Help - The Clever Little Tailor

Today's #afewwordsaday #KAFWAD submission

Why not join me? Today's prompts are below. Prompts for the rest of the week are in a separate post just below.

8th September 2015

Prompts
FMS Photo a day	Help
Text type	Film script
Sentence type	Some, other
Story	The Clever Little Tailor

Film script	A film script is like a play script but should be:  written in 12pt courier, names are in capitals; scene headings, slug line Slug line has 3 parts: setting, interior (INT) or exterior (EXT) location, time of day (morning, dusk etc) Film scripts don't tell emotion of character - focus is on what can be seen.
Some, other	This type of sentence makes comparisons, two clauses separated by a semi colon.

I’m just doing a small part of the story today:

EXT. A FOREST – DAY

TITLE: THE CLEVER LITTLE TAILOR

FADE FROM BLACK

We see the little tailor wearing a girdle with the words ‘Seven in one blow’ embroidered on it; and the giant standing in the forest. A huge oak tree is lying on the ground near them.

                          GIANT

      Now we will see if you are able to carry anything properly.

             (He takes the little tailor to the mighty oak tree)

If you are strong enough, help me to carry the tree out of the forest.

                          THE TAILOR

             (With gusto)

      Readily!

             (Now commanding.)

Take you the trunk on your shoulders, and I will raise up the branches and twigs; after all, they are the heaviest.

The giant takes the trunk on his shoulder, the tailor seats himself on a branch. The GIANT cannot look round and carries the whole tree and the LITTLE TAILOR into the bargain: THE LITTLE TAILOR is clearly merry and happy.

                          THE LITTLE TAILOR

             (Whistling the tune: ’Three tailors rode forth from the gate,’)

      The giant, is visibly exhausted from dragging the heavy tree, stops.

                          GIANT

Hark you, I shall have to let the tree fall!’

The tailor springs nimbly down and seizes the tree with both arms as if he had been carrying it.

                          THE LITTLE TAILOR

             (Mocking)

Some think you are a great fellow, others will now know you cannot even carry a tree!

THE LITTLE TAILOR and the GIANT continue through the forest.

FADE TO BLACK

Sunlight - Jack and the Beanstalk - hidden acrostic - imagine x 3

Today's #afewwordsaday #KAFWAD submission

Why not join me? Today's prompts are below. Prompts for the rest of the week are in a separate post just below.

7th September 2015

The version of Jack and the Beanstalk I used as a format is my family's favourite. It's a picture boo by Sally Grindley and Peter Utton, called 'Shhh!' Find it on Amazon here.

My sentence doesn't quite follow the format, but I think it is used effectively. 

Prompts
FMS Photo a day	Sunlight
Text type	Hidden acrostic
Sentence type	Imagine x 3
Story	Jack and the beanstalk

Hidden acrostic	Focus word has one letter in each line but not first or last – so try 2nd letter, or 1st letter of second line
Imagine x 3	Adds interest, builds atmosphere. Describe 3 parts of something, separated by commas. Use a colon after the third one and finish with a linked clause. Imagine a place where the sun always shines, where wars never happen, where no-one ever dies: in the Andromeda 5 system there is such a planet.

Lazy Jack was supposed to sell his cow but came home with 5 beans instead. He much preferred sitting in the sunlight to trudging the long way to market.

Shhh! Jack, you are about to enter a

Giant’s Abominable castle.

Hey – Come inside! Imagine

The Kitchen (where he’ll cook you if he finds you!); 

The Attic (where I hope he is asleep);

The Nooks and crannies (which you’ll need to hide in if you wake him).

Shh! Don’t make a sound.

Look – There’s the giant’s pet mouse.

If He wakes, he’ll run and tell the Giant.

His Ears are twitching! And there’s the giant’s cat.

Shhh! Be quiet. Let’s go past very quickly.

Whoops! Eeek! Jack you made the floorboard squeak! Is the

Cat Awake?

He’s Not?

Good! Shhh!

Look! There’s the giant.

Jack! Almost there. I dare you to say,

‘Boo!’ Listen to that snore! Oh, it's stopped...

Quicky Koalas, he’s coming! Run!