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"Cannon Vocab: Steampunk Storyboard"

This document provides an outline for a graphic novel story. It includes: 1) Character names and roles of the artists in creating the story. 2) An overview of the setting which involves oppression of elves, differing ideologies around crystals, and how crystals are made. 3) A description of the main scenes: breaking in, a meeting and face-off between the main characters, exposition, a fight, and the police being alerted. 4) A detailed storyboard outlining the meeting, fight, and police being alerted scenes through panels and dialogue.

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"Cannon Vocab: Steampunk Storyboard"

This document provides an outline for a graphic novel story. It includes: 1) Character names and roles of the artists in creating the story. 2) An overview of the setting which involves oppression of elves, differing ideologies around crystals, and how crystals are made. 3) A description of the main scenes: breaking in, a meeting and face-off between the main characters, exposition, a fight, and the police being alerted. 4) A detailed storyboard outlining the meeting, fight, and police being alerted scenes through panels and dialogue.

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CANNON VOCAB:

- Christal names: “Navitas”


- Dude: “Nate” — Nathaniel
- Girlie: “Helen”

ARTISTS ROLES:
(All artists color their respective elements)
- Jinhee, Valentina & Angel: the girl
- Junior & Ana: the guy
- Saejin, Dennis & Kevin: background
- Angel: Lighting and effects
- Erin: Miscellaneous

*Breaking: might return the souls of the dead


*Steampunk!!
*Three colors: pure tech (blue), pure magic (elven) (red) & tech powered by magic (purple)
*Dude weapons: mechanical axe
*Girl weapon: glowstick—can be whip, rope, or sword

rgA: Orion
rgB: Pheonix

Information we need to share:


- Oppression of the elves
- Different ideologies
- How crystals are made
- Panels of explanation
- Explained through dialogue, then final panels with the dude taken away
- How much they are wanted
- Police force

Four Main Scenes:


1. Breaking in
a. Architecture world-building: signs of opression/conflict
b. Introduce the two bands (posters, graffiti, etc)
c. Missing posters
2. Meeting (face-off)
3. Riling up (exposition)
4. Fight
5. Police are alerted
Storyboard:

Split panel: front view! We see their faces!


Girl climbs in the vent
Dude crosses opens/passes through the door

1. Meeting (face-off)

Dude rounds into a corner, looks around (checking to see if there are guards)
Presses a button on his watch, hologram! (pure tech color) arrow, walls on the side
(hallway) 3 panels.

Dude walks down hallways, following le tech arrow. As he progresses, the tubes get
bigger, and start glowing (tech w/ magic color) 4-5 panels.
- Walks into a room (where all the tubes are pointing to, and has light emanating
from it) sees giant cristal shining in the middle.
- Then sees a figure trying (unscrew….?) the cristal, or disconnecting the
tubes—the girl!

2. Riling up (exposition)

INFORMATION:
- Tension between characters (witty)
- Dude is smarter, girl is stronger
- Oppression of the elves
- Different ideologies
- How crystals are made
- Panels of explanation
- Explained through dialogue, then final panels with the dude taken away

(Framing, the girl is in on the cristal thing, higher up. Position of power. She’s grimy from
the vents)
Over the shoulder shot, girl lit up by the christal. 1 panel
Smiles cockily, doesn’t look up. 2-3 panels (Close-up)
Girl keeps working. “You’re running late, nerd.” 1-2 panels (Close-up)
Girl stops working and looks up. 3-4 panels (Close-up)
- “I expected you to be here a while ago.”
Dude surprised face panel. 1 panel
Turns annoyed. 1-2 panels
- “You knew I would be here.” Clenches fists. 1 panel (Full body shot)
Girl takes off the goggles, rolls her eyes. 2 panels (Close-up)
- “Of course I did. Your little group, the rgA wasn’t exactly quiet about it.” 2-3
panels (Close-up)
Dude starts talking, but panels stays on the girl. She starts climbing down from the cristal
(Close-up, full body)
- “You spied on us?? Take it from [rgB], you don’t have any sense of integrity, or
morality—” (2-3 panels)
- Girl reaches the ground. “Shut up, bro. Damn, you [rgA]ers can keep talking till
you die, huh?” (2 panels)
Girl reaches over to keep unscrewing from a lower angle. 2 panels
Dude: “Don’t touch that!” 1 panel
Girl: Kicks him in the stomach, goes flying off. 2-3 panels

- “What, so you and your punks outside can destroy it?” *As the dude it flying from
her kick* 1 panel

(FULL PHONE PANEL) Her silhouette and him crumpled on the floor.

