Methods of Motion: Final Project Storyboard

I decided to go with the Jim Sullivan UFO concept. It will be a music visualizer (emphasis on visualizer — I’m not going to trap myself into a full-length music video). The short looping animation will begin with an opening desert scene with a tumbleweed blowing by. Cuts to Jim holding binoculars, the camera does a 160-degree turn so we see the back of his head and the back of the binoculars. The camera zooms into binoculars and we see Jesus in the clouds which then morphs into an alien. Cut back to Jim - shocked, dazed look in his eyes. The heads multiply and rotate like the album cover. Refocus back into one face. A beam of light appears. Zoom out to see the body levitating into UFO. UFO flies away leaving us with the same desert scene as the intro.

Here is a sketch of the rotating head scene:

For context, here is the album cover:

And here are the lyrics:

Shaking like a leaf on the desert heat
His daddy’s got a bang that’s hard to beat
I bought me a ticket got a front row seat

I’m checking out the show
With a glassy eye
Looking at the sun dancing through the sky
Did he come
By U.F.O.?

Lotta chicks will pull in the book I read
Only man I know that got up from the dead
Lot of people living by the words that he said

I’m checking out the show
With a glassy eye
Looking at the sun dancing through the sky
Did he come
By U.F.O.?

Think he’ll ever come again a different way
Maybe he is coming though while I was away
Too much goodness is a sin today

I’m checking out the show
With a glassy eye
Looking at the sun dancing through the sky
Did he come
By U.F.O?

There is something happening
It isn’t too clear
Just a little different than the previous year
I think that happiness is getting very near

I’m checking out the show
With a glassy eye
Looking at the sun dancing through the sky
Did he come
By U.F.O?
Did he come
By U.F.O?
Did he come
By U.F.O?