Rough Draft and 5 Thumbnails

For Storyboard and Character Development the assignment was to write a 1-2 page proposal of the story I want to tell a little bit more developed followed by 5 thumbnails of scene of the story.

Proposal for Story

“The Journey”

Rick wakes up in the morning and with lazy eyes looks at his alarm clock. His eyes widened when he realizes that he’s going to be late for school. He sits on his bed, looks at the pile of clothes lying in one corner of his room and randomly picks out a black t-shirt and some baggy pants. Rick quickly gets dressed and not bothering to brush his teeth he grabs his book bag and heads for the front door.

Rick is a typical lazy teen who procrastinates about everything and in fact comes very close to being late for class almost all the time. He looks at his wristwatch and realizes he has about close to ten minutes to catch his usual bus. If he fails to catch this particular bus he will be late for sure. It’s close to about a ten minute walk to the bus stop Rick looks behind the front door before heading out and grabs his skateboard to get him to the bus stop faster.

The morning is cloudy. Looks like it might rain. It’s the types of mornings that Rick prefers to stay in and sleep in. morning traffic fills the street and cars honking horns randomly.

Rick begins his journey skating towards his bus stop. He’s racing through the sidewalks and swerves around people. As he approaches a particular house known for having a mean pet dog Rick remembers this and cautiously attempts to pass through quick and quiet. But his plan didn’t work as the mean dog jumps from out of the bushes, and barks and runs towards Rick. Rick is just trying to get away from the dog. To Rick it seemed like the chase was on for several blocks. The dog finally tires of chasing after Rick and slows down until finally he just turns around and walks back home. Rick regains knowledge of his whereabouts and notices he’s kind of far from his bus stop. He notices some kids sitting on the on the stairs of the front yard of the house across the street from where he was. These kids had a mean look in their faces like they instantly took a dislike to Rick. They also looked a little older than Rick. One of the kids gets up from the steps and yells out at Rick, “Hey kid, nice skateboard. Can I have it?” The kids then begin chasing Rick. Rick backtracks the route in which he came from. He approaches the house with the mean dog and sees no dog. The kids are catching up to Rick due to Rick getting tired. The mean dog pops up again but this time he goes after the kids. The kids scatter the opposite direction from Rick and Rick is relieved. But upon looking at his watch again he realizes he has minutes to make it to the bus.    

He approaches the stop and sees the bus stopping. Rick tries to speed up some more. People get on the bus. Just as the bus is about to close its doors Rick makes it right in the nick of time and gets into his bus. He’s barely going to make it on time to class.

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