Redefined Transcription Structure

Each Line of my poem or some of the lines combined will be used to show what Siegfried Sassoon is saying through his poem and using it to transcribe it into the final animation

Transcription Material - 

In a meeting with Alan we spoke about how the way to move this animation forward would be to shoot it from the point of view of a soldier who lived amongst the trenches during WW1.

Trench Duty by Sigfried Sassoon 1886 – 1967, Kent, England

1 - Shaken from sleep, and numbed and scarce awake,
2 - Out in the trench with three hours’ watch to take,
3 - I blunder through the splashing mirk; and then
4 - Hear the gruff muttering voices of the men
5 - Crouching in cabins candle-chinked with light.
6 - Hark! There’s the big bombardment on our right
7 - Rumbling and bumping; and the dark’s a glare
8 - Of flickering horror in the sectors where
9 - We raid the Boche; men waiting, stiff and chilled,
10 - Or crawling on their bellies through the wire.
11 - ‘What? Stretcher-bearers wanted? Some one killed?’
12 - Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire:
13 - Why did he do it? ... Starlight overhead—
14 - Blank stars. I’m wide-awake; and some chap’s dead

Start of the Animation -
• Close up shot of an old pocket watch in a jewelery cabinet for sale in a shop window.
• The camera then fades out and back in onto the same pocket watch but this time inside of a WW1 dugout.
  
  
• Poem Begins –
  
  
• 1 - The camera pans down onto the floor of the trench surface onto a waterlogged trench craters throughout the trench. As the artillery lands it shakes the camera and the ground, which is shown by the vibrations in the water. (think Jurassic park)
• 2 - The camera then fades out and changes to a mid-shot or long shot of an overview of the trench. This shot is to show how cramped and how bad the living conditions of trench living actually were.
• 3 & 4 – The camera moves throughout the trench very slowly. This is so the audience can take in the surroundings of the trench and how bad the conditions are. (Over the top of this – the voices of muffling men over the top of the scene.)
• 5 – The camera fades out again onto a mid-shot of a soldiers dugout. The camera zooms in slowly towards the dugout which will be covered by a sheet.(these were used for soldiers privacy.) We will see a silhouette of a soldier cramped in his dugout lighted by the flickering candle.
• 6 & 7 – The camera will be focused on the other end of the trench were the artillery shells will be landing. This is where I will use camera movement such as shaking the camera to add to the atmosphere. For instance camera movement and sound effects will play a huge part in helping to create this atmosphere.
• 8 & 9 – Screen flickers from black to white. Whilst this is going on there is a Mid-shot of the Soldiers equipment. (This part may change).
• 10 – This will be a Mid-shot, the camera will pan across a line of barbed wire which has pieces of cloth and other parts of soldiers uniforms ripped, caught up amongst the wire.
• 11 – Mid-Shot of the medical area of the trench, Stretchers and equipment.
• 12,13 & 14 – Shot Fades in onto a Mid-Shot of the trench, as the camera moves up, the camera zooms out onto a blank sky, cloudy and foggy.
• 14 prt 2 – The camera rests upon the plain sky for a few more seconds and then fades out onto a close-up shot of a soldiers hand, motionless on the floor.
  
  
• Poem Ends -
  
  
• After the Camera has been still on the pocket watch for a moment, the camera the zooms in slowly and eventually fades out and then back in onto the pocket watch back in the shop cabinet which was at the start of the animation. The shot holds for a few seconds and then finally cuts to finish the animation.