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.