final storyboard

Style:
Animated pencil sketches. Slightly wiggly and "alive" as in the "Story of Stuff" videos if possible
Colors: Dark grey as the primary color with DfaD blue and green spattered in evenly as secondary colors

Presentation:
Stats order: American stats / Water crisis stats / DfaD
While serious and informative, the video will have a dash of humor thrown in throughout to engage the audience
The "narrator me" and the "animated me" are two distinct entities — the animated version of myself will never be depicted as saying anything, only reacting to the statistics
In the bottom right corner is a small digital clock, counting off deaths per 18 seconds

Storyboard:

Intro — Standing in front of green-screen, I begin the video by saying how very important water is to life. To my right a pencil line is drawn from the top of the screen to the bottom — clearly appears animated, and is moving slightly

Part 1 — Our Wealth of Resources

Stat #1: 5 gallons vs. 100 gallons
- I mention the "5 gallon minimum to be healthy" stat
- A table with five water gallons and a glass of water sitting on it appears on the other side of the drawn line
- Seeing the glass of water, I step through the line and transform into my animated form
- I pick up the glass to drink, but then notice (camera zooms out) a huge tower of 100 water-jugs swaying on the table above me ominously, representing what the average American uses (I mention cooking, washing, gardening, etc.)
- After I state the stat, the tower collapses on-top of me

Transition:
- My hand thrusts out of the pile of jugs and a quickly dig/pull myself out
- Walk completely out of the pile

Stat #2: Virtual gallons of water in products
- Show evident relief at escaping the avalanche
- Random products fall in from the sky, from least water-intensive to the largest (use the list I sent you previously) Use four or five
- As each product lands, a splash of water proportional to it's water-footprint will go up, drenching me and filling up the screen with water (use blue here?), and thus I become "drowny" as Kristen would say. Be sure to put in numbers corresponding to the splashes when the products drop in

Transition:
- "Water is all around us!"
- I swim quickly to shore, notice restaurant
- "Not only do we have alot of water, we pay for it too!"

Stat #3: Bottled water 2000x the price of tap water
- I sit down at a table
- Waiter brings me a trey with a bottle of water, burger, and fries on it
- I munch into the burger, drink from the bottle
- Waiter brings me the check — Bottle of water: $2:00 / Burger: $10,000 (2000x $5)
- I show obvious shock at the bill

Stat #4: 50% of Americans...
- "In spite of this astounding fact, 50% of Americans still drink bottled water occasionally or as primary water source
- Camera zooms out, showing America, with 50% shaded in

Stat #5: $100 Billion per year
- Camera zooms out further, revealing the whole world
- As I state the "global $100 billion spending on bottled water per year" stat, bottles of water begin to circle the globe rapidly — .5 billion bottles per week / over 5 times around globe, or 260 times per year

Part Transition #1:
- Water bottles continue to circle the globe, thought faster now
- I talk about how "water is all around us, and we spend a ton of money on it too, but a large portion of the world lacks this necessary recourse!"

Part 2: The Global Water Crisis:

Stat #1: 1 Billion lack clean water
- Water bottles (still circling) get erased
- "The world's population is approximately 7 Billion" — people circle the circumference of the globe
- "And yet 1 Billion people lack access to clean water" — one 7th of the globe (a pie slice) shades out in red, blinks, then shatters
- Camera zooms in on 7 individuals on top of the globe, with me being the center figure
- I restate the stat: "So, for every seven people on earth, one of them lacks access to clean water!" — earth cracks next to the left-most person, the land falls away, and the person falls in, disappearing
- "Not only that, but 2.6 Billion people lack access to proper sanitation" — earth cracks again, this time two more people fall in. I'm left behind standing next to the crack looking very insecure

Transition:
- Camera zooms back in on America

Stat #2: The Result — 3.3 Million dead per year
- "The result of this deficit in clean water is the deaths of 3.3 million people every single year due to water-related diseases"
- The proper number of states are shaded in, showing how many people die in relation to our population
- I stand looking at the map as this stat plays

Stat #3: Distance women walk for water
- "Woman in developing countries walk an average of 3.7 miles to get water every day. This is equivalent to 54 football fields"
- A football fall in, which I catch, and start running along a field, then after a second I start to look very tired. After a second or two, I collapse and wipe out with the ball spinning out of my hand
- Camera zooms back out a bit to show the huge magnitude of football fields before me, with the fields disappearing off in the distance at an angle

Stat #4: Every 18 seconds...
- "Approximately every 18 seconds, a child dies due to water related diseases — that's about 4,900 deaths per day and 1.8 million every single year."
- At this point I stand up, and the little digital clock in the bottom right hand corner floats up, grows larger, and takes the prominence in the shot. If we could time it right, it would be great to have it float up just a second or two before the seconds hit "18" and thus bump the death number up one
- I show shock at this number and run for the clock to stop it, but it fades back to the corner
- "This is the equivalent of eleven Boeing 747 airplanes crashing and killing all passengers every day."
- I stand to the side / a plane comes flying in from the other side.
- I dodge it, then another plane from the other side comes in
- I dodge that, then many more planes fly in and the screen goes up in smoke
- Dust settles, I pop my head out of a hole, climb out, and survey the damage — 11 planes sit in a burning heap
- I look obviously dejected

Part Transition #2:
- "I don't know about you, but if this many planes were crashing every day, we would be doing something about it!"
- "We must do something about it"
- I walk to the left with the camera zooming in on me until I'm "normal sized"
- I pass back through the "Animation Portal" and become my human self again

Part 3: Dollar for a Drink:

At this point, Scott and I can pretty much take it from here, but there are several things I need from you:
Sketched renditions of:
- A church and a school
- The full Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr logos (with their proper colors)
- The Dollar for a Drink logo (with proper colors)
A final animation of my hand/arm reaching back through the "Animation Portal" to pick up a glass of water, which I will pull back through the "Portal" and take a drink from

FINISH!!!

THURSDAY
Way to tough it out today in class. I know this project is no easy feat but hopefully it will all look and be something that you will have been proud to be apart of when it gets done. Also...just remember keep pushing through to the end - you are almost there.

Okay so everyone should have given your files to AJ to compile for Thursday. We have stats one through three done complete with transitions. Four / Five and Six stat up to the earth shattering is Matt & Jon. Stat 6 with the transition is Kristen and Shinae. The women walking one is Rob and Christina to shoot. The final stat - number 8 will be shot in class on Thursday long with the final frames, title, closing and logos. We will also do some edits in this timeframe and discuss how the class will close out. Hang in there - almost done!