Storyboard (CM)

Images will be shot at night and naturally lit with dim moonlight/streetlights and surrounding glow/light pollution for more realistic images. This lighting set-up will give a natural moody glow and shadows to the images. 

Here will be a few introductory images of the baby mannequin (BM) slumped in an alley on its own. Shot lower to the ground to gain its perspective, so the audience may sympathise with the character and we see the story from a closer point of view to the character at hand. A wider shot will be included for context of placement.

Straight off we follow BM along its daily struggles being alone, ignored and lost. Here included may be a frontal shot of BM waiting at a bus stop. A bluntly framed shot, so we are forced to see the awkward/lonely situation BM in placed in; more so specifically here, obviously small and alone yet being ignored by the adult bystander. 

Here a sequence of images will be placed, the camera unmoving (placed on a tripod). A slightly longer shutterspeed will be used to capture passers-by in multiple images, blurring their figure to signify time going by. These sequences may best be put together with blunt jump cuts, as so the background stays the same yet the figures cut in and out of frame. Likely best cut to a beat/rhythm for emphasis to the cut.

Another ambient image of BM, this time hungry and longing for food.

Here a small sequence of images will take place, again the tripod static in place. The viewer (alongside BM) is now introduced to a secondary character, a smaller doll (SD) sitting along in an alley. First we see BM passing by on its own, next we see its intrigue in the doll. 

Finally we see two holding hands and walking off to the distance together.

Shots of the pair walking along, lonely but together, will be placed in sequence, until we see the pair walking and a larger mannequin (LM) is sitting in the distance. Small depth of field shall be used, so most of our focus is still on the smaller pair, but we are given a small background clue as to what the next shot may be.

We now get a closer view of LM and BM stops, intrigued. 

BM approaches LM for attention in the background (in focus), whilst SD is left at the front of frame but out of focus, so the initial attention is pushed towards the two mannequins finding each other.

Another shot will be taken, with the tripod static, but this next shot will have SD in focus, so our sympathies move to it instead.

A shot will be taken of the two mannequins walking into the distance together, holding hands.

The cliffhanger shot - we are taken back to the very beginning, in the same alleyway we once saw BM in, yet this time the small doll sits in its place, to replay the story all over again.