GG Films-Updated Storyboard

1. VO: We see a towering building. We see the building has
a sign on top, telling us it’s the “Word Facts Tower”
Not: Building scale down to up and text typed in the top.

2. VO: We see out main Word Facts investigator step
into the scene.
Not: girl come from outside.

3. VO: The Word Facts Investigator is an intelligent confident
young woman. She proclaims the hunt is on and the and
it’s time to research another word.
Not: Girl come from outside and appear thought bubble .

4. VO: Hashtag. That’s a good word.
Not: Zoom on character and Appear thought bubble .

5. VO: Why is called a Hashtag? Let’s find out!
Not: Text fade in and appear line by scale .

6. VO: The symbol that many of us now call a hashtag comes
from the Latin sign for “pound by weight…”
Not: Fade out & Scale pound sign and pop-up other hashtag
icons.

7. VO: …it was abstracted and then called either the
“pound sign” or the “number sign.”
Not: Character come from outside and sign scale to
center.

8. VO: In the early 1900s, the expression hash mark was used by
military officers to refer to a stripe worn on the sleeve indicating how
many years ofservice have been completed.
Not: Character come from outside and appear bubble & text.

9. VO: The word hash was most likely an alteration of the word
hatch, a verb that means “to mark with parallel lines.”
Not: Type text.

10. Transition slide
Not: Cut the text.

11. Transition slide
Not: scale to canter text.

12. VO: By the 1960s, the word “hash” was widely used in
reference to the symbol.
Not: Character come from outside Appear scale hash from
center and Text and icons appears.

13. VO: Telephone techs in the Sixties called it the “octothorpe,”
but sadly this never caught on.
Not: Hand come to down Appear scale telephone from center
and Text appear.

14. VO: Computer geeks in the Eighties built this symbol into their character
sets, calling it a “hash,” and today hashtags are mainstays of Twitter and
Instagram!.
Not: Character come from canter appear by scale appear # on t-shirt.