Max Forward – Digital Storyboards

Max Forward is a professional freelance storyboard artist living in Los Angeles

“Daddy, where does the internet come from?”

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So, a while ago, I worked with a company that will remain nameless, to produce boards for a competitive pitch for a commercial for a cable company that shall remain nameless. ย Why all the namelessness? ย Well, in the end, we lost the pitch to a company that shall remain nameless. ย So all the hard work we did went down the drain… except, they’ve permitted me to use the boards for samples, and I’m proud of the work I did, so here we go!

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The story here is, a father is tucking his son in at night, and the son asks, as sons often do, “Daddy, where does the internet come from?” From there, we follow the father’s narrative: ย The internet is made of tiny intelligent nanobot creatures that carry bits of data through a series of transport tubes and deposit them into our various electronic devices.

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The father’s narrative was conceived as one long continuous following tracking shot that tags along with our hero nanobot along his helpful journey- we see him greet us, and carry his cargo through the vast halls and tunnels that run through his mighty universe of information depots (itunes, netflix) and interactive devices (tablets, smartphones). ย We also see a brief glimpse of the “competition,” DSL, represented in this spot as an exhibit in the Museum of Obsolete Technology. ย Catching up with our hero, he makes his way to the final destination- and deposits the infocube- and we are teleported back to the original bedroom setting, where the Dad bids his son good night, and turns off the light.

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As you look through the boards (there are 48 frames in this sequence), I hope you will notice the real depth and richness of space that I’ve tried to create in this camera move. ย Whether the client did, I’ll never know…

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Thanks for watching.

BTW, for the next month or so, I’ve schedule weekly monday morning storyboard updates to help distract you from work. ย My intent is to make the blog a little more regular in the weekly postings. ย Lets see how it goes!

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