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MY PLACE
SERIES 2 - EPISODE 22
“1798 SAM”
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MY PLACE
SERIES 2 - EPISODE 22 – “1798 SAM”
SHOT DUR VISION DIALOGUE INPOINT
1 / OPENING TITLES RUN OVER VARIOUS VIEWS OF THE BIG TREETITLE 1 BEGINS AT 10 00 02 09
SCREEN AUSTRALIA
AND
THE AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S
TELEVISION FOUNDATION
PRESENT
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TITLE 2 BEGINS AT 10 00 09 20
A MATCHBOX
PICTURES PRODUCTION
FOR
THE AUSTRALIAN
BROADCASTING CORPORATION
TITLE 2 ENDS AT 10 00 13 09
TITLE 3 BEGINS AT 10 00 14 13
IN ASSOCIATION
WITH SCREEN NSW
AND
SCREEN TASMANIA
TITLE 3 ENDS AT 10 00 19 09
TITLE 4 BEGINS AT 10 00 33 03
BASED ON THE BOOK
BY NADIA WHEATLEY
DONNA RAWLINS
TITLE 4 ENDS AT 10 00 36 05
TITLE 5 BEGINS AT 10 00 36 00
My Place
1798 SAM
TITLE 5 ENDS AT 10 00 44 22
THEN FADE TO BLACK / CHILDREN’S VOICES (VARIOUS OOS)
I'm not scared. I'm coming with you to keep you safe. Are there Ghosts? That is so naughty. Let's see who's the real scaredy cat. He is gunna spiflicate you [Laughter and squeal]
MUSIC 1 BEGINS ... 48 SEC / 10 00 00 00
10 00 00 12
> SCENE EXT DAY THE BIG TREE
2 / 16.08 / FADE UP FROM BLACK TO TILT DOWN OVER BRANCH OF TREE TO MHA WMS WOOD SNORING / MUSIC 1 ENDS / 10 00 45 05
10 00 47 23
3 / 6.09 / WS BUG PICKED UP FROM BRANCH THEN TILT UP TO WMS SAM / 10 01 01 13
4 / 2.20 / HA WS EARL AND WOOD SLEEP BELOW AS SAM SITS IN TREE IN FG / 10 01 07 22
5 / 4.21 / LA TILT WMS SAM REACHES FORWARD WITH BUG / 10 01 10 17
6 / 2.11 / HA ZOOM IN ON WOOD’S OPEN MOUTH / 10 01 15 13
7 / 1.08 / LA TILT WMS SAM DROPS BUG / 10 01 17 24
8 / 1.21 / HA MAC WOOD CHOKES AND OPENS EYES / MUSIC 2 BEGINS ... 1 MIN 04 SEC / 10 01 19 07
9 / 2.08 / LA TILT WS EARL TURNS TO WOOD AS HE CHOKES AT RIGHT / EARL
What is it, lad? / 10 01 21 03
10 / 4.14 / WMS WOOD COUGHS AS HE AND EARL STAND AND BRANDISH WEAPONS / EARL
Natives? / 10 01 23 11
11 / 1.16 / LA TILT WMS EARL AND WOOD WITH WEAPONS AND SAM IN TREE ABOVE / EARL
Where are you? / 10 01 28 00
12 / 3.14 / LA TILT WMS SAM LOOKS AROUND / EARL (OOS)
Show yourself!
