1. EXT. the park - day A HIGH SHOT up in the trees. We hear <BIRDS TWEETING, LEAVES RUSTLING, CRICKETS CHIRPING>, and then we hear... ELINOR (O.S.) Are you ready to play a new game? Olive and Ari react with enthusiastic <WALLA>. 2. Ext. The park - cONTINUOUS CLOSE ON: ELINOR. She smiles as she points to her ear. ELINOR It’s called “I Hear With My Big Ear”. OliVE Oooh ! I have a big ear. ( giggle ) I have two of them. Ari What if I don’t have a big ear? Elinor Good point. Then , let’s call it “I Hear with My Own Ear.” ArI I like that. So... How do we play ? ELINOR I tell you what I hear, and you have to find what’s making the sound. OliVE Sounds like fun! ( giggle ) Elinor closes her eyes. Her ears swivel . <BIRDS TWEETING, LEAVES RUSTLING, CRICKETS CHIRPING>. Cricket reference: https: // www.youtube.com / watch?v = Re72di5phM0 ELINOR L et’s play. I hear with my own ear something that sounds like ... “ch i rp, ch i rp”. <spoken> Olive and Ari listen. It’s quiet for a second, then we hear <CRICKETS CHIRPING>. They both react with smiles. OliVE Oh! I hear it! Ari looks and spots a CRICKET chirping on a leaf. ari And I see it! It’s that cricket, right? ELINOR Right! Now you try , Olive. What do you hear with your own ear? Olive <GIGGLES> then listens. Suddenly we hear <CRUNCH, CRUNCH, CRUNCH> . OLIVE I hear, with my own ear, something that sounds like... Crunching ? Olive and Elinor look puzzled. They turn and look at Ari, who has HALF A CRACKER in his hand and is clearly crunching the other half. OLIVE (CONT’D) It’s Ari eating a cracker! Elinor and Olive <GIGGLE> and Ari looks a little guilty. ARI Oops. Sorry. ElinoR It’s okay, Ari. Try again, Olive. OLIVE I hear with my own ear something that sounds like... Suddenly there’s a loud MUSICAL STRUM ON A GUITAR. OLIVE (CONT’D) Music?? Surprised, the three of them look around to find the source of the music. ON: SEñOR TAPIR, who is < strumming > his guitar in the park by THE GLOBE (or A GAZEBO). ELINOR It’s Señor Tapir. Come on! They hurry off to see him, as the < strumming> continues. 3. EXT. the park - conTINUOUS The kids rush up to Señor Tapir, who smiles and plays another flourish on his guitar. ElinoR Señor Tapir! Señor tapir Buenos Dias , amigos . So wonderful to see you. Olive We were playing a listening game and we heard some music. SeÑor tapir Yes, I’m practicing a song I learned while traveling through the Andes Mountains. It goes like this: I knew a toucan from Peru Who loved singing wherever he flew He would never just speak When he opened his beak He would sing a whole song just for you ! He plays a final flourish. Elinor, Olive and Ari applaud with <CHEERS, WALLA> ElINOR Great song, Señor Tapir . SEñOR TAPIR I’m so glad you like it . I’ll be singing it in our concert later. Are you coming? ELINOR There’s going to be a concert?? SEñOR TAPIR Si! The best kind of concert - the kind where anyone can join and play. Ari Play? Play what ? Señor Tapir gives his guitar a < strum> . SEñOR TAPIR Play musical instruments! It’s so exciting, isn’t it? Elinor, Olive and Ari look at each other. Ari Yes, except w e don’t have any instruments to play. eLINOR A w . I really wanted to join the concert . Olive sighs in disappointment. Then she looks at her trunk. She reacts with a smile. Olive Wait a second. I have my own built- in musical instrument. I can trumpet with my trunk. She demonstrates <TRUMPETING>. Elinor < laughs >. Ari does a back flip in excitement. Olive (CONT’D) Does that count? Señor Tapir is delighted. SEñOR TAPIR Of course! There are many different ways to make music. You just have to be creative. eLINOR So if we all find musical instruments, we can play in your concert? SEñOR TAPIR That would make me very happy! But now it’s time for me to go. Good luck and s ee you later , amigos . He walks off, < strumming> his guitar. Elinor, Ari and Olive wave goodbye <WALLA> then look at each other. ARI How are we going get our own musical instruments? ELINOR Señor Tapir said to be creative. OLIVE That means we have to think