The Hay Barn

1. The Hay Barn Project 1 Storyboard Eric Ericson

2. Sequence 1 (Establishing Context) • Animation: Blur through Black. • Intro Paragraph: This short story is for those who have or remember a special place. This place tugs their heart and produces emotions upon thinking of it. • Shot description: Group of confident people. Image and text with voiceover throughout. (Transitions TBD throughout) • Audio: (Throughout?) Smooth, relaxing guitar – Brokeback Mountain soundtrack guitar strumming or the like. • happygroup

3. Sequence 2 • Animation: Slide down gap. • Shot Description: Image of old hay barn on a hill. • Narrative: The hay barn sat on top of a large, basically unused old farm barn. It was huge, dangerous, old, and patchy – there were places where the old barn wood floor was bare, others where old hay still laid, seemingly serving no purpose anymore. • pabarn6

4. Sequence 3 • Animation: Shatter in. • Shot Description: Entrance of a hay barn. • Narrative: The entrance was at the top of a curving hill, and had enormous, tall arches where proud sliding doors once hung. Humbled, these old, rickety doors instead laid over the entrance as a makeshift way to poorly patch holes in the entrance floor.

5. Sequence 4 • Animation: Page curl. • Shot Description: Inside of a hay barn. • Narrative: Since the opening was open to the elements, the air inside was basically the same as the weather outside, except for the warm, inviting smell of hay. • Hay_MyLittleBarn2

6. Sequence 5 • Animation: Sweep in. • Shot Description: A hole in a floor. • Narrative: There were a few holes in the floor that gave you a glimpse into the vacant, practically unused barn below. The more time you spent in the hay barn, the better map your memory drew to prevent you from going too near those spots. • Hole_in_Barn_Floor

7. Sequence 6 • Animation: Dissolve. • Shot Description: Preferably a rope hanging from a hay barn ceiling. • Narrative: There was one, huge rope that hung from the pinnacle of the ceiling all the way down and connected to a support beam. • (hay barn rope) thEQGU9P6F

8. Sequence 7 • Animation: Pixelate. • Shot Description: An old wooden ladder or slabs of wood to climb. • Narrative: On the support beams, were makeshift slabs of old wood that served as a ladder at one time, that went all the way up. I never dared to climb much further than 10 feet high. • (hay barn rope) 3040584390_ec7f5ee947_z

9. Sequence 8 • Animation: Key hole. • Shot Description: ratty basketball hoop. • Narrative: One year, my Dad laid down some plywood sheets to suffice as a basketball floor and put up a hoop. • BasketBallHoopBarnScaffCaneCl01

10. Sequence 9 • Animation: Filled V down. • Shot Description: father and son playing ball. • Narrative: I recall playing horse or one-on-one with my Dad a couple times. He was up there in years, he’d lived a hard life: retired sergeant of the Army, full time repairman, preacher, president of the church… • 628x471

11. Sequence 10 • Animation: Wheel. • Shot Description: old man gripping back in pain. • Narrative: His back bothered him so much that whatever game it was, it often ended with him with one hand on his back and his face contorting in pain. Poor guy, just couldn’t catch a break in life. • old_man_with_back_pain

12. Sequence 11 • Animation: Heart. • Shot Description: someone hiding in barn. • Narrative: I went to the hay barn with my sister, Andrea, to hide from my dad once. I can’t remember what we were doing prior to hiding, though I imagine it was some miserable, strenuous work in the garden out in the blazing sun. • 25574246

13. Sequence 12 • Animation: Split verticle. • Shot Description: scary older man. • Narrative: I’m still not quite sure how miserable the job could have been to decide to risk hiding from my Dad. The consequence of getting caught would not be pretty – I don’t recall being caught, and I also don’t recall later, further explanation as to where we had been… • angry_farmer-e1359161881211-274x300

14. Sequence 13 • Animation: Star. • Shot Description: some sort of old passage…in a barn? • Narrative: While Andrea was still around, we would explore the barns many doors and “secret” passages that led up to the hay barn. We pretended to be some characters of an 80’s show I couldn’t recall, that nevertheless had amazing adventures. When you’ve got nothing to do, you make stuff up – which, in my experience, winds up being the best time you’ll ever have. • th7021EHBV

15. Sequence 14 • Animation: Inset top right. • Shot Description: a boy, alone, far from anyone. • Narrative: The time I spent in the hay barn with other people made up maybe 1% of the overall time I spent in there. Most of the time, I experienced this place by myself, alone, with no one even close enough to hear a loud yell. • 87634906_LonelyBoy

16. Sequence 15 • Animation: Slide. • Shot Description: boy talking to himself or something similar. • Narrative: The hay barn was a place that heard many of my thoughts that no one else would ever hear. I was alone most all of my free time, but I talked out loud anyway – to this day I still can’t process things without saying them out loud. The hay barn listened, but never offered guidance. • boy-whisper1-300x207

17. Sequence 16 • Animation: Diagonal box out. • Shot Description: something about secrets. • Narrative: It was simply a place to hold me, loosely, whether I was doing innocent fun things, or secretive bad things. It didn’t judge me, it didn’t care – well it didn’t not care either. I personified it. • tumblr_leg34ePg7B1qajjdco1_500

18. Sequence 17 • Animation: Roll. • Shot Description: a person somehow personifying objects. • Narrative: Why did I find the need to personify things? Along with feelings of concern for inanimate objects, I always felt like I was being watched – not in a creepy way, but in a way as if, someone was interested in me. Maybe even loved me. Did I connect with the hay barn because I needed it? • inanimate-objects-with-googly-eyes-25162-1232728354-15