WOOD (OOS)
Where’s / 10 01 29 16
13 / 1.24 / LA TILT WMS WOOD WITH SAM IN TREE ABOVE / the boy? / 10 01 33 05
14 / 1.13 / LA TILT WMS SAM WHISTLES / 10 01 35 04
15 / 1.06 / HA WMS WALT AND EARL TURN / 10 01 36 17
16 / 4.15 / PULL BACK OVER LA TILT WMS REV EARL AND WOOD WITH SAM ABOVE / EARL
Get down. Get down here at once. / 10 01 37 23
17 / 2.15 / LA TILT WMS SAM SHAKES HEAD / EARL (OOS)
I said get down! / 10 01 42 13
18 / 2.15 / HA WS WOOD AND EARL / EARL
Please. / 10 01 45 03
19 / 2.00 / LA TILT WMS SAM MOVES IN TREE / 10 01 47 18
20 / 3.00 / LA TILT WMS PROFILE EARL AND WOOD AT BASE OF TREE AS SAM CLIMBS DOWN / 10 01 49 18
21 / 7.18 / LA TILT WMS SAM JUMPS DOWN TO WOOD AS HE CLIPS HIM OVER HEAD / WOOD
Rascal! / 10 01 52 18
22 / 2.06 / WS REV EARL AND WOOD WALK TOW BG / 10 02 00 11
23 / 8.00 / LA TILT WMS SAM TURNS TO CAMERA / SAM (VOICEOVER)
I'm Sam, and this, I think, is my place. / 10 02 02 17
> SCENE EXT DAY MY PLACE HOUSE
24 / 3.18 / WMS MR. OWEN HEAVES SACK ONTO CART AS WOOD, SAM AND EARL WALK FROM BG / 10 02 10 17
25 / 3.23 / WMS SAM WALKS TOW CAM WITH WOOD AND EARL EITHER SIDE / 10 02 14 10
26 / 7.01 / WMS REV WOOD, SAM AND EARL WITH MR. OWEN TURNING FROM CART IN BG / EARL
Stand up straight. Mr. Owen?
MUSIC 2 ENDS / 10 02 18 08
10 02 23 01
27 / 2.12 / LA TILT WMS EARL, SAM AND WOOD / EARL
I present to you your new boy. / 10 02 25 09
28 / 1.13 / WMS MR. OWEN WITH MCU REV WOOD AND SAM IN FG / MR. OWEN
You're late. / 10 02 27 21
29 / 3.08 / LA TILT WMS EARL, SAM AND WOOD / EARL
We ... met with a distraction on the journey. / 10 02 29 09
30 / 2.11 / WMS MR. OWEN WALKS TOW WMS REV WOOD, SAM AND EARL / MR. OWEN
Yes, I can smell that much / 10 02 32 17
31 / 1.17 / WMS WOOD, SAM AND EARL / on your breath. / 10 02 35 03
32 / 2.18 / MCU MR. OWEN AND CU REV SAM / MR. OWEN
Over there, lad. / 10 02 36 20
33 / 1.12 / WMS REV SAM WALKS TOW BG / MR. OWEN (OOS)
Be gone, / 10 02 39 13
34 / 1.15 / WMS REV WOOD AND EARL AND WMS MR. OWEN / or I shall crack your skulls / 10 02 41 00
35 / 1.09 / WMS SAM / like rocks. / 10 02 42 15
36 / 2.07 / WS EARL AND WOOD WALK FROM MR. OWEN AND SAM / 10 02 43 24
37 / 3.07 / WMS PROFILE MR. OWEN WALKS TO SAM / MR. OWEN
So, / 10 02 46 06
38 / 5.16 / WMS PROFILE SAM AS MR. OWEN WALKS AROUND HIM / this is Sam Stone. You're a / 10 02 49 13
39 / 2.10 / LA TILT MCU MR. OWEN WITH SAM AT LEFT / little smaller than I imagined.
SAM (OOS)
And you're / 10 02 55 04
40 / 3.02 / MCU PROFILE SAM WITH MR. OWEN MOVING AT LEFT / much larger –
MR. OWEN
Quiet! What were / 10 02 57 14
41 / 2.02 / LA TILT MCU PROFILE MR. OWEN WITH SAM AT RIGHT / you sentenced for?
SAM
Um ... / 10 03 00 16
42 / 3.17 / LA TILT MCU SAM / MR. OWEN (OOS)
Out with it!
SAM
A misunderstanding. / 10 03 02 18
43 / 1.01 / LA TILT WMS MR. OWEN AND MS PROFILE SAM / MR. OWEN
What did you steal? / 10 03 06 10
44 / 5.21 / LA TILT MCU SAM / SAM
A coat. Although some might call it an extended borrow.
