Coffee and Allah
Storyboard Text
- The lady goes to a café to purchase half a kilo of coffee beans. She can not speak English very well so she indicates that she only wants half a bag using her finger. In this scene in the Coffee and Allah film, mid-shots of the lady and the café worker are used.
- "Half. Won't be a moment."
- "One kilo with yogurt?"
- Here. You should try my coffee today. No?
- I wish I was able to talk to him. I am glad I have these coffee beans though so I can make coffee.
- On her way back from the café she purchased a badminton racket for $2 from a yard sale. The couple give her the shuttlecock free. A wide shot is used to establish the shot, then close-ups of the couple and the lady are used. A point of view shot is also used to portray the lady looking through the badminton racket at the sky.
- "Keep it! Keep it free."
- Thank you.
- After she accidently hits the shuttlecock over the hedge, her neighbour hits it back. They play badminton together. Wide-shots, close-ups, mid-shots and high-angles are used in this scene.
- The man at the café greets the lady in Arabic the next time she comes in to buy coffee beans. She thinks he understands Arabic so talks to him in Arabic about herself. Close-up shots of their heads and point of view shots are used when their converse is happening.
- As-salaam 'alykum
- What is she saying?
- العربية
- The lady's neighbour comes over to give her a new shuttlecock. She gives him some coffee that she had been roasting in commemoration of Allah. She seems shy and scared; she hastily covers her face. She grins behind her face covering though when she sees the man's reaction to the strong coffee! Mid-shots, two-person shots, point-of-view shots and close-ups are used in this scene.
- Yours was falling apart.
- The café man gives the lady a coffee with the Arabic word for Allah engrained on the top of it when she next comes for her beans. Close-ups, point-of-view shots and extreme-close-ups are used in this scene.
- "Half. Won't be a moment."
- "One kilo with yogurt?"
- Here. You should try my coffee today. No?
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