maple trees
• Birds, insects, found around maple trees > in the Fall > consider light source

2.  Reference Photos/Animation > Main Character

• Child age 10's shape and size
• Child around age 10 dancing ballet
• Red hair - fuzzy - long
• Leaves that would replace the hair, consider shape, size, movement
• Leaves that would replace the skirt, shoes - consider the shape, size, movement

Visual Settings

1. The background:
   • The background is to appear as a stage, framing the center for our dancer
   • The lower two inches will be opaque white, where the text will gently fade in and out
2. The overall feeling:
   • The feeling is of warmth - using bold fall golds, rusts, to emulate the girls original lovely red hair
   • Soft fern greens and delicate opaque rusts will soften these bold colors
   • When the music picks up, I want the wind to swirl
   • Serene, reflective, soft and warm
3. Animations > background
   • The sun will shine through the leaves from top right to left at an angle
   • The wind will cause the suns brightness to change as well as affect the leaves glint (meaning the leaves colors will brighten or dim)
   • The wind will gently blow, but as the song picks up, it will blow harder - affecting the movements of the leaves
4. Animation > The Girl
   • The girl will not be solid in the same respects we think of a person being
   • She will be made of the dancing leaves, that blow together to loosely - very loosely, create her form
   • No face, only a very gentle shape - hinting - at it being a young girl
   • Her hair will be of smaller leaves a slightly different hue and move as hair does
   • Important to ensure each leave does not bind/flatten, that each still has life of it's own but is held by the breeze as she dances
5. Missing Elements to Consider:
   • I need something for her hair to be swept in by the wind, and use the sun to highlight it. Something white, soft, to help hold the shape. I something like dandelion seeds
   • I need gentle movement other then the leaves - i.e. small animals, birds, flowers - but meant to compliment, not to distract. > Consider time of year, location, light source
   • Need to consider the shadows and path of the light source, how it will play upon everything
   • I need these elements to focus and keep the eye on the dancer

Frame by Frame

MUSIC:  http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/160919

02:13	Words	Animation > Girl	Animation>Background
00.01	>	>	Background fades in
00.04	Tears of Remorse	>	Opaque bottom bar fades in
00.08	-pause-	>	Wind gently blowing / leaves in trees move.
00.12	-pause-	a few leaves in the center gather up	The sun shines through the trees and flickers The wind picks up and the leaves gently begin to drop from the tree (some) and swirl
00.16	Forgive-me	more leaves begin to fall and gather in the center
00.20	Forgive-me	leaves begin to swirl up from the ground and form a loose swirl shape
00.17	I only-wanted your	small leaves swirl up - and around - not yet adding in
00.27	heart	wind blows and more leaves shake from the trees - it is almost as if nature is forming the child
00.31	-pause-	more gentle wind, more leaves and a simple shape is dancing for us - loose wafts of breeze and dancing leaves
00.33	Forgive my-deception	leaves continue to add to the form and take shape
00:37	Forgive my-lies	her hair begins to form
00:39	I am  - short pause-   but a child	the form of the child is complete - and she gently lifts her head to dance with her arms cross in-front of her, her legs crossed in-front, a toe forward
00:46	I only wanted your love
	See my tears of remorse
	have-pity-upon-my-small-soul
	-pause-
00:53	On....... and....... for-war-ds
	I go...........
	every..... d.....a....y a  b......l......u......r
	-pause-
	I .....  want ......  to ....... come from the shadows (02:01) into the light
	-pause-
	I want your hand - short pause- to take me there
	-pause-
	-pause-
	Please…love me
	please care for me
	-pause-
	I want to go round and round
	in the bright days of tomorrow
	the grass at our feet
	the wind in our hair
	-pause-
	-pause-
	I want to be as one
	I want to go with you
	-pause-
	Please love me
	-pause-
	Please see ….
	my tears of remorse
	-pause-
	-pause-
	-pause-
	Sometimes, sorrow must be shared ~ so that we can feel as one, mourn as one, heal as one...
	-pause-
	Written & Illustrated by: Debbie Lyn Jones -  www.allmytears.com
	Music by:  BlazingDragon -  http://blazingdragon.newgrounds.com/