katieringle: January 2016

Fade In:

[Scene 1, inside a room]

[Camera starts by going through a window and by panning through a room, moving straight, but looking left to right. It is a very basic room, consisting of, from left to right, a side table, bed, dresser, and then a desk with a book. Right away on the left, before the side table, or above, roughly a few seconds into shot, comes the first text. It comes up one word at a time, like all the text will.]

Words]

[There is a place where the sidewalk ends]

[The camera continues to pan over and stops on the desk with an open window to the right of it. Above the desk comes the next line, maybe appearing along the edge of the desk.]

WOrds]

[And before the street begins,]

[Camera moves down and zooms in on the book. Design still pending, but probably with a design close to what Shel Silverstein had with his art style. The cover opens to reveal the first page with the next line of text. Text comes in on the left side, while an image is on the right. It will be a sketch of white clouds, or maybe white grass.]

words]

[And there the grass grows soft and white,]

[After a pause, the book turns pages to reveal the next line. Words appear on the left, while the picture is on the right. It is a picture of a sunrise, heavy in shades of red and orange.]

words]

[And there the sun burns crimson bright,]

[Either we hear a chirp or a feather blows into frame, moving the camera to the open window to the right. Here we see a bird, known as the moon-bird, sitting in the window. The text appears around the bird, in a format surrounding it.]

words]

[And there the moon-bird rests from his flight]

[Text fades away. The bird rustles his feathers and one feather escapes out the window. Camera follows feather outside, zooming through the window and to the left, slightly.]

Words]

[To cool in the peppermint wind]

[Scene 2, on the street outside]

[The shot stops when the camera has a full shot of the street, maybe consisting of three buildings. In the background, there are chimneys with smoke rising from them; making it a much-polluted looking scene. Within one of the buildings, the text appears inside its confinements.]

words]

[Let us leave this place]

[Camera fast zooms in on the smoke arising from one of the buildings. The text emerges from the stylized smoke.]

words]

[Where the smoke blows black]

[Camera follows the smoke to the edge of the street, towards the left. Here we see a monster standing in the street, potentially a medium shot from his waist up. He is in a broken up building, maybe halfway in a window. He is positioned to the left of the shot, and the text appears to his right.]

words]

[And the dark street winds and bends.]

[Camera fast zooms in on the monsters eye. Screen goes to all black. White cracks begin to appear, and start to branch off so that one big crack has several small cracks sprouting from it. Text appears around these cracks.]

words]

[Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow]

[From the black background and the white cracks, the shapes form a black hand on a white background, though as the hand moves the background changes. Maybe the hand turns to another color, and the background changes. Either way, it turns into a hand and begins to the finger walking thing. Text appears as it walks by.]

words]

[We shall walk a walk that is measured and slow]

[The hand reaches a point where there is a feather laying on the ground. It stops, and picks it up. There is a zoom in on the feather, with only a little bit of hand visible. Text appears within the feather.]

words]

[And watch were the chalk-white arrows go]

[The hand holding the feather then moves the feather up, then down off the screen to reveal a door in the background. It is in the middle ground, not too far away. Text appears around it, large.]

words]

[To the place where the sidewalk ends.]

[Camera does a slower, steady zoom on the door. Once it reaches to the point that the door is almost taking up the whole shot from top to bottom, the first part of the text appears on the door (until ‘walk a walk’). The door then opens, and on the inside part of the door, the remaining words appear.]

words]

[Yes we’ll walk a walk that is measured and slow,]

[Scene 3, at the room, outside to inside]

[Camera further zooms into the doorway. When it is about placed where the camera would actually be in the doorway, the bird returns and flies really close to the camera, almost as a blur. When the bird passes, the camera moves slightly, but does not follow yet. Text appears as he flies by.]

words]

[And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,]

[After a pause on the text, the camera moves back over to a window back to the room where the animation began. It is a window opposite from the window we flew out of before, so it is the one we originally entered on. Camera arrives there just as the bird flies out of frame once more. We can see the monsters leg or arm finish crawling into the window as he gets into the room. Text appears on the outside of the window.]

words]

[For the children, they mark,]

[Camera moves through the glass in the window, causing like a scene shift. We see the bedroom once more with the desk and book at the end. We see the monster is halfway climbed into the book, looking at the camera. Camera is zooming in so that it is straight on top of the desk. Text appears around the book.]

words]

[For the children, they know,]

[The monster finishing crawling into the book and uses its hand to close the cover. As the cover closes, the screen fades to white, revealing the final text. –OR- The monster finishes crawling into the book and closes it with his hand. The cover reveals the final text as if it is the title of the book. Or maybe it turns to another page where the text is.]

words]

[The place where the sidewalk ends.]

FAde Out:

The End