[Example for showcasing a digital accessibility practice]
A series of abstract shapes of light on different materials in otherwise darkness. The forms become recognizable as insects as time goes on. Each shot will be listed out.
Shot 1, 0:00: yellow, pink and purple, bright light moving left to right illuminating a shed snake skin that fills most of the screen
Shot 2, 0:05: the same snakeskin lit from behind by a dim slightly flickering yellow light
Shot 3, 0:07: a plant with small leaves that takes up the whole screen. A light moves from left to right, lighting up different layers of the plant closer or further away in mostly green light with some yellow and pink
Shot 4, 0:11: a blue light lights up and fuzzy material, shot from a low angle. The light is in the form of lines that show a mantis mouth moving, grooming its arm, then touching the arm to its eye, which is revealed by more lines when the arm touches it
Shot 5, 0:15: darkness for a second then a purple and yellow pansy, shot from under the flower. Shapes flicker across it
Shot 6, 0:18: a brief shot of dark green light lighting snake skin
Shot 7, 0:19: the same shot of the pansy with red and a little blue light, doesn’t move much
Shot 8, 0:23: dark blue green light, lines that form ovals moving left and right on larger leaves. She shapes follow the levels of the different leaves
Shot 9, 0:26: blue light lights up tiny leaves. The same plant as shot 3. The lights over incrementally
Shot 10, 0:31: pink light illuminates the inner side of birch bark, laying down. The inside has a lot of sharp points angled away from the camera. The light moves away and to the camera
Shot 11, 0:35: yellow light dances around a few leaves seen from below
Shot 12, 0:40: green light reflected off a shiny surface onto a wall. Different lines move down towards a point, then go up
Shot 13, 0:45: on the beat, three versions of the mantis animation appear on screen. First it appears in blue purple and brown light, shining on a ceramic bowl, the camera moves so it goes from the center to right. The second is blue lighting up dark blue paper with silver stars. It’s smaller and barely to the right. The third is copper purple and blue light on another paper. This one is above and to the left of the blue one
Shot 14, 0:51: a fuzzy surface illuminated by firefly legs and antennae. The antennae are rapidly moving up and down. It is walking to the right bit is in the middle of the screen.
Shot 15, 0:53: a pansy, yellow and purple shot from the side. Pairs of teardrop shapes move around on the flower
Shot 16, 0:57: blue light on a surface that doesn’t have a noticeable texture. Lines that are the legs and elytra of a beetle in slow motion that is ready to fly. The front legs are stretched, the middle legs are lifting up and the elytra open, and the back legs are squating
Shot 17, 0:59: a blurry close up of the mantis with pink light, just the arm and eye.
Shot 18, 1:00: white felt block with white felt thin curvy tails lighted by yellow light
Shot 19, 1:01: a light blue light that makes two lines moves across pansy seen from below. After a second some green lines join
Shot 20, 1:04: shot 18 continued. The light and camera move a little more
Shot 21, 1:07: a second of black then fuzzy purple light moves around felt. It is more pairs of tear drop shapes. A bright purple one shakes as it moves until the last second, and the other paler ones stay near it, the points towards the other one
Shot 22, 1:12: a shine, then pink lights that are two butterfly wings seen from the sideat an angle open and close
Shot 23, 1:15: dark green light revolves around snake skin
Shot 24, 1:17: the same shot as shot 22 except there are pink and orange ovals that form the shape of the wings. More light is reflected
Shot 25, 1:18: pink light on a wooden table. The wings formed by ovals reflected on the wood. There is a blue glow because of the reflection
Shot 26, 1:19: yellow light that’s filled in legs with white claws and lines of the elytra and eyes of a tortoise beetle walking, illuminating some leaves from a tree
Shot 27, 1:21: close up of felt almost from the side. Red elytra and thorax and pink and light blue legs of a firefly. The feet move around, then the elytra lift ip and blue lines for wings show up. The body dips forward the moves up as it flies away
Shot 28, 1:25: the silhouette of a mantidfly in blue purple and copper on the right light up paper. It stretches its left front leg and folds it up. At the last second, pink orange and yellow lights illuminating felt cross the screen at the same time
Shot 29, 1:30: purple and blue pairs of teardrops move around on a painted black surface with white dots, and white felt below it. Darkness for a second, then the material is lighted by the walking yellow tortoise beetle
Shot 30, 1:36: blue and purple pairs of teardrop shapes move around a oval shape with ridges and bumps
Shot 31, 1:41: green and yellow lights light up the plant with tiny leaves, a bit zoomed out. The light moves back and forth and is the front legs of a webspinner upside down. After a second the mantis is pink and on felt on the right of the screen
Shot 32, 1:45: the mantis stays but the background changes to a pansy seen from the front with the pairs of teardrops moving
Shot 33, 1:46: the pansy is in the background but the overlay is gone. Instead there is another light illuminating felt. The same teardrop shapes but wach pair is over a yellow shape. Now bees are moving around
Shot 34, 1:48: the bees on the felt stay but the pansy is gone and there’s virtually bark seen from almost the side. The blue and purple pairs move around without the bodies. After a second the shapes with the bodies disappear. A few seconds and a green light on a flat surface appears. It is lines that show a planthopper facing away then turning to the camera. After a second it disappears again
Shot 35, 1:54: darkness then a white and pink light lighting up leaves and the edge of a purple pansy. After a second blue and brown ovals that form butterfly wings flap on a ceramic bowl. After another second the background is dark
Shot 36, 1:59: similar shot to one of the first ones, yellow light on tiny leaves moving left and right. After a second a faded red elytra and abdomen and multicolored legs of a firefly lighting birch bark appear and flues off with light blue wings
Shot 37, 2:05: orange light on an oval sculpture with lumps, movements looping.
Shot 38, 2:10: yellow green and blue light illuminating tiny leaves. Tje form is not clear but it is the same movement as the teardrops but with yellow bodies again
Shot 39, 2:15: the pairs of teardrop shapes purple and blue, lighting through a pansy shown from below
Shot 40, 2:24: a sculpture with a squished cresent shape with a circle at the base with a dim blue light illuminating part of it
Shot 41 2:30: the sculpture is seen from above. It is a rhinoceros beetle pupa in dirt with white bits of fertilizer. It is illuminated by all of the bugs in the film. Some move around and others stay in place, the sculpture being less then more illuminated. The lights are bright on the sculpture and dim on the dirt.
Shot 42, 2:37: Black, then just dirt illuminated by all the bugs. There is also white text that says “Hopper Bunker,” with “by Jenni Nelson,” below in smaller white text.
Shot 43, 2:43: dirt illuminated by a green earwig and white text. The earwig is grooming its antenna and starts to walk away. The text says “song,” “Through the Fire – Power Druid,” “Field Recording,” “by Feliz Blume”
Shot 44, 2:48: dirt illuminated by the walking tortoise beetle, this time orange. In front is white text that says “Rotoscope Reference Videos,” “Jenni Nelson,” “Andreas Kay,” “BBC,” “Deep Look/KQED,” “Gailhampshire,” “Christain Alessandra Perez,”
Shot 44, 2:55: dirt illuminated by a bee groo.ing it’s antenna. Then another bee walks up to it and they move their antennae. Then they both turn and walk away. There is white text that says “thank you,” “mom and dad,” “Michael Kling,” “Julia Minichello,” “Raphael Pagarigan,” “Amy Pagliaro,” “Jake Fried,” “Adam Savje,” “Hayley Morris,” “My thesis class,” ” Mary Macdonald”
Shot 45, 3:02: dirt illuminated by a wax-tailed planthopper and white text that says “Jenni Nelson © 2021”