"Guitar Hero" Storyboards & Concepting

Detective Strummington Concept

Lemonade stand character concept

Background Concepting

Scenes one and two Layout Overhead. W/cameras showing each shot's rough pov.

Board #1
Notes: WIDE SHOT of room. CAMERA zooms in on the main character DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON. He reclines at his desk watching the news and smoking an
ANTHROPOMORPHIC CIGAR.

Board #2
Notes: CLOSE UP of DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON. He lifts ANTHROPOMORPHIC CIGAR to his face and lights it, listening to the television.
TELEVISION:
(during STRUMMINGTON’s action)
Just this week a shocking case of serial bitterness in downtown Old Yelk

Board #3
Notes: CLOSE UP of television. A NEWS ANCHOR APPLE is seen speaking through the television.
NEWS ANCHOR APPLE:
(grim tone)
Victims reported random and brutal onslaughts of foul tastes, bad breath, and gagging during routine walks and commutes nea

Board #4
Notes: MEDIUM CLOSE UP of DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON. He slams the ANTHROPOMORPHIC CIGAR down on the desk.
DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON:
Savages! They don’t deserve rights! To the park!

Board #5
Notes: EXT. AN AERIAL VIEW OF A RECTANGULAR GARDEN, SLIGHTLY INFRINGING UPON THE CITY ON ONE SIDE. - EVENING
CAMERA slightly zooms into the frame, thunder crashes in the background. Dramatic music plays, beginning at transition.

Board #6
Notes: WIDE SHOT of DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON. He walks on a sidewalk edging the park. An anthropomorphic fork walks in the opposite direction in front of him. DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON shoots the pedestrian dead before continuing on his way.

Board #7
Notes: LOW ANGLE of DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON stopping under a street light. He begins to put away his firearm when a scream echoes from off the frame, prompting him
to look up in it’s direction.

Board #8
Notes: FULL SHOT of dark alleyway. CAMERA focuses on background as DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON runs into the alley. CAMERA focuses on the foreground, where
we see ANTHRO BANANA lying still against the wall. DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON runs up to them.

Board #9
Notes: OVER-THE-SHOULDER of DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON (Right shoulder), showing ANTHRO BANANA lying against the wall.
ANTHRO BANANA:
(Coughing)(weak)
It’s sour!

Board #10
Notes: OVER-THE-SHOULDER of ANTHRO BANANA (Right shoulder), showing DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON looking down on ANTHRO BANANA.
DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON:
Sour?

Board #11
Notes: ANTHRO BANANA:
Like lemons!

Board #12
Notes: DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON:
Lemons?

Board #13
Notes: ANTHRO BANANA Nods

Board #14
Notes: LOW ANGLE of DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON looking down on ANTHRO BANANA. DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON lifts their arm and shoots ANTHRO BANANA in the face.
Spanish soap opera guitar riff plays.

Board #15
Notes: EXTREME CLOSE-UP of DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON’s eyes.
DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON:
(grim, intense)
I know people who consort with lemons.

Board #16
Notes: WIDE SHOT of a dining room table at the table’s level.
MR LEMONADE STAND:
(warmly) (turning to look at the others individually)
Alrighty, Dig in!

Notes: Before they can do anything, A crashing noise plays, and DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON falls through the ceiling onto the table. Various assorted anthropomorphised
items in SWAT gear crash through the walls behind the family and seize MR LEMONADE STAND.

Board #18
Notes: Dramatic music begins to play. MEDIUM SHOT of a distraught MR LEMONADE STAND reading from a paper labeled “Confession”. Slowly the CAMERA tracks to the left,
revealing DETECTIVE STRUMMINGTON holding his gun to MR LEMONADE STAND’s “head”

Board #19
Notes: CLOSE UP of MR LEMONADE STAND’s flabbergasted face. CAMERA zooms out and gradually reveals (in order) the electric chair MR LEMONADE STAND is being strapped
to (by ELECTRIC GUITAR). Behind viewing window are STRUMMINGTON and A Baton

Board #20
Notes: EXTREME CLOSE-UP of an ELECTRIC GUITAR painted to look like it has a police uniform plugging an aux cable into a strainer strapped on MR LEMONADE STAND’s head.

Board #21
Notes: PREVIOUS ZOOMED SHOT of MR LEMONADE STAND in the electric chair, viewed through the window, as ELECTRIC GUITAR plugs the other end into his amp on MR
LEMONADE STAND’s right and goes back to his left in preparation.

Notes: LOW ANGLE MEDIUM FULL SHOT of ELECTRIC GUITAR in the execution room, as he plays a riff that starts the ending song.