1. ext. FOREST CLEARING - day Open on a wide shot of a forest clearing, with ELINOR, ARI, OLIVE, and several of their classmates standing behind easels arranged in a semicircle. The kids all wear pin-on smocks or backwards old dress shirts to protect their clothes from the paint. I can see kids playing this episode. Which wouldencourage scientific exploration of nature and colors. In the center of the circle is MR. LION, the fun, energetic, expressive art teacher wearing a smock. He stands at his own easel, holding a paintbrush aloft, squinting at the easel as he plans his next brush stroke. We can’t see his easel, but we can see that he’s looking at a still-life bowl of fruit on a small table. With his fluffy mane, he even looks a bit like Bob Ross. We zoom in for a bit, then see a much closer shot of Mr. Lion, weighing his options for what to paint next. Mr. Lion Hmmm ... The next shot pans over the kids watching Mr. Lion in anticipation. He has really captivated them. ANGLE ON: Mr. Lion gets a look of determination in his eyes, then boldly slashes a few strokes across his canvas. He smiles, satisfied, then stands next to the canvas so that he’s not blocking the kids from seeing it. Mr. Lion (CONT’D) Ta-da ! ANGLE ON: We see that Mr. Lion has painted a perfect representation of the still life fruit bowl. <SFX: WOW, COOL, AMAZING WALLA> The kids applaud <SFX: applause> their approval. MR. LION (CONT’D) And THAT’S the joy of painting! ANGLE ON: The kids look impressed. ELINOR That’s great, Mr. Lion! OLIVE Yeah, your painting looks just like the bowl of fruit! Ari Mmm . It looks so real, it’s making me hungry! Olive <SFX: GIGGLES> . Ari (CONT’D) (shrugging) What? I’m a fruit bat. MR. lION Thanks, kids. And now, it’s your turn to paint! ELINOR Are we going to paint the bowl of fruit, Mr. Lion? ANGLE ON: Mr. Lion looking passionate -- he really cares about the spirit of art. MR. LION You can. Or you can paint whatever you want! Art isn’t about rules -- it’s a way to show your feelings about what you want to paint. ANGLE ON: Elinor frowns. ELINOR But I don’t know what I want to paint. He dances around and indicates/wiggles the body parts as he mentions them. Mr. LiON You will! Just think about something you love, and let your heart tell your brain, then let your brain tell your fingers, then let your fingers pick up a paintbrush and create something wonderful! The kids giggle at his antics. Elinor looks reassured. The kids start to move toward their easels, then stop when Mr. Lion holds up his hands. Mr. lion (CONT’D) But before you start! The most important thing of all, something you cannot forget! ( pause ) You need paint. Everyone come take some from the table in the middle. The class picks up their empty paint palettes and moves toward the middle table. ANGLE ON: The kids surround the table, each helping themselves to a dollop of each color from squirt bottles. <SFX: excited talking as everyone prepares to paint>. Elinor seems to be taking a larger pile of green paint than any other color. OLIVE That’s a lot of green paint, Elinor. ELINOR Yup ! Mr. Lion said to paint something we love, so I’m going to paint nature. The kids start walking back to their easels. ELINOR (CONT’D) I’m going to paint the trees, and the bushes, and the leaves, and the grass.. . ARI (looking around) Yup , you’re definitely going to need a lot of green. Olive What about you, Ari? Ari Well, I love fruit, so that’s what I want to paint. But...Mr . Lion already painted that bowl of fruit. ELINOR I think that’s okay, Ari. You can paint something even if someone else already did. OLIVE I’m glad you said that, Elinor. Because I love nature, too, and I also want to paint the forest. ELINOR That’s great! We can both be nature painters! OLIVE Awesome! Ari (striking a determined pose) It’s time...to make art! CROSSFADE TO: 2. Ext. FOREST CLEARING - A FEW MINUTES LATER The kids stand back at their easels, and we see that the whole class is excitedly working away, though we don’t yet see what’s on their easels. Mr. Lion walks behind the kids, reacting to their paintings in progress. Mr. Lion Wow, Sally, look at that sunrise! ... Javier , I love those melting clocks, how unusual! ... Beautiful work, Ari! That apple looks tasty enough to eat, but I’m not going to, because it’s a painting. ANGLE ON: Elinor and Olive paint side by side, but with their easels angled slightly so that they can’t see what the other is working on. Olive is a virtuoso, painting with a brush in her trunk a