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Originally Prepared by Jason Ohler (www.jasonohler.com/storytelling) - Amended by Flynn

PAGE: 1 DURATION: 4 SECONDS PROJECT NAME: AN URGENT NEED

AUTHOR: DENNIS BROUGHAM

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An Urgent Need




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Picture: Crumb looking in the refrigerator.

Sound: acoustic guitar (adagio).

Intention: Demonstration of normal life in

this household.


Eight-year-old Crumb is in the kitchen of his home looking for food to eat because he’s hungry.

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Acoustic guitar track.




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Picture: Crumb with bread, butter, slices of

meat, a plate, working at the table.


Intention: continuing demonstration of normal

life in this household, with the implied but

unstated logic that eating food will ultimately

lead to a need to use the toilet.


Crumb is preparing a sandwich for himself and is buttering his bread.

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Picture: the family cat – FAT FREDDY – in the

kitchen.


Intention: the cat foreshadows Crumb’s need.


The family cat – Fat Freddy – slips past to go into the pantry.

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Picture: over-the-shoulder shot of Fat Freddy in

pantry looking out at Crumb, who is looking into

the pantry at Fat Freddy from the kitchen table.




Through the open door, Crumb watches Fat Freddy go its litter box to relieve itself.

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Picture: Crumb eating sandwich while Fat Freddy

uses its litter-box.




Crumb stops watching Fat Freddy to focus on eating his sandwich.

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Picture: Crumb in his bedroom. what will appear

on the screen (picture, clip, graphic or other kind

of visual)

Sound: acoustic guitar (andante).

Intention: continuing normality, but with the

expectation that something is about to change.


Crumb is playing in his bedroom and the babysitter is still sleeping on the couch. His toy is a

construction set and he’s imitating his father – a civil engineer – by building something.

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Picture: Crumb in bedroom abruptly sensing a

need.


Intention: feeling of an urge that is common to

everyone.


Crumb feels the need to use the toilet.

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Picture: Crumb looking into washroom. what will

appear on the screen (picture, clip, graphic or

other kind of visual)


Intention: surprise at finding an unusual state of

affairs: no toilet.


Crumb goes to the bathroom and opens the door to find only an empty space where the toilet usually

stands.

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Picture: Crumb at neighbor’s apartment door.


Intention: seeking solution to the problem.


He goes to the neighbor’s apartment and by gestures to the woman who answers the door he

indicates he’d like to use the bathroom.

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Picture: neighbor’s washroom with no toilet.

what will appear on the screen (picture, clip,

graphic or other kind of visual)


Intention: the unusual state of affairs continues.


The neighbor shows Crumb that in the washroom there is no toilet.

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Picture: Crumb exiting his apartment building.

what will appear on the screen (picture, clip,

graphic or other kind of visual)

Sound: acoustic guitar (andantino).

Intention: Crumb is determined to find a solution

to his problem.


Crumb leaves his apartment building to go in search of a toilet.

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Picture: Crumb enters a restaurant down the

street from where he lives.


Intention: Crumb is determined to find a solution

to his problem.


Crumb enters a restaurant near his apartment where he expects to find a toilet.

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Picture: Crumb in restaurant washroom.


Intention: surprised at finding no toilet. The

unusual aspect is more wide-spread that Crumb

would otherwise have thought.


Crumb goes to the restaurant’s washroom but finds no toilet there, either.

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Picture: Crumb entering a clothing store.

Sound: acoustic guitar (moderato).

Intention: Crumb remains determined to find a

solution to his problem.


Crumb goes to a clothing store near the restaurant and enters it in search of the washroom.

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Picture: Crumb in clothing store’s washroom.


Intention: the unusual state of the world persists.


Crumb does not find a toilet here, either.

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Picture: Crumb running down another street.

Sound: acoustic guitar (allegretto).

Intention: if private houses and small businesses

don’t have toilets, perhaps larger ones do.


Continuing his search, Crumb decides to go to a supermarket that he’s been to with his parents,

which is on a different street.

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Picture: Crumb arriving a supermarket.


Intention: if private houses and small businesses

don’t have toilets, perhaps larger ones do.


Crumb arrives at the supermarket.

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Picture: Supermarket washroom.


Intention: Crumb continues to search for a

solution to his problem. He’s a determined and

not a helpless boy.


In the supermarket’s washroom Crumb finds no toilets.

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Picture: Crumb going down a street past a

woman whose dog is urinating on a tree.

Sound: acoustic guitar (allegro).

Intention: Crumb is starting to worry and get a bit

desperate to find a toilet.


Crumb hurries down a street, heading for the train station where he really hopes he’ll find a toilet.

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Picture: Crumb entering train station.


Intention: Crumb is becoming desperate to find a

solution to his problem.


Crumb hurries into the train station’s main entrance.

