Film Breakdown

Logline:

Silent bell speaks volumes for those without a voice.

Genres:

Historical - goes over the history of the liberty bell

Political - juxtaposes imagery of old and current political, race, and human rights issues

Signifiers of genre: a bit of a montage aesthetic

Juxtaposition of black and white vs color

Historical audio

Themes: Being heard. Acceptance. Tolerance.

Shots:

Opens with the liberty bell layered over background, with tourists in front and a park ranger to the side. Bell and tourist groups slide into picture from behind background layers, ranger comes in from left.

Audio - "Liberty bell starts breaking right away."

Audio - "starts cracking"

Zoom into bell as we hear and see it start to crack.

Audio - "try to fix it"

tapes over cracks

Audio - "voids the warranty"

NO RETURN gets stamped over bell.

Audio - "Silenced bell, with no voice"

paper image of bell fades into 3D version of bell, lights change to reflect sadness, colors mute a bit, the bell starts to turn slowly.

Audio - "Blacks and woman didn't have voices."

As bell turns we see it is graffiti-ed with all sorts of causes, some from the past, some present. behind, in the light bouncing from the bell we can see rally signs for both past and present causes.

As the audio talks about freedom fighters, little clips of their speeches will play as painted paper iterations of them stack and layer over backdrop. (Fredrick Douglass will have a quote from his autobiography transposed over image as there is no audio for him.)

Audio - "The last time the bell rang..."

figures disappear and we zoom out on the bell as we hear it ringing.

"Allied Troops..."

we see the scene layer and build with the audio.

Audio - "that's this bell" 

layered scene slides away to reveal graffiti-ed bell, which transitions into the paper image bell. 

Audio - "We hear you"

first scene relayers over bell, park ranger and tour group.