s it twists around . ELINOR (singing to herself as she paints) I’m painting a scene. I’m using the green. And now some blue. ( to Olive) How ‘bout you? Olive giggles. Elinor turns her canvas around so that Olive can see it: She has painted a kid-quality landscape with green grass, trees, and a blue sky with a yellow sun. It’s clearly unfinished, though, with a large portion of one side unpainted. ELINOR (CONT’D) What do you think, Olive? OLIVE That’s really nice, Elinor ! ELINOR Mr. Lion is right -- i t’s so fun to paint what you love. She moves slightly so that she can see Olive’s canvas, then gives a little gasp. ANGLE ON: We see Olive’s canvas. She’s still working on it, but what she’s painted so far looks like a higher-resolution version of Elinor’s painting. The tree trunks look more defined, individual branches are visible, the clouds have texture. ELINOR (CONT’D) Olive, that’s beautiful! OLIVE (alternating squinting at her painting and looking above/beyond the canvas) Thanks! I’m trying to paint all of the things I notice in nature. She leans back for a moment and assesses her canvas. OLIVE (CONT’D) Hmm. Needs more birds. With a flourish of her trunk, she expertly adds a few birds to the sky. ELINOR Your painting is so good. It looks ...real. OLIVE (with a shrug) You think so? Thanks, Elinor! Olive keeps painting happily. ANGLE ON: Elinor looks back at her own painting, a little discouraged. ELINOR (sighs) I wish mine looked real, too. Ari leans in . Ari It doesn’t have to look real, Elinor! He holds up his canvas. In addition to the bowl of fruit, he has now painted a few robots. ArI (CONT’D) See? I’ve added some robots to my painting. He returns to working on his painting. Ari (CONT’D) (robot voice, as he paints) ROBOTS EATING FRUIT. DOES NOT COMPUTE. ANGLE ON: Elinor still looks a little discouraged. Mr. Lion walks over, having heard Elinor’s disappointment. Mr. LiON Elinor, there isn’t a “good” or “bad” way to make art. Art is just your own way of showing how you feel about what you’re painting. Elinor looks reassured. ELINOR Thanks, Mr. Lion. Okay, I ’m going to make my painting really show how much I love nature! ANGLE ON a closer shot of Elinor; she looks determined. She touches her brush to her palette. ELINOR (CONT’D) (singing again) I’m painting a scene. I’m using the green. When she says the word “green,” she puts the brush to her canvas, attempting to add leaves to a bare tree trunk -- but nothing comes off of her brush. ELINOR (CONT’D) Hmm. She picks up her palette, and we can see that she’s out of green paint (i.e., it’s in its usual spot in a rainbow of paint blobs, but there’s only a tiny smidgen left on the palette). ELINOR (CONT’D) Uh-oh. I’m out of green paint. ANGLE ON: Elinor carries her palette to the table where Mr. Lion keeps the paint bottles. She picks up the green paint bottle and tries to squeeze a dollop onto her palette. ELINOR (CONT’D) (trying her song again) I’m getting more green ... On the word “green,” she gives the bottle a squeeze, but nothing comes out. ELINOR (CONT’D) I’m getting more...green ! This time, on the word “green,” she gives the bottle an extra hard squeeze. It makes a <SFX: spluttering bottle sound>, but again nothing comes out. ELINOR (CONT’D) Hmmm...we’re out of green paint. Ari comes up behind her, carrying his own palette. ARI Elinor, can you please hand me the blue paint ? I think my fruit-and-robot picture needs a blue dragon. Elinor picks up the bottle of blue paint, but before she hands it to Ari, she realizes it’s also light and gives it a test squeeze. ELINOR It looks like we’re out of blue paint, too. ARI We’re OUT? Olive approaches with her palette. OLIVE What about brown? I need more brown paint for the tree trunks. Elinor picks up the bottle of brown paint and tries to squeeze it onto Olive’s palette. OLIVE (CONT’D) There’s no more brown paint? A few more kids start to show up, hoping to add paint to their palettes but finding none. <WALLA: hey, we’re out of paint/what’s going on?/ but I need more red/etc.