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The sequence of events in this storyboard are as follows:

1. Trailer starts now screen – white bold text on a black background
2. High angle shot of Monty the cat’s house, with birds flying and trees blowing gently in the wind (birds tweeting)
3. Long shot of Monty the cat entering his front porch through the front gate, the camera pans slightly left (Narrator: “Monty the cat…”)
4. Pan long shot of Monty moonwalking left with a frying pan in hand (Narrator: “Wants to be…”)
5. Long shot of Monty playing a dancing game in the living room (Narrator: “The greatest dancer in the world”)
6. Close-up of Monty holding game controllers (Monty: “Honey! Look at my score on ‘Just Dance’!”)
7. Medium shot of Monty’s girlfriend looking to the side, with hair and petals blowing in the wind (Narrator: “So he can impress his girlfriend…”)
8. Medium shot of Monty completing a dance move
9. “
10. ” (Monty: “Woahooo!”)
11. Close up of Monty’s bad drawing on lined paper (Narrator: “And become the emperor of moves”)
12. Two shot of Monty on the phone, with his girlfriend in the background (Monty: “But definitely not the emperor of drawing”)
13. Long shot of the exterior of a nightclub, with a bouncer and people entering the building/standing outside (Narrator: “But at his big debut…”)
14. ‘Over the shoulder’ and high angle shot of disco ball with people dancing below in club
15. Medium shot of Monty dancing
16. Close-up of Monty finishing his dance (Narrator: “Something goes…”)
17. Lights cut out and new bluer light appears, close-up of Monty confused (Narrator: “Terribly wrong”)
18. Close up of steam rolling along the floor
19. Suddenly a black boot stomps the ground
20. Camera zooms up
21. Close-up of one of the Drop-Dead Droids
22. Low angle shot of Monty shocked
23. Medium shot of all three of the Drop-Dead Droids (Bots: “We are the Quasar Queens”)
24. Low angle shot of an even more shocked Monty
25. Long shot of the Drop-Dead Droids, now posing (Bots: “And we’ve arrived on Earth to dominate this dancefloor”)
26. Over the shoulder shot of Monty quickly turning his head around to look behind him at his girlfriend, looking shocked
27. Close-up of Monty’s girlfriend (Monty’s girlfriend: “Monty… you can do this!”
28. Over the shoulder shot of Monty still looking behind at his girlfriend but now smirking and determined (Monty: “Yeah! For you darling!!”)
29. Low angle close-up of Monty’s shoe turning along the floor
30. Zoom shot of Monty jumping towards the camera (Monty: “Let’s dance!”)
31. Film title card screen
32. Release date screen

The first frame of my storyboard says ‘Trailer Starts Now’ on a black background. Along with the final two frames (being a title logo and a release date with social media hashtags and a website address along the bottom), I wanted my trailer to follow the same style and format as fast-paced and short social media film trailers that appear as promoted adverts on online platforms like Twitter and Facebook and on TV, as opposed to longer trailers found on other platforms like YouTube and during cinema previews/adverts. I decided to create it in this style as the assignment asks me to create a 15 to 30-second long animation, and since regular film trailers are over one minute long (and are arranged differently with a different pace) I felt creating my trailer in this style with a reduced duration would leave the trailer looking and feeling rushed and lacking in content.