Lo3: Task 5: (C) Written Script

THE TALES OF MIRAYAM

ISSUE 1

19/11/2015

BY SOPHIE BIRKS

RELEASE DATE 6/11/2015

SCENE 1

INT. VAST HALLS OF MIRAYAM’S HOME

WIDE ANGLE WITH MIRAYAM LOCATED TO THE LEFT ESTABLISHING MIRAYAM’S LONELINESS IN HER ENORMOUS HOUSE

CAPTION: MIRAYAM WAS A LONELY LADYBIRD…

SCENE 2

EXT. MID SHOT OF MIRAYAM FLYING WHILE GREETING FELLOW LADYBIRDS

CAPTION: THOUGH SHE NEVER STOPPED SMILING OR TRYING TO BE FRIENDS WITH THE OTHERS HER AGE.

MIRAYAM: HEY GUYS WAIT FOR ME!

LADYBIRD 1: LOOK, IT’S MIRAYAM.

LADYBIRD 2: OH NO, NOT AGAIN.

SCENE 3

EXT. WIDE SHOT OF MIRAYAM AND OTHER LADYBIRDS STANDING APART FROM EACH OTHER

CAPTION: BUT FOR SOME REASON SHE JUST DIDN’T FIT IN.

SCENE 4

EXT. WIDE ANGLE OF MIRAYAM ARRIVING AT SCHOOL AND GREETING ANOTHER YOUNG LADYBIRD

MIRAYAM: GOOD MORNING

LADYBIRD 3: SIGHS WHAT NOW MIRAYAM?

SCENE 5

INT. OVER THE SHOULDER OF THE TEACHER TALKING TO THE STUDENTS CONNOTING THE SCHOOL AREA.

CAPTION: LUCKILY MIRAYAM ALWAYS ENJOYED HER LESSONS…

TEACHER LADYBIRD: NOW TODAY CLASS WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT DIRT.

SFX: WHOLE CLASS SIGHS

SCENE 6

INT. WIDE ANGLE OF MIRAYAMS HOME WITH HER PARENTS THROWING HER A SUPPRISE BIRTHDAY PARTY, JUST THE THREE OF THEM.

CAPTION: …AND SHE LOVED HER PARENTS VERY MUCH

MIRAYAM’S PARENTS: HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY MIRAYAM!

Lo3: Task 5: (B) Planning & Story-Boarding Panels

Lo3: Task 5: (A) Plot

Plot:

• Opens on Mirayam as a young girl, looking lonely and sad because she doesn't have a lot of time to spend with her family and lives in a very big home. (2 panels)
• Mirayam trying to fit in through out her time in school in lessons such as healing and potions, wild foods and survival, yet a lot of fairies her age don't often involve her because of her parents and their authority. (3 panels)
• The celebration of her 17th birthday, and the serious conversation with her parents about finding her a husband and her choosing healing to follow her mums footsteps. (2 panels)
• Mirayam furiously leaves the conversation, goes to her room and packs a bag of her things (blanket, wand, scrunchie, food) (3 panels)
• Mirayam sneaking out of the kingdom and traveling through the eerie forests that surround her lands (2 panels)
• Trolls in the night see her glowing footsteps and follow her through the forest (2 panels) 
• She stubles accross a small inn, tired and cold in the rain she decides to go in and falls into a trap by the robbers who convince her that they can help her and take her to a better land. (3 panels)
• Cuts back to her parents discovering her missing and set out a search party of guards (dwarf elves) to hunt for her, find traces of her footprints but also a second set left by the trolls. (3 panels)
• Mirayam chained in a cage in the troll lands, but being far away from the kingdom has caused her fairy glow to die down and she becomes weak and pale, how will she ever get away? Why did she leave home? (3 panels)

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Lo3: Task 4: Planning a Graphic Novel

 

Lo2: Task 3: Character Movements

This movement was very generic for my narrative and will be used multiple times throughout the story. It is relevant because when she is realing home she will be stand in the woods and look back at the kingdom and connote sadness through expression.

In the opening of my comic when she is in school this movement will be needed.

As Mirayam is a ladybird it is imperative that i show the movement of her flying, i will use this movement alot in my comic because it is a common element that the audience can relate to her as an animal.

By incorporating human elements to her character, i have craeted the movement of her running away from home with her bag over her shoulder, this is for comedy effects and to make the scene look realistic.

In the opening of the comic, Mirayam is confued as to why the other ladybirds don't want to be friends with her, thats why i have created the movement of her shrugging.

Lo2: Task 3: Testing Illustrator

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