You are Your Father's Son
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- OPENING SCENE (Shot 1): EWS Shot
- (Shot 1A)Medium Close-up
- (Shot1B) Close-up
- AFAM, his brother STEVEN along with two other friends playing two on two match
- (Shot 1C) Wide Shot
- Afam jukes his body to the left as if he intends to go in that direction and like usual Steven falls for it and he goes the opposite direction, and it's a Goal.
- (shot 1D) Medium closeup
- Steven's teammate stops in his tracks looks up at Steven and just shook his head.
- (shot 2) Medium wide
- As the boys continue to play the sun begins to set,
- Afam and Steven say goodbyes to their friend as they must hurry home, Steven scoops up the ball with his feet as everyone is astonished that he can do that
- the two boys hurry home as they discuss the game and Stevens ability to scoop up the ball with his feet
- (shot 2B) Close up
- (Shot 2C) Close up (reaction shot)
- (shot 2D) Medium wide shot
- (Afam to Steven)Oh, when did you learn how to do that? Some of my skills are rubbing off on you after all.
- (shot 2E) Wide Shot
- (Steven reacting to Afam) Those are not your skills, plus I've been practicing and soon I'll be better than you.
- (shot 3(Medium wide: Front of house
- Afam turns to Steven and smiles, while Steven looks confused as to why Afam is smiling. Let's hurry up before it gets too dark, and you know mom will blame me.
- (shot 3B) Close up(arrow indicates camera position)
- as the boy get close to their house, they can see from a distance someone on the porch
- The boys make it to the front of their house. Their mom standing outside with her hands folded while tapping her feet. She did not need to say anything, they already knew they were in trouble
- Afam realizing that she's about to single him out quickly begins to plead his case.
- (shot 3C) Medium wide shot: (arrow indicates camera position)
- (shot 3D) Wide Shot
- (shot3E) Close up(arrow indicates camera position)
- Steven echos behind Afam in trying to explain the situation
- medium Wide shot
- Hearing the fear in the boy's voice and knowing her plan had worked Ruth decides to forgive them and calls them inside to eat
- Medium close up
- Afam asking what's for dinner?
- Ruth responds and says Jollof rice
- eyes lid up, smiles on their faces as they rush into the house knowing that they are about to enjoy the very food they are craving.
- As the boys rush into the house they see their sister Tina eating. She pauses just as she's about to eat her last piece of chicken.
- medium close up kitchen
- Medium Wide
- Medium Close up
- she pauses in the middle of her food as she catches a whiff of the boys odor
- Medium clos up
- Tina is disgusted by their odor and points it out by asking if they do not smell that
- Medium Shot
- the boys look at each other as they raise their arms to sniff themselves as tina returns to eating her food
- Medium Shot
- unable to smell anything the boys shrugs it off and walks off
- Wide Shot
- JAMES comes home from work, from a distance Ruth can smell the stench from his work clothe
- Wide Shot
- James comes into the house ready to eat, Ruth tries to get him to shower first, but he insists to eat first
- Medium Close up
- Ruth calls Steven in to bring his dad food but he insists to eat outside because the house is too hot
- Medium shot
- Steven brings his dad his food
- Medium shot(arrow indicates glance inside the house)
- Steven then hands the food off and goes back to the house
- Medium Close up
- Ruth and James begins to talk while James eats
- Image Attributions: (https://pixabay.com/en/long-country-road-dirt-green-630904/) - Desertrose7 - License: Free for Commercial Use / No Attribution Required (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0)
- Ruth quickly glances back in the house to make sure the kids were not up
- Ruth tells James about the message he received from Afam's father as James stops eating
Image Attributions
- https://pixabay.com/en/long-country-road-dirt-green-630904/ - Desertrose7 - (License Free for Commercial Use / No Attribution Required (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0) )
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