Storyboard
Aspect ratio: 2.39
Camera lens: 35mm, 30mm, 21mm, 50~25mm
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Location: Indo-Pacific Ocean
Time Period: 18th-19th Century Edo Japan
POV shot of a hunter looking towards a Long Shot of the Crystal deer at the edge of a matte painting cliff in a nighttime scene.
Lens: 35mm
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Audio of the splash. Under the surface of the water, the crystal is falling, falls out of frame
Lens: 30mm
Establishing Shot of the slug -- zoom in on towards the slug
Lens: 30mm
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Deer Quickly turns its head towards the camera (hunters POV)
Lens: 35mm
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Arrow is shot towards the deer camera pushes forward following the arrow, starts fading to white as the glow of the crystal intensifies
Lens: 35mm
Fades to white, audio of the splash.
Lens: 30mm
Establishing Shot of the slug -- zoom in on towards the slug
Lens: 30mm
Medium shot of the sea slug.
Lens: 30mm
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A school of fish swims by and the slug’s little head turns towards the direction the fish went
Lens: 30mm
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Over the shoulder of the sea slug as he heads toward the fish.
Lens: 30mm
The fish getting further and further out of reach as the slug has gotten basically nowhere.
Lens: 30mm
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POV shot of a hunter looking towards a Long Shot of the Crystal deer at the edge of a matte painting cliff in a nighttime scene.
Lens: 30mm
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A little crab scurries by the slug and into a little hole in the rock, sea slug turns to follow.
Lens: 30mm
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Sea slug goes toward the crab.
Lens: 30mm.
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Sea slug goes toward the crab.
Lens: 30mm
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Sea slug turns its head.
Lens: 30mm
Slug goes to where the crab ran into the rock, notices something above the rock.
Lens: 30mm
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Close up of the slug looking up.
Lens: 30mm
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Camera swivel around the mountain.
Lens: 21mm
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We see the top of the mountain/crystal.
Lens: 30mm
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Back to the slug, slug begins its journey and crawls out of frame.
Lens: 30mm
Slug crawling towards the mountain.
Lens: 30mm
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Match cuts/wipes, rocks in the foreground reveal the new environments -- progressively getting less vegetation and more rocky, slug slowly travels on.
Lens: 30mm
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Match cuts/wipes, rocks in the foreground reveal the new environments -- progressively getting less vegetation and more rocky, slug slowly travels on.
Lens: 30mm
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Match cuts/wipes, rocks in the foreground reveal the new environments -- progressively getting less vegetation and more rocky, slug slowly travels on.
Lens: 30mm
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Slug crossing the bridge.
Lens: 30mm
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Slug looks down the chasm. still camera.
Lens: 30mm
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Cut on action to over the shoulder looking down into the chasm -- zolly matte painting.
Lens: 50~25mm
Slug looks back up.
Lens: 30mm
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Continues across the bridge.
Lens: 30mm
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Shot of the slug continuing across the chasm. Dissolves to Act 3.
Lens: 21mm
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Slug goes towards the crystal.
Lens: 30mm
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Slug gets closer to the crystal.
Lens: 30mm
The slug is close, but then the ground shakes.
Lens: 30mm
Crystal falls off the mountain.
Lens: 30mm
Crystal falls off the mountain.
Lens: 30mm
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Crystal falls off the mountain.
Lens: 30mm
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Crystal falls off the mountain.
Lens: 30mm
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Crystal falls off the mountain.
Lens: 30mm
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Slug looks down from the mountain.
Lens: 30mm
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Shot behind the slug, we can see the slug moving forward down the mountain.
Lens: 30mm
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It becomes out of view going behind a rock.
Lens: 30mm
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Back down the mountain, the sea slug is once again close to the crystal.
Lens: 30mm
Close up of touching it.
Lens: 30mm
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Close up of touching it and starts to shine.
Lens: 30mm
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Slug glows.
Lens: 30mm
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Close up of crystal growing.
Lens: 30mm
Close up of crystal growing.
Lens: 30mm
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Sea slug becomes crystal sea slug.
Lens: 30mm
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