The Two Parrots story board

The Parrots

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The story is about a person who loved to raise parrots.

And so, one day, he decided that he really wanted to raise some very, very special parrots.

Slow pan across many parrots in cages

So, he went and he bought two eggs,

Arriving at a shop keeper passing over a box.

Cut to exterior shot of house surrounded by trees.

Zoom in to a window.

The Parrots

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Mix to hands opening the box

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to reveal two eggs.

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Cut to a wider shot of the Man turning on a light to warm the eggs.

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He hatched them, and started raising them.

Clock wipe through to a close up of the two eggs.

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The eggs begin to crack

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two tiny parrots hatch.

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Cut to a wider shot as the smiling Man removes some egg shell from one of the Parrots.

Fade to black.

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He tried to teach these parrots everything he could.

Fade up. The parrots are slightly bigger and the man is reading to them from a book.

He taught them about Newton’s physics laws. He taught them about formulas.

Mix through The Parrots have grown a little and the man is chalking complex mathematical equations on the blackboard.

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He played music for them.

Action Mix through.

The parrots are a little bigger still. The Man is Playing the Tuba to them.

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Fade to black.

And, by the time these parrots got old, boy, they could recite incredible formulas.

A magazine spins into frame

they could recite incredible formulas.

It is a science magazine.

Two parrots are in front of a blackboard covered in equations.

Another magazine spins in.

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They could quote from incredible literature. They could say amazing things.

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Action This time the cover has the parrots sitting ontop of a pile of books.

The final magazine spins in.

They could quack in complete tune, the entire symphony of Beethoven.

It is a music magazine. The man is conducting the parrots infront of a huge crowd.

The magazine fades away so we can see how big the crowd is.

Camera Flashes go off

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Action They fill the frame

Well, one day, unfortunately the man died, and the parrots got left.

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Fade to white.

Fade in from white.

Pan a cross a white room full of furniture covered in sheets

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The relatives came, saw the parrots in the cage, and decided who was going to take care of them.

The pan ends on a couple in black regarding the Parrots.

Maybe the best thing is to release them.

The woman lip syncs

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So he did.

Cut to exterior of the house

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Now, these parrots had never learned how to fly, so he let them out on the tree right outside the window

The windows open ant the parrots are tipped onto the branch.

and they crawled up on the branches and they sat there looking around. This was a new experience for them.

They clumsily hop nearer the trunk of the tree.

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One of the Parrots looks up

To their great surprise, they saw another parrot sitting on a branch higher up,

Cuts to it’s POV. We see a third Parrot peeping around the tree trunk waving.

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and they struck-up a conversation. And the conversation went something like,

Cut to an angle on all three Parrots.

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“Look at all the things we know. We know about literature, we know about music. and we know all sorts of scientific formulas.

Cut to a close up of the two Parrots. They are happy and excited.

In all the things that they were saying, they were really trying to impress this other parrot and the parrot was getting very, very impressed.

Cut to the third parrot. He is impressed.

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a cat.

He looks down

And this cat had definitely detected the parrots

Cut to a shot of a cat looking up into the tree.

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and was starting to come up the tree.

Cut to a wide shot as he jumps onto the tree and begins to climb.

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So this other parrot looked at the two parrots and said, “Do you know how to fly?”

Cut to a shot of all three Parrots.

They said, “Of course, we know how to fly. We know everything about flight there is. Pressure is created at the bottom of the wing, low pressure’s created at the top of the wing and, because of this, we can fly.”

Close up of the two Parrots still full of themselves.

“No-no-no-no-no. I’m not talking about the formula bit. I’m talking about do you really know how to fly?”

The third Parrot is worried.

The other Parrots are obviously not getting it.

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They said, “But we know so much. We know so much.

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hey said, “But we know so much. We know so much.

We know all these incredible formulas. We know these symphonies.

We know so much. Surely, if we don’t know one thing, what difference could it make?”

The two Parrots are still happy and full of confidence.

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And, as he saw the cat coming closer and closer,

The third parrot looks down.

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Cut to an angle of the CAt climbing.

he took his wings and he took flight and he said, “Good luck, because that one thing you don’t know, you really need to know.

Wide shot of the third Parrot flying away.

And, because you don’t know that one thing, all that you know

The two Parrots look at each other bemused.

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isn’t going to do you any good.”

Action Cut to a top shot odf the cats head coming towards camera.

Fade to black