PAGE SIX & SEVEN
Okay, this is a two page spread which actually spans both pages.
I know what the first panel is, and what I think the last two should be, but I’m going to leave the rest to you in terms of how you want to break the whole thing up and show it.
Panel One
This is a close shot of the whistle / ocarina being blown hard by Biko (maybe just his nose / lips / cheek in shot? Up to you). The whistle is producing a note which we want to show like a radiating sound wave / ripple. Like a )))) type of thing. Or some other way, if you can think of something better. This sound is going to grow and spread out from this first panel and stop before the penultimate panel.
Panels X to X
So, the idea here is that we see the sound wave spread out from the whistle, past Biko’s house, through the woods which lay beyond. We see squirrels, birds, and other wildlife pricking their ears up and looking alert as the sound passes them.
We see a hidden hollow deep within the woods, screened off by decades of fallen branches, tangled brambles and ivy. It’s half filled with leaves and mulch which have blown and drifted in there over the years. From under the leaves, something hairy arises. Don’t know if you want to do the traditional zombie shot with a hand emerging first, or a slow emerging of the head and shoulders from out of the leaves as our hairy friend awakes. We don’t want to do a full reveal of the character yet, but this is a shocking, exciting glimpse. Maybe they’re mostly in shadow, and their eyes are glinting in the waning light? I’m imagining it as quite Swamp Thing shot (the whole sequence really).
Penultimate Panel
This is a shot of Biko who has now stopped blowing the whistle and is looking at it critically, holding it up in one hand.
He has two balloons.
Biko: Not a peep.
Biko: Must be broken.
Final Panel
This is a shot from a low angle with Fort in the foreground and Biko opening the front door of his house to enter in the mid-ground. If there’s room, we can see past the house a little so that we can see how close the woodland is. Fort is looking up quizzically, as if he can sense that something is on its way.
Biko has two balloons.
Biko: Mum! I’m home!
Biko: A Bigfoot fell on Evie’s dad!
End of Chapter One.