> Mr. Lion approaches, and Ari steps out to talk to him. ARI Mr. Lion? I t looks like we’re out of paint. Do you have more? Elinor hands a bottle to Mr. Lion, and he shakes and squeezes it himself. Nothing comes out. Mr. Lion Hmm... He grabs bottle after bottle, squeezing each. MR. Lion (CONT’D) Oh no! I thought I had brought enough paint, but it looks like we ran out. SALLY (holding up an unfinished painting of a tree) But how am I going to finish my painting of my favorite tree? Tito (holding up a painting of an adult female mouse in the pose of Whistler’s mother) And how am I going to finish painting my mom? ElINOR Now what do we do? It’s an art emergency! Ari (overly dramatic) It’s an art-mergency ! MR. LION I’m so sorry, kids. We’ll have to wait until next week to finish your paintings. I’ll be sure to bring more paint then. The kids walk sadly back to their easels. ELINOR Aw . I really wanted to finish my nature painting. OLIVE Me too. Ari Yeah, now we’ll have to wait a whole week. He again moves his arms robotically . Ari (CONT’D) (robot voice) CANNOT PAINT BLUE DRAGON. VERY SAD. BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP ... His silly robot motions intensify, and he gets his whole body into the beep boops . This distracts him from where he’s walking, and he trips over an easel and falls into the grass. ArI (CONT’D) I’m okay, I’m okay. Elinor <SFX: GIGGLES> at his antics and helps him stand and b r ush off his smock, but then she notices that some of the green stains on his white smock aren’t brushing off. ELINOR Huh. Ari, your smock has green stains on it. ARI (noticing the stains) Sure. That’s what it’s for -- to keep my clothes from getting paint on them ! OLIVE But these stains weren’t here a minute ago. The kids look around for a moment, and then Elinor looks closely at Ari’s smock. She picks a broken blade of grass off of it and holds the grass up. CU: We can see that it’s vibrant green. ELINOR I don’t think these stains came from the paint. I think they’re from the grass. ANGLE ON: Olive examines the stain, too. OLIVE You mean like the stains you get on your pants sometimes when you’re playing in the grass? ELINOR Yes. That is SO INTERESTING. Elinor has an idea. ELINOR (CONT’D) I wonder... Elinor rubs the grass onto a blank part of her canvas. ELINOR (CONT’D) Wow, look! The green from the grass gets on my canvas. OLIVE It’s like you’re painting with it. Ari picks up a few grass shoots and uses the green to start shading an otherwise unfinished pear in the fruit bowl. Ari Whoa, cool! OLIVE <Gasp!> Maybe we can use it to finish our paintings! ELINOR We can use grass to paint the grass! Ari Yeah, but that only gives us green. How do we paint the other colors? Elinor looks around. ELINOR Hmm...I wonder what else we can use to paint with around here. ( beat ) We need more observations! CROSSFADE TO: 3. ext. FOREST - A FEW MINUTES LATER Elinor, Olive, and Ari explore the edges of the forest, which is near the painting area. Elinor carries her canvas with her. Olive finds a flower with yellow petals on the forest floor, and she picks it up. "I think in this bit here, we don't want the kids to go too far. The edge of the forest should be close to where the easels are. Also, I think we want the kids to experiment as they explore, otherwise it's a bit awkward. Maybe have Elinor grab her canvas and take it to the edge of the forest with them? Don't think we want Olive to pluck a flower. Can you write that she finds it on the floor? Maybe add a description that Olive hands the flower to Elinor and she uses it to paint a streak of yellow on her canvas. Then Elinor says, ""That works!""" OLIVE Look! Maybe we can use the petals from this flower to make yellow. She hands the flower to Elinor, who rubs a petal against her canvas, leaving a faint streak of yellow in the sky. ELINOR That works! Ari pulls two handfuls of dirt from the ground. ARI (holding up one handful) This dirt is brown...(he holds up the other handful)...and this dirt is more like orange. Elinor takes a smidgen of dirt from each hand and wipes them on her canvas to make a tree trunk and orange leaves. ELINOR That works, too! Elinor picks up a small, white rock. ELINOR (CONT’D) And this rock is like chalk -- we could use this for white! She adds some white highlights to her painting. OLIVE Looks like the rock works too. Ari We can paint with nature! ELINOR Let’s go tell Mr. Lion! 4. EXT. FOREST CLEARING - A FEW MINUTES LATER Elinor, Olive, and Ari run over to Mr. Lion, carrying multicolored plants, rocks, dirt, and berries. They’re so excited! ELINOR Mr. Lion! Guess what! We can finish our paintings after all! ari (pointing to the grass stain still on his smock) I had a grass stain on my smock, and Elinor thought that maybe we could paint with colors from nature! OLIVE (indicating the objects in their hands) We found all kinds of colorful plants and nature things. Maybe some of them will work. Mr. Lion What a great idea, kids! You’re right -- there are no rules in art. Not even that you have to use paint. ELINOR We can use nature to paint nature! ARI Wait. I still need blue for my dragon. Ari looks off-camera . ArI (CONT’D) <GASP!