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A woman waits alone in a diner booth with two steaming cups of coffee

Storyboards · Public Safety

Maryland DMV

An empty seat becomes a quiet reminder to drive safe.

The Assignment

Turn the message into a moment.

The concept was simple: someone is waiting for you. My job was to make that absence visible through ordinary moments—a second coffee, an uneaten dinner, an empty seat.

The danger stays offscreen. The people waiting make it real.

Client
Maryland DMV
Concept
Someone's Waiting
Role
Storyboard Artist / Illustrator
Deliverable
Color storyboard frames for a :30 public-safety spot

The Concept

Someone's waiting for you.

Each vignette is built around the same idea: someone should be here.

A work crew waits. A woman sits alone with two coffees. A family delays dinner. Together they lead to one line:

Be the driver who gets there.

Screenplay-formatted script for the Someone's Waiting thirty-second video concept

The Boards

Waiting is the story.

The challenge was making stillness feel active. Small behaviors—checking a phone, watching the window, touching a coffee cup, looking toward the door—carry the tension.

Empty chairs and negative space become part of the storytelling.

Coffee

Someone should be sitting across from her.
Woman waiting alone at a diner booth with two cups of coffee
Close-up of the waiting woman checking her phone
The woman's expression shifts as she waits
Close-up of the untouched coffee cup and her hand

Dinner

The family is ready. One person is not there.
A multigenerational family waits around a dinner table
A hand switches on the porch light
An older man looks outside with concern

Work Truck

The empty passenger seat becomes the message.
A work truck waits outside a row of houses
Inside the truck, the front passenger seat is conspicuously empty
The driver leans toward the empty seat and looks toward the house

Visual Storytelling

Build tension without showing danger.

Nothing bad is shown directly. The boards stay with the people who are left wondering why someone is late.

That restraint lets the audience imagine the missing event for itself.

A hand rests on an untouched cup of coffee
The untouched coffee.
A hand switches on a porch light
The porch light goes on.
An empty passenger seat in a work truck
The empty seat.

The Result

Make the message felt.

The boards turn a broad safety message into something personal by showing who is waiting for you to come home.

Be the driver who gets there.

Every idea leads somewhere.

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