Nestling Pre Production Bible

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Emily Stone: DirectorProducer

Pre Production Artist

Puppet Maker

Storyboard Artist

Andy Luck: Co-Director

Foley and SoundAnimatic



„Nestling‟



Nestling

By Emily Stone 1. Shot of a fishing harbour view. Title appears, then fades.

2. Next shot, a young girl (Ivy) sits on a step outside her house front door, looking small against thebuildings. She has her head resting in one hand and drawing in her book with the other.Audience can hear background chatter, children laughing and general „harbour‟ noise. (Lonelybody language- slumped shoulders, sighing, looking around wistfully, head bowed etc.)

3. Cut to a close up of the book from Ivy‟s point of view, looking down on a dot-to-dot drawing.We hear her sigh sadly, as her hand draws lines to connect the dots. Sounds of children playing inbackground are louder.

4. Cut to mid-shot of Ivy. At the sound of the children laughing, she looks up from her book.

5. Suddenly a football flies towards Ivy (kicked by the children off screen.) Her expression changesto panic, and shields herself with the book she‟s holding, and the ball bounces off it. Children in

background continue to laugh, but it gets fainter (signalling that they are walking away.)

6. Ivy peeks up from behind the book nervously. Realising that the children have gone, she lowersthe book from her face.

7. Visibly upset, Ivy bows her head and carelessly throws her book into a bin beside the step thatshe sits on. In a self-conscious manner she hunches her shoulders and wraps her arms around

herself.



8. Suddenly she hears a faint squeaking noise coming from the bin, and looks up.

9. Cautiously, Ivy leans over and peers into the bin.

10. (Camera from Ivy‟s POV) Sitting in the remains of a discarded fish and chips box is a seagull

chick. It looks up at Ivy and chirps inquisitively whilst tilting its head.

11. In the same shot, audience hears Ivy in the background gasp happily. Her hands reach outtowards it.

12. Mid-shot, we see Ivy straighten up and cradle the gull in her arms with a huge smile. She thenpushes open her front door and enters.

13. New scene inside house, Ivy tiptoes across hallway towards the stairs with the chick in herarms. A wide door frame is next to the stairs, which leads to the kitchen.

14. As Ivy approaches the stairs, we hear voices (Ivy‟s mother and her friend) coming from insidethe kitchen.

15. Ivy pauses at the bottom of the steps when she hears them. The friend asks “Ere, where‟s yourIvy to, then?” and with an air of indifference the mother replies “upstairs I reckon, „ead in theclouds that one.” Ivy bows her head sadly and steps forward onto the first step.

16. Ivy enters her bedroom and sits on bed carefully, chick now on her lap. She smiles, as it looksup at her and cheeps, nuzzling her with its head. Fade to black.



17. Next day, Ivy is standing at the kitchen table reading a note. From her perspective, we

read “Ivy, be a good girl and fix something for dinner later. Here‟s lunch. Ma x” Nextto the note is a stargazy pie on a plate. We hear Ivy say “bleurgh!”

18. Shot of the house wall from the outside, and the gull can be seen looking through Ivy‟s

bedroom window from the inside. Children laughing and seagulls calling can be heardin the background.

19. Ivy‟s head also appears at the window. After looking back and forth from gull, Ivycloses the curtains.

20. Cut to inside Ivy‟s room. The gull lying on the bed while Ivy stands beside it. The pie

on the plate has been placed on the bed.

21. Now the outside distraction has gone, the gull notices the pie and squawks withdelight. It stretches its neck out and starts eating, plucking out a fish head from the pastry.

22. Cut to shot of Ivy‟s face. She clasps her hands together in delight and grins.

23. Series of quick shots back-to-back. In each shot Ivy holds out a different plate of food tothe excited gull on different days (alternating between day and night.)- Ivy‟s clothes change from day clothes to pyjamas in sequence, the gull must get bigger

in each one to show time transition, and also the room gets visibly messier.

24. Cut to shot of the closed curtains fluttering in the breeze, and seagulls calling can be

heard from outside.



25. The gull looks up and tilts its head curiously, but then turns its head as it hears Ivy clear herthroat.

26. Cut to shot of the bedroom littered with food remains and the gull lying on the bed, lookingenormous while Ivy stands next to the bed (in her pyjamas.) She places an empty plate on thefloor, as the gull settles down to sleep.

27. The gull takes up almost the entire bed, and after straightening up Ivy tries to pull the coverfrom underneath it without luck, so with a sigh she climbs onto the edge of the bed, snugglesagainst the gull‟s side and falls asleep.

28. Later that night. Mid-shot of Ivy stirring in her sleep and opening her eyes. The gull is no longerlying next to her.

29. Looking over her shoulder, Ivy realises the gull isn‟t there and sits up in panic.

30. Night shot of the house wall from the outside (typical night sounds can be heard- owls,crickets?)The gull‟s head is hanging out of the downstairs kitchen window.

31. It tilts its head inquisitively as it hears other seagulls calling in the background. Audience hearsa door opening, then a loud gasp of horror in background.

32. Cut to inside kitchen. Ivy stands in the wide kitchen doorway in her pyjamas. Her free handcovers her mouth in shock



33. Cut to full-shot of the gull, now huge and fully grown, pulling its head from the open kitchenwindow. Destruction is all around it, with food splattered across the walls and floor and smearedall over the gull‟s beak.

34. (Same camera angle) The gull squawks at Ivy and moves away from the window towards her,

and clumsily knocks a teapot off the counter next to the window. Loud crash is heard.

35. Mothers voice from upstairs shouts “ere Ivy! What the devil‟s goin‟ on? I‟m coming down!”

36. Ivy‟s expression turns to horror. Hurriedly she runs behind the gull and pushes it through thewide doorway and towards the narrow open front door.

37. Ivy pulls the door open, and frantically tries to push the gull out of the door with greatdifficulty due to its huge increase in size.

38. As we hear footsteps of the mother coming downstairs, Ivy manages to push the gull outsidewith a flurry of feathers. With a terrified glance up the stairs, Ivy also runs out the door.

39. Night scene of harbour. Ivy looks around for the gull, only to then realise that her friend hasflown away.

40. She picks up a large single feather that‟s on the floor. Ivy stares at it for a moment.

41. Wide shot facing out of the harbour. The moon shines down onto Ivy, whose back to us, as shestares out to sea looking tiny and insignificant.



42. Sometime later. Mirroring the beginning harbour shot, we once again see Ivy sitting on thesame step, looking lonely. She plays with the white feather from before, looking sad.

43. She gets up to leave, but a child approaches her and points to the feather inquisitively. Ivy istaken aback and tilts her head questioningly, but then smiles and holds out the feather to hernew friend.

44. Suddenly they hear a loud squawk, look up, and see Ivy‟s gull nesting on the roof of her housesurrounded by chicks.

45. Ivy‟s expression changes to joy and excitedly points up towards the gull whilst looking at the

other child, eager to introduce her new friend to her old one.

46. They both wave up at the gull smiling, and the gull bows its head whilst its chicks cheeparound the nest.

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