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| Diversified Scientific Solutions / Ocean Sciences BC |
"The
Legend of Siwash Rock"
Storyboard sketches and rendered frames from my animated short, "
The
Legend of Siwash Rock", based on the A.M. Stephen poem of the same
name and inspired by the paintings of Roy Henry Vickers. Most notably
his four part piece project titled, "Four Views of Vancouver".
Diversified Scientific Solutions used a portion of this animation in one of their documentary film on the ocean food chain for Ocean Sciences BC.
I hope to one day upgrade the current 5.5 verses and complete all 12.
Enjoy and please let me know what you think.
| Music by: Uzume Taiko Ensemble | Title: "Taiyo Goes to Camp" |
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| Storyboard | The Legend |
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with a close-up on Siwash Rock. Camera pulls back, orbits the rock 180 degrees. |
This
is the legend of T'elsh, Happy beyond desire, |
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camera pauses behind the rock, then continues to orbit the rock |
Calmly,
till time shall cease, Facing the sunset's fire. |
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| The
camera orbits to the front of the rock as particles, (salt, sand, etc.), float by. The camera then slowly decends and shoots upwards towards the rock. |
Lightly
the salt winds pass, Touching his carven face. Silent the Great Chief stands, Lost to his ancient race |
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| Camera
fades in, showing shoreline. Pans along shoreline, showling the lodges and the sky chief. |
In
the days before the white man, When the Saghalie Tyee Smiled upon his Indian brothers In their lodges by the sea, |
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continues to pan along shoreline, to Siwash Rock and out to sea, there we see the Transformers great canoe, enshrouded in mist, floating by. |
Roamed
the Two Transformers, searching Through the paths of good and ill, For the hidden thread of promise That bound earth to His will. |
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| Fade-in.
Camera travels over the sea and along the shoreline, through the forest, up a mountainside and stops at T'elsh, silhouetted by the sun. Fade-out |
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the sunlit waters gleaming Round the fir-clad cliffs that lean Darkly o'er the mirrored forest, Dwelt a warrior, straight and clean. |
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| Fade-in.
Camera travels through the forest to find T'elsh's quarry. Match disolve |
Swift
his step in woodland places Brought the quarry to his feet. |
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disolve. Camera pans over to chest of oil then across to chest of meat and back to lodge entrance. |
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his lodge the chests were laden With their store of oil and meat. |
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| Camera
pulls back and out of T'elsh's lodge. Backwards along the shorline to the blanket/robe made of cedar. Camera stops and pans out to sea. Fade-out. |
Rich
was T'elsh, the Salish hunter, And his two wives sang with pride As they wove the fragrant cedar Into robes beside the tide, Echoing back their happy crooning, In its voice of mystery Mingling words of lowly love-songs With the magic of the sea |
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| Fade-in. T'elsh's canoe floats in the bay as the camera orbits around it, stopping with the village in the background. Fade to black. |
Floating
softly as a moonbeam In his light canoe, our brave Filled an hour with idle dreaming As he watched the rippling wave Blend with dusk along the shore-line. |
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flashes, showing T'elsh's canoe in the bay! Blackness...fade-in to closing, "The Legend will continue...". |
'T'elsh!'
A great Voice fell On the silence of the waters Like the deep tones of a knell. |
| THE LEGEND WILL CONTINUE... | |
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