Morpheus Faces!

ANGRY

GROSSED OUT

HAPPY

SAD

THOSE BLOODY SOCIALISTS

Okay, the final animatic! I've simplified it AGAIN between storyboard and animatic, but it's still a big improvement over the first one. It's okay I can do that, I'm the only person working on it.
And I used too many frames but oh whatever.

Cut it down from 14 to actually 11 seconds and that cut out the last few gasps. Thinking about adding a little shudder or a little shake of the head at that last little "oh", which I didn't really notice before because of all the noise that comes straight after.

Storyboard

I'm just going to have to go with this one, now!
Socialism is a serious, terrible thing. It could affect anyone. Be wary.

First Drafts AKA The Stupid Stuff I Dumped!

First Script!

A half-figure shot from the front of a middle-aged, well dressed man, reclined in a chair and looking very serious. He strokes his chin with the back of his fingers, clearly upset, and looks off to the side.

“She had friends who were…”

He takes a deep breath and covers his eyes with his hand.

“... socialists.”

Cut to full scene shot of him and his three very stylish friends seated around a small table on a balcony facing the ocean circa 1950, one woman drinking a martini, and two men smoking cigars. All gasp in amazement and horror. One of the men takes his cigar from his mouth to say in disbelief,

“My God.”

His impressive moustache bobs as he speaks.

Which I ditched, because I can't have all those details in there anyway, I just don't have time to model all that stuff.

So, I peeled away pretty much everything and came up with this extremely simple animatic of a man, clearly broken, lamenting socialism. And as much as I'd like to just animate his expressions and nothing else, I need something more in there. It's TOO simple, the camera is too static, and I do want a few props in there to add some flavour. Animatic number 2 never made it, I deleted it in a fit of rage. It included far too many dramatic camera sweeps and close-ups. So third time's the charm, I suppose!