Our initial plot idea is about a young boy who uses his imagination to escape the boredom of his everyday life. His mum takes him to a playground where she sits on a bench, drinks a flask of tea and just sits on her phone totally ignoring her son and not realizing that he is not having a great time. He sits on a swing which is way to small for him and looks at his mum. There is an old newspaper laying next to him and as he rocks on the swing he kicks it. Looking around his environment he spots a close by river. He makes sure his mum is not paying attention (she is still on her phone), takes the piece of newspaper and runs off to the river. At the river he builds a small paper boat and lets it off very excited. As it slowly sails down the river he imagines a little man on the boat waving at him.

After that he stands on a boat pretending to be a sailor. 

In the end we felt that it was not necessary to include the last scene which would've been of Herbie imagining himself in the boat. We did not incorporate this as we felt that we had already revealed enough in the opening two minutes.


Mise-en scene





creating a mind map around our task



Looking for inspiration ('Submarine', 'Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children', music video of passenger 'young as the morning')






creating a mood board



rough ideas that came to Paula in the middle of the night / partly german