Brainstorming and such

So about this Independent project.
I've gotta say, im kinda excited to get started, i just wish i didnt have so much other work to get in the way of this. Anyway, i am planning on, as you probably already know, making an animation for this assignment. I will be using photoshop CS2, since i am already comfortable with it, and can do a lot more than flash. that and i dont have flash.
So. My idea right now is the progression of war/weapons over time. Im pretty sure this is what i want to do. dont ask me how i came up with this idea, because i have no clue. maybe it was when i was listening to "Imagine"(the APC version). which is kind of why I want to use that as the background music. either that or "right in two" by Tool, because that one also is relative to the subject. . allthough, im not sure people would really hear the lyrics, so it wouldnt really matter.
Anyway, ive thought about it a lot and have some good images about it. i think this could work out well and flow nicely. ive really been thinking a lot about what i can portray and how i can portray it.
I am not sure if i will use a blank white background or have some color an stuff. I think transitions and space are easier with white, but color could make it look more complete.

so i want to start very early and end now. im going to start off, i think, with some monkeys. [weapons- stick, bones]
I'd then move up the evolution ladder toooo cavemen- I'd like to try and keep it to war on man, so im not sure if cavemen should be there. um.. [weapons- club, spear]
then i'll go to medieval times, like knights an stuff [weapons- arrowss, swords catapults]
next id like to skip ahead to possibly cowboys and indians- they are a vital part, i might have a couple frames of the boats coming ashore with native americans looking on. yknow, basically pocahontas. [weapons- bow+arrow, tomahawk, rifle]
Then id move to the civil war. [weapons- rifles{bayonettes}, cannons]
Im not so accurate on history, but i think i'll put samurai in about here. [swords]
um, then possibly go to WWI. show some trench warfare and lots of exploding goodness. lots of new weapons here [machine gun, grenades, planes{dogfights}, - uh im probably gonna mix WWI and WWII -- and vietnam-- so also in weapons will be flamethrower, submachine gun, arial bombs, rocketlauncher, tanks, 88mm guns, snipers, land mines, helicopters, napalm, nuclear bomb]
um, yeah, then i'd move to some terrorism, not nessesarilly the twin towers, but random explosions in civil areas or something..idk.
but then go to the war in iraq [a bit more advanced weapons and roadside bombs]
Then, i would start reusing scenes and mixing them up really fast then ending finnally with the atom bomb again. this time a lot longer than when i used it before.

now with all of this crap im putting in here, im not sure how long it will be. i might end up using the song Imagine as the time frame or i may have to cut it short, because animation takes a while, and the song is. . 4:47 long. so that could take a bit. But i think it would be fun to do so i dont mind.
So the entire thing will start off slow, and steadily increase in tempo and pace of frames until the end where it gets really fast then stops on one image- the mushroom cloud.

so yeah. i'll stop now. i have some images i need to be scanned. i'll get those up before class. not really a storyboard, i just basically wrote a storyboard. these are going to be images ill be using for characters an stuff in the animation.