BDM125 Storyboarding: Final Draft

revised 26 March, 2015

Glen, Ryan, Madilyn and Megan from class read over my second draft and suggested some revisions.  Mainly, clarifying what and who are involved when the words "painting", "painter", or "pictures" are used.  

MONKEY SAVES THE DAYPAINT!

by Traci Meek

EXT. PARK SQUARE-EVENING

A small, European park square.  An old brick building covered in graffiti and an art museum covered in windows face each other across the grass.

A TEENAGER works tirelessly with a bag of spray paints to create a mural of a GRAFFITI GIRL holding a canvas and paints on the side of the brick building. 

THE FOLLOWING MORNING

The square comes to life, people are passing by in a hurry, and children are playing in the park. 

Smoke billows out of a small café.  As the local fire department tends the fire, a crowd of latte drinker’s watch on. 

The TEENAGER puts the final touch on his mural of GRAFFITI GIRL and a wealthy museum patron, MADAME LE SNOB, shoos him off. 

GRAFFITI GIRL opens her eyes, looks around and excitedly begins to paint her canvas with what she sees going on around her.

INT. MUSEUM HALLWAY-MORNING

A row of large imposing famous paintings adorn the main gallery.  They stir to life.

A MILITARY HERO polishes the buttons of his coat with his horse’s tail and a TRIO OF LADIES warm up energetically. 

At the end, a small picture sits off to the side, small and forgotten.

ARTIST MONKEY sits in his painting working on a canvas of his own.  With his tail, he swipes a banana from a painted bowl of fruit and paints a moustache and eyes on the horse’s butt; he’s bored. 

EXT. PARK SQUARE- MORNING

GRAFFITI GIRL sees the paintings through the museum windows and waves at them.  They are polite, but too busy posing for the patrons of the museum. 

She makes eye contact with ARTIST MONKEY. 

SERIES OF SHOTS:  GRAFFITI GIRL and ARTIST MONKEY show their paintings and make silly cartoons of MILITARY HERO, TRIO OF LADIES and the patrons of the café.

The ARTIST MONKEY beams and feels a swell of creativity that he hasn’t felt in a long time.

INT. MUSEUM FOYER-AFTERNOON

MADAME LE SNOB marches up to the MUSEUM DIRECTOR.  She gestures through the windows at GRAFFITI GIRL outside.

MADAME LE SNOB

                   UGH!!

    

                   MUSEUM DIRECTOR

                   Ehhhh?

He shrugs apologetically.            

She opens her purse and throws money at him.

MUSEUM DIRECTOR smiles and gestures for the PAINTER to leave the wall he is painting and to follow him. 

EXT. PARK SQUARE-AFTERNOON

The PAINTER begins to whitewash the building with a very small brush.  MADAME LE SNOB taps her foot impatiently. 

GRAFFITI GIRL and ARTIST MONKEY laugh.  GRAFFITI GIRL uses her paints to undo PAINTER’s work. 

MADAME LE SNOB

Faster!

PAINTER reluctantly brings out a roller and brush.  The paint begins to cover GRAFFITI GIRL’s legs and she waves her arms to signal for help.

INT. MUSEUM, CLASSICAL HALLWAY-AFTERNOON.

MILITARY HERO sees her! But, the public is here to take his picture and he can’t do anything right now.  The TRIO OF LADIES shrug apologetically.  ARTIST MONKEY can’t believe it; they’re letting her disappear!  He pulls himself up straight and energetically swings out of his frame.

SERIES OF SHOTS:

ARTIST MONKEY flings himself from painting to painting, changing to fit the style of the paintings he’s traveling across. 

He stops in the foyer.  The exit is ahead of him but there is no more paint for him to use as a stepping stone to the outside.  ARTIST MONKEY looks worried; can he do it?  Can he really go OUTSIDE?

ARTIST MONKEY sees a patron wearing a colourful graphic t-shirt.  He leaps “into” the shirt and rides the patron out the doors.

EXT. PARK SQUARE-AFTERNOON

MADAME LE SNOB has had enough of this and brings out a super spray gun powered by a generator.  She directs the spray gun at the wall and squeezes the trigger with determination.  

The spray of white paint comes out thick and fast.  GRAFFITI GIRL is now literally up to her neck in paint.

CAFÉ SIDE OF SQUARE

ARTIST MONKEY leaps off the shirt to a truck to a window to the yellow painted curb, just across from the park square and GRAFFITI GIRL.

ARTIST MONKEY is stuck! He doesn’t have his brushes and paint.   A LITTLE GIRL sits at the café colouring in her book. 

They lock eyes and she holds up a fistful of crayons for his inspection. 

He grabs a crayon with each paw, and his tail, and busily colours himself across the street.

BRICK BUILDING SIDE OF SQUARE

GRAFFITI GIRL’S last eye has just been covered with paint.  ARTIST MONKEY has worn the crayons down to nothing and can go no further.  He slumps in defeat. 

He re-opens his eyes and sees the hydrant.  He remembers the fire fighters using it that morning.  He grabs the plug and sets off a torrent of water. 

MADAME LE SNOB is blown away, then the PAINTER.  The water washes off most of the paint, freeing GRAFFITI GIRL.  ARTIST MONKEY raises his arms in victory! 

MILITARY HERO and TRIO OF LADIES cheer as GRAFFITI GIRL smiles down at him.  MADAME LE SNOB, drenched in water and white paint, shakes her fist at the wall and the PAINTER.  ARTIST MONKEY and GRAFFITI GIRL lock eyes: is it over?

EXT. PARK SQUARE- THE NEXT MORNING   

PAINTER and MADAME LE SNOB return to find a crowd gathered in front of the mural and more people coming from inside the museum.  A big gold frame encloses GRAFFITI GIRL and a bunch of brass plates adorn the bottom of the frame.  The TEENAGER poses for pictures in front of the mural and GRAFFITI GIRL and ARTIST MONKEY beam down on the crowd.