visual rewrite – temporal

Belonging Begins With Us

0:00-0:01 there are people gathered around a table all with books, we see it from a birds eye view.

0:01-0:04 two shots of people playing games on a table, both once again shown from above.

0:04-0:05 shown from above, there are kids gathered around a table all eagerly grabbing a snack from the bag on the table. They are at a table that seems like it’s from a school cafeteria. There are sports bottles and a basketball on the table. They are wearing pinnies, which are overshirts used in sports to display what team you are on. This all suggests that these are kids who just got back from playing sports at school during recess, gym, or an after-school sporting event and are now coming back for lunch or maybe a post-game snack.

0:05-0:07 a group of people tap their wine glasses together, so they are probably celebrating something. there is a plate of crackers with bites taken out of them, suggesting that they have been there for a little bit.

0:07-0:09 a little girl at a table with lots of food, which suggests a celebration of some kind. two adults are next to her, one is serving her food, so they are likely her parents.

0:10-0:12 a wooden table, two construction workers. the floor has a sort of covering so they are doing something with that. one man has his hat off and is writing something over the blueprints.

0:12-0:14 people are playing a seemingly complicated board game and writing things down along with it.

0:14-0:15 people are gathered around a table with laptops, notebooks, and papers that say “business plan” so clearly, they are in a business meeting of some sort.

0:15-0:16 two people are playing ping pong, there is a third person with a paddle, they are probably taking turns playing.

0:16-0:20 two people exchanging goods over a table. to the left is a box of clothes and to the right are boxes of cans, and a paper that says, “canned food drive”. So, this is a canned food drive.

0:20-0:24 This is the first scene not shown from above. there are multiple people around a table with lots of food, and a welcome sign to the left, so this is a welcome back party. It could also be a religious gathering because of the cross hung up in the background. The woman in the center of the screen in the purple shirt looks surprised to see someone, and they hug, so they are probably old friends who haven’t seen each other in a while, or perhaps one of them is the one being welcomed back

0:24-0:30 the text “belonging begins with us” shows up on screen, suggesting that this is a psa for welcoming people and making them feel belonging, which would fit the overall theme of people in a group working cooperatively.

with sound, the narrator explains that no matter what skills you have, you bring something to the table, reiterating the idea of belonging to a group. at the end they say “learn how much you can strengthen your community” so this was clearly a psa about belonging to a community of some sort and feeling a connection within that community.

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1 Response to visual rewrite – temporal

  1. davidbdale's avatar davidbdale says:

    IS THAT ALL?

    0:00-0:01 there are people gathered around a table all with books, we see it from a birds eye view.

    —Not just people. These are women.

    —Four of them and three pocketbooks on the table. The fourth one can be assumed.

    —Women with a variety of skin tones.

    —They all wear something at their wrists to emphasize their femaleness.

    —The reading glasses reinforce that they’ve been reading from the books, not just covering them with library covers or something else.

    —They each have a copy of the SAME BOOK United Horizons, a pretty specific hint that they’re interested in community-building.

    —The books are in fact OPEN TO THE SAME PAGE.

    —One woman is pointing at a passage of interest for the woman across from her.

    —Until something contradicts the obvious: These are community activists.

    —They don’t plan to take their individual copies with them. They’re stacking them in the middle of the table at the end of a session.

    —One very weird error that could have been edited out: a chair is being pulled from the table to the right of the screen as we can see from its wheels rolling away. Quite distracting.

    That should get you started if you want to revise this piece.

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