Storyboard: Example

"I'm Nervous."

Rolling Breaths for Kids.
Starring Max the Steam Roller
3-5 minute animation
integrated captions for hearing impaired
Visual Narrative writing for visually impaired

Learning Goals:

Recognizing emotion: nervousness
Recognizing a method to move past having self-defeating thoughts
Coping Skill: repeated rolling deep breathing
Recognizing readiness to move forward after calmness is created

About the storyboard:

Panels are in numerical order
Arrows describes action
Animation Descriptions for more action not seen in panel
Behavioral Cognitive description for learning goals.

Animation Description: Intro Image to be used as the landing screen for animation. (Child and parent can select this from a set of other emotions such as sadness and anger.)

Animation Description: Max leans backward Max’s warning light is rotating.

Cognitive Behavioral Description: Empathy moment for child: Max is afraid of the pile of cement.

Animation Description: Max leans backward Max’s warning light is rotating. Lips are quivering

Animation Description: Cement gleams in light. Max’s warning light is rotating. Lips are quivering.

Cognitive Behavioral Description: Max is having self-defeating thoughts.

Animation Description: Max’s warning light slows.

Truck says My warning light is on I'm so nervous

Animation Description: Max’s warning light speeds rotation.

Truck says I need a safe space to breathe

Animation Description: Max looks backward.

Truck says I can stope rollback away from the cement and breathe

Animation Description: Zoom out to establishing shot of the world revealing more safe space to breathe. Warning Light blinks.

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max models getting ready to breathe.

Animation Description: Max rolls back. Beeping noises.

Animation Description: Max is excited but calm.

Animation Description: Breath shapes move towards Max.

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max models holding breath for 1 count. Quiet voice.

Animation Description: Max opens their eyes. Quiet voice.

Animation Description: Max leans back as breath shapes flow out of their mouth when breathing out. The sound is wwwhheeeelll. Quiet voice.

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max suggests the child follow along. Quiet voice.

Repeat the rolling breathing 4 action more times.

(Boards 12-15 loop 4 times)

Truck says Now I am calm and ready to go

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max models readiness. Quiet voice.

Animation Description: Max rolls forward. Excited voice.

Animation Description: Max rolls forward over the cement, there is a funny squish sound.

Animation Description: Max smiles.

Truck says wow I did it smoothing cement was not so sticky

Animation Description: Max rolls backward, revealing a flattened pile of cement.

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max faced their fear instead of avoiding it.

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max gains confidence in their skill.

Truck says I'm happy I moved passed that obstacle

Animation Description: Max rolls forward.

Animation Description: Max rolls further forward.

Truck says moving forward Here i go moving past that obstacle

Animation Description: Max jumps around the corner, singing.

Animation Description: Max rolls swaying side to side, singing.

Truck says Rolling Rolling keep my roller rolling

Animation Description: Max jumps around the corner, singing.

Truck says now we can do rolling breaths any time we feel nervous

Animation Description: Zoom in.

Truck says This really helped me I hope rolling breaths help you too

Come back any time you need to do calming movements for your feelings the road crew is ready to go

Animation Description: Max says statement. The Road Crew Logo comes in.

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max invites child to repeat the skill.

Here's Izzy, Biff and I am Max the roller truck

Animation Description: Lizzy and Biff come roll in and smile. All three bump trucks and jump.

Storyboard in Development:

"I'm Sad."
Calming Movements for Kids
Starring Izzy the Cement truck.

Kids will find Izzy in the classroom and see that she is sad
Kids take the tablet up to Izzy and watch the animated story about the obstacle she faced that caused her sadness
Izzy overcomes this obstacle with her Road Crew
Kids then are challenged to take a quest and find another student to talk about their sadness and find ways to overcome this feeling

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