> I’ll be right back. He rushes away. Mr. Lion Another inspiration! Over near the paint station, Ari picks up a bl ue berry from the still life fruit bowl, then rushes back. Ari Mr. Lion, can I use this bl ue berry? Mr. Lion Sure, but what for? Ari Maybe I can use it to paint my blue dragon . Mr. Lion Wonderful! Let’s use all the colors of nature. Mr. Lion leads a song as the kids experiment with plants and soil on their paintings. Scenes during the song include: Kids run excitedly from plant to plant. Olive tries plants one at a time, then records the results in her notebook. Elinor uses grass to spread more green across her canvas. Tito Mouse hauls a giant (to him) bundle of flower s to his canvas. The Goat Twins paint pictures of each other in unison. Sally Beaver thinks while chewing on the back of her paintbrush, then realizes she’s shredded it. Mr. Lion dances; his dancing looks like meditative tai chi. SONG: MR. LION: The world is full of colors that can all be found Hanging from the trees or growing in the ground. Put down your pen and pencil, ‘cause here’s the greatest part: Nature is a work of art! ELINOR: A berry’s blue -- OLIVE: The grass is green -- ARI: The dirt is brown -- MR. LION: And hello! The flowers all around are orange, pink, and yellow. ELINOR: With berries in your painting, instead of in a tart, Nature is a work of art! ARI: You don’t always need to buy things in stores. ELINOR: You might find them if you just look outdoors. OLIVE: The world is full of colors, so pick one up and start . ELINOR , OLIVE, AND ARI: Nature is a work of art! MR. LION (slowly, operatically): You see it all around you; you feel it in your heaaaaaart ! ALL (happily shouting, resuming tempo): Nature is a work of art! END SONG. ANGLE ON: The class smiles at their paintings; they’re all pleased with how they turned out. Song - If we don’t actually show a chart being created visually, then we would replace the line “and write them in a chart”. This doesn't seem like it would be chart anyway – sounds more like a table. ANGLE ON: Elinor considers her canvas; Mr. Lion stands behind her. She’s holding a dandelion head and weighing how to represent it in her painting. She’s almost done, but not quite. Not sure Mr. Lion should interrupt her like that. Replace this line with "Now how do I paint this flower?" Then replace the description below with something like, "Mr. Lion comes up behind her." ELINOR Now how do I paint with this flower? Mr. Lion comes up behind her. Change to something like, "Remember Elinor, there are no rules in art. Maybe what you need is... Glue!" Mr. Lion Remember, Elinor, there are no rules in art. Maybe what you need -- is glue! He dramatically reveals that he’s holding a bottle of white glue. ELINOR <SFX: Gasp!> Yes! He hands Elinor the bottle. She smiles, then puts a dab of glue on her canvas and attaches the dandelion head as a bright, yellow sun in the sky . It looks great! Elinor steps back to look at her work. Olive and Ari come over to look at it as well. OlIVE Wow. A picture OF nature, BY nature, IN nature, made WITH nature. ARI The dandelion is the sun -- what a cool idea! ELINOR I love how my painting turned out. Like you said, Mr. Lion, it shows how much I love nature -- because it’s beautiful, and interesting, and full of surprises. maybe "share with others" would work? MR. lion We like the line about expressing yourself but we're not sure if there's enough definition for kids to understand what it means. See? I told you not to worry, Elinor. Art isn’t about right or wrong, it’s just a way share your feelings and ideas with others. Maybe add a kicker after this line. Ari could say, "(robot voice) MY ROBOTS AGREE. BEEP BOOP". Then we zoom out as they giggle and finish their paintings. ELINOR Nature makes it easy to share my feelings -- it’s so colorful! Ari (robot voice, holding up his painting and waving it as though he’s making the robots talk) MY ROBOTS AGREE. BEEP BOOP BEEP BOOP . Elinor, Olive, and Mr. Lion laugh, and we start to zoom out. AS WE ZOOM OUT: Ari sticks two berries to be the robot’s eyes -- Olive then grabs a few flowers and glues them below the tree in her painting, then we see the whole scene, with kids painting, chatting, and having a good time, all painting with plants and dirt . FADE OUT, THE END.

