I've completed about 75% of my script and storyboard, so I'm posting what I have. Next week, I will have to scan pictures from books for Ali Baba and Sinbad. I could not find too many still images on Google. After that, I will complete the rest of my script and storyboard. Attached is a rough draft of the script. I will submit the storyboard on another blog. When both are completed, I will repost them.
Also, I have added images and worked on some of the narration in Photostory3 for my final project. Music will be included later. I may have to delete some images or shorten some of the narration. Just timing this by itself took almost 4 minutes. Any suggestions?
Script (rough draft)
The Storyteller's Creed I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- Robert Fulghum
(Not sure whether to add this quote or not).
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Introduction
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Young and old are fascinated by adventure stories, especially children. Many envision themselves as heroes or heroines of the day. Oral storytelling is the ladder to taking the first step towards a magical experience. A combination of poets and musicians, many storytellers brought and traveled with their tales to exciting places and returned with many more exotic tales to their homeland. Many folktales, myths, legends, and fables all have morals or teachings embedded in their stories. Although, there are cultural differences in many societies, storytelling’s presence in traditional societies were strong.
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Earliest storytelling can be found in the Westcar Papyrus, a document about Khufu (Cheops), a cruel Egyptian leader and builder of the Great Pyramids (Giza). Each of these tales is being told at the court of Khufu by his sons.
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Written on twelve tablets, the oldest written cuneiform (wedged shape) epic tale is Gilgamesh, a tale about the two thirds god and one third human Sumerian hero king of Uruk and his friendship with Enkidu, a half man/half beast being.
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In the Tanglewood country setting, the children-Sweet Fern, Cowslip, Dandelion, Squash Blossom, Primrose, Periwinkle, and others gathered around Eustace. As they assembled in the dell, Shadow Brook, the children were anticipating one of his famous stories. He acquired a reputation as being great storyteller. After getting all comfy, Eustace begins his story of The Golden Touch.
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"There once lived a very rich king called Midas who believed that nothing was more precious than gold."
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He was granted one wish by one of the gods because of his kindness to one of the satyrs. With his wish being granted, everything he touches turned to gold-his food, his flowers, his pets.
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Trying to give his daughter, Marygold, a morning hug and kiss, King Midas accidentally turns her into a statue of gold.
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Feeling cursed, he wishes to have everything back to normal. His heart still full of compassion, others help him regain his previous stature. King Midas learned his lesson.
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Relaxing by the fireplace, Eustace tells another story because Primrose’s parents want to listen to his narrative about The Three Golden Apples.
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The eleventh labor of Hercules has him searching for three golden apples in the Garden of Hesperides. Inquiring about the road to Hesperides, Hercules encounters three maidens who becomes concern for his life. They warned him of the hundred headed dragon who guarded the garden; fifty heads guarded while the other fifty slept.
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The maidens tell him to look for the Old Man of the Sea who will give him directions to Hesperides. Hold tightly onto him for he can transform into any creature.
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Atlas offers to get the golden apples for Hercules if he holds up the sky for him. Hercules trades places with Atlas. On his return, Atlas refused to return to his previous position. Finally outwitting him, Hercules takes the three apples and returns to his cousin.
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While trekking up the hillside with the children, Eustace stops to let them rest and tell a third story after his little wards begin to weary. He narrates The Miraculous Pitcher.
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Philemon and his wife, Baucis is a good and kindhearted couple sharing their food and shelter with anyone in need. They watch travelers pass by their home.
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Two travelers who were heckled by the villagers and their dogs came upon the road to Philemon and Baucis’ home. The couple greeted them with open arms and offered them shelter.
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The strangers are touched by the generosity bestowed by Philemon and Baucis. Sharing their meager meal with the strangers, the elderly couple is surprised by the continuous abundance of food---the empty pitcher of milk kept pouring out sweet milk, the former crusty bread was moist, the honey sweet and the grapes were juicy.
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The love between Philemon and Baucis was so strong, that both asked to be together even in death. Their wish granted by the strangers who were gods in disguise, the couple dies together and are reunited as trees in front of their lovely home. Philemon turned into an oak tree and Baucis a linden tree. Both of their branches are entwined among each other showing their endearing love.
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After Eustace finish the story, he and the children return down the hill to go home.
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This map indicates the range of where the Arabian Night stories originated in the Islamic empire.
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Paralleling with Hawthorne’s Wonder Book for Boys and Girls is 1001 Arabian Nights, another initial framing story narrated by Scheherazade, wife of Sultan Shahryar. Due to Sultan’s Shahryar’s first wife’s infidelity, the sultan has vowed to kill every woman he marries after the wedding night. Scheherazade, daughter of the Shah’s Wazir, marries the Sultan, but devises a plan to stop this ruthless killing of women in their country. She begins by telling the story of Aladdin…
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Aladdin speaks with a magician who recruits him to retrieve an oil lamp from a cave in the desert.
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Aladdin stares at the trap door opening in the desert and slowly begins his descent…
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Magic lamp and genie
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Meets and marries Princess Badroulboudour
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