Dude slowly gets up, “It’s damn better than exploiting the sacrifices of our people for
power. No one should use our—” (2-3 panels) Bottom angle shot, girl isn’t seen
Girl [groans] “Oh, get off your high horse!” (His vision, so only half of her is seen) 1-2
panels

48 Panels

3. Fight
“Oh get off your high horse!”
She draws weapon, same panel style as the first one (front shot) - 1 panel

Close face shot of her biting into her left hand (wounding herself, bleed) - 1 panel
- Slightly further face shot of her taking her hand out of her mouth, wounded
(visible blood) - 1 panel
- Close shot on her hand, blood flowing into the wand - 1 panel
- Close shot on her hand, backshot more blood on the wand (wand glows); dude is
present in the panel blurred - 1 panel
- Repeat the panel, focus on the dude / blur the hand

(smaller panel) Close up on dude. “Hang on, you’re that half-breed [insult]!”
- Dude draws his weapon (2 panels) [one reaching, one drawing] “I’ve heard about
you”
- The axe opens up. Close up (square) (2 panels) “So this is where a reject ends
up…”
- Rectangle panel (waist up) dude holding the revealed axe (steam!
Coming out of it) “In a degenerate camp like rgB!”
Girl (close up) forced smile (pretending to be fine) “You have some nerve!”
- Pulls back her arm (close up face), then extends it (further away) (2 panels) The
wand is extending into a whip
- The whip cuts through the camera. Top is the girl, bottom is the guy’s face
(shocked)
- Dude attempts dodging to the side (1 panel) [midair section]
- Small panel: whip wraps around the axe
- Small panel, dude shocked looks at the axe
- Bigger panel, side shot of the dude and the axe wrapped (1 panel)
- [Side view of both] Girl tosses the axe [axe flies near the camera, racked focus]
(1 panel)
- Small, LONG panel, axe cracks the tank
- Dude rolls to the side (landing)
- One panel stand-still (on knees). Crouching, processing. Angry [shit]. (1
panel)

Girl retracts her whip. Crazy smile. [front shot] (1 panel) “What, cat got your tongue?”
Guy’s head is down, looking up. (I’m fucked expression)
- Diagram panel, showing her range
- “The range of her whip is limited, I’ll have the best chance of dodging her
strikes from this distance”
- “I’ll have to get her to hit her whip on the tube on the wall where it will get
stuck, then I’ll make a run for her”
- Diagram showing his path

Guy starts running (main action)


- Panel 1 - running (full body view)
- Panel 2 - him jumping over a whip strike (whip breaks boxes under him) (low
shot)
- Panel 3 - Front shot of the dude running, eyes looking behind with him facing
forward [angry]
-

Guy reaches the wall - stops (one panel)


Ducks whip (one panel)
- Whip gets tangles in a tube
- Close up on dude’s eyes. “Bingo”
Dude sprints onto the wall (1-2 panels)
- Parallel running
Split panel: dude looking determined, girl is angry [more]

Dude jumps from the wall (1 panel)


Punches her in the face (landing) (one punch man panel)
He lands, she stumbles back (1 panel, backshot of the dude)
- She tries to punch, he dodges and sweeps her (2 panels)
She falls into the tank, the glass breaks through her stomach (2 panels)
Close up on dude [small pupils eyes wide open], “Holy shit (uneasy)”

Dude falls on his knees


Alarms start blaring (both into 1 panel)

4. Police are alerted

Two guards rush in.


Dude stares at them in terror
“What the- how did a filthy elf get in here!?”
“I—I…”
“Look, he’s still in good condition -kicks him in the face- yeah, good enough” -g1
“Pesky pieces of shit” -g2
Drag him out, their silhouette frames the dead girl in the background.

Panel of just the girl.


“Careful, don’t spill any of its blood, we’ll need every drop.” -g2
“Just a couple more misbehavin’ pests and we’ll have enough to power another city” -g1
“Wha- NO, STOP”

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