Floodlights

Transcript

1. Dialog Int - classroom - day Teacher: Number 27, do you want to read the passage?
2. Dialog (sfx chair scraping floor)
3. Dialog Girl: And everth - everything you haf -
4. Dialog NARRATOR (v/o) : I was born with a short tongue, Girl: - have helth, dear... (sfx: kids giggling)
5. Dialog NARRATOR (v/o) : And still stumbled with words under me when my legs no longer did. (sfx kids giggling, paper crumbling)
6. Dialog NARRATOR: It shaped me into filling the empty gaps of conversation, (sfx voices overlapping)
7. Dialog NARRATOR: It shaped me into filling the empty gaps of conversation, (sfx voices overlapping)
8. Dialog NARRATOR: Wishing no one would notice my silence, Teacher (v/o) : Who wants to present first?
9. Dialog NARRATOR: Wishing no one would notice my silence,
10. Dialog NARRATOR: Looking down at my hands while I speak.
11. Dialog (sfx: beam projector whirring)
12. Dialog (sfx: beam projector whirring)
13. Dialog NARRATOR: When I had my lingual frenulum removed at twelve, (sfx hospital ambiance)
14. Dialog NARRATOR: When I had my lingual frenulum removed at twelve, (sfx hospital ambiance)
18. Dialog Mother: Say Jang-Nan-Ggam.
19. Dialog Girl: Jal-lan-gam.
20. Dialog Mother: (sighs)
23. Dialog Mother: Why can't we fix you?
25. Dialog NARRATOR: I realized the length of my tongue did not matter
26. Dialog NARRATOR: How much significance my words carry.
27. Dialog NARRATOR: Ten years later I am still finding comfort in empty spaces, (sfx voices overlapping)
28. Dialog NARRATOR: Ten years later I am still finding comfort in empty spaces, (sfx voices overlapping)
29. Dialog NARRATOR: And I still look down at my hands while I speak,
30. Dialog NARRATOR: And I still look down at my hands while I speak,
31. Dialog NARRATOR: Still wishing no one would notice my silence, Teacher (v/o): Who wants to read their poem?
32. Dialog NARRATOR: Still wishing no one would notice my silence, Teacher (v/o): Who wants to read their poem?
40. Dialog Girl: When grith -
41. Dialog (sfx paper shaking)
42. Dialog When grieth - grief weights you like your own flesh - you think,
43. Dialog you think - how can a body - withstand this? Then -
44. Dialog Girl: Then you hold life like a face, between your palms, a plain face -
45. Dialog - and you say, yes, I will take you
46. Dialog I will love you, again.
49. Dialog (sfx: clapping)
50. Dialog (sfx clapping, beam projector whirring)
51. Dialog (sfx clapping, beam projector whirring)
52. Dialog (sfx clapping, beam projector whirring)
53. Dialog sounds fade out