about things in different way s . Elinor looks at Olive, and her trunk, then gets an idea. ELINOR Olive made music with her trunk. Maybe we can make music with our bodies. What if I wiggle my ears , and you flap your wings? Elinor wiggle s her ears. Ari flaps his wings. No real sound. ELINOR (CONT’D) Hmm, I don’t think I made any music . Ari Yeah, I hear with my own ear... Nothing. But then, in the distance, we hear a <TAP, TAP-TAP, TAP>. Elinor reacts. Her ears swivel. ElinOR Wait. Now I hear with my own ear - something that sounds like... Tap tap tap ? Ari reacts and points toward the forest. Ari It’s coming from the forest. Let’s go check it out ! 4. EXT. FOREST – A LITTLE LATER The three walk, looking around, with Elinor in the lead. ArI I don’t see anything making that tapping s ound. Suddenly, there it is again. <TAP, TAP-TAP, TAP>. Elinor stops. Ari and Olive bump into her. Olive Ooof ! ARI Elinor , w hy’d you stop? ELINOR Listen. Do you hear it? I think it’s close. They all listen. And then ... <TAP, TAP-TAP, TAP>. OLIVE It sounds kind of like a drum. ElinOR But I don’t see anyone playing a drum . So what’s making that sound? Ari An invisible drummer? ELINOR ( giggle ) I don’t think so. OLIVE Let’s spread out and see if we can find where it’s coming from. WIDE SHOT: They walk in different directions. And then, we hear <TAP, TAP-TAP, TAP>. They stop and listen. The tapping stops. They all walk in a different direction. They hear < tap, tap-tap, tap > again. They stop. Elinor points off in one direction. ELINOR It’s coming from over there! The others follow Elinor. And we hear, louder, a <TAP, TAP-TAP, TAP>. Elinor looks up. ELINOR (CONT’D) I think it’s up in this tree. They look up. ANGLE ON: A WOODPECKER hopping around on the side of the tree, searching for the right spot. Ari All I see is a bird hopping around. The bird stops and taps its beak on the trunk. <TAP TAP TAP> . ELINOR L ook . That little bird is making those tapping sounds. Ari Wow! That’s a pretty loud sound for such a little bird. Why d’you think it’s doing that? Olive reaches into her satchel and pulls out her NATURE BOOK. OLIVE Let’s see if I can find that bird in my nature book. She opens her book and flips through some pages, then finds the right one. OlIVE (CONT’D) Hmmm . Oh! Here! I think it’s a woodpecker. Look. CLOSE ON: Illustration in Olive’s book shows a woodpecker poking its beak into tree bark. OLIVE (CONT’D) (reading) Woodpeckers are birds that tap o n tree s to make holes, so they can get at insects inside. It says they have a really strong and hard beak. From the book, we go to the live woodpecker as it starts pecking at the tree with a very loud <TAP, TAP-TAP, TAP>. ELINOR That’s SO interesting! The beak is hard, and the tree is hard. When you hit hard things together , you get a tap-tap-tapping sound. Ari starts moving his body to the <TAP TAP TAPPING>. Ari You also get a pretty cool beat. Elinor and Olive look at Ari and then <GIGGLE> and join the dance. The three do a goofy dance , k inda like https: // www.dropbox.com /s/ 5apjlyjsaggyvwg / calvin-hobbes-dance-comic.jpg?dl =0 ... until the bird STOPS TAPPING and flies off. The kids <SFX: GIGGLE AND LAUGH> . Elinor has a thought. ElinOR If I were a bird with a hard beak to tap, tap, tap with , I’d have my own musical instrument . I’d be just l ike Olive with her trunk -trumpet , e xcept my instrument would be like a drum. 5. EXT. FURTHER IN THE FOREST – A LITTLE WHILE LATER They walk, with Elinor in the lead. Suddenly, she stops. Olive and Ari bump into her again. OlIVE Oof . Ari Elinor? Why’d you stop again? ELINOR Now I hear with my own ear... S omething that sounds like rattling ? They get very quiet and they hear a <RATTLE RATTLE RATTLE> . OLIVE Is someone playing maracas? Ari I don’t know. ( beat ) What are maracas? A THOUGHT BUBBLE appears over Olive’s head, with two MARACAS. Olive MIMES shaking a maraca in each hand. OLIVE They’re these instruments you hold in your hands. And they have stuff that rattles inside. So when