1. EXT. forest - DAY ESTABLISHING SHOT: The forest near Elinor’s house. Elinor (O.S.) Okay, are you ready? CLOSE: ELINOR’s FOOT as she steps onto a little tree stump. PULL OUT: To ELINOR standing, like a conductor on a podium, in front of ARI and OLIVE, holding a twig like a baton. Ari/olive Ready! Elinor taps the baton/twig on a nearby branch. ElinoR Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the first ever performance of a new song by Elinor, Ari and Olive, called “The Feelings Song.” ( giving them their note) Hummmm . She starts to “conduct” with her baton and Ari and Olive start to sing. They do some little hand gestures that go along with the song. (Elinor’s voice is always loudest , as she shouts with glee - in a pleasant non-irritating way. ) Ari/olive/ Elinor (singing) Ari/Olive - If you feel... Elinor ( gleefully shouted) Glad! Ari/Olive - Let me know you’re glad All - And we’ll be glad together! Ari/Olive - If you feel.. Elinor(shouted , pleasantly ) Sad! Ari/Olive - Let me know you’re sad . All: And I’ll try to make it better . Ari/Olive - If you feel.. Elinor (shouted) Silly ! Ari/Olive - Let me know you’re silly . All - And we’ll laugh and giggle together . Olive - So a lways let your feelings out Ari - Smile or frown or giggle and shout Elinor - ‘Cause I can be a friend for real All - If I know just how you feel! If I know just how you feeeeeeel ! The three of them look very pleased. Olive Wow! Ms. Mole’s going to love our song! Ari Yeah! I can’t wait to sing it to the whole class tomorrow. They get to a fork in the path. ELINOR I want it to be perfect, so I’m going to practice and practice and practice ! Olive Don’t forget what Ms. Mole said: If you practice too much, you might lose your voice! Ari Ha! And then we’d have to run all over looking for it. Here voicey voicey voicey ! Elinor I’m just so excited, I can’t stop! See you tomorrow! ARI/oLIVE Bye Elinor! Elinor goes one way and Ari and Olive go the other, waving as they head home. As Elinor walks, she sings loudly . ELINOR (singing) If you feel glad Let me know you’re glad And we’ll be glad together... 2. INT. elinor’s house - montage We see Elinor in a series of snippets, singing very loudly . 1. Elinor at the dinner table, her parents amused; 2. Elinor at her desk colouring ; 3. Elinor in the bathtub surrounded by bubbles; 4. Elinor brushing her teeth (so song is garbled); 5. Elinor poking her head through her pyjama top; 6. Sitting in bed, flipping through a book; 7. Elinor lying in bed at night facing one way; 8. Elinor lying in bed facing the other way. ELINOR (singing loudly ) If you feel sad ... Let me know you’re sad... And I’ll try to make it better ! If you feel silly ... Let me know you’re silly And we’ll laugh and giggle together ! So always let your feelings out Just smile or frown or giggle and shout ‘ Cause I can be a friend for real If I know just how you feel! If I know just how you feel ! Just before Elinor reaches the end of the song, we CUT to a WIDE SHOT of the house at NIGHT, as the last light goes out and her SINGING FADES. Then, there’s the first pink of sunrise and it’s morning. 3. EXT. outside elinor’s house - morning Olive and Ari are at the path to Elinor’s house . Ari Race ya to the door! They both run up to the door, and get to the door, knocking at the same time. After a beat, the door opens and Elinor comes out. Ari (CONT’D) Hi Elinor! Are you ready to sing our song in class today? ELINOR ( croaks ) OLIVE What’s wrong with your voice? Ari Do you have a cold? Elinor shakes her head “no”. Olive Then why does your voice sound so scratchy? Elinor shrugs. Ari Wait a second. Did you practice our song all night? Elinor shrugs and then nods, slightly apologetically. Olive suddenly realizes what’s happened. Olive Ah! You practiced so much you lost your voice - like Ms. Mole said . Elinor shrugs and nods again, a bit more apologetically. ari What about our song? We promised Ms. Mole. Elinor, Ari and Olive look concerned. OLIVE We can’t sing the song without you. We made it up to sing