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DARK RAINBOW A DOCUNENTARY FILM SCRIPT FOR TELEVISION BY Mahmoud Yahyaee Anzahaee A THESIS Submitted to Michigan State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS Department of Telecommunication 1977 Copyright by MAHMOUD YAHYAFE ANZAHAEE 1977 ii Accepted by the faculty of the Department of Telecommu- nication, College of Communication Arts, Michigan State University, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree. fi/é ____._. Dirébtor o hesis( iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS My sincere appreciation to all those who gave their time and information during my research for this script. I am especially grateful to Alice Evans who gave freely of her time and details of her life as a blind student. 1'1] . TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION... ................ ...... ... ............ .....1 GUIDE TO SCRIPT... ........... ...................... ......3 SCRIPT................... ........ ...... .. ................ u DISCUSSION INTERPRETATION OF DARK RAINBOW. ........................ .168 ALICE'S MONOLOGUE, NARRATION — INTERVIEWER..............21n MUSIC.... ........................ ............... .......217 THE APPROACH.. ....................... .I.................220 CONCLUSION............. ....... ..... ........ ........:..222 INTRODUCTION Dark Rainbow is a documentary filmscript for tele- vision which centers on a black blind girl, who is studying at Michigan State University, to give a total picture of the blind person's condition in the United States. The form that the script approaches first gives gen- eral information about blindness and the blind person's condition in the United States. It then covers the educa~ tional process that young blind persons go through in the instructional centers. After this overall picture the script narrows in on blind persons who are involved in higher education, and talks about all the types of service that a university provides for its blind students. After giving this informational background, the script follows Alice, a black blind girl,as an example of blind students and sees her life based on her reality, and the individual perception of this writer. He approach and develop this reality in the filmscript to transmit and dramatize the different aspects of a blind student in her daily university life and personal life. This is done with an individual adaptation of reality to the motion picture. This writer's creativity and sensitiv- ity joined to create this filmscript which applies art. 1 J. [\J characteristics to bring up a form with harmony to trans- mit the subject of blindness to the viewers via the film medium. The filmscript prepares an atmosphere in which the subject can be analyzed while at the same time it brings the viewers into the dark world of the blind. GUIDE TO SCRIPT E.S Extreme shot E.C.U Extreme close up C.U Close up M.C.U Medium close up M.S. Medium shot M.L.S Medium long shot L.S Long shot O.S Over shoulder FULL-SHOT Whole subject in the frame. TWO-SHOT Medium shot of two persons in the frame together. CLOSE-SHOT Close view of subject. TRUCK-IN Camera travels toward the subject. TRUCK-BACK Camera moves away from the subject. B.M Background music. ALICE'S MONOLOGUE Alice's voice speaking her thoughts. DARK RAINBOW OPENING SEQUENCE SHOT PICTURE SOUND SEASHORE - EARLY MORNING FROM FADE-OUT SLOWLY BACKGROUND NUSIC STARTS. SCENE GOES TO FADE-IN. L-S OF SUNRISE. WHILE (STRING QUARTET) THE SUN IS COMING UP IN THE HORIZON THE WHOLE FRAME BECOVES FULL OF SUNLIGHT. VERRAZANO BRIDGE - MORN- ING - NEW YORK CITY M-S OF SUN SHINING ON THE B.M CONTINUES. WATER. ZOOM-BACK AND TILT UP TO L.S OF THE VERRAN- A NUFFLED TRAFFIC SOUND ZANO BRIDGE ON THE HUDSON RIVER. EFFECT IS HEARD IN THE BACKGROUND. M-L-S (HIGH ANGLE) OF HIGHWAY BRIDGE. CARS ARE PASSING FAST HIGHWAY INTERCHANGE - MORNING - RUSH HOUR L-S.OF A HIGHWAY INTER- CHANGE. M.S OF HIGHWAY (SHORT B.N.AND TRAFFIC SOUND SHOT). A FEW CARS ARE PASSING QUICKLY THROUGH EFFECT IN BACKGROUND. THE FRAME. NEW YORK CITY - MORNING L.S (HIGH ANGLES CAMERA B.N CONTINUES PANS - FROM THIS HEIGHT THE CITY LOOKS LIKE A MODEL. SHOT FICTURE SOUND M.S TO L.S BY ZOOMING B.M AND SOUND EFFECT BACK OF THE SUBWAY TRAIN AS IT WHIZZES PAST OVER OF SUBWAY COMBINES WITH THE BRIDGE. TRAFFIC NOISE . M.S OF SUBWAY STAIRS B.M AND SOUND EFFECTS OF WITH PEOPLE BUSHING UP. CITY. L.S AT HIGH ANGLE OF CROWDED STREET DOWNTOWN. 