OVER THE RAINBOW

Art Book
 Table of

CONTENTS
MEET THE TEAM

FILM DETAILS

DEVELOPMENT

DATA RESEARCH

CHARACTER DESIGN

ENVIRONMENT DESIGN

COLOUR & LIGHTING DESIGN

ANIMATION DESIGN
 FILM DETAILS
An Introduction to
WHY STRAWBERRIES?
The term “strawberry generation” is based on the
Taiwanese neologism created by the generation born
previous from the 1990s to define those born from the
1990s onwards. They are perceived to "bruise easily" like
strawberries, a perception which means that they cannot
withstand social pressure or hard work like their
predecessors.
The term itself originated from the belief that the current
generation of people who were born from the 1990s
onwards have had their lives easier, growing up
overprotected and too comfortable in a stable
environment, thus never having to struggle for anything
in life at all.
This parallels with how strawberries are grown in
protected greenhouses, with the idea that those who are
from the strawberry generation are “needy” and the fact
that strawberries also command a higher price compared
to other fruits is a criticism of the generation’s behaviours
towards consumerism.
THEME
A criticism against the concept of a “Strawberry Generation”, a
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
commentary on how older generations treat younger generations
Is it actually true that the current generation of young adults
GENRE “bruise” more easily like strawberries than their
predecessors, or is it an idea adopted merely due to the
Slice of Life, Drama, Coming of Age projection of expectations from the era that we live in today,
younger generations growing up with things more accessible
TARGET AUDIENCE than their predeccessors, thus pushing resentment and the
idea that the current generation of young adults should be
Young Adults; demographic of ages 15-25
able to do more with what they are given.
CONCEPT
If that were the case, then is it really Generation Z’s fault for
Our story focuses on a university student as we follow him in his only adapting to what previous generations have laid out for
day to day life. It looks as if there is no contentment or joy in his them?
routine, but is it his fault or the
expectations his father put on him?
Is the younger generation really to blame for their lack of
direction or has it been in the making long before their
preconception?
Story
DEVELOPMENT
LOGLINE
A university student contemplates on his life and tries to find what it means
to live when he has nothing to live for.

SYNOPSIS
We see our main character’s day to day routine as he slowly contemplates,
narrating his feelings on his life up to this point. The monotonous days he
leads, and the expectations of his family, especially his father. He
contemplates the idea of an early death, the fear of his life having not been
fulfilling in the end becoming a reality. This turns out to be a nightmare as he
wakes up in his own apartment. Declining his father’s call, he decides to give
himself a break for once and lights a smoke on the balcony of his apartment.
INT. LECTURE HALL - NOON

Film Script
DEVELOPMENT
SFX

Pen intensely scratching on paper.

LINO
Coughs

TOSHI continues to write intensely, obliviously.

SFX
LINO
Coughs harder
Sounds of a bus engine.
This time, TOSHI does take notice and raises his head
from his journal to look at LINO. TOSHI ends his sentence as the bus starts moving, taking him home.
SFX
TOSHI
Huh?
Sounds of water running.
LINO
The lecture is over. Once home, there is a montage of TOSHI doing his regular routine, he starts by taking a
shower.
LINO says this before the frame cuts to an empty lecture hall.
SFX
TOSHI
Oh. Uhh. Thank you for telling me.
Sounds of water boiling.
LINO
Sure. After showering, TOSHI cooks an easy dinner for the evening.

An awkward pause before everything fades to black. SFX

TOSHI (voiceover)
Hi. You don’t need to know my name, Sounds of a laptop fan whirring.
but I’m a university student,
studying to be a doctor. After cooking and eating, TOSHI proceeds to work on the university assignments on his laptop.
Just like my father.
SFX
Cut back from black, we see TOSHI in a bus.

TOSHI, CONT’D (voiceover) Sounds of crickets chirping.

I wanted to pursue different dreams than where I am now. But my dreams don’t
matter, they never did. It only mattered that my father was happy, not me. After working on his university assignment, TOSHI proceeds to end his day
and lay in bed to rest, the night fading into a dream of a memory.
 Film Script
DEVELOPMENT
INT. PARTY BALLROOM - EVENING

TOSHI (voiceover)
What does the older generation tell us? That we’re not working hard enough?
That if we just try and spend even a minute off the same devices they rely
on, we’d succeed in life?

