BDM125 4 March, Storyboarding. "Give Me the Same Thing... Only Different!"

More from "Save the Cat!" by Blake Snyder.

What is the story most like?  Assigning a genre is important so you know what cliches to avoid, what tropes to mine, what conventions to turn on their head.
What genre, as defined by Mr. Snyder, is my story most like?

Dude with a Problem: ordinary guy fights the baddie to save the day.  The character in the painting sees his graffiti girlfriend being menaced and moves earth and sky to save her.

Graffiti art, Montmartre, Paris.  Photo from author's collection.

Out of the Bottle:  wish fulfillment.  The character in the painting wishes he could get out and have fun for a day with the graffiti character on the wall.

Buddy Love: the hero needs someone to discuss what's happening.  They hate each other, then they love each other.  Paintings from opposite ends of the art spectrum come to an understanding and friendship reigns. 

From a graffiti mural in Copenhagen, Denmark, September 2014.  Photo from author's collection.

Taken at the Louvre Museum, Paris.  From the author's collection.

The Fool Triumphant: the Underdog turns into the Hero.  The character in the littlest, silliest painting in the museum turns into the greatest hero.   

Jean-Simeon Chardin, "Le singe peintre" 1739-40, Louvre Museum, Paris

.  Photo from author's collection.

Logline:  He's been admired for doing nothing but be pretty for hundreds of years until the day he has to get out and do something or lose the person he loves.  Handsome is as Handsome does, and today Handsome has to Do Something Big.  

I took the photo because I really dug his pants.  Louvre, Paris.  Photo from author's collection.

Or Romeo and Juliet: but with paintings.