DELICATESSEN | THE STORYBOARD
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Video Fade up to reveal a shop sign swinging in the air. Sign has a graphic silhouette of a pig with Delicatessen written across it. A banner swings/extends to reveal the director’s title card: Un Film de Jeunete et Caro. Audio music throughout: This is Me by Michael Giacchino
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Delicatessen | the storyboard | sequence 1
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Video Camera tilts down to the storefront window below the Delicatessen sign. The window is covered in brown paper. The paper begins to peel off, revealing the yellow light from inside. Text is uncovered on the storefront window: Scenario, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Gilles Adrien.
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Delicatessen | the storyboard | sequence 2
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Video Zoom in on the deli window and camera pushes through the window pane into the deli kitchen. We see a butchers block with meat on the table top.
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Video Zoom in on the butchers block. Camera tilts down to see table from a horizontal position. A knife drops into the frame from above and hits the steak. As the knife strikes the steak, blood spatters out and reveals text: Dialouges, Gilles Adrien.
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Delicatessen | the storyboard | sequence 4
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Video Camera dollies right across the table top. This time, a television appears in the frame. The screen has static, with jumping lines. As the television centers in the frame, the text: Direceur de la photographie Darius Khondji comes into focus, with a blood splatter. The camera continues to dolly right, the screen returns to static, and leaves the frame.
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Delicatessen | the storyboard | sequence 5
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Video Camera dollies right across table. A pair of old fashioned women’s glasses come into view, sitting on the table. Above the glasses, text appears out of focus. Camera zooms in on the glass lenses. Camera moves through the glasses, rack focus from the glasses to text. Title card: Costumes, Valerie Pozzo de Borgo is revealed in the text, now in focus, through the glasses.
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Delicatessen | the storyboard | sequence 6
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Delicatessen | the storyboard | sequence 7
Video Camera dollies right. As glasses leave the frame, snails appear. The snails lazily crawl along the table. As they crawl by, text: Musique, Caros D’alessio is revealed in their slime.
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Video The camera continues to dolly right across the table top, this time a leaking faucet comes into view on the right side of the screen. As the faucet continues to drip, the frame fills with water. Direction Artistique, Marc Caro is revealed in pink through the blue water.
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Delicatessen | the storyboard | sequence 8
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Video From the previous shot, the frame is filled with blue water. Bubbles start to appear in the blue frame, floating around and popping. As they pop, text: Mise en Scene Jean-Pierre Jeunet is reveled in the popping bubbles.
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Video Cut back to table top. A clown’s head with a painted face sits on a dinner plate. A cleaver drops down from the top of the frame, cutting into the clown head. As the blood splatters, Decors, Jean Phillipe Carp, Aline Bonetto, Jean Rabasse is revealed. The clown winks athe audience. Camera cuts to black at wink. Audio Music cuts out at wink.
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to illustration and design by Bridget Walsh