Page 1
Panel A – Splash 3/4
Four people walking down a desert road, 3 children and one adult.
Panel B – Mid Shot, Father
Father
I…I think this is it, my sons.
Panel C – Mid Shot,
Three sons looking forward to what their father is looking at.
Page 2
Panel A – Wide Shot
A Crossroad that spans out into three separate roads.
Panel B – Mid shot
Father still staring forward, exhausted.
Father
I’m sorry, my sons…I no longer have anything to give to any of you.
Panel C – Mid Shot
Focus on the kids, while the father is still talking.
Father
You must each find your own way, and future. Follow these roads, and live long...
Panel D- Wide Shot
Father hugs all three of the children. Roads can be seen behind them
Child 1
But papa, we don’t want to leave!
Child 2
Don’t want!
Father
…There’s no other way! Now go! And don’t turn back!
Page 3
Panel A – Close up
Focus on the youngest son. Point of view shift to him now.
Panel B – Wide shot
Shows the youngest sun running toward camera, and the other two sons in the distance, running down their own road. Son panting.
Panel C – Mid shot, raining,
Boy walking, obviously cold, in the rain. A house can be seen further down the road.
Panel D – Thin
Boy knocking the door, trying to take cover from the rain. Everything’s silent.
Panel E –
Man opened door
Man 1
What do you want, boy?
Boy
Please, I don’t have anyplace to go. Take me up as your servant, if you may, sir-
Man 1
What dis look like? An orphanage? This ain’t no place for children! Get-outta-here!
Panel F – Close up
Close up on boy’s eyes
Boy
I can prove that I’m not just a kid, just give me a chance!
Panel G - Small
Page 4
Panel A – Wide Shot
A few thieves and the boy in the bushes, watching a man coming up the road.
Thief 2
That guy there… We want you to steal his ox.
Panel B – Mid Shot
Focus on the boy
Boy
Just watch me work..
Panel C – Wide
The boy placing a shoe in the road and hiding again
Panel D- Close up on man’s face
Man
Oh! What fortune!
Panel E – Wide
Man
But only one pair? What shame…
Page 5
Panel A –Mid shot
The boy picking up the boot
Panel B – Mid
The boy running through the bushes trying to get ahead of the man
Panel C –
He rolls and drops the same shoe in the road again, promptly hiding himself once more.
Panel D –
Man walks up and notices the shoe again thinking its another pair.
Man
Fortune! It looks like the same as that one I passed. It isn’t too far off.. maybe..
Panel E –
Man pats his ox telling it to wait as he makes his way back up the road.
Page 6
Panel A –
Victoriously, the boy walks towards the ox and pulls it by the reins into the bushes to the waiting thieves.
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