Blurry images start to form of a fancy party. Flashes filled with older,
judgemental adults, all with strawberries. Eating and drinking things made
out of it while gossiping about what is implied to be him. The final shot of
this scene is of a medium shot of his own father, partaking in the same
TOSHI (voiceover)
fruit, words hurting him the most…
And maybe, maybe we’ll grow to be as
cold and bitter, as resentful as our predecessors.
“Why aren’t you trying harder, son?”
A never-ending cycle of blame and hatred.
His hurtful words in the style of an intertitle.
I hope not, but my hopes don’t matter either.
Old school, like him.

Everything continues to fill with strawberries until there is no room left for anything other
TOSHI (voiceover)
than TOSHI’s face as he struggles to breathe. He cries.
A family, a house, a legacy. What does that even mean anymore?

TOSHI (voiceover)
After the intertitle, TOSHI’s father appears standing in full, short cuts as
It won’t matter in death, when everything goes away and everyone meets the same end.
more of his family gather with each word,
I don’t want it to not matter in life either.
all staring at him (a family, a house, a legacy-).

The camera shows TOSHI’s journal from earlier, but instead of his writings, it is now filled
TOSHI, CONT’D (voiceover)
with obsessive doodles of strawberries, with someone dead at its centre.
How dare we not have to work for anything, how dare we live the so-called
better lives they created for us.
The screen cuts to TOSHI’s death, implied to be an early one, as it pictures him the same as we
see him present day. He is in a coffin, arms folded, eyes closed, surrounded by the same
It cuts back to TOSHI himself, terrified.
strawberries from earlier.

TOSHI (voiceover)
But I digress.
INT. COFFIN - UNKNOWN
Maybe there is something after the rain,
over the rainbow.
TOSHI (voiceover)
But all I see is a fog.
Maybe I don’t want to think
about it right now.
Life moves on, but things take a turn for the worse. Flashes of his daily
life continue but it shows him in his lowest points. Cuts to him having a
Flashing again, his body now decaying with rot, the strawberries follow as they rot within the
breakdown in his university’s lecture hall, holding his head in his hands.
same timeframe before everything goes to black.
Cuts to him at a club, with a table full of drugs and alcohol, him slowly
looking up from his hands. Cuts to him in his room, sitting and chain
smoking, head fully away from his hands and staring miserably at nothing. We
see another side of TOSHI’s day to day routine, everything is now darker as
his surroundings fill more and more with strawberries.
 Film Script
DEVELOPMENT
EXT. STRAWBERRY FIELD - NOON

“You’re like a strawberry, son. Easy to rot.”

Words flash in the same recognisable intertitle style of his father’s.

Suddenly, there is a jolt from TOSHI as his eyes open. He wakes from his
coffin in what looks to be a strawberry field, fashioning itself to look
like an afterlife (with TOSHI also wearing white). He looks up to see a
mirror image of himself staring back.

Following his mirror image, he comes across a strawberry bush. As he picks a

TOSHI (voiceover)
strawberry laid out before him, it flashes to him wringing his hand around
I don’t want to think about it right now,
the neck of his mirror image. He crushes the strawberry in hatred, crushing
and that should be okay, right?
his mirror image’s neck along with it. The liquid, unclear whether juice or
blood, drips and runs down from his hand.
Waking from the nightmare, TOSHI notices that his phone is alerted and that his father is
calling him.
We follow the dripping juice or blood falling to the ground where a new
strawberry flower quickly sprouts in its place, only blood red. It’s
TOSHI (voiceover)
overwhelming and TOSHI stares at his messy hands, stained from the
No one else should be able to judge my choices or decide my fate, right?
strawberry in disgust. He wakes up from a nightmare in his own bed and
apartment.
The screen shows a shot of TOSHI’s table where his phone is.

TOSHI(voiceover)
I only have one life. I should be able to figure it out on my own as I go.

