Sunday, May 4, 2008

Script

SPEAKER

SOUND EFFECT

ACTION

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Forest ambiance.

Fade in music.

Wide shot - Establishing shot – water rippling out from the crocodile. A small bird flies by.



Cut to: Mid shot - TRIGGER.

Trigger emerges from under a large root and sniffs the ground.


Trigger squeaks with glee.

Cut to: C/U - Trigger sniffs the air and looks around. He spies a nut nearby.



Cut to: Mid shot – Trigger skitters off toward the nut.


Trigger sniffs.

Trigger squeaks again.

Cut to: C/U - Trigger picks up the nut and smiles. He takes a long whiff of it and pops it in his mouth. Trigger sees another nut under a bush



Cut to: Mid shot - He bounds toward the nut and pops that one in his mouth as well.



Trigger sees yet another nut and runs off to it, doing the same thing.



Cut to: Brief montage – Trigger is collecting more and more nuts, and his cheeks grow bigger and bigger.



Cut to: C/U – Trigger looks up and spies a huge nut in a tree across the stream.



Cut to: C/U and zoom to huge nut.


Trigger gasps.

Cut to: C/U – Trigger gasps with excitement and drops all the nuts from his cheeks.



Cut to: Mid shot – Trigger begins bounding across the log spanning the stream.



Cut to: Profile – Trigger reaches the opposite end of the log and is thrown into the air as it snaps open.


Trigger squeaks.

Cut to: Mid-shot – Trigger is airborne. He looks down and squeaks with dismay as he begins to fall.


Loud snap.

Cut to: Mid shot of crocodile – The crocodile’s mouth snaps closed. It smiles and settles back into the water.



Cut to: Wide shot of the stream with a slow truck out. A small bird flies by again.



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