Satria Krisnandi, Peter Nguyen, Dennis Hills, Larry Schwerzler, Lia Hall

Mones/McDonald

CSE 456

July 20, 2004

Final Beat Sheet

ACT	Seq	Desc
ACT I	1	Long Arial Shot of an island
	1	Sage our protagonist is standing in the middle of the village.
	1	Sage watches the people around her going about their everyday work focusing on the medallions they wear.
	1	Sage has no medallion.
	1	Determination takes hold of sage and she sets off to earn herself a medallion.
ACT II	2	A circle of girls sitting together weaving baskets
	2	A girl is pleased with her basket and holds it in front of her
	2	The Elder looks on from afar and smiles then looks towards Sage
	2	Sage has created a mess of weaving fibers, her basket is non functional and the elder is disappointed. (fade out)
	2	Canoes lined up along the beach shore.
	2	Girl standing behind a completed canoe, elder is pleased and presents the girl with a medallion.
	2	Sage’s canoe is non functional and she seems to be not giving her fullest serious effort to make a perfect canoe
	2	Elder sees sage’s attempt and walks away disappointed, Sage is also disappointed in her failure.
	3	Sage wants to escape, runs to the edge of the ocean and looks across the vast nothingness.
	3	Sage realizes there is no place to go so she turns back to the island interior and disappears into the jungle.
	4	Sage walks through the jungle heading further from the village.
	4	She comes to a stream in the jungle and kneels next to it she cries into the water.
	4	Sage hears a suspicious noise and her head snaps up to look across the stream
	4	Sage watches the bed of reeds on the opposite side of the stream intently
	4	A frog jump into the water quickly followed by a claw filled paw.
	4	Sage is terrified
	4	Glowing eyes emerge from the reeds
	4	Sage gets up and frantically runs for the jungle edge dodging an weaving vegetation.
	4	Camera cuts back to the “danger” and we see it is only a panther cub (harmless)
	4	Sage continues running (unaware that there is no danger) She trips and falls on a root sticking out of the ground
	4	Sage looks behind her in terror as a large beastly shadow descends upon her.
	4	She gets to her feet and Runs back into the forest more frantic than ever.
	4	Camera cuts back to the “beastly shadow” and we see it is simply a palm tree in a foreboding shape.
	4	Sage runs back to the village
ACT III	5	We see the village as sage emerges from the jungle and realizes there is nothing chasing her.
	5	She is exhausted, and wants to rest, she sits next to the fire.
	5	People begin to ask sage what happened and why she was so panicked.
	5	Sage begins to tell her story.
	5	More gather to listen as she recounts her adventure in the jungle.
	5	Cut scenes of what happened and Sage explaining the events.
	5	Sage throws her hands up to imitate claws and growls loudly.
	5	The Audience jumps back in terror.
	5	Sage continues her story, as its drawing to an end an elder emerges from the crowd.
	5	She approaches sage and presents her with a gift
	5	Sage is appreciative and amazed as she looks at the Storyteller medallion in her hands.
	5	The villagers around sage oohhhh and awwww when they see the medallion.
	5	Sage looking very proud wearing the medallion as the camera zooms out on the village.