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.

Truck says What would help?

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 can take rolling breaths
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.


Truck says Warning beep beep

Animation Description: Max rolls back. Beeping noises.

Truck says Max breath in

Animation Description: Max is excited but calm.

Animation Description: Breath shapes move towards Max.

Truck says stop

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


Truck says max breath out

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.

Truck says ready now you try

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)

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Truck says Now I am calm and ready to go

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max models readiness. Quiet voice.

Truck says lets roll

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.

Truck says now I can get going

Cognitive Behavioral description: Max gains confidence in their skill.

Truck says I'm happy I moved passed that obstacle

Animation Description: Max rolls forward.


Truck says Now I can go

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.

Truck says moving forward here I go

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 move on
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