MR. OWEN (OOS)
Some / 10 03 07 11
45 / 4.11 / LA TILT WMS MR. OWEN AND MS PROFILE SAM / being you. You're a farm lad, / 10 03 13 07
46 / 2.19 / LA TILT MCU SAM / they told me.
SAM
Through and through, sir. / 10 03 17 18
47 / 1.14 / LA TILT MCU MR. OWEN / 10 03 20 12
48 / 1.24 / MCU SAM / MR. OWEN (OOS)
Right. / 10 03 22 01
49 / 2.04 / LA TILT WMS PROFILE MR. OWEN HEAVES SACK ONTO CART / 10 03 24 00
50 / 4.00 / LA TILT MCU PROFILE SAM TURNS AS MR. OWEN CROSSES IN FG / MR. OWEN (OOS)
Come.
MUSIC 3 BEGINS ... 26 SEC / 10 03 26 04
10 03 27 23
51 / 7.20 / WMS REV MR. OWEN WALKS TOW BG WITH SAM FOLLOWING / MR. OWEN
I'm going to Sydney Town and while I'm gone, I want you to hoe the ground and prepare it for planting. Ten rows. / 10 03 30 04
52 / 2.17 / WMS PROFILE SAM / 10 03 37 24
53 / 1.20 / WMS PROFILE MR. OWEN / MR. OWEN
Ten rows, / 10 03 40 16
54 / 3.10 / TILT UP FROM FEET TO WMS PROFILE MR. OWEN / a foot between the rows. / 10 03 42 11
55 / 2.09 / WMS PROFILE SAM / SAM
Yes, sir. / 10 03 45 21
56 / 1.06 / MCU PROFILE MR. OWEN / MR. OWEN
You'll find a mattock in the shed. / 10 03 48 05
57 / 1.16 / WMS PROFILE SAM / 10 03 49 11
> SCENE INT DAY OWEN SHED
58 / 6.15 / WMS SAM WALKS TOW CAM FROM MR. OWEN / MR. OWEN
Bring it to me. I want to show
MUSIC 3 ENDS / 10 03 51 02
10 03 54 07
59 / 3.07 / TILT UP OVER MS REV SAM MOVING TO TOOLS / you something.
SAM
Mattock. / 10 03 57 17
60 / 2.19 / LA TILT WMS SAM AT TOOLS WITH MR. OWEN IN BG / SAM
Mattock. / 10 04 00 24
61 / 2.05 / LA TILT WMS SAM TURNS WITH CHISEL / 10 04 03 18
62 / 3.16 / WMS PROFILE SAM TURNS TO TOOLS WITH MR. OWEN IN BG / MR. OWEN
It’s the long one. / 10 04 05 23
63 / 1.13 / WS PROFILE SAM PICKS UP MATTOCK AS MR. OWEN STANDS AT RIGHT / 10 04 09 14
64 / 1.10 / LA TILT WMS MR. OWEN NODS / 10 04 11 02
65 / 3.24 / WMS SAM HOLDS UP MATTOCK / SAM
We didn’t call these mattocks / 10 04 12 12
66 / 1.22 / WMS MR. OWEN / on our farm.
MR. OWEN
What did you call them? / 10 04 16 11
67 / 4.10 / WMS SAM PUTS MATTOCK DOWN / SAM
Long handled hook nosed row diggers. / 10 04 18 08
68 / 5.07 / WMS MR. OWEN TAKES HAT FROM HOOK / MR. OWEN
Your hat. Your bed. / 10 04 22 18
69 / 3.23 / LA TILT WMS PROFILE SAM AT STRAW AS MR. OWEN EXITS SHOT / SAM
Thank you. / 10 04 28 00
> SCENE EXT DAY OWEN FARMHOUSE
70 / 10.18 / LA TILT WS MR. OWEN WALKS TOW CAM WITH SAM FOLLOWING THEN STAND AT HOUSE IN BG / MR. OWEN
Devil knows how it happened, but I shall need you to fix this injury. There’s new bark in the shed. / 10 04 31 23
71 / 7.00 / LA TILT WMS REV MR. OWEN AND SAM WITH HOUSE IN BG / MR. OWEN
Take a ladder and come at the issue from the outside. Do not enter my house.
