Characters. Development     - Keleigh McCarthy

Mel - Main Mermaid.
Her importance in my storyboard is to show that mermaids did once exist but humans actions with mistreating sea life and littering forced her and her family to flee.
She is a beautiful blonde mermaid with a pink tail and blue eyes, before she discovers all pollution being piled all over her house, she is very happy and loves to swim around with her friends.
She has a very positive attitude and is soon let down when she realizes that humans are dumping their litter into her home so she gets depressed and leaves with all her family and friends.
Her thoughts on humans are negative since they once knew her kind existed but they chose to forget about her and continue to litter.
She is an example of a feminist and wants to be taken seriously for not only being a female mermaid but because she does not believe that the men who want to rule the ocean and all the sea life within it, she wants the men to listen to her and stop treating the ocean badly because female mermaids live below the men's ships.

 
Pirate:
The pirate represents all human kind, even from thousands of years ago. To show the progression of all the damage humans are doing to the plant which effects everything on it. 
He is an old-fashioned pirate with a hard wood boat and bandana with a eye patch, he sails all around the world for years and has nowhere to put all his rubbish and waste, so he dumps it all into the ocean.
He has a ignorant attitude towards sea life or any kind of life, he is very selfish and only will do what makes him feel happy.
His thoughts are very one sided, he only thinks of himself and does not care about the trouble he is causing for the mermaids.
He also does not care for the mermaids reactions to pack up and leave.
He is very sexist since he does not care that all the mermaids are females, he is a representation of the male gaze since he enjoys the look of the females but does not think their place is to be telling the men what to do and that men should rule the waters and that these females should stay below the ships.

Judge:
The judge who is apart of parliament has permissions to enforce a law in a court room that pollution in water is so horrific that laws need to be authorized and put into place to stop the death of innocent animals.
The judge is a stern faced woman who has flowing blonde hair, round glasses and is very intelligent and really cares for sea life and feels strongly against litter.
She also thinks about others closely and thinks through all her decisions she has to make.