When I first received this assignment, I knew that I wanted a haunting, eerie atmosphere in my animatic. I could roughly imagine what I wanted the final product to look and feel like, but struggled to get started on storyboard thumbnails. All of my attempts came off as very unpolished and lacking visual coherence.
Then upon learning that the animatic was to be made to a pre-recorded soundtrack, I decided to type up my own script for the soundtrack. I typed down the scene occurring as I imagined it in my head. When I use the script in my work, I tried to format and use correct abbreviations.
The Wizard Of Oz
(script fragment only)
by
Noel Langley
Florence Ryerson
and Edgar Allen Woolf
Cutting Continuity Script
Taken From Printer's Dupe
Last revised March 15, 1939
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Ext. Haunted Forest- Night.
FADE IN -- TRUCKING SHOT of weird trees of the Haunted Forest -- PANS DOWN
to sign post --
HAUNTED FOREST WITCHES CASTLE 1 MILE
I'D TURN BACK IF I WERE YOU!
LAP DISSOLVE TO:
LS -- Dorothy -- Scarecrow -- Tin Man and Lion walking thru forest -- they
walk forward -- CAMERA TRUCKS ahead of them -- they stop -- look at the
sign post --
MCS -- Dorothy -- Scarecrow -- Lion and Tin Man looking at sign -- Lion
reads -- nods -- turns to b.g. -- Tin Man and Scarecrow stop him -- the
others shake their head -- CAMERA TRUCKS back as they walk forward again --
Lion growling -- they react to noise o.s. --
LION
"I'd turn back if I were you."
(growls)
CS -- Two owls on limb of tree --
MS -- Dorothy -- Scarecrow -- Lion and Tin Man react -- Lion runs to b.g.
-- Scarecrow and Tin Man catch him -- carry him forward -- he cries --
CS -- Two crows on limb of tree --
MS - Dorothy and group - they speak - Lion hands spray to Dorothy -
Scarecrow takes the spray - throws it o.s. right -
TIN MAN
From now on, we're on enemy ground. You
should have something to protect yourself
with.
LION
She - she can have my Witch Remover.
DOROTHY
Does it work?
LION
No, but it's wonderful for threatening with.
DOROTHY
Oh --
SCARECROW
Oh, here - give me that thing!
MLS - Spray hits the ground - then vanishes -
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MS - Dorothy and Group react - speak - net flies out of Lion's hand - all
react -
SCARECROW
Oh, did - did you see that?
TIN MAN
Oh - look out.
SCARECROW
You know something?
MCU -- Lion and Scarecrow --
SCARECROW
I believe they're spooks around here.
MCU -- Dorothy and Tin Man --
TIN MAN
That's ridiculous! Spooks -- that's....
MCU -- Lion and Scarecrow --
TIN MAN o.s.
...silly.
LION
Don't you believe in spooks?
MS -- Dorothy and group -- Tin Man goes up out of scene -- others react --
TIN MAN
No. Why only -- Oh --
DOROTHY
Oh! Oh, Tin Man! Oh!
LS -- Dorothy -- Lion and Scarecrow watching Tin Man -- he falls to ground
in f.g. -- Dorothy and Scarecrow run forward -- help him up --
DOROTHY
Oh -- Oh --
SCARECROW
Oh -- are you -- are you all right?
CS -- Lion, his eyes closed tight -- speaks --
LION
I do believe in spooks, I do believe in
spooks. I do -- I do -- I do -- I do -- I
do -- I....
MS -- Image of Lion in Crystal -- Witch and Winged Monkeys looking into
Crystal.
