Alan Marshall Bella Edwards Bob Howourth Brian Davis Brenda Cook Carol Chilcott Claude Rimmer David Conn David Glover-Kirk David Parry-Jones David Scott David Talbot faustus group Jack Mundy Jacky Long Joan Clews Joan Goodyear John Vowles Kathy Stewart Kevin Hogan Lizzie Lane Lyn Martin Mary Lansdown Nicholas Selway Peter Sutton Richard Edwards Robert Chapman Robert Tooze Royston Tanner Sarah McGreevy Stephen Canaby This River Winding Tina Kelly Tom Hodson georgeT
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Abbreviations / technical terms

CU = close up
Jib = equipment used to get camera in required position
L = Left
Mid CU = mid / medium close up
MS = mid / medium shot
Mid WS = mid / medium wide shot
Pan = panoramic shot, created by turning the camera from one side to the other
R = Right
Reverse = a shot that takes the opposite point of view from the one before
Slo-mo = slow motion
Track = camera itself moves around during shot
VO = Voice over
WS = wide shot
YBrenda = Young Brenda
Zoom = camera appears to move closer or further away during shot

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SCENE SHOT DESCRIPTION SOUND
20. SUBURBAN AREA (near School): Exterior day (late) - SPRING 1 MS track with jib feet up to face, YBrenda skips happily by school, behind fence Feet skipping, singing VO Brenda – poem “but I never got anywhere anyway” - lighter
21. WOOD: Exterior day (am) - FANTASY SPRING 1 MS – Brenda sat at easel painting wrong flowers, camera pulls & tracks out to reveal woods & YBrenda skipping picking purple flowers Wind blowing, trees rustling, birds singing, laughter of YBrenda & Brenda YBrenda – “I am wanting to be me..”
  2 MS – YBrenda by stone brushing petals away  
  3 MS – Brenda looks to YBrenda smiling VO Brenda – “Its about your choices not being taken away”
  4 CU – YBrenda hands on stone, words revealed ‘BRENDA COOK….’ VO Dad – “Consider the lilies of the field and how they grow, Even the little blades of grass god takes care of”
  5 WS – YBrenda takes purple iris’ to Brenda, they smile VO Brenda – poem “There were flowers on the windowsill….picking the wrong flowers”
  6 MS – 2 shot petals start to fall, they laugh  

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