A friend and I had to write a script for a video for Environmental Science for tomorrow, and this is what I ended up typing. I wrote it all in one go for the most part, starting off with what my partner and I had already worked out in class and then just continuing...a lot of the time I sidetracked myself and then went back and added an entire scene, and the Biblical thing at the end was just because I really, really wanted this whole thing to be like the Bible but with recycling, but we only have a minute and a half time limit, so. That was a long sentence. I don't know, I find it amusing. This is actually how I brainstorm too.
We will be using puppets, to tell the creation myth of THE RECYCLING GOD. Or something, I don’t know, maybe he’s just a hero, I kind of want him to die.
(Begin with a black background and the VOICE OF GOD narration): In the beginning the was nothing. Only trash. (cardboard trash pops up)
I know the above is what you already have written down. I typed the following, mostly for my own amusement, but we might be able to use some of it.
In red is the stuff I think we should actually use
In the beginning, this land was fertile, green, and miraculously clean. The people of this land worshipped under the GODS OF RECYCLING, three all-powerful and mystical being known only as Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. (green, pretty background, hills and shit, and three beings of LIGHT on a stick, hovering - OR MAYBE THE GLOBE? AND IT’S ALL NICE AND THERE ARE BEINGSINSPACEYESSSSSSSSS)
As time went on however, the people
WAIT BETTER IDEA SIDETRACK
In the beginning, this land was fertile, green, and miraculously clean.
Then, everything changed when the species homo sapiens arrived.
Only the [HERO TITLE], master of the three principles of [what’s it called] could save them. But when the world needed him most, he vanished without a trace.
And then end with the words:
BE THE [HERO TITLE].
SAVE THE WORLD
(I just completely ripped off of Avatar: The Last Airbender for that one, sorry, I just needed to get it out of my system)
BACK ON TRACK
...the people begin to lose faith with their old gods. In their [I’m looking for a word, not ignorance, not almost...arrogance? Not quite though, maybe I am looking for ignorance] ignorance they turned away, and embraced a series of false idols, idols which promoted materialism and waste. (Change greenery to black hills and nasty - OR IF WE DO THE WORLD MAKE IT BLACK)
Soon, the world that was once filled with life had become a world built on decay. (Add in tiny trash mountains - ADD TRASH LIKE A CIRCLE OF CARDBOARD THE SIZE OF THE GLOBE AND TRASH OUTSIDE SO IT’S LIKE THERE’S TRASH NOW AWWWWWYEAH)
Time passed, so much time that the people could no longer remember when they had lived in a [clean/non-dirty/non-filthy/a place that was not immersed in filth? Kinda prefer the last one but we have to watch for time] place. (Shift trash mountains up to reveal BIGGER trash mountains - I don’t know, make them bigger? Or make the world more black)
Just as there seemed there was no hope for this world, a child was born, with his destiny stamped onto his forehead. (HE HAS TO HAVE A RECYCLING THING ON HIS FOREHEAD - BABY WITH RECYCLING THING ON FOREHEAD MADE OF LIGHT APPEARS!!)
As the child grew, it became clear that he possessed a wisdom far deeper than his age belied. He quickly gained followers, and his name was spoken throughout the land. [I really want to have some sort of FB or Twitter or Google reference here. Like, his name was twittered by the birds and something, I don’t know] (He should be like Jesus, with people following him around as he walks across the stage)
And to these followers, he taught the worship of the three ancestral gods. A pledge of frugality to Reduce soon became a standard among the people, while re-gifting became an accepted [not offering, like an homage?] homage to Reuse. As for Recycle, offerings of [is it number three?] plastic, paper products, glass bottles, and metal cans were left at his blue temples all around the land.
And so the world once founded...(see below)
The people of this land had long since given into despair, content to wallow in their filth with no hope of a brighter future.
....blah blah blah you have something written down, I don’t know what it is
Into this land filled with rotting food and cloaked in methane vapors was born a child. A child who would soon rise up and bring new hope to the despairing populace. A child named [Something Awesome. And Funny.].
[Something Awesome And Funny] grew up happy as any child could in this land of garbage, for he had his loving mother to raise him. It was not until he reached his [ninth year? thriteenth year? fifteenth year?] of life that he began to question the identity of his father.
...and on her deathbed, his mother revealed to him that he was, in fact, son of [AWE-INSPIRING LIKE THOR], one of the gods of Recycling, long forgotten by the people of the land. For the people had turned their backs on the gods long ago, in their quest for material wealth and happiness.
And so [Something Awesome and Funny] vowed to bring back the worship of these old gods, and set out to gather his disciples.
...
And so he said unto them, “Go ye all into this world and spread my three commandments, reduce, reuse, and recycle, so that my death may be not in vain”. And the people listened and followed and soon the world once founded on decay and death was reborn into light and shoes made from recycled tires.
The end. Amen.
Those words shall mark the end, regardless of the rest of our thing.
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