The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, Plot Diagram
Storyboard Descrizione
This is a sample "plot map" of the famous Twilight Zone story, The Monsters are due on Maple Street by Rod Sterling. This is an example of how one could teach the parts of a narrative with storyboards!
Testo Storyboard
- Diapositiva: 1
- Exposition
- One summer evening...
- The neighbors are chatting outside during a normal evening on Maple Street.
- Diapositiva: 2
- Conflict
- Electricity's off. Phone won't work... Radio's gone dead... (669)
- What was that? A meteor? (668)
- 'They don't want us to leave... they shut everything off.' (671)
- Suddenly, there's a flash and roar. The electricity goes out in the neighborhood.
- Diapositiva: 3
- Rising Action
- The neighbors try to find the source of the power outage. Tommy insists it is caused by an invading alien family living in disguise on their street.
- Diapositiva: 4
- Climax
- A shadow approaches
- Oh God, it wasn't an intruder, It's Pete Van Horn. He's dead!
- Charlie shoots the shadow, which collapses. Now, lights and appliances begin to turn on and off.
- Diapositiva: 5
- Falling Action
- '... I didn't know who he was... How was I supposed to know he wasn't a monster or something?...' (680)
- The neigborhood loses control, and devolves into an angry mob, smashing windows and grabbing weapons.
- Diapositiva: 6
- Resolution
- '... we'll go from one to the other and let them destroy themselves. One to the other... one to the other... one to the other...' (684)
- We finally zoom out and get to see aliens in a spaceship. They've set up this situation to turn the humans against each other.
- Diapositiva: 0
- Hey, let's not make this a witch hunt.
- It's aliens!
- Hey your car started. Suspicious.
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