Storyboard ready for 1st animatic

Having decided to start the film at the orphanage I have begun with a close up of a Nun with Shelley at the entrance to the room at the orphanage. I didn’t want to start with an establishing shot of the building as I feel it is more important to get straight in to the action. I also wanted to encapsulate Shelley and the other orphans in their own space with no outside interference so it feels more like there is no one in the world to help them when strange things start happening. I feel having them isolated makes it more dramatic.

Scene1

In this scene Shelley enters the room and opens the box containing the doll resulting in a flash back. It shows all the important parts that I mentioned from the first boards. It will be noticeable as a flash back because I will use fades and cross dissolves through out. The scene also introduces the two orphan girls. It ends with Shelley pushing the doll back in the box, chucking it under the bed and curling up to sleep. The box falls open underneath the bed.

Scene 2

In this scene the two orphan girls wake up to sneak a peek at the doll having caught glimpses of it earlier. They open the box to find nothing inside and the doll missing. They go back to bed unsuccessful and find kiss marks on their pillows. Slightly confused, but too tired to care, they turn the pillows over and go back to sleep.

Scene3

Orphan 2 is abruptly awoken by Orphan 1 who is bleeding quite badly. The first few shots are from Orphan 2’s POV. Orphan 1 transforms in to a doll and lies limp on the floor where Shelley picks her up. Shelley notices a kiss mark on the orphan doll’s cheek.

Shelley takes the doll over to Orphan 2 who at first reclines in fear  but catches a glimpse of the mark and points Shelley towards the same mark that was left on the girls’ pillows. Shelley goes over to the former Orphan’s pillow and turns it over. When she sees the mark she hugs the pillow. She is startled by a blood stifled scream and looks over to her left where Orphan 2 is bleeding and transforming in the same way that Orphan 1 did. the doll from the box is visible on her bed. Orphan 2 turns in to a doll and smashes her head open on the floor revealing steaming brains. Shelley looks closely at the doll from the box and  recognises the colour of it’s lips. The same colour as her mother’s lipstick, the same as all the lipstick marks.

Shelley sees her mother in the doll and kisses it. The doll shakes violently and Shelley drops it on the floor where it begins to absorb the pool of blood left by the Orphans. She grows and transforms in to Shelley’s Mother. Shelley hugs her and the end shot shows her Mother’s eyes glazed over like a dolls.