Heart of Garkness' Storyboard Test: 24 Sep 2018 by Sam Dransfield

‘Heart of Garkness’
Storyboard Test
24 Sep 2018
By Sam Dransfield
samuel.dransfield@gmail.com
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Open on MAX cat-napping on the sofa THWUMP! The brown box drops into frame Max lazily opens an eye
(slight squash/stretch on landing)
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Max closes his eye, GARK slowly rises into Curious Gark extends an arm (but doesn't
view quite touch)


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BETTY (O.S): Ah ah ah! BETTY: No touching till I get back! BETTY: Be good now


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BETTY: Betty's gotta-- BETTY: --bounce! Gark looks at the box
SFX: DOOR SLAM
Action Notes
Gark watches Betty exit, we hear the DOOR
SLAM O.S.


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Then up to Max GARK: Don't you want to-- GARK: --know what it is, Max?

Gark ZIPS up onto the sofa Gark pulls Max toward the box


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Dialog Dialog
MAX: Gark,-- MAX: --nothing good ever came out of a
box.
Action Notes
Max pulls away


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GARK: What about cat food? GARK: And cat toys? GARK: And cat nip?

Gark pokes Max, disturbing him Gark full-on shakes Max

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MAX: All right all right! MAX: Just stay away from the box!
Action Notes
Max swats Gark away


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GARK: But I'm so curious!
Dialog
MAX: It can only bring badness.
Action Notes
Gark is now by the box, his eyes quite
Action Notes literally all over it. His eyes
Push in on Max as the scene DARKENS (like Apocalypse Now's Colonel Kurtz telling of investigate the box like feelers.
the horrors he's seen)
SFX: <Gross slimy eye sound>


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MAX: Exactly. MAX: Exactly. MAX: Exactly.

Max picks Gark up Gark's eyes stay stuck behind a little as Gark's eyeballs snap off the box (more
Max lifts him. gross slimy sounds)


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MAX: Exactly. MAX: I'm going to tell you something that MAX: --Betty say one time:
I heard--
Action Notes
Max faces away from camera, arms in a
frenzy as he restyles himself.


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MAX: "Curiosity killed the cat."
Action Notes
Max turns around, having styled his fur/face to look like (a somewhat disturbing
version of) Betty.
Small CRASH-IN to emphasise.


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GARK: Whoa. MAX: Yeah. Now,-- MAX: --I have no idea who this Curiosity
fellow is,--
Action Notes
Max shakes the Betty look off his face


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MAX: --but I have exactly MAX: --zero desire to find out. GARK: Don't worry, Max.


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GARK: I've already forgotten. MAX: Good. MAX: Now if you don't mind,
Action Notes
Max flops down on his back


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Dialog Dialog
MAX: I have a-- MAX: --box to ignore.

Reaches for a cushion ...and slaps it over his face.
SFX: SMAK!


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Gark eyes the box again Gark goes jelly-like and flows like
sludge, slinking off the couch
SFX: Slime noises


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Action Notes
CAM ADJ. as Gark slithers over to the side of the table


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Gark rises into view, reforming from the His eyes are the last part to pop out, as
liquid state, filling out his form he re-inflates


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Asymmetry on the eyes popping, first ...then the other Action ends with a jiggle (imagine a
one... balloon full of custard)


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Gark marvels for a moment MAX: GARK!
Action Notes
REVEAL Max standing behind Gark


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Dialog
GARK: (screams)
MAX: (screams)
Action Notes
Startled out of his wits, Gark Momentarily
transforms into a LARGE FREAKISH ALIEN and
HURL the box into the air in fright.
Gark's reaction makes Max leap out of his
skin too


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Action Notes
UPSHOT on the box flipping through the air


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Dialog Dialog
MAX / GARK: (scream) MAX / GARK: (scream)
Action Notes
Antic. for leap


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They both leap desperately for the box ...but they crash head on into one another They bounce apart and land with a bump as
and smoosh together as the box re-enters the box continues to fall
frame


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Action Notes
The box hits the floor - WHAM!


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Max stands and steps forward a little, Max gives the box a shake
bending to pick up the box
SFX: LOTS OF LITTLE PIECES RATTLING AROUND


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MAX: It's broken! MAX: We have to fix it or you know what GARK: G-get rid of you?
Betty will do?


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Dialog Dialog
MAX: Me?! Never. MAX: No, she'd want to buy another of...
of whatever it is,


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MAX: ...set up a factory in the basement
making cat toys.
Dialog
MAX: but to make enough money to do that she'd... she'd...
Action Notes
Max frantic as he reels off his list of
Action Notes
horrors, Gark just looking gormless
Max's imagination starts to spin wildly - SLOW PUSH IN as he starts to fret, horror in
his eyes again. He clutches the box tight, trembling


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MAX: Then she'd tie me to a chair-- MAX: --and make me work thirty-leven hours MAX: --and make me work thirty-leven hours
a day-- a day--

Max drops to his knees Max tugs at his face


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MAX: --and worst of all? MAX: She wouldn't let me play with the MAX (O.S.): Horrible!!
toys I was making! It's horrible Gark!
Action Notes
Max has a full-on, foetal-position
breakdown, rocking back-and-forth


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GARK: Gark will never let you become a Max pauses, stops rocking MAX: I never said brainless--
brainless factory worker!
Action Notes
Gark puffs his chest out.

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