Solar Century Storyboard

Final Idea

The idea is that the sun will project light onto the solar panel which is on the grass-the light will hit the panel and reflect onto various of the appliances that you see in the word energy and there will be a sound effect of that particular appliance that will come on (as if its being turned on from the suns energy. By the end of one minute (which is how long the movie is) all the appliances will be on and working. The line at the end will be

"In one minute more energy is radiated from the sun onto the earth than the whole population uses in a week." "Use it" or "now we can use it"

Energy/work for film

NOTE: on "one minute movie"

I wanted to note that the activities that take place in the one minute movie dont have to be activities that last a minute, it could be things like: it takes 2 hours to wash your clothes in the washing machine (and in brackets how much energy is used), it takes an hour to cook a chicken, it takes 2 minutes to make toast. etc.. i'm thinking maybe this could be more effective. Please send feedback

Solar Century-New Concept 2

Another idea is to make a film where there are situations of people in outdoors scenery and suddenly one gets thrown a toaster another gets thrown a hair dryer-generally there is a game of catch with electric appliances and as they are being thrown there is little facts about the appliance in text form at the bottom of the screen-reading for example,"A hairdryer burns 150kwh every minute" etc... again shown in the "screens" of the solar panel (see below) and at the end the punchline comes up, "In one minute more energy is radiated onto the earth than the whole population of the world uses in one minute." " Catch it" and you're left with the solar panel on your screen and the sun beating down on it.

New Concepts for Solar Century

I've been struggling with these ideas but i think i've narrowed it down to two quite simple ideas, yet easy to get creative with.

One is "one minute movie" this will portray different everyday activities that take one minute to complete and that involve electric appliances:
it takes one minute to boil an egg

it takes one minute to brush your teeth, it takes one minute to microwave popcorn

It takes one minute to startup your computer

it takes one minute to watch an advertisement on tv

it takes one minute to take the tube for one station

it takes one minute to watch this movie

it takes one minute to squeeze 7 oranges

it takes one minute to stop for gas

it takes one minute to pay at the till
etc...possibly including the amount of electricity used for that activity.e.g (100kwh)
the idea is that the movie is one minute long and all these activities are happening inside each of the small "screens" on a solar panel and at the end the camera zooms out and you see the actual Panel and the punchline goes something like this:



"In one minute, the sun radiates more energy onto the earth than the entire population of the world uses in one week."
or
"By the time you have watched this movie the sun will have radiated more energy onto the earth than the entire population of the world uses in a year."

Various thoughts i have had are maybe not writing about things that happen in a minute but our weekly amount of energy use from certain everyday activities: e.g: we brush our teeth 17-21 times per week using 750kwh in total etc...

I am now working on the visuals so please look back soon for them-in the meantime if you could give me some feedback that would be great!

Examples of trailers