LAUAN504 Study Task 3 - Documentary - Basic layout and storyboard

Basic story layout:



Captain Moonlite
Opens on tense shootout between Moonlite’s gang and the police at Wantabadgery station. Near miss! Nesbitt is almost shot. Freeze frame as camera focuses on Moonlite.

Transition to scene of bank robbery. Scott wearing a mask and cloak, writing a statement admitting his guilt and getting the teller to sign it to clear his own name. Origin of the name “Captain Moonlite”.

Transition back into shootout, they escape the rangers and move to a new area.

Transition to previous prison scene 4 years prior, when Captain Moonlite (Andrew George Scott) and James Nesbitt first met and became lovers.
Scott was in and out of jail for years, escaped, recaptured, but he met James Nesbitt in prison and developed a loving, devoted relationship with him. 

Moonlite’s letters in prison to Nesbitt scene.

Released, toured together around the country committing small crimes and delivering lectures on prison reform, which brings Moonlite back to the original scene.

Another shootout scene, the bushrangers gang are fighting the law.

James Nesbitt gets shot in the head (mild gore), reduced pacing as, Moonlite greaves over his dead lover. Then surrenders to the law and is charged before execution.

(Epilogue - Moonlite’s famous quote and information about how he finally go buried next to Nesbitt in 1995).

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Entire plot storyboarded

This will be cut and simplified because it is too long and a lot of unnecessary back story can be reduced for the animatic.

(Chris' storyboarding rough sketching ideas below, 11 storyboard pages)