Cotton Documentary Short: Visuals

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titles, intro and music agreed, commentary under discussion      

long-shot London Bridge, morning rush hour; slow zoom

to walkers clothes: shirts, jackets, trousers; dolly up to grey

sky, merge into blue; lock down on white-tinted landscape;

mid-shot of head-scarved women filling baskets, grinning

to camera through mist of candy floss cotton; pan right

to plantation owner’s beaming face, arms paternally spread

shots of females showing bruises from overseers’ sticks redundant

 

 

cut to rolling lorries, drivers’ thumbs-up from cab windows

to roadside camera; close-up of auctioneer’s hammer; shot

of clapping bidders; mid-shot of looms, shaking, sifting haze

becoming thread; cut to rollers pressing out cloth; long-shot

of goods trains silhouetted against a tropical sun

grip’s  pics of 24 hour-shift drivers asleep at wheel not needed

 

 

aerial long-shot (helicopter) of slowly turning container ship;

upward arc of dockside gantry swinging container onto

truck; fade to exterior of shining new factory - CGI - trucks

unloading; cut to interior, young women, hair in buns,

chatting at machines; close-shot of spread fingers

positioning pockets, hems, labels; fade to reverse zoom

of opening shot, but with sunny sky

closing credits as agreed

gaffer’s snaps of needle-pierced fingers

and footage of smiling soldiers at gates pretending to shoot him unwanted

 

Nike interested in product placement