One thing form the very vein we said was that the characters would not have mouths as they were no supposed to talk. In the screen play, there is dialogue written for the characters. This needs to be taken out and re-written. The screen play also mentions a lot of other animals in different scenes which we have not modelled and do not have time to model.
Another reason for revisiting the screen play is that we need to start to record our sound. Jeff Chen has agreed to speak the narration for us in Chinese so that we can add subtitles and will sound authentic. The script had to be perfected before we could record our sound.
James Waters wrote the old screen play but together me and Sarah have rewritten it:
OPENING CREDITS
Establishing shot with slow zoom in of environment (Lijiang river and
gumdrop mountains). Cranes fly in front of camera.
Introduction shot of CAT and RAT.
NARRATOR
In China, a long
time ago, there lived a cat and rat...
Pan slowly across three images of CAT and RAT eating, playing and
sleeping.
NARRATOR
They
ate together, they played together, they slept together
On top of a mountain under a Chinese arch
Introduction of emperor, zoom out to show escalator and mountain.
NARRATOR
One day, the
Emperor decided to hold a race among all the animals in the land.
Wheel of zodiac fades in slowly rotates clockwise.
NARRATOR
The first twelve
animals to finish the race would have a year in the Chinese calendar named
after them.
Establishing shot of river. Camera pans across.
NARRATOR
You must
swim across the river at its widest point
CAT and RAT talking to OX.
NARRATOR
Being two of the
smallest animals in the race, the cat and rat convince the ox to let them ride
on his back.
CAT and RAT climb onto OX’s back.
OX goes onto river with them on his back.
NARRATOR
The
long journey had made the cat and rat very tired.
CAT and RAT curl up and go to sleep. Fade to black.
RAT wakes up. Over-the-shoulder shot of the emperor at the finish line
on top of the mountain.
NARRATOR
When
the rat woke up, he saw the emperor standing at the finishing line far away.
RAT looks at camera and has a glint in his eye.
NARRATOR
The rat had a plan
so he would come first in the race.
CATs ears twitch and the CAT wakes up. RAT on edge of OX’s back
looking into river. CAT goes over to see what the RAT is looking at. RAT
indicates for the CAT to catch some fish.
Shot of CAT looking at all the fish in the river. Reflection of CAT in
the water.
The RAT pushes the CAT. The CAT
tumbles into the water with a splash.
NARRATOR
As the cat leaned
over, the rat pushed her into the river.
CAT resurfaces and struggles onto a log floating in the river.
Back of OX swimming away, towards mountains.
When they reach the bank, RAT jumps onto the mountain and jumps up the
stairs.
NARRATOR
As part of the
rat’s plan, he jumped in front of the ox and ran up the stairs before the ox
could climb up the riverbank.
EMPEROR with a knowing smile, watches RAT cross the finish line.
CAT struggles across the river to the riverbank.
Camera pans up slowly with EMPEROR in foreground with background
behind.
NARRATOR
All the animals
were placed in the order they finished the race to make the Chinese zodiac
With the cat coming last, she never made it onto
the zodiac.
Zodiac wheel with all animals on.
CAT and RAT facing away from each other.
NARRATOR
Because of the
rat’s betrayal, the cat and rat have been enemies ever since.
END CREDITS
Because we have changed the screen play, the animatics also need to be redone to give us all a better idea of timing and how the shots are going to be laid out. We can now record the narration and then start to create animatics and move on to creating the final shots.
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