SAM
Yes, sir. No, sir. / 10 04 42 16
72 / 12.12 / LA TILT WMS PROFILE MR. OWEN AND SAM WITH HOUSE IN BG / MR. OWEN
Do not enter my house. I have means of est-ablishing trespass. Canny, invisible means. I will know. And I will dig your tripes out for it. / 10 04 49 16
> SCENE EXT DAY GOAT PEN
73 / 2.07 / MHA WS PROFILE GOAT / MR. OWEN (OOS)
This animal is a / 10 05 02 03
74 / 2.07 / LA TILT WMS MR. OWEN AND SAM ENTER PEN / fine milker and will need doing morning and night, / 10 05 04 10
75 / 4.20 / WMS SAM CLOSES GATE AND WALKS TO MCU PROFILE MR. OWEN / or you know what will happen. / 10 05 06 17
76 / 1.23 / LA TILT WMS MR. OWEN WITH SAM INTO SHOT AT LEFT / MR. OWEN
You have milked a goat before? / 10 05 11 12
77 / 2.21 / LA TILT MCU SAM / SAM
Many times.
MR. OWEN (OOS)
Because that milk and some / 10 05 13 10
78 / 1.20 / LA TILT WMS PROFILE SAM AND WMS MR. OWEN / flour will be the only food you’ll have. / 10 05 16 06
79 / 1.07 / WMS SAM LOOKS AROUND / 10 05 18 01
80 / 5.12 / WS HAND STROKES GOAT’S FACE / MR. OWEN (OOS)
This goat is worth more to me than ten of you, boy. Keep her / 10 05 19 08
81 / 4.13 / LA TILT WMS PROFILE SAM AND WMS MR. OWEN / well watered and keep a close watch on her. The blacks will snatch her at first chance. / 10 05 24 20
82 / 3.24 / LA TILT MCU SAM / MR. OWEN (OOS)
Know well that there are eyes behind every stand
MUSIC 4 BEGINS ... 20 SEC / 10 05 29 08
10 05 29 09
83 / 2.02 / LA TILT WS TREES / of trees. Eyes that have / 10 05 33 07
84 / 2.09 / LA TILT WMS PROFILE SAM AND WMS MR. OWEN / no love for you / 10 05 35 09
85 / 2.14 / LA TILT MCU SAM / or me. / 10 05 37 18
86 / 2.19 / WIDE MLS MR. OWEN EXITS FROM SAM / 10 05 40 07
> SCENE EXT DAY OWEN FARMHOUSE
87 / 7.04 / PAN LEFT FROM HORSE TO WMS MR. OWEN AND SAM WALKING TOW CAM / MR. OWEN
What is it you must do before my return?
SAM
Milk the goat, hoe the ground, fix the roof.
MUSIC 4 ENDS
MR. OWEN
And if / 10 05 43 01
10 05 48 23
88 / 6.08 / WMS SAM WALKS TO HORSE AS MR. OWEN CLIMBS ONTO CART / you don’t?
SAM
I'll get a belting I won’t believe.
MR. OWEN (OOS)
And if you do?
SAM
I don’t know, sir. / 10 05 50 05
89 / 3.24 / LA TILT WMS MR. OWEN / MR. OWEN
If you do, you might just stay on. / 10 05 56 13
90 / 5.07 / LA TILT MCU SAM TURNS AS CART CROSSES IN FG / MR. OWEN (OOS)
Might, I say. I will return / 10 06 00 12
91 / 2.22 / WS PROFILE MR. OWEN EXITS RIGHT ON CART AS SAM STANDS IN BG / in three days. / 10 06 05 19
92 / 8.19 / LA TILT MCU PROFILE SAM / SAM
So ... milk the goat, hoe the ground, fix the roof.