together . Ari R ight! If you don’t sing, we don’t sing. ELINOR ( hardly any voice) Sorry. Olive and Ari don’t want her to feel bad. ari If you lost your voice from all that practicing, maybe you just need to give it a rest. olive Yeah. Maybe if you don’t talk for a while , it’ll be okay by the time we get to scho ol . Ari looks at his watch and reacts. ari Whoa! We don’t have a lot of time. Let’ s go. 4. EXT. mr. Dog’s front yard – A LITTLE LATER As they skip along together, they meet up with MR. DOG , who is fixing his fence outside his house . Ari Look! There’s Mr. Dog! Olive Good morning, Mr. Dog! They group around him, with Olive on one side , Elinor on the other side and Ari nearer his rear end. Mr. Dog Good morning, kids! How nice to see you! A ngle on : Mr. Dog’s tail is wagging so vigorously that he keeps hitting Ari with it (Mr. Dog doesn’t realize it). Ari ( giggles ) Mr. Dog! Your tail is tickling me! Mr. Dog looks at his back end and chuckles. Mr. DOG Oops! ( chuckle ) Sorry Ari! I can’t help it! Wagging our tail is the way we dogs show we’re happy to see you! Olive We’re happy to see you too! Ari Yeah, except we don’t wag our tails, right? Olive Right! Elinor smiles and nods. Mr. Dog reacts with curiosity. Mr. Dog You’re awfully quiet today Elinor. Elinor tries but nothing comes out , so Olive helps out . OlivE We made up a new song and Elinor practiced so much last night , her voice got tired . ArI Yeah, and we’re supposed to sing it for the whole class, but we can’t unless Elinor gets her voice back . Mr. Dog’s ears droop and his tail stops wagging as he turns to Elinor. MR. DOG Elinor! After all that practicing, you must be disappointed you can’t sing your song. As Elinor nods sadly, Olive notices Mr. Dog’s ears droop and Ari notices Mr. Dog’s tail has stopped hitting him. Ari Hey. Your tail stopped wagging and tickling me. Olive points to Mr. Dog’s ears. Olive And your ears went down too . Is that b ecause you ’ re sad for Elinor? Mr. Dog raises and lowers his ears and the kids watch in fascination. Mr. Dog My ears do show how I’m feeling . But I don’t feel sad for Elinor. I just understand how she feels . Olive And we understand how you feel! Because of your tail and your ears, e ven when you don’t say anything, everyone knows how you’re feeling. Mr. Dog’s tail wags. MR. DOG That’s the way we dogs communicate, Olive ! OLIVE As Elinor would say, That’s soooo interesting! They all respond with smiles. MR. DOG Well, I’d better get back to fixing this fence. I hope you all get to perform your song - one way or another! Elinor smiles and waves to Mr. Dog. Ari/olive Bye Mr. Dog!/Thanks! As they start to head off, Elinor pauses, clearly thinking. 5. EXT. CLOSER TO SCHOOL – A LITTLE LATER Elinor, Olive and Ari are almost at school when they hear... Ari’s mom (o.s.) Ari! Ari! You forgot your lunch! They turn and see ARI’S MOM catching up to them, with his lunchbox . In her other arm she’s got Ari’s baby sister MIRI . Ari puts his palm to his forehead, in an “Oh man!” Gesture. Ari Whoa! I forgot my lunch? How does that even happen? Ari’S MOM Y ou were so excited about singing your song. Are you two as excited about the song as Ari is? Ari, Olive and Elinor look slightly disappointed and Ari’s Mom reacts. OliVE We may not be able to sing our song today. Elinor lost her voice. Elinor shrugs sadly, and Ari’s mom looks concerned . Ari She’s giving her voice a rest. We hope maybe she’ll get it back b efore the end of the day . Ari’s Mom gives Elinor a reassuring look . Ari’s mom That’s a good plan, Elinor. Just then Ari’s little sister starts fussing, <GURGLING> and waving her hands up and down. Olive reacts. OLIVE Oh! What’s wrong with baby Miri ? Ari smiles and waves his arms the same way she just did. Ari She’s just hungry. She always goes like this when she’s hungry. Don’t you, Little Sis ! (He gurgles just like her) The baby <SFX: BABY GIGGLES> Then the baby starts rubbing her eyes. ARI (CONT’D) And when she rubs her eyes, it means she’s tired, right Mom? Ari’S MOM That’s