19. Sequence 18 • Animation: Slide down together. • Shot Description: a boy contemplating things. • Narrative: Did I talk to it because I was alone so much? Being the unexpected last child of four, everyone had pretty well figured out what to do with their life, except for me. So I spent a lot of my time just processing what had happened in school that day, or what I wanted to do with my life. • Screenshot-1432

20. Sequence 19 • Animation: Spin. • Shot Description: a heroic looking man with sword and a wimpy kid watching, or man dreaming. • Narrative: In my 20’s, I had a dream about it, where I envisioned a close friend climbing and conquering it; retrieving a sword, while I stood watching, earning nothing – it really affected me. I wondered if the dream represented how I felt like a failure for not acting on my dreams; for not venturing while others around me did. • th1E0JTOT1

21. Sequence 20 • Animation: Shatter top right. • Shot Description: sunset. • Narrative: There wasn’t one distinguishable event that split my life into two parts or anything. It was just a place that holds the setting of many of my formative thoughts, responses, and dwelling.

22. Sequence 21 • Animation: Zig zag vertical. • Shot Description: dreamy, nostalgic view of a farm. • Narrative: Sometimes, I revisit places from my past that, for some reason or another, hold some significance or feelings of nostalgia. I think I go there in my mind to assure myself that someone was looking out for me when I was young. • Hay Barn Walptangledwing

23. Sequence 22 • Animation: Sweep up. • Shot Description: demolished barn. • Narrative: Now, how do I deal with the hay barn’s destruction? Has my tendency to personify objects subjected me to an unrealistic feeling of loss? • thLOFUSHDH

24. Sequence 23 • Animation: Bars vertical. • Shot Description: cheap, modern shed. • Narrative: In its place stands a modern “multi-purpose” shed. I am unable to feel anything for it. I miss my confidant, my inanimate companion, my holder of secrets, and comforter of youth. • 10x24%20red%20metal%20barn

25. Image References • building-was-the-original-trading-post_w725_h575 http://www.public-domain-image.com/cache/architecture-public-domain-images-pictures/buildings-public-domain-images-pictures/building-was-the-original-trading-post_w725_h575.jpg • Hay_MyLittleBarn2 http://www.naturalhorsetrim.com/Hay_MyLittleBarn2.jpg • play-barn-and-hay-mow http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/68/62/9b/play-barn-and-hay-mow.jpg • pabarn6 http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_150427_21170_1260124_43/http%3B/pubcontent.state.pa.us/publishedcontent/publish/cop_environment/phmc/communities/extranet/history/aghistproj/barntypesalbum/pabarn6.jpg • Hay Barn Walptangledwing http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7LoqDcUTfog/TUKyMW58apI/AAAAAAAAAKM/74r-B2jFu4I/s1600/Hay%2BBarn%2BWalp%2Btangledwing.png

26. Image References, cont’d • Hay Barn Walptangledwing http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7LoqDcUTfog/TUKyMW58apI/AAAAAAAAAKM/74r-B2jFu4I/s1600/Hay%2BBarn%2BWalp%2Btangledwing.png • 87634906_LonelyBoy http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/attach/c/5/87/634/87634906_LonelyBoy.jpg • martlone http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm128/tarantadooo/martlone.jpg • Hole_in_Barn_Floor http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120505022560/creepypasta/images/3/37/Hole_in_Barn_Floor.png • (hay barn rope) thEQGU9P6F http://ts4.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608041208824792162&pid=1.7

27. Image References, cont’d • (hay barn rope) 3040584390_ec7f5ee947_z http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3147/3040584390_ec7f5ee947_z.jpg?zz=1 • BasketBallHoopBarnScaffCaneCl01 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_CVanQfF-7vM/TQK7ITGwXeI/AAAAAAAADZM/kpb03xDOevg/s1600/BasketBallHoopBarnScaffCaneCl01.jpg • old_man_with_back_pain http://www.chiromt.com/sites/10087/images/series/old_man_with_back_pain.png • (Basketball with dad) 628x471 http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/06/15/31/1627768/5/628x471.jpg • (hiding in hay barn) 25574246 http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/25574246.jpg

28. Image References, cont’d • 25574246 http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/25574246.jpg • angry_farmer-e1359161881211-274x300 http://fauquierfreecitizen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/angry_farmer-e1359161881211-274x300.png • th7021EHBV http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Bran_castel_secret_passage.jpg • Screenshot-1432 http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PJo9gwylqAk/T6R4tQMff-I/AAAAAAAAGXo/URJ2JroC9uE/s640/Screenshot-1432.jpg • boy-whisper1-300x207 http://mommasaid.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/boy-whisper1-300x207.jpg • tumblr_leg34ePg7B1qajjdco1_500 http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leg34ePg7B1qajjdco1_500.jpg • inanimate-objects-with-googly-eyes-25162-1232728354-15 http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2009/1/23/11/inanimate-objects-with-googly-eyes-25162-1232728354-15.jpg

29. Image References, cont’d • inanimate-objects-with-googly-eyes-25162-1232728354-15 http://s2.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2009/1/23/11/inanimate-objects-with-googly-eyes-25162-1232728354-15.jpg • happygroup http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VgnOKAvRQm8/T88X5wy4hEI/AAAAAAAAA6w/TD-4rEGFbEc/s1600/happygroup.jpg • 10x24%20red%20metal%20barn http://static.squarespace.com/static/50608ff584ae5d0753413425/t/50d362abe4b0a595cad71fd8/1356030636752/10x24%20red%20metal%20barn.jpg • thLOFUSHDH http://ts2.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608041015548774563&pid=1.7 • th1E0JTOT1 http://images.sodahead.com/profiles/0/0/2/1/8/0/2/1/7/man-dreaming-63717307618.jpeg#man%20dreaming

30. Audio Reference • "Peace of Mind" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/