MUSIC 5 BEGINS ... 47 SEC / 10 06 08 16
10 06 15 10
> SCENE EXT DAY GOAT PEN
93 / 6.17 / WS SAM WALKS TO GOAT PEN GATE / SAM
Hello there. / 10 06 17 10
94 / 2.22 / WMS PROFILE GOAT LOOKS AROUND / 10 06 24 02
95 / 2.21 / WMS SAM PICKS UP STOOL / 10 06 26 24
96 / 1.16 / WMS GOAT LOOKS AROUND / 10 06 29 20
97 / 3.00 / WMS SAM AT LEFT / SAM
What a pretty face you have. / 10 06 31 11
98 / 6.01 / WS REV SAM WALKS TO GOAT / SAM
It’s alright, I won’t hurt you. / 10 06 34 11
99 / 20.04 / MONTAGE EDITS SAM ATTEMPTS TO MILK GOAT AS IT MOVES ABOUT IN PEN / 10 06 40 12
> SCENE EXT DAY CLEARED AREA
100 / 1.22 / WMS PROFILE SAM WALKS RIGHT WITH MATTOCK / MUSIC 5 ENDS / 10 07 00 16
10 07 02 06
101 / 11.24 / WS SAM TURNS WITH MATTOCK / SAM
Nasty blade. Wouldn’t want this sticking out of me. / 10 07 02 13
102 / 10.14 / LA TILT WMS SAM WITH MATTOCK / SAM
No, sir. This is a fine weapon. Any man with this in his hand would feel well armed. / 10 07 14 12
103 / 1.16 / WS BUSH / 10 07 25 01
104 / 4.19 / WMS SAM HOLDING MATTOCK / SAM
Well ... armed. / 10 07 26 17
105 / 7.13 / TILT UP OVER WMS PROFILE SAM RAISING MATTOCK / SAM (SINGS)
Oranges and lemons
Say the bells of Saint Clemens
You / 10 07 31 11
106 / 11.08 / WS PROFILE SAM SWINGS MATTOCK INTO GROUND THEN TRIES TO PULL IT OUT / owe me five farthings
Says the bells of Saint Martins
When will you pay me?
When will you
MUSIC 6 BEGINS ... 12 SEC / 10 07 38 24
10 07 40 00
107 / 4.13 / WIDE MLS PROFILE SAM AT MATTOCK / pay me?
When will you -
MUSIC 6 ENDS / 10 07 50 07
10 07 52 10
108 / 3.08 / WS PROFILE SAM FALLS ONTO GROUND / MUSIC 7 BEGINS ... 06 SEC / 10 07 54 20
10 07 57 09
109 / 5.09 / WMS SAM STANDS AND LOOKS AROUND / SAM
Looks like I'll have to use Mr. Owen’s
MUSIC 7 ENDS / 10 07 58 03
10 08 03 02
110 / 2.20 / LA TILT WMS PAN RIGHT OVER BUSH / other mattock.
MUSIC 8 BEGINS ... 10 SEC / 10 08 03 12
10 08 04 24
111 / 4.22 / WMS SAM WALKS RIGHT / SAM
The sharper one. / 10 08 06 07
112 / 4.01 / WMS SAM EXITS LEFT THEN TILT DOWN TO MATTOCK IN GROUND / SAM (OOS)
Milk the goat, hoe the ground, fix the roof.
MUSIC 8 ENDS / 10 08 11 04
10 08 14 12
> SCENE EXT DAY OWEN FARMHOUSE
113 / 2.19 / LA TILT WMS SAM CLIMBS LADDER / SAM (SINGS)
When will that be
Says the great / 10 08 15 05
114 / 1.19 / LA TILT WS REV SAM CLIMBS LADDER / bell of Stepney / 10 08 17 24
115 / 2.06 / LA TILT WMS GOAT LOOKS AROUND TO LADDER / SAM (SINGING)
I do not know / 10 08 19 18
116 / 1.24 / MCU PROFILE GOAT / SAM (SINGING)
Says the great bell of Bow / 10 08 21 24
117 / 2.21 / LA TILT WMS PROFILE SAM CLIMBS TO ROOF / SAM (OOS)