you shake them , they sound like... <RATTLE RATTLE RATTLE> . OLIVE (CONT’D) Just like that. ElINOR But wh o ’s making the sound? Ari looks around, then gets a funny idea. Ari An invisible maracas player? Elinor and Olive <GIGGLE>. They listen for a second. Then they hear it again. <RATTLE R A TTLE RATTLE> . In unison they all point in the same direction. ELINOR Over there! CLOSE ON: Bean pods blowing in the wind. <RATTLE RATTLE> Some are GREEN and some are BROWN. Elinor, Ari and Olive approach and look at the bean pods waving and <RATTLING>. ArI The sound is coming from these plants. Olive I’ve seen these plants before . They’re bean plants. See, the beans grow inside th o se pods. Ari Cool! Beans! ... B ut is that what’s making the rattling sound ? They look around. Olive What else could it be? ELINOR We need more observations! Ari looks more closely at the pods. ARI Some of the bean pod s are green and some are brown. Elinor touches a green pod. It’s squishy. She shakes it but there’s no sound. ElINOR The green ones are squishy . They don’t make any rattling sounds . Olive touches a brown pod and reacts. OLIVE Th is brown one is hard and dry. Ari squats down and finds some brown bean pods on the ground. One is split open, revealing the hard brown beans inside. Ari The beans inside are hard and dry too. A gust of wind blows on the brown hanging bean pods and they <RATTLE> in the breeze. ElinOR Listen. When the wind blows, it makes the hard beans rattle inside the pods . Ari ( triumphantly ) So the wind is the invisible maracas player. They all <giggle>. Then Ari picks up a brown pod with each hand and shakes one <RATTLE> and then the other <RATTLE>. Ari (CONT’D) I can make them rattle, just like the wind. All of a sudden, Elinor gets an idea. elinor And that makes you... Olive catches on and joins Elinor. Elinor/olive A maracas player! Ari looks from one hand to the other, and then realizes they’re right. He gives his “maracas” a few rhythmic shakes <RATTLE RATTLE RATTLE> Ari Haha ! I ’m a bean maracas player. Wait a minute, I could use these as my instrument for the concert. OLIVE Yeah, that’s great Ari! <beat> But we should all get to play an instrument . So we need one for you, Elinor. Elinor smiles with an idea. ELINOR Ari got the idea for his instrument from something we heard in the forest. ArI ( proudly ) That’s called being creative. He gives his bean maracas a <RATTLE> . elinor We could try doing the same thing for my instrument. What else did we hear in the forest? A THOUGHT BALLOON forms over their head s , and we see the WOODPECKER TAPPING ON THE TREE <TAP TAP TAP> . olive W e heard the woodpecker that sounded like a drummer. ELINOR That’s it! Maybe I can be a drummer. ARI Too bad you don't have a hard beak. The woodpecker in the though bubble is replaced with Elinor-with-a-beak. ELINOR No, but I could use something else hard instead. Like a stick! Elinor picks up a nearby STICK. Elinor-with-a-beak disappears in the thought bubble and is replaced with A STICK. Olive But what are you going to hit with the stick ? We can’t bring a whole tree to the concert. Elinor Let’s try hitting different things with the stick until we find something that sounds just right. ari Yes! T hen we can all play in Señor Tapir’s concert! They hurry off. 6. EXT. FOREST – montage 1) Ari looks around and then points to the ground. Elinor taps the stick on the ground. Not much sound. She shakes her head “No”. 2) Olive holds out an APPLE, and Elinor taps it with the stick. No sound. Elinor shakes her head “No.” 3) Ari finds a SMALL hollowed out log and holds it up for Elinor. She tries tapping the stick against the log <TAP, TAP-TAP TAP>. All three nod their heads, “YES”! 