Script and Storyboarding

Alexander opted to go for having no CGIs and more on applying both practical and green screen effects for this first movie.

Computers are not yet up to speed and it would take some time for them to be up to speed and the user to be up to speed with them.

Also, for the first movie project he plans to revamp from future hits, he decided to go for one of One's infamous works!

It was not a movie per se but a platform of overpoweredness which is manifested in the form of a socially-repressed Shigeo Kageyama aka Mob!

What else could it be than Mob Psycho 100? Instead of making it animated and Japanese or anime-esque, he would go for live-action and American.

It is the most mainstream stereotype of popular entertainment during this era without a doubt.

If he went Japanese, it would be niche and unattractive!

If he went animated, people would rather watch princess films from Disney. Adult Americans associate cartoons with childishness in this day and age.

However, times will change and those boys and girls who love cartoons would love animations in the future. It is practically the secret success formula of the hegemonic Disney!

After that sidenote of film analysis, Alexander had already worked out the kinks in the direction he was going for. The realistic fantasy of espers is already an unfamiliar topic, there was no need to make it more obscure.

With an American 'Mob' in mind, Shigeo would now be young John Smith. The most mob-like name and most mob-like surname... according to future statistics!

For the premise, young John would come into the world as a continually growing and powerful psychic. He would cope with normal life and struggle to keep his growing power at bay.

Alexander decided to tweak a lot of quirks from the source material such as a boy being emotionless, the percentage gauge, and the insecure brother.

If the casting was expected and the movie would take off, promoting the downfall of one child star is always better than promoting two.

The percentage gauge would only serve to confound the audience, so it was down the scrap.

Also, this adaptation would go ghostbusters style and explore more about the spiritual world than human conflict.

The film would be about selling toys, so having imagination-evoking spiritual beings is better than making an array of toys about some side characters.

With that in mind, the overly-manipulative and godhood-seeking Dimple would be this film's equivalence to that of the cute minions.

It was weird how that specific spirit's means of empowerment was evoking happiness in depressed people, so Dimple would now be haphazardly named Mr. Smile.

With the smile as the most prominent part of his ghostly form. Truth be told, Mr. Smile's possession sequences on people would be Alexander's excuse to use the infamous Joker smile in future movies.

The fraudulent mentor persona would stay, however, it would now be in the form of the young Smith's dad, Jonathan Smith!

It would be the greatest irony for a spiritual fraud to have a son who actually has spiritual powers. The father is meant to be the funny guy and humorous relief anyway, so it all checks out.

Alexander now had the basic character descriptions compiled along with his specialty of adding baseline drawings for readers to get an overall, exterior glimpse of what they would look like.

In terms of plot, it mainly hovers over a few main points.

John's school life, societal interactions, and the multitude of psychic powers he has to juggle with. The bully trope with the fact that his father is a ghost enthusiast. Their father and son narrative on dealing with the supernatural. Of course, Dimple aka Smile would be the main villain.

As for dialogue and exciting scenes, Alexander interspersed them with many lines from other movie sources while action scenes would all be about the telekinesis stuff and the glowing spiritual emissions.

It would be quite the test for Mark to deal with the numerous visual illusions that the esper scenes require of him.

Alexander also has a trick up his sleeve for his father to cheat the entire virtual effects test. It was just a matter of showing him the expected product first and having him come up with the behind-the-camera trickeries.

This script that Alexander is meant to be an aid to his father after all, so what is an aid without pointers?

Thus, the young boy plans to storyboard the entire progression of the movie. A high difficulty technique of movie making that Alexander could only daresay assume that he could do with all of his coincidental advantages.

Drawing skills and unparalleled mastery of the entire movie he is trying to make! Although his drawing skills need work, it is still a baseline requirement for this method of filmmaking nonetheless.

Storyboarding would be the entire motion picture film on paper. It is essential for making animations and a game-changer in making movies as a whole.

It is also important to point out that most of the script-making and all storyboarding process is a collaborative effort, so the notion of a young four-year-old doing it all by himself is monumentally crazy!

This was the technique that Alexander plans to capitalize on for his future movie projects, which is why he really took this day's agenda quite seriously.

The boy did his project in total peace as his elder kin were practically on a nationwide witch hunt for an entire week.

All in all, it was just another week in the Creed household for the Creed family, however, it was another thing entirely for the poor outsider, Helena!

She was already relieved when she relayed the quirkiness of Alexander's reading sessions. How could she have thought that it was just barely scratching the surface?

Poor Helena was left to tend to the boy entirely for seven days and nights with the homeowners being out of town.

During this entire time, she had to question her existence when she noticed that the young boy was making a script for a movie.

She had to verify it from the boy and was even sternly warned to keep what she saw in strict confidentiality.

"Dear Heavens, I don't even remember what I was doing when I was nine, and here is a four-year-old making a movie from scratch!" It was what she blurted out when the cute Alexander handed her a makeshift confidentiality contract like how an adult lawyer would.