Collab with Guireyart (Storyboard with Jennifer Rose) (Patreon)

Hi everyone,

Here with something a little bit different this month! Over a year ago, when I was trying to organize my next shoot with Jennifer Rose, I thought it might be kinda fun to enlist other artists and writers for help with imagining their own interpretation of one of the clips we would be working on, a sequel to The Tourists. The plan was going to be to release everything all at once, as a fun little surprise. I thought it would be super cool to see how other people might imagine the premise, and to see if it would open up any new visual or story ideas to incorporate during the shoot itself.

However, as more time passes, I fear this clip may never come to fruition. So instead of sitting on all of this great content forever, I figured it would be better to share "what could have been" instead. 

Something I was really excited about was trying my hand at a sequel more generally, because it feels quite rare to be able to have that opportunity within size content, as things are often so self-contained if not finalized by the end of a clip. The Tourists seemed like the natural place to start, both for its storyline and because it is probably my most popular video. 

After brainstorming different ideas with Jennifer for a bit, the sequel wound up looking a little bit like this:

SEQUEL

Years after the events of The Tourists, Jennifer receives a phone call about a routine follow-up for a cold missing persons case, asking her if she wouldn't mind providing paperwork to them. Not remembering the incident from years ago, she offers to help and even accepts their request to come over and ask her a few questions (vibe wise, she was going to be somewhere in between half-annoyed and half-sympathetic). 

The video would then transition into her welcoming the tiny detectives into her apartment, where she'd place them onto her coffee table and offer them a drink. Just like in the first video, she was going to use an earpiece to be able to hear them speak. During the conversation, we were going to try to highlight some of natural discrepancies between them attempting to speak as equals, starting off with more routine questions about her history of renting, etc. Eventually, the conversation was going to take more of a serious turn, with the tiny detectives attempting to catch her in some level of guilt, leading up to a smoking gun of evidence, asking her to watch a video they had in their possession, transmitted to her phone (the same video she is sent at the end of The Tourists).

Remembering the incident, Jennifer begins to get nervous and tries to delay watching the video by telling the detectives that she needs to go to the bathroom and that she'll be right back. In the bathroom, she calls her lawyer and they discuss the legality of the previous incident. Over the course of the conversation, Jennifer learns about a legal loophole that makes it extremely difficult to convict many of these types of cases, that if they can't prove she mistook them as bugs with definitive proof, the cases often fall apart.

Feeling slightly relieved after the conversation, Jennifer returns to the table a little bit more relaxed, putting her foot up on the table (like in the original video) and proceeds to watch the video. No longer anxiety ridden, Jennifer acts shocked and pretends to be upset about the incident, even talking about an infestation problem she'd been having, hoping that those weren't the people. The detectives, now a bit dejected and in dire need of a new approach, thank her for her time and say that they can leave now.

Jennifer puts them all back down where they came from, and offers them a final goodbye. However, the detectives only pretend to leave. Trying to catch her in admitting guilt, they stay behind trying to gather more information. Calling back the lawyer, Jennifer thanks them for all their help, half-joking about the detectives' reactions after they assumed they had gotten her. 

As the detectives get closer and closer, Jennifer notices something moving on the floor. Thinking that it might be a bug, she takes a closer look before realizing it's the same detectives from before. Suddenly, an idea washes over her. This is her chance to get rid of the entire problem, once and for all (or at least, to delay it even further). Being extra mindful to not acknowledge them as people, she starts talking about the people as bugs, and gets rid of them as such.

THE END

For those unfamiliar with Guireyart, he is an incredible visual artist/illustrator! You can find his work here: https://www.patreon.com/Guireyart10 or over on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/guireyart. I am so happy and honored to have him as a collaborator on this, and hopefully in the future we may be able to storyboard something that is actually brought to life! I also invited a great writer, AlsoKnownAsV, to write his own version of the plot, and you can find his work over at: https://www.deviantart.com/alsoknownasv

The first two sketches are brainstorming ideas, followed by the last 10, which is the storyboard itself.

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