4) They head back toward the park, Ari holding his BEAN PODS and Elinor holding her STICK AND HOLLOW LOG. 7. EXT. PARK – MOMENTS LATER Elinor, Ari and Olive run to Sr. Tapir with their “instruments”. He is at the gazebo, strumming his guitar. There are some members of the COMMUNITY who have gathered for the show. Some are on blankets, some have instruments, others walk along and stop to watch etc. SEñOR TAPIR Amigos. You’re just in time for the concert. Did you find instruments to play? olive We sure did. You told us to be creative, and we were. ELINOR We got our ideas by listening to N ature. SENOR TAPIR Really? That sounds wonderful! ElinoR Wait till you hear. Olive is going to trumpet with her trunk. Olive raises her trunk and <TRUMPETS!> elinor (CONT’D) I’m going to be drumming on a hollow log. Elinor does a little <DRUMMING RIFF> tapping out rhythm with two sticks on the hollowed out log. Ari And I’ll be playing bean pod maracas. Ari dances and shakes his bean pods <RHYTHMIC RATTLE>. ElinOR We found all of these instruments by being creative and listening to Nature! Señor Tapir applauds enthusiastically. SEñOR TAPIR That is very clever , amigos ! Ok , s hall we make some music now ? Elinor, Ari and Olive react with excited <WALLA>. SONG: MAKE MUSIC, NATURALLY Sr. Tapir/elinor/olive/ari Sr. Tapir: There is music all around us From the birds and from the bees From the babbling of a brook And the whistling of a breeze If you want to make some music You can play along with me Use your own imagination And make music, naturally! ( spoken ) Join in amigos ! Elinor: I’ll tap these sticks just like a drum, S. Tapir: Tap along with me while I strum Elinor does a little <DRUM RIFF> using the sticks on the log, as Señor Tapir strums. Ari: Hear the rattling sound I make When I give these beans a shake. Ari shakes the bean pods and dances to the rhythm. Señor Tapir responds with a guitar flourish. Olive: With my trunk I’ll play along Adding trumpet to our song. Olive does a jazzy little “trumpet” solo on her trunk. ALL: If you want to make some music You can play along with me Use your own imagination And make music, naturally! SEñOR TAPIR There’s nothing better than making music - naturally! Si, amigos ? ElinOR/ARI/OLIVE Si, Señor Tapir! ElinoR Let’s play it again! Sr. Tapir/elinor/olive/ari ALL: If you want to make some music You can play along with me Use your own imagination And make music, naturally! As they sing and play the final verse again, we ... FADE OUT. Segment 2. 1. Ext. River Behind School - Day Mz . Mole unexpectedly and excitedly runs through the scene past a group of children playing on the school playground (Elinor, Olive, Ari, Mary, Liv , Koa, Sally). Mz . Mole It’s starting! It’s starting! Elinor (Calling after her) Mz . Mole? What’s starting? MZ . MOLE The concert ! Come along children! We don’t want to be late! Giggling, the children chase after her. When they catch up with her, she is sitting by the edge of the river, holding a pop-up book with one hand and excitedly holding theater binoculars up to her eyes with the other hand . The children look down at the river and notice Mz . Mole is staring at a tiny spring peeper frog that is calling with its throat puffing out with a <SFX: PEEP, PEEP>. ARI Uhhh it’s a frog. MZ . MOLE Exactly! Isn’t it marvelous! OLIVE Where’s the concert ? Is Sr. Tapir going to play for us? MZ . MOLE The concert is right here . The frogs are going to sing for us. Listen! ARI Wow ! I didn’t know frogs could sing. Elinor uses Mz. Mole’s binoculars. BIN POV she sees a wood frog floating in the water and <SFX: WOOD FROG CROAKING> with ballooning vocal sacs. BACK ON: Mz . Mole and the kids. ELINOR Mz . Mole, why is that frog puffing up its throat like a balloon ? MZ . MOLE Good question. That balloon you see is called the vocal sac, and it makes the frog’s singing louder . Mz . Mole brings up the pop-up book: a guide to the frog orchestra. She opens the cover which reveals an image of a different kind of frog on each page. 2. INT. BOOK - DAY ANGLE ON: The book illustrations of frogs come to life. We see an eastern gray tree-frog, a Goliath bullfrog and a coqui frog. MZ . MOLE There are nearly 5,000 different kinds of f rogs . And they all have their own unique sound , like different instruments . Just listen. As Mz . Mole names different species