Storyboard for Tender Foot

I met with Bill today on zoom. We bounced around ideas for a one minute screenplay to submit for the 16mm group project.  We settled on two themes;  humanity on the verge of climate crisis or a man trying to shift away from toxic masculinity.

Heavy subjects.  My charge this afternoon was to do a story board for our meeting tomorrow while he works on a poem.  I hit a wall with the images so I called Gabe  (my son) to see if he has any thoughts about the project so and he suggested a book, “The Fall” by Camus.   It is about a guy who is working through deep-seated guilt stemming from his inaction while witnessing a woman drown without attempting to save her.  The screenplay could be a retelling of “The Fall” and in place of the woman there is the climate crisis or toxic masculinity.  The  main character is unable/ unwilling to take action.

I texted Bill this evening and shared Gabes ideas. The storyboard and write-up is my take on where we might go with this screenplay.  Bill is putting together some good internal dialogue of the main character that will act as a voice over.

Page 1

burnt mountains

burnt tree

creekside, water flowing

person walking barefoot beside creek

person in pain, carefully stepping

garbage floating down stream

close up of garbage floating down stream

person sees garbage and walks to retrieve it out of the water

Page 2

close up of foot stepping on stones

burnt mountains

burnt trees

close up of feet on stones, not wanting to take a step, trying to find an easy less painful route

garbage in creek snags on some rocks and is bobbing

person stands frozen looking at garbage that is in background

close up of trash

close up of still feet

he sits down with back to trash, rubbing his feet

Page 3

he picks up a stones and makes a pile

close up of hand picking up a stone

point of view holding a stone

he digs a hole

close up of putting stones in hole