Flip prepares to start his morning bath.
He daintily lowers himself into the water in the bird bath...
...barely disturbing the water.
He proceeds to wash himself neatly, basking in this quiet moment.
There is a crashing sound above his head...
...and a large bird falls crashing through the branches...
...straight into the bird bath, creating a huge splash.
Flip stares in horror as the wave comes towards him...
...and grits his teeth, bracing himself for the impact.
He is now completely soaked and ruffled.
He turns irately to see the cause of this disturbance.
(Pan to the left to reveal the big bird)
The intruding bird waves nonchalantly, clearly oblivious to how he offended Flip.
He begins to wash himself sloppily, splashing and spraying water everywhere.
Flip turns around and tries to ignore him. He tries to dry himself off.
He tries to ignore the big bird, but he has begun to sing loudly and obnoxiously.
Flip keeps getting splashed. This is the last straw. He turns around...
...and marches pointedly towards the big bird, who continues to splash.
Flip tries to push him out of the bath, but accidentally gets flung over the side himself by one of the big bird's splashing wings.
Flip lands in the mud at the base of the bird bath.
He pulls his head out of the mud and is so mad that he does not even notice that his face is caked in mud.
He sneaks up on the big bird and prepares to send a giant splash crashing upon him, serving him a taste of his own medicine.
The big bird is startled awake and sits up. He notices Flip's muddy face and can't help but crack up laughing.
This is not the reaction Flip expected. Baffled, he looks at his reflection to see what he is laughing at.
The big bird laughs so hard that he falls over the side of the bath...
...and also lands head first in the mud below.
He too has a humorous muddy appearance when he unearths himself.
Flip notices and collapses into uncontrollable laughter.
The big bird flies back up to the top and lands back in the water. He is unphased by his trip into the mud, and is still smiling.
They start to laugh at eachother's muddy faces...
...and start to splash eachother to clean the mud off.
They both fly off together as friends.
Overall, I think is nice because it is clear. There are two scenes where I feel you could change. First, when the wave that is caused by the falling of the blue jay, I think you could either make it just one close up to catch up the emotion of Flip and the wave splashing on him instead of cutting in-between the wave and Flip, or you could use a wide angle shot which shot from bottom to the top to catch the hugeness of the wave and use a shot which shot from top to bottom to show how small and terrified the Flip is.
ReplyDeleteSecond, when the blue jay falls, maybe shot it from the ground looking up the pond. It could add some dynamic and variation compared to the fall of the flip.