right. I’d better get her home for her snack and a nap! I hope Elinor’s voice gets better in time to sing your song! Bye! Ari’s Mom gives Ari a kiss on the head and then hurries off. Olive turns to Ari. Olive Wow! You sure know a lot about babies, Ari. Ari I just know a lot about my baby sister. I can tell what she wants, even though she can’t talk yet. Olive The same way we could tell how Mr. Dog felt because of his wagging tail and his dropping ears . As Elinor is taking in the conversation between Ari and Olive , we can see from her expression that she’s got an idea. She starts tugging Olive’s arm. OliVE (CONT’D) What is it Elinor? Did you get your voice back? Elinor shakes her head no, then points to her temple. ari Do you have a headache? She shakes her head no again. Then she holds one finger up, in a kind of “aha!” gesture and has a big smile. Ari (CONT’D) Your finger hurts? Elinor shakes her head , points to her temple the n draws a circle above her head, kind of like a thought bubble. OliVE You have an idea?? Elinor nods her head vigorously. ARI All right! What’s your idea? Elinor points to them, then acts like she’s singing. ARI (CONT’D) What’s she doing? Elinor tries again, this time doing some of the hand gestures that they did earlier when they sang the song. olive Oh! You want us to sing our song? Elinor nods vigorously. Ari But we already said we don’t want to sing the song without you. Elinor points two fingers at Ari and Olive’s eyes then to herself. OLIVE You want us to look at you? Elinor nods then smiles a great big smile, and points at her smiling mouth. OLIVE (CONT’D) You’re happy? Elinor nods, then makes a sad face and points at her mouth. ARI But now you’re sad. I don’t get it. Olive suddenly starts to smile. OliVE I do! We can tell how Elinor is feeling by the look on her face. Ari still isn’t getting it. ARI ... Okay? Elinor smiles mischievously and wags her butt. Olive gets it right away but Ari is still puzzled. OliVE Ah! Just like we could tell Mr. Dog was happy when he wagged his tail! Elinor smiles and nods, and then gestures as if she’s holding cradling a baby, then rubs her eyes the way Ari’s sister did earlier. Ari’s face lights up. ARI And the way (Ari’s sister) let us know she was tired by rubbing her eyes . Olive Exactly! That’s soooo interesting! Come on! Elinor jumps up and down happily - she knows Olive is on the same track as she is. ARI Okay, what’s so interesting? And where are we going? Olive ushers them toward the school. OLIVE To school! Elinor’s figured out a way to sing our song even if she doesn’t have her voice! I’ll explain on the way! 6. INT. CLASSROOM – MOMENTS LATER ON MS. MOLE: Who looks a little surprised as Elinor, Ari and Olive rush up to her. Ari/olive Ms. Mole! Ms. Mole! Ms. Mole Oh! Good morning, my fine singing students! Are you all ready to sing your new Feelings Song for the class? The kids excitedly tell their story. Ari Well, we thought we weren’t going to be able to sing our song! Olive Because Elinor practiced so much that she lost her voice. Elinor nods and gestures that she can’t talk. ArI And we didn’t want to sing The Feelings Song without Elinor! Ms. Mole nods, understanding. Olive But then we made some observations! Ms. MOLE You did? Good for you! What did you observe? Elinor repeats her wagging tail motion, imitating Mr. Dog. Ms. Mole looks confused. Ms. MOLE (CONT’D) Um ... I’m not sure I understand. OliVE We observed that when Mr. Dog wagged his tail , that meant he was happy . All three wag their butts and Ms. Mole <chuckles>. olive (CONT’D) So even if he didn’t talk to us, we could tell how he felt . Ari Yeah, and then we observed my little sister and I knew she was hungry because when she’s hungry, she always does this ... The three of them wave their arms and Ms. Mole laughs. ArI (CONT’D) So we knew how she felt. OlIVE And that gave Elinor ... All three of them point to their temple. Ari/olive An idea! Ari Even if you can’t use your voice, there are ways to show your friends how you feel, or what you’re