The Farmer and the Buried Treasure - storyboard

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1 Action Opening Titles. Background is a close up of a wooden post covered in Ivy

Once there was a very, very poor man who came across an abandoned farm.

Pan across and pull out.

He saved up his money,

To reveal Poor Man looking at abandoned farm. He looks at his hand

whatever he could and bought it.

POV of coins in his hand.

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He worked,

Fade up on the Poor Man (Now a Farmer) repairing the farm roof

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. and he worked,

Mix to him scything

and he worked.

Mix to him ploughing.

He sowed his crops

Mix to him sowing seeds

and reaped them.

Mix to him lifting a huge Cabbage

And he made a beautiful farm.

.Mix to a wide shot of the farm. It has been extended, the cabbages are large and healthy, there are orchards full of fruit and wheat fields in the background. There is a lorry loaded with crates in front of it.

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Finally, the land started producing bumper crop after bumper crop, season after season.

5 Action Cut to a close up of the man counting money as the lorry behind him pulls away.

And each time there was a crop, he would sell it and save the money he made.

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Cut to a shot of the lorry driving away laden with crates of cabbages

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He would save and save and save.

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Cut to an interior shot. The Farmer is putting the money into a safe. The room is richly decorated

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Action The Farmer closes the safe door

After a few years, he became quite wealthy.

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Cut to a close shot as it closes revealing that it is behind a rich looking portrait of the Farmerand his family.

Fade to black.

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Then he put the gold in a box

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Fade up on a close up of a chest of gold. Gold coins are thrown into it.

The lid is closed.

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Cut to night time exterior of the side of the farm house.

The Farmer pops his head out.

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He pops his head back

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Cut to exterior wide shot of the farmer wheeling the chest in a barrow.

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Cut to a shot of the Farmer tipping the chest into a hole.

and buried it on his farm.

Cut to close up of the crate landing and soil thrown on top of it.

Fade to black.

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And one day, when he was quite old, he called his children to his bedside,

Fade up on interior shot of the now old Farmer with his two sons beside his bed side

and he said, “Work the farm. And you will be rich beyond belief.

But, work the farm.�

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Fade to black

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And when he died, his children thought, “This crazy man. He spent all his life on the farm. We're not like him. We want to go to town, have a business, and do many things.�

Fade up on exterior shot of Brothers on a golf course talking.

So they abandoned the farm,

Cut back to show that the background is a poster on the side of a truck which drives out of frame to reveal the city

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moved to town, and tried to earn their living. They tried and tried and tried, but they remained very poor.

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Fade up on the city street.

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One day, a man who was also very poor

came and asked,

10 Action The Poor Man knocks.

The Brothers open the door. They are older and shabbier

“Would you please sell me your farm? This is all the money I have.”

And the eldest son said, “A little bit of money is worth a lot more than nothing, so yes, you can have the farm.”

The older Brother takes the money...

And he sold it.

and closes the door.

Fade to black.

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Wipe to a wide shot of the Poor Man ploughing

Now this man worked the farm. And guess what happened?

One day, as he plowed the field, he found the box filled with gold.

He stops

Cut to close up of the man opening the chest.

Within us there is also a farm. It may be a neglected farm, but it is a farm.

And in this farm is a field, and in the field lies a buried treasure.

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Close up of chest interior

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12 Action Fade to white.

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