July 20, 2004

Story reel shot sequence

 

I. Introduction/Motive Sequence

 

0100    Aerial establishing shot of a small island village of huts.

0200    Zoom in to a long shot of island village.

0300    Camera moves in to capture the top of Sage’s head in the center of the village, surrounded by huts.

0400    Cut to a close-up of Sage’s face looking.

0500    Point-of-view (POV) shot of a hut with a basket-weaving medallion adorning the entrance.

0600    Pan right to a woman sitting on the ground weaving baskets. She is wearing a basket-weaving medallion.  Baskets are stacked in the right foreground.

0700    Continue to pan right.  A woman enters at the left of the frame carrying a sickle that rests on her left shoulder. She is wearing an agriculture medallion.

0800    Track woman until she crosses a canoe carver in the middleground.

0900    Zoom to canoe carver wearing a canoe-carving medallion.

1000    Reaction (rxn) shot of Sage frowning—longing for a medallion of her own.

1100    Her hand moves into the frame touching her bare neck.

1200    She makes a fist and a look of determination. Fade out.

 

II. Trying Montage Sequence

 

A.  Basket-weaving:

 

1300    Medium-long shot of girls in a circle weaving baskets.

1400    Medium-close-up of a girl pleased with the basket she has completed and is holding it up in front of her.  From the background, elder enters left of frame looking satisfied with the girl’s basket. Then turns to the right of the frame to see Sage.

1500    Pan right to Sage with a sloppy arrangement of fibers sticking out in every direction. Elder enters left top of frame looking shocked and disappointed.  Sage looks over her shoulder and sees the disappointed elder.  Fade out.

 

B.  Canoe-carving:

 

1600    High long establishing shot of canoes lined up on beach with palm trees in the background.

1700    Cut to two-shot of a girl standing behind her completed canoe (right side of frame) and elder standing opposite the girl presenting her with a canoe-carving medallion.

1800    Cut to medium close-up of Sage doing something with her hands and whistling. Canoes in the background.

1900    Tilt down to close- up of Sage’s hands drumming her canoe.

2000    Tilt back up to Sage’s face and this time the Elder is standing behind her left of frame.  She turns her head to look over her right shoulder and sees the disappointed Elder.

2100    Pan right as Elder walks away down the beach lined with canoes. Sage is at the left of the frame pouting and rejected.

2200    Remaining at left of frame, a profile of Sage looking off into the distance toward right of frame.

 

III. Get Out

 

2300    POV vast ocean. Hut on stilts right of frame, small islands of in the horizon.

2400    Pan left more ocean and silhouette of three figures in canoe.

2500    Continue to pan left more ocean.

2600    Cut back to close-up of Sage in the right foreground and her peers are giggling the left background behind her.

2700    Sage’s eyes fill with tears and she turns right.

2750    Sage leaves the frame.

2800    Cut to back shot of Sage.  Camera remains stationary as Sage walks away from the camera and walks into the deep jungle.

 

IV. Jungle

 

2900    Cut to Sage stomping through the jungle upset. Walking from left of the frame to right. 

3000    Sage disappears into the lush vegetation.

3100    Vegetation in the foreground  separate Sage from the camera as she walks in the midground continuing to walk to the right as the camera tracks her.

3200    Sage emerges from the jungle.

3300    Camera stationary on the opposite side of a streamof Sage sitting by a stream peering over at her reflection.

3400    POV of Sage’s canted reflection.

3500    Canted shot of Sage from across the stream looking frightened.  Reeds in the foreground.

3600    POV close-up of reeds across the stream.

3700    Camera remains stationary capturing the same POV shot, but frog jumps out of reeds and into water.

3800    Same POV, but claw emerges from reeds following the frog.

3900    Rxn close-up shot of Sage with her jaw dropped.

4000    Cut back to POV; two sets of glowing eyes peer at her through the reeds.

4050    Close-up of Sage surprised.

4051    Zoom in on Sage.

4052    Zoom in on Sage.

4100    Cut back to canted medium close-up shot of Sage running through the jungle.

4200    Cut back to reeds with a small kitten (panther cub) emerging and jumping into the stream after the frog.

4300    Cut back to Sage running through the jungle looking back.

4400    Close-up of Sage’s foot tripping on a root.

4500    Medium close-up of Sage on the ground

4550    Close-up of Sage’s face. Her eyes look up

4600    POV of silhouette of an ominous figure hovering over her.

4700    Cut to high long-shot of Sage running.

4800    Cut back to silhouette that is actually a palm tree.

4900    Cut back to long shot of Sage running. Vegetation in foreground.

 

V.  Story

 

5000    Establishing shot of village

5100    Long shot of Sage emerging from the jungle.

5200    Sage looks over her shoulder to see that nothing is following her.

5250    Sage leaves right of frame.

5300    Medium long shot of Sage sitting by the fire

5400    Close-up panting and exhausted.

5500    Medium long shot of peers joining her on either side to inquire about her whereabouts.

5600    Sage’s POV of peers listening intently.

5650    Close-up of Sage as she tells her story. Fade-out

5660    Flashback of Sage at the river.

5670    Flashback of mysterious eyes.

5680    Flashback of Sage running.

5700    Fade in back to bonfire where other villagers have gathered to listen. Fade out.

5710    Flashback of Sage running.

5720    Flashback of Sage tripping.

5730    Flashback of Sage lying on the ground looking back.

5750    Fade in back to bonfire as Audience moves in closer engaged in her story.

5800    Close-up to Sage reenacting her experience. She growls to imitate her imaginary beast and outstretches her fingers like claws.

5900    Cut back to her frightened audience as the flinch back.

6000    Sage’s POV of an elder emerging from the crowd.

6100    Rxn. Close-up shot of Sage as she looks on in curiousity.

6200    Two-shot of elder bearing Sage’s gift.

6300    Rxn. Close-up of Sage in awe and appreciation.

6400    Close-up of Sage’s hands cradling her storyteller medallion.

6500    Medium close-up of Sage as she puts on her medallion and the others look on pleased.

6600    Camera pans to villagers’ reactions to the medallion (oohing and awing).

6700    Cam arrives back to medium shot of Sage sitting content among her peers.

6800    Zoom out to high long shot of village gathering. Bonfire in the center.  Palms frame the foreground. Fade out.

 

THE END