This project is a storyboard representaton of the vignette "Alicia Who Sees Mice" from the novel The House on Mango Street.
Here is the script for the storyboard:
song-Don't Give Up(You Are Loved) by Josh Groban Alicia Who Sees Mice: Dialogue Dad: Just close your eyes and they’ll go away or maybe you’re just imagining them. Esperanza: Alicia wakes up every morning to make the lunchbox tortillas for her family. Her mom died and Alicia wishes there was someone older than her who could have inherited her mother’s rolling pin and sleepiness. Dad: A woman’s place is waking up early with the tortilla star to catch the sight of the mice hiding behind the sink so she can catch them. Alicia: (to herself) if only you wold fix the floorboards under the bathtub, then the mice wouldn't even be there. Esperanza: Alicia is young and smart and studies at the university. Every day she rides two trains and a bus just to get to school because she doesn’t want to wind up working at a factory her whole like, or behind a rolling pin. She’s a good girl. She studies all night, when she sees the mice. Alicia: The mice are still here. Dad: They don’t exist Alicia, will you just give it a break. Esperanza: Alicia isn’t afraid of anything; except for mice that is, and fathers.
Below is a brief explanation of the choices that were made in this storyboard:
Alicia Who Sees Mice
Our group chose this vignette from the book, House on Mango Street, because it had a lot of visual aspects and would be a good vignette to turn into a video. We decided to draw our pictures because we wanted our final product to be what we had in our minds while reading the vignette. There were certain aspects to the vignette that the only way we could have it look the way we had imagined it, while reading the story, would be to sketch the scenes ourselves. We chose the song, "Don't Give Up," by Josh Groban, because there was an underline story to the song that fit our scenario perfectly. The song projected what we were all thinking as we read the vignette. We were rooting for her to get an education and make something of herself, although her life was not easy. In the end, we think that the music and pictures put together with the dialoque we recorded, expresses a very important meaning portrayed in this vignette.