of frogs, we see and hear them calling. MZ . Mole (CONT'D) The eastern gray tree-frog. <SFX: EASTERN GRAY TREE FROG CROAKING> Olive That one’s so cute. MZ . MOLE The Goliath bullfrog. <SFX: GOLIATH FROG CROAKING> EliNOR (in a low voice) It sounds so l ow ! MZ . MOLE And the loudest of them all, the tiny but mighty coqui frog. <SFX: COQUI FROG CROAKING> Ari Wow! That's a big sound for a little frog! BACK AT: The river . The children look over at Mz . Mole who is holding a stick like a conductor’s wand and waving it . The camera pulls out a bit to reveal Sr. Tapir playing guitar along with the frogs . MZ . MOLE Welcome Señor Tapir! Everyone grab a wand! Let’s conduct our very own frog concert. The children all now have sticks and are pretending to conduct as we see and hear <SFX: A VARIETY OF FROGS> all calling throughout the r iver - the eastern grey tree frog, the Goliath Bullfrog, the Coqui frog <SFX: NOTE: other frogs calls could include the northern spring peeper, the wood frog, the western chorus frog, the green frog and the bullfrog - these frogs do not necessarily need to be designed>. MZ . MOLE (CONT'D) Ha ha! See, Nature makes music, just like we do! THE END.

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY EWW131 Make Music, Naturally! By: Kate Barris Elinor’s Question: How can we make our own musical instruments? Logline: Elinor wants to find a way to make music with Sr. Tapir. Curriculum Goals: SEP1 . Asking questions a. Demonstrate curiosity about the greater world outside of their local environment c. Ask and/or identify cause and effect questions that can be answered by an investigation SEP4 . Analyzing and interpreting data b. Use the 5 senses and simple tools to gather and record data SEP6 . Constructing explanations a. Use background knowledge experiences, and data to construct reasonable explanations and theories of natural phenomena LS1 . Understand that all living things have external parts a. Identify and describe the physical characteristics of a variety of animals and plants b. Record observations about an animal’s or plant’s physical appearance. (Elinor and her friends observe plants and animals that make rhythmic sounds.) ND3 . Understand that structures and materials in the natural world can be used or can inspire the engineering of structures with similar function in the designed world. (Elinor and her friends make percussion instruments inspired by what they’ve observed.) Main Characters: Elinor, Ari, Olive, Sr. Tapir, audience members (no lines) Locations: Forest, Park Props: Sticks, hollow log, bean pods, beans, Sr. Tapir’s guitar FIRST DRAFT May 15, 2019 SECOND DRAFT June 5, 2019 POLISH July 10th, 2019 Elinor Elinor/olive/ari Ari Olive Elion Mr. Dog Ari/olive Ari’s mom Ari’s little sister Air Ms. Mole Mr. Mole Art Olie Mr. Hamster Mary Lizzie Liszzie Mary & lizzie Mr. Hm Mr. N Kids Elinr Elinor/ari/Olive Senor tapir Oiive Oive (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) (thing-ese)_ (thing-ESE) INT EXT I/E 7 1 6 3. EXT 1. EXT TRANSITION CIRCLE TIME SCIENCE STATION ACTIVITY BOARD COMPUTER STATION OPIE MONOLOGUE OPENING TITLES SEQUENCE COLD OPENING OPENING TITLES BLOCK AREA CIRCLE TIME SONG DOORWAY TO KINDERGARTEN COATROOM COATROOM - CUBBIES SENSES TABLE BAHTROOM BATHROOM CIRCLE RUB OPIE FANTASY DRAMA CENTRE CREDITS. PLAYGROUND - CATERPILLAR PLAYGROUND - NEAR THE SLIDES PLAYGROUND - TEEPEE LARGE SHRUB CUBBY AREA CLASSROOM HOLEY WALL CREATIVITY CENTRE CLASS - BETWEEEN MATH AND SCIENCE CIRCLE TIME RUG MATH CENTRE INT. CLASSROOM ICY SNOWY EXPANSE OUTSIDE SALLY'S HOUSE THE THINGAMAJIGGER FRICTIONARIUM FRICTIONARIUM - RAMPS THINGAMAJIGGER THINGAMAJIGGER -HEADING HOME NICK'S BACKYARD NICK'S BACK DOOR SERENDIP PATH SERENDIP FIRST PATH INT. SERENDIP CLOSER TO SCHOOL – A LITTLE LATER THE PARK SEGMENT 2. DAY NIGHT AFTERNOON MORNING EVENING LATER MOMENTS LATER CONTINUOUS THE NEXT DAY CUBBIES SAME SAME TIME AERIAL ESTABLISHING SHOT CUT TO: FADE IN: FADE OUT. FADE TO: DISSOLVE TO: BACK TO: MATCH CUT TO: JUMP CUT TO: FADE TO BLACK.