- The Lily Express: { Short illustrated overview }

- BEGINNING: InspirationTitleSetup {Inciting, viewer question, location,}

Introduction of main character

- MIDDLE: Crisis/ClimaxUnfoldingConfrontation

- END: DenouementResolutionExplanation

BEGINNING

 

 

SCENE ONE Climbing onboard the Lily express

 

MIDDLE

 

 

SCENE TWO No more Snailtopia: a Sticky situation  

 

 

SCENE THREE Time to improvise

MIDDLE

 

 

SCENE FOUR No peaceful sleep

MIDDLE

 

 

SCENE FIVE So near but yet so far

MIDDLE

END

 

 

SCENE SIX Taking the Lily express to Snail heaven

INSPIRATION

- Saw a snail on the pavement when I came home and thought how long will it take for him to get back to the grass?

- Will he ever get back to the grass?

- Will our dog ironically named Lily eat him before he gets to the grass?

…This got me thinking…

TITLE

- Lilies commonly symbolizes death especially in cartoons.

- Stanley literally road on the Lily and then passed away.

THE LILY EXPRESS

SETUP

INCITINGS:- Minuscule level in the real world - Snailtopia- The whole story plots out over 2 days and 5m- Will Stanley get back to Snailtopia to eat the lily

leaf?

LOCATION

SCENE ONE SCENE TWOSCENE THREESCENE FOURSCENE FIVE

TWO DAYS

DAY DAY DAYDAY NIGHT

5 meters

Snailtopia SnailtopiaSnailtopia RoadsideSpidervaley

Snail heaven

INTRODUCTION OF MAIN CHARACTER

- Stanley

- He lives in Snailtopia

- 5 years (2009/03/12)

- 6.58 cm

- Patched up because he is clumsy

- Loves lily leaves

- He can’t move very fast

CRISIS / CLIMAX- SCENE ONE, when he couldn’t reach the lily leaf.

- SCENE TWO, he lands on a piece of bubblegum.

- SCENE THREE, when the spider wanted to eat him in spidervalley.

- SCENE FOUR, dreamt about zombie salt shakers trying to kill him.

- SCENE FIVE, THE ULTIMATE CRISIS/CLIMAX:, needed to cross the stream when his ship sinks and Stanley drowns.

TIME vs. TENSIONSCENE ONE SCENE TWO SCENE THREE SCENE FOUR SCENE FIVE

(x) time

(y) tension

SCENE SIX

UNFOLDING

Snailtopia Snailtopia SnailtopiaRoadside Spidervaley Snail heaven

CONFRONTATION

- His confrontation with the Lily leaf is short lived.

- He drowned - paper boat, no arms.

DENOUEMENT

- Denouement occurs when Stanley is sinking and rising, sinking and rising underneath the lily.

- He couldn’t reach out to the lily to save him.

- The lily is his reason for living but that the lily also ultimately caused his suffering and death.

RESOLUTION- The resolution plays of after the credits rolled.

- We let the viewer know whether Stanley drowned or survived .

- Stanley rises from the water with wings flies to the gates of snail heaven.

- Ironic twist.

- Gives the viewer a chance to say goodbye to Stanley.

- Stanley gets a happy ending.

EXPLANATION- The moral of The Lily Express is that everything

doesn’t always go according to plan.

- That even when your at the end of the finish line things can still go wrong.

- Everything happens for a reason.

- Life may be hard but the reward in heaven is way sweeter than on earth.