Pitch:
This story starts with a walk-scene where the teacher asks the children to describe the animals they see. They all see the normal animals, and just one of them, Peter, sees a unicorn.
Everyone is laughing.
But the teacher asks Peter to describe this Unicorn.
And after Peter does it the teacher takes his camera out of the poket and gives it Peter as a present.
Through this camera Peter See his Teacher as a wizard with long Beard, who Tells him to be silent.
Then Peter starts to take shots with his new camera, and the ordinary world around him bigins to change.
He takes a shot of a mountain and sees a Sad Giant instead.
The rugby-players turn into the orcs-fighting.
Screenplay:
EXT. Beautiful Hill with a great view
we see a teacher and a group of children walking. The teacher asks kids to describe the animals they see.
KIDS:
I see a cow,
I see sheep,
I see a bird,
And just one BOY says:
I see a unicorn.
Everyone is staring at him, and after a pause kids burst out laughing.
Never mind, its just Peter’s imagination!
PETER
You don’t believe me, do you?
TEACHER
Describe me the unicorn.
PETER
it is tall and white as snow, I can see red ribbon in its hair.
TEACHER
You know, I’ve got something for you.
The teacher takes a camera out of his pocket and gives it to Peter.
Peter looks trough it at his teacher – instead of the teacher we see an old wizard with long beard. He asks Peter to be silent, slowly the boy nods.
Peter takes a shot of rugby-players and sees the orcs fighting instead.
He takes a shot of the horse and sees the unicorn.
He takes a shot of the mountain and sees a sad giant.
THE END
Hello, my name is Nickolas Parshin and I'm from Moscow, Russia.
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Nickolas Parshin said...
Here's a new updated script:
it begins with a little boy and his parents - arriving to Queenstown.
As they start to travel, a toy-camera which belongs to the boy suddenly breaks and a strange old man gives him a new one, which looks a little old-fashioned. After a second the old men disappears.
From now on, boy starts to see the beauty of New Zealand in a fantastic new Way. He focuses his camera on Big Cliffs. However, trough the camera he sees a Giant Guerilla.
Instead of a horse he sees a unicorn.
He looks at rugby players but sees the battle of the Orcs.
Instead of schoolboys he sees hobbits.
He looks at the ordinary tree and sees that it is alive.
At the end, the boy enters some souvenir shop at the center of Queenstown, and aims his camera at the old man, who looks familiar. The wizard smiles and brings his finger to his lips, indicating a 'shushing' gesture to the boy.
On-screen caption:
Capture the SPIRIT of New Zealand – This land deserves a story.
The boy turns the camera upside down and sees that, at the bottom, the name 'Peter J' is engraved.