In the book “Hero With A Thousand Faces”, Joseph Campbell put forth the concept that every story in the history of man has been the same basic tale. Or at least follows the same formula.

For our first solo storyboard, we asked to create a storyboard for the third stage of Joseph Campbell’s omni-tale.

  • The hero denies the call to adventure.

Below is a quick attempt at this task, that took half the time we were given in during class.

What this storyboard hopefully shows it a guy playing video when the phone rings. This breaks his concentration and causes him to lose his game. He totally ignores the phone itself and goes to the kitchen to get a drink. By the time he gets to the kitchen the phone has stopped ringing, but starts again while he has he head in the fridge. He continues to ignore the caller and goes back to his game, but before he starts playing someone, possibly the person calling on the phone, throws a rock through the window with a message attached.

Because I had more time to finish the storyboard, I decided to redraw some of the more important frames in greater detail. I redrew the following three scenes before running out of time.

The next scene I would have redrew is the shot from within the fridge.