Texting and Driving.
Treatment: Protagonist gets into the car and is receiving texts. He answers them, but puts his phone down so that he can begin driving. Once on the road safely, the protagonist drives well and is not distracted by his phone until he gets to a red light. At the red light, he replies to some text messages and puts the phone back. As he continues to drive, the pinging from the phone distracts him and he cannot resist picking up his phone again. Because of the lack on concentration on the road from his phone, the protagonist misses a red light, and instead continues to drive forward. There is oncoming traffic, a collision occurs and there is a cut to black while the sound continues.
When refining my storyboard, I thought about composition a lot as I know that I consistently animate straight ahead without any depth of dimension to camera angles. I really tried to incorporate many new ones into this animation but without being too drastic. I wanted a lot of POV shots from inside the car, as well as from the side of the road so that the audience can see the context of the animation and foreshadow what is about to happen. I thought about colour a lot too, as this is something I love doing, so wanted some warm colours (like yellow and orange) contrasted against some colder more solemn colours (blue and grey) to reflect the life of the characters and the downcast consequence of the animation. I want the audience to feel what is about to happen before it actually does.
And this is the storyboard refined with text.
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