10 L.S OF CROWDED SIDEWALK. PEOPLE ARE COMING TOWARD THE CAMERA. 11 M.S OF PEOPLE WHO ARE BUSHING PAST. 12 M.S OF ANOTHER SIDEWALK, DIFFERENT PEOPLE WALKING INTO FRAME AND THEN PASS- ING THROUGH. 13 M.C.U OF THE MIDDLE OF THE SIDEWALK. AFTER A FEW PEOPLE PASS A BLIND MAN WITH A CANE WALKS IN TO THE CAMERA. WE KEEP HIM IN THE FRAME BY PAN- NING AND ZOOMING BACK. HE IS COMING TOWARD THE CAMERA. SLOWLY ZOOM-BACK TO L.S OF SIDEWALK. WE LOSE HIM AMONG THE PEOPLE. 1h E.C.U OF TRAFFIC LIGHT. IT TURNS FROM RED T0 GREEN. 15 L.S OF PEDESTRIAN CROSS- ING. A BLIND PERSON CROSSES THE STREET WITH HIS LEADER DOG. 16 M.S OF HIS HAND ON THE DOG‘S LEASH. CAMERA PANS, KEEPING HIM IN THE FRAME. SHOT PICTURE . SOUND 17 C.U OF A BLIND MAN WALK- B.M AND SOUND EFFECTS ING AMONG THE PEOPLE. BY CAMERA PANNING WE FOLLOW OF CITY. HIM. 18 M.S OF A BLIND, BLACK BEGGAR ON THE SIDEWALK WITH HIS CANE AND MONEY CAN. -HE WALKS BACK AND FORTH SHAKING THE MONEY CAN AND REQUESTING MONEY FROM PEOPLE. PAN LEFT AND RIGHT TO KEEP HIM IN THE FRAME. 19 C.U OF HIS HAND SHAKING THE CAN. SOMEBODY DROPS MONEY INTO IT. 20 C.U OF HIS FACE, IT SHOWS NO EMOTION. 21 M.S OF A BLIND WOMAN WHO IS COMING OUT OF A SHOP. 22 M.L.S OF MANY PEOPLE COM- ING FROM THE FRONT DOOR OF A BUILDING AND DOWN THE STAIRS. 23 M.S OF THE FEET OF THOSE PEOPLE PASSING FAST THROUGH THE FRAME. A PAIR OF FEET WITH A WHITE CANE APPEARS IN THE FRAME. ZOOM-BACK TO M.L.S A YOUNG BLIND MAN IN A DRESS SUIT IS REVEALED AS HE TOUCHES THE STAIRS WITH HIS CANE. 24 M.S PAN OF A POLICEMAN HELPING A BLIND WOMAN ACROSS THE STREET. 25 L.S OF STREET. ZOOM IN B.M GOES DOWN - NARRATION TOWARD A BENCH NEXT TO THE STREET.A BLIND MAN STARTS. IS SITTING ON THE BENCH LISTENING TO THE RADIO NARRATOR: It is estimated WITH EAR PHONES. SHOT PICTURE SOUND that there are about 6.h million blind per- sons in the United States with some kind of visual impairment. That is, 26 L.S OF PARK. ZOOM-IN TO persons who have trouble M.S OF TWO MEN WEARING THICK CORRECTIVE GLASSES seeing even with correc- SITTING ON THE BENCH. tive lenses. 27 C.U OF ONE OF THE MEN. Of these, 1.? million WE SEE BEHIND THE FRAMES THAT HE HAS ONE GLASS EYE. are severely impaired. This means that they are either "legally blind" or that they function as if they were "legally blindn even though their vision does not fall into that definition. WELCOME HOME FOR THE BLIND-GRAND RAPIDS-DAY 28 L.S OF WELCOME HOME FOR Only about 400,000 of the THE BLIND BUILDING. ZOOM- IN FAST TO OUT-OF-FOCUS. severely visually impaired however, have no usable vision at all. 29 ZOOM-BACK FAST FROM OUT- OF-FOCUS TO FOCUS OF THE TITLE WELCOME HOME FOR THE BLIND. THE WHOLE TITLE FILLS THE FRAME. SHOT PICTURE SOUND 30 M.S OF TWO ELDERLY BLIND Over one million persons LADIES PICKING FLOWERS IN THE GARDEN COURT OF or about 65 percent of THE HOME. the severely visually impaired are 65 years of age or older. 31 M.C.U OF ONE OF THE wo- Of this 65 percent, 22 MAN'S HANDS TOUCHING A FLowER, SEARCHING FOR percent are 6% to 7A. THE RIGHT PLACE TO CUT IT wITH THE SISSORS. 32 M.C.U OF HER FACE WHILE #3 percent are 75 and SHE BENDS TO CUT THE FLOWER. over. 33 M.L.S OF ELDERLY BLIND This is because the COUPLE. THEY ARE WALK- ING SLOWLY TOWARD THE diseases which are the CAMERA TO M.S. major causes of blind- ness in this country are associated primarily wiui aging. They are the re- sult of an increased life expectancy. 34 - M.C.U OF TWO OLD HANDS STEREOTYPE OLD POPULAR MOVING OVER PIANO KEYS. MELODY. CAMERA PANS LEFT TO RIGHT WITH THE MOVEMENT OF THE HANDS. 35 M.S OF AN ELDERLY BLIND LADY PLAYING THE PIANO. 36 L.S CAMERA PANS THE BLIND RESIDENTS SITTING IN THE LOUNGE AREA LIS- TENING TO THE MUSIC. SHOT PICTURE SOUND 37 M.C.U CAMERA PANS SLOWLY PAST THE OLD BLIND RES- IDENTS IN THE LOUNGE. IT IS A PARTY AND THEY ARE DRESSED NICELY. 38 M.S OF A BLIND COUPLE WITH (PIANO MUSIC FADES AS PARTY HATS ON. NARRATION COMES IN.) 25 percent of the severely visually impaired are in the #5 to 6% year-old age group. 39 L.S OF ALL BLIND RESI- 8 percent are 25 to NA DENTS IN FRONT OF THE HOME.(THIS SHOT Is LIKE years of age, and only A A MEMORIAL PICTURE OF ALL THE RESIDENTS.) percent are under 25 years of age. (SOUND EFFECT OF TAKING PICTURES) LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND O ES-ER, MI HIGAN “0 M.S OF A GERMAN SHEPHERD About 20,000 persons, 12 DOG.

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