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Music to Do Agility ByBackground music for an agility docu-soap
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Working title: Agility is FunPlace: Date: Cast
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How to read this scriptMusic spotting notes are the end results of a conference between the film or video director and the composer and music arranger. Here is some of the jargon to help you decipher what's going on. BCU = BIG close up |
| Scene 1 - Opening sequence |
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Competitor loads the dog–wagon
with assorted dogs into cages etc. ELS: Then sets off, driving doggedly onto the motorway system. FOLLOW van into the night. Cue: I Drove All Night [Roy Orbison] |
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Scene 2 - Arrival |
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event venue. ZOOM IN on van entering grounds. Competitor arrives at show site and parks up. MS: Competitors exits van, opens doors and immediately releases assorted dogs. ZOOM OUT. VLS: Blur of fur. |
| Scene 3 - Footloose and fancy free |
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| CUTAWAY
to green and leafy exercise area. Background music lots of barking PAN: Relieved dogs race into view. Cue: Walkin' The Dog [Rufus Thomas]. PAN
TO DOGS WHO GO WILD |
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Scene 4 - The Paws that Refreshes |
| CUTAWAY
TO BACK OF VAN. MS: Erstwhile handler reaches for flask. ZOOM TO CUPPA TEA. Sighs and drinks contentedly to the strains of Cue: Everything Stops For Tea [Jack Buchanan] DISSOLVE. |
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Scene 5 - Round the Ringside |
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PAN
SITE. Music
fades. |
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Scene 6 - The Run |
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PAN
ABC ring. MS: Eager
handler is first to go. Looks cool. Music
changes almost immediately. Drum roll. Tension
mounts. LS:
Scribe and timekeeper take their positions. |
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MS:
Competitor takes the start line. Decides to do a recall.
Walks away. CU:
Dog breaks into song. PAN
to handler
who suddenly halts and
cries Cue: Go Now [Bessie Banks] |
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TRACK
handler around the course. Fade to a medley of verbal. Cue: Move, Over [darling – Phyllis Nelson] Cue: It’s Over [Roy Orbison] Cue: The Only Way is Up [Yazz] Cue: Get Up Offa That Thing [James Brown] Cue: Walk On [By – Dionne Warwick] Cue: Over The Sea-saw [Jess Rae] Cue: Let’s Jump [the broomstick – Brenda Lee] Cue: Moving on Up [M People] Cue: Both Sides Now [Glen Campbell] Cue: Under the Dogwalk... opps Boardwalk [Drifters] Cue: Go Go Go [Chuck Berry] Cue: Weave [your spell – Level 42] Cue: Run, Baby Run [Newbeats] |
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CUT
to center of ring.. PAN
to finish line. |
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OVERHEARD
ON SIDELINES. DISSOLVE
to handler and dog |
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Scene 7 - The Presentations |
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Background
soundtrack: Whooping,
cheering, whistling and clapping FREEZE
FRAME |
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Scene 8 - The End |
| EXIT
HANDLER. MS: Handler climbs wearily back into van. ZOOM OUT. LS: Vehicle drives out of the showground with fellow competitors waving farewell. Cue: Time to Say Goodbye [Andre Boccelli/Sara Brightman] . FADE: Melancholic strains rise to a full crescendo |
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Credits |
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| BACKLIGHT PAN slowly from rosettes lined up on the dashboard to tired but contented competitor CUTAWAY to dogs in their cages, curled up, sleeping and satisfied. Van drives into the sunset. |
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| Alternative ending | |
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slowly from plastic nodding dog on
dashboard to exhausted competitor CUTAWAY to dogs barking at all and sundry, leaping about and trying to bite each other etc etc??!! Van breaks down leaving competitors on the soft shoulder. |
Screenwriter An Agility Avid
| Description | Song | Contributor |
| Nervous handler on line | Madam Butterfly | Martin Pollard |
| A fat pet dog | My melon collie baby | Martin Pollard |
| Through the tyre | Ring Cycle by Wagner | Martin Pollard |
| Very fast weaves | Rigoletto | Martin Pollard |
| Oops, a pole's gone down | Falstaff | Martin Pollard |
| There's a spaniel on the dogwalk | Rosenkavalier | Martin Pollard |
| Clear round | Surprise symphony | Martin Pollard |
| Elimination | The walk to the scaffold | Martin Pollard |
| Elimination (fouling) | The Water Music or Where ere you walk | Martin Pollard |
| A-frame | Take the A-frame by Duke Ellington | John Leslie |
| Missing the dogwalk | Under the Dogwalk | Mick Chambers |
| Knocking the wall | Another brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd | Ellen Rocco |
| What not to do on the see-saw | Fly like an Eagle | Ellen Rocco |
| What to do between rounds | Walkin the Dog by Rufus Thomas | Ellen Rocco |
| Clearing the jumps | Up Up and Away | Ellen Rocco |
| Rescue dogs | Rescue Me | Ellen Rocco |
| Jump by Chris Kross | Annie Leslie | |
| Getting lost on course | Opps, I did it again by Britanny Spears | Annie Leslie |
| Winding up your dog | Wake Me Up Before you Go Go | Annie Leslie |
| Tyre | Big Wheel keeps on Turnin (Proud Mary) | Jeri Bernard |
| Jump | Jumpin Jack Flash by Rolling Stones | Jeri Bernard |
| Tunnel | Friends in LOW places | Jeri Bernard |
| Running wrong course | Three blind mice or should it be two blind mice) | Jeri Bernard |
| Climbing the A-frame | Stairway to Heaven | Dan Prestby |
| Knocked bar | Another One Bites the Dust | Jeri Bernard |
| Last dog in class | Save the Last Dance for Me | Jeri Bernard |
| Tripping over your own feet | I fall to pieces | Jeri Bernard |
| E'd again! | I get knocked down, but I get up again | Ellen Rocco |
| First clear round ever | Hallelujah Chorus | John Leslie |
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Imagine
you're a film producer working on a series of 'fun' sports for the small screen. First on your
list is Agility, that exciting dog sport which is growing in popularity around the world.
You've cast your main characters - a feisty handler, some adorable dogs, the Judge (da' heavy)
and a cast of hundreds in comfortable clothes and running shoes. Now it's time to organise the
background music. Your 'music spotting notes' might look something like this...