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Picture: Crumb inside train station washroom.


Intention: the unusual condition of the world

persists and Crumb is running out of options.


Again, Crumb finds no toilet.

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Picture: Crumb running down street past a

fountain.

Sound: acoustic guitar (presto).

Intention: Crumb is getting really desperate now

and doesn’t know where to turn so he’s running

almost blindly in the hope of finding

something…anything.


Crumb’s pace speeds up as his need becomes really urgent but nowhere can he find a toilet. He runs

past a park with a fountain.

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Picture: Crumb stopped on sidewalk beside a

tree.

Sound: acoustic guitar (prestissimo).

Intention: distress and need for immediate

solution.


Crumb comes to a distraught halt halfway down a block beside a tree. Apparently remembering the

dog, he looks around to see if anyone’s watching. There are a few people walking on the sidewalk

and cars going by in the street but no one’s paying attention to him.

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Picture: Crumb looking around.


Intention: decision time.


Crumb looks around to see if anyone’s watching.

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Picture: Crumb undoing pants.


Intention: there are only two possible solutions

and the one that involves having to wash his

underwear afterward isn’t going to be his choice.


Crumb lowers his pants and squats beside the tree to defecate.

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Picture: two eight-year-old girls pointing and

laughing.

Sound: electric guitar (imitating laughter).

Intention: ridicule coupled with embarrassment

and shame.


Two girls about Crumb’s age who are nearby see him defecating in public, point at him and laugh.

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Picture: man in suit with briefcase defecating

beside a tree up the street from Crumb.

Sound: acoustic guitar (bass sliding note)

Intention: Crumb is not the only one doing this.


Just up the street from Crumb a man defecates beside a tree, just as Crumb did.

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Picture: woman leaving two children as she

hurries up an alleyway.


Intention: it appears that many people do this.


A woman leaves her two young sons to hurry into an alley to relieve herself.

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Picture: a woman’s face.


Intention: relief at being able to go.


Close-up of a woman’s face as she urinates.

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Picture: a man and his young son both urinate

against a wall.


Intention: relieving oneself in public is entirely

normal activity.


A man and his young son, their backs to the camera, both urinate against a wall.

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Picture: a man’s face.


Intention: relieving oneself casually in public.


Close-up of a man’s face as he urinates.

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Picture: a man’s face.


Intention: relief at relieving oneself.


Close-up of a man’s face as he urinates. (Note: I know he looks like he’s singing, but he’s supposed

to be looking relieved, as if saying “Ahhhhhhhh.”)

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Picture: several city blocks of people relieving

themselves everywhere.

Sound: acoustic guitar (moderato) and voiceover.

Intention: relieving oneself in public is entirely

normal activity.


Several city blocks where people are relieving themselves in various places. Zoom out slowly to

signal this is happening everywhere. (Note: I’m not a good enough artist to render this correctly).

VO: What if your world was like this?

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Voice recording.

Transition: fade to black.




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Picture: outskirts of African village with mother

and daughter walking.

Sound: acoustic guitar (adagio) and voiceover.

Intention: another part of the world which is

unlike the developed world and which benefits

from the work of the Global Sanitation Fund.


A mother (24 years old) and daughter (8 years old) are approaching the outskirts of their village.

They’re carrying water jugs.

VO: Their world is and here XX% of the children die from causes related directly to no sanitation.

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Voice recording.

Transition: fade in.




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Picture: girl looking up at her mother.

Sound: acoustic guitar (sliding treble note).

Intention: she shows the same need as Crumb

had.


Close-up of girl regarding her mother with a questioning look to indicate a need of some sort.

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Picture: mother gives daughter a look of assent.

Sound: acoustic guitar (sliding deeper note).

Intention: the request is entirely normal here.


Close-up of mother assenting to her daughter’s request.

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Picture: mother and daughter on outskirts of

African village.


Intention: anticipation at being able to go.


The girl puts her water jug on the ground.

VO: Their world is and here XX% of the children die from causes related directly to no sanitation.

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Voice recording.




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Picture: daughter squatting.


Intention: relieving oneself in public here is

normal.


Daughter squats to relieve herself in the dirt.

VO: In their world, 2.6 billion people live without the things we take for granted…such as a toilet.

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Voice recording.




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Picture: Global Sanitation Fund logo with text.


Intention: this is the solution to the problem for

the developing world.


The Global Sanitation Fund’s logo appears, with the final text.

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Global Sanitation fund logo.

Text: Sanitation saves lives. It’s an urgent need. www.wsscc.org.

Transition: fade to black.

Sanitation saves lives.

It’s an urgent need.

www.wsscc.org.




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Picture: text.

Sound: electric guitar (allegro).


Credits.

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Credits.

Transition: fade in/fade out until final credit, then fade to black.

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