A zoom in to TOSHI’s phone as the screen turns black and we hear him decline the call.

The screen returns from black and we are now on the small balcony of TOSHI’s apartment. We no
longer see his face but his back as he begins to smoke. A potted strawberry plant can be seen
beside TOSHI, well taken care of.

CREDITS ROLL

END
Film Storyboard
DEVELOPMENT

A young boy experiences
his first love, his friendships
and life's injustices when
growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
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DATA RESEARCH
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Story Inspirations / References
These films serve as inspiration for the story of Over
the Rainbow, with its themes of cause and effect,
generational trauma, and the aimlessness of youth.
A young woman battles Sophie reflects on the shared
indecisiveness as she joy and private melancholy
traverses the troubled waters of a holiday she took with
of her love life and struggles her father twenty years earlier.
to find her career path.
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Tomato Trauma - Osum 【오썸】

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Level of Concern - Rensaven

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Parnassius - Rita Chen

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There’s a Man in the Woods - Jacob Streilein

Charact er

DESIGN TOSHIRO JIOESONO

PHYSIOLOGY
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Height and Weight: 172cm and 75kg
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Dark Browm
Skin Colour: Tanned
Body Posture: Slouching
Everyday Look: Casual outfits and work uniforms
Scars/Marks: Freckles
Ethnicity/Race: Japanese Chinese-Indonesian

SOCIOLOGY
Social Class: Upper Middle Class
Job: N/A
Education: University Student

PSYCHOLOGY
Ambitions: To become a publishing author
Frustrations: Unable to pursue his dreams
Personality: Blunt, Loyal, Unstable, Defeatist
Likes/Dislikes: Likes honesty and dislikes gossip
Skills: Flexible in writing, smart when he tries to be
IQ: 130 (low EQ)
MBTI: INFJ
Charact er

DESIGN
HENDRAWAN JIOESONO
Function in the Story: Antagonist
Strength: An individual with aspirations, who wants to strive
towards his life goals.
Weakness: Single-minded and focuses only on his future goals
and not the present, has poor mental health from the pressures
and expectations of his family.
Action: Toshi contemplates on his life up to this point, his future,
his dreams, and his death.
Journey: Toshi goes from being unsure where his life is going and
following the wants and needs of others, to thinking more about
himself and giving himself a break.

Background Story: A 22 year old medical university student who

lives alone in his apartment, following the wants and needs of his
father, and the expectations of his family. He tries but only gets
derailed and distracted by what he truly wants to be, a writer. He
is unhappy, never able to study to his fullest capabilities.
Habits: Waking up in his apartment, going to university, going
home, cooking, working on assignments, sleeping, repeat on the
daily. He sometimes has more destructive habits like smoking,
drinking, and clubbing. He has a habit of getting distracted during
lectures and writing stories instead of doing anything else. He
knows that he won’t ever get a normal time to write otherwise.
Ghost: The fear of never making it in life in the way he wants, the
fear of never being his own person.
Charact er

DESIGN
TOSHIRO JIOESONO
ENVIRONMENT
Design

ENVIRONMENT CONCEPT
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Setting: Late 2010s

The concept of Over the Rainbow’s environment is

inspired by day to day life, therefore realistic and
located in places that are familiar to the audience.

Whether good or bad, they are places that hold

significance and weight to the character and story.
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Design
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Design
COLOUR & LIGHTING Design

COLOUR & LIGHTING CONCEPT

Over the Rainbow’s colour and lighting are heavily
inspired by slice of life and coming of age films of
the same genre.

The warmth of the palette is nostalgic, a reminder

of summer yet also suffocating in its heat.

This contrasts with the coldness in-between the

warmth, jarring and dead.
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Design
COLOUR & LIGHTING
Colour Script
ANIMATION
Design

ANIMATION CONCEPT
The animation concept for Over the Rainbow is
a mix of 2D animation and stills, creating the
stiltedness needed to represent the main
character’s monotonous lifestyle, but also
contrasting it with fluid animation aligning with
the main character’s want and need to be free,
to pursue his own passions, and be who he is.