thinking . Olive Yeah! By the way your face looks or your body moves. So Elinor helped us realize we can sing our song... Ari/OLIVE With Elinor! Elinor smiles and points to her smiling face! 7. INT. classroom - moments LATER Elinor, Ari and Olive in front of the class with Ms. Mole. Ms. Mole And now, Ari, Olive and Elinor are going to present The Feelings Song! Olive Ari and I are going to sing, but Elinor’s going to show the feelings instead of singing them. ArI Yeah and if you can tell what she’s feeling, you can join in ! Elinor conducts as she did earlier. NOTE ON THE SONG: Would be great to have other kids voices shout the emotions (glad, sad, silly ) depending on the pairing of this Ep . Ari/olive (singing) Ari/Olive - If you feel... Elinor shows a big smily face. We see the kids looking at Elinor and trying to understand her expression. SAlly She looks... happy? Ari Right. Or glad. They start again, and Elinor puts on her happy face again. NOTE: It would be best if we get extra kid voices to shout the one shouted word. Not sure how to put this in the song. Ari/olive (singing) Ari/Olive - If you feel... Ari/Olive/Kids TBD (shouted) Glad! Ari/Olive (singing) Let me know you’re glad And we’ll be glad together! Ari/Olive - If you feel.. Elinor makes a sad face. On the kids observing Elinor’s expression. Mary Now she’s sad. Olive Yes! Ari/Olive - If you feel... Ari/Olive/Kids TBD (shouted) Sad! Ari/Olive (Singing)- Let me know you’re sad. And I’ll try to make it better . If you feel.. Elinor makes a silly face. Ari/Olive/ Kids TBD (shouted) Silly ! Ari/Olive - Let me know you’re silly . And we’ll laugh and giggle together . Elinor dances as Ar i and Olive sing. Olive - So a lways let your feelings out Ari - Smile or frown or giggle and shout Ari/Olive - ‘ Cause I can be a friend for real If I know just how you feel! If I know just how you feeeeeeel ! The class reacts with great <SF: APPLAUSE> Ms. mole That was wonderful! Olive I think it was even better with Elinor showing the feelings instead of singing them. Ari Me too. What do you think Elinor? Elinor tries to speak. Elinor ( croaky but better than earlier) I feel ... Then she makes a great big smiley face and wiggles her butt like they did earlier. Ari You don’t have to say how you feel Elinor - we can tell. You feel very... Olive Very... ARI/OLIVE Happy! THE END

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ELINOR WONDERS WHY No Need to Shout By Kate Barris Elinor’s Questio n: How can I communicate in a way that is familiar when I can't talk? Logline : Elinor is supposed to sing a song with her friends but she’s lost her voice. Curriculum Goals : • SEP 1 – Ask and/or identify cause and effect questions that can be answered by an investigation • SEP 4d – Talk about and reflect on what happened during an investigation or when solving a problem and why it might have happened (Elinor and her friends observe how other animals communicate without words and determine how they could use those strategiesS) (LS8) Begin to understand that there are many different kinds of living things and how they may be the same or different: a. Observe and describe similarities and differences across different types of plants and animals. Elinor and her friends observe there are many different ways to communicate. • (ND2). (RTL Crosscutting concept ‘Systems’): Begin to understand that systems developed in our world often work in similar ways to systems found in the natural world. Elinor realizes that, just like in the natural world, she and her friends express themselves through actions and expressions, not just sounds/talking. MAIN CHARACTERS: Olive, Ari, Elinor, Mr. Dog SECONDARY: Ms. Mole, Ari's Mother LINE COUNT - 97 FIRST DRAFT: FEB 15, 2019 SECOND DRAFT MARCH 4, 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 Ari/olive/ Elinor Kid Mary (V.O.) (O.S.) (O.C.) (CONT'D) (SUBTITLE) (thing-ese)_ (thing-ESE) INT EXT I/E 7 1 6 3. 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 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. 120