EWW155 A Change of Art - D3 08Jan20 .

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ELINOR Wonders Why EP 155 A Change of Art By: Adam Ruben Elinor’s Question: How do we use nature to make art? Logline: When Mr. Lion's art class runs out of paint, Elinor and her friends learn to make art using the colors found in nature. Curriculum Goals: LS8 . Begin to understand that there are many different kinds of living things and how they may be the same or different. (Different plants have different colors.) ND2 . Begin to understand that systems developed in our world often work in similar ways to systems found in the natural world. (Elinor and her friends learn that paints have an array of colors, just as plants have an array of colors.) SEP1a . Demonstrate curiosity about the greater world outside of their environment. (Elinor and her friends wonder which plants and other natural items can be used for their art.) SEP6a . Use background knowledge, experiences, and data to construct reasonable explanations and theories of natural phenomena. (Ari theorizes, from having stained his clothes in the past, that some of the most dramatic colors will come from deeply colored blackberries.) Main Characters: Elinor, Olive, Ari, Mr. Lion Non-Speaking Characters: Children in art class (Goat Twins, Tito Mouse, Camilla Dromedary, Sally Beaver, Gael Lynx, and others) Backgrounds - Forest clearing near the school Props - Paints, easels, blade of grass, handful of grass, fruit bowl, dandelion, glue, blackberry, paintings, paint bottles, paint palettes, Olive's notebook and crayon, smocks OUTLINE: October 28, 2019 FIRST DRAFT: November 26, 2019 SECOND DRAFT: December 16, 2019 FINAL DRAFT: January 9, 2020 This is very specific to the nature that they are seeing. Nature in the desert wouldn’t be green at all. Maybe they need to specify... “It definitely looks pretty green outside right now in Nature.” Or something like that. If you add the sigh line as noted in 35, then you can delete this line. I think we can delete this line Delete this line, too. Delete this one Delete this one. Delete this line, too. Maybe say “We found all kinds of colorful plants and nature things.” (specifying that the “things” are from nature) I think we can delete this line I think we can delete this line I think we can delete this line I think we can delete this line "Delete this line. Not sure the cave dweller story is helping us. I think we can omit it for now and jump straight into the song here. Delete first sentence of the description below this line." Al All ARI Cam Camilla ELINOR ELINOR AND Olive Elinor, Olive Elinor, Olive, Ari ELINOR, Olive, aRI, sALLY SILAS ELINOR, Olive, ARI, sally, kai ELINOR/Olive Goat twins Kai Olive Olive, ARI Olive, Ari, Olive, ari, sallu, kai, Camilla, Goat Twins Olive/ari SALLY Mr. Rabbit Elinor, camilla Elinor, olive, ari, camilla MR. BAT MRS. BAT Mz. Mole Child Koa Ranger rabbit Mr. Lion Ari and olive Tito (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (SUBTITLE) INT EXT I/E 2 4 3 5 6 1 7 CLUBHOUSE ON A HILL (WIDE) – DAY CLUBHOUSE -- DAY SMALL HILL -- DAY BOTTOM OF THE HILL -- DAY CLUBOUSE – LATER IRIS OUT THE END. INT. ELINOR'S LIVING ROOM EXT. ELINOR'S YARD EXT. HILL INT. EXT. FOREST INT. ARI'S BEDROOM INT. CLASSROOM EXT. SCHOOL PLAYGROUND EXT. LAKESIDE EXT. FOREST CLEARING DAY NIGHT AFTERNOON MORNING EVENING LATER MOMENTS LATER CONTINUOUS THE NEXT DAY A BIT LATER A FEW MINUTES LATER LATER THAT MORNING THAT NIGHT EARLY WINTER, A COUPLE WEEKS LATER CUT TO: FADE IN: FADE OUT. FADE TO: DISSOLVE TO: BACK TO: MATCH CUT TO: JUMP CUT TO: FADE TO BLACK. CROSSFADE TO: Wipe to: 120