Exploratory Practice-Storyboard

In the initial storyboard, the part where the two characters argued and caused the dandelions to wither was the cause of their disappearance. The reason for their disappearance was that the human character was jealous of the frog’s flowers being larger and better than his own, so he went and argued with the frog and trampled on the frog’s flowers. The actions of the argument and trampling on the frog’s flowers led to their disappearance. I made the protagonist’s hand and the trampled flower appear simultaneously to illustrate this phenomenon of disappearance.

However, in the feedback from the first presentation, both the students and the teachers pointed out that the reason for the humans’ jealousy of the frog was not clearly expressed, and the reasons for the disappearance of the humans, the frog, and the dandelions together were also unclear.

During the tutorial and communication with Hannah, she mentioned that the characters needed to make some changes, they needed a character arc, and it should not just be the ending where the humans, the frog, and the dandelions disappeared together.

In the second version of the storyboard, to highlight the reason for the jealousy of the human characters, I made the flowers of the human characters only have buds and their stems were bent, and attracted flies. While the flowers of the frog were already in full bloom and there were butterflies around. This contrast triggered the jealousy of the human characters. And the frog ate the flies around the flowers of the frog, which made the human characters feel that the frog was cheating. So the human characters angrily walked towards the frog and crushed its flowers.

In the part where the human characters walked towards the frog, I adopted the POV perspective. I think this would give a stronger sense of oppression. At the end, I changed it to the human characters first wanting to try to lift the crushed flowers of the frog, and then showing the withered dandelions.


In my second presentation, the feedback I received was that now there is a lot of emotional expression in human characters, but the emotions of the frogs are not. This seems like a human-centric show. Also, the relationship between humans and plants is still not clear enough.

This is the final storyboard. At the very beginning, I added a scene where humans and frogs looked at each other to show their initial harmonious relationship. After the humans approached the frog, the camera switched to the human’s POV perspective. The human reached out to pull the flower on the frog’s head. This perspective can display the frog’s facial expression and the frog’s attempt to stop. When the human pulled the flower on the frog’s head, the hands of both the human and the frog gradually became transparent. The human realized this and stopped the action, looking at the flowers in the frog’s garden. And the flowers on the frog’s head and the flowers in the frog’s garden both withered. This might show their connection.