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TOM WARD

Premise
Dreams and
resourcefulness lead to
freedom

Logline
a touching story about a
lonely garden gnome left
trapped in the shed when his
home owner becomes too old
to care for the garden. He
makes his dream become
reality and finds a way to
escape.

Outline
The garden is gnome is trapped in the garden shed,
he used to sit out in the garden but as
the house owner aged he became unable to tend to
the garden and so put the gnome away in the
shed along with various other bits and pieces. The
gnome dreams of escape
Gnome at the shed window looking out over the !
red garden, grass is long, plants
overgrown.
He dreams about going to the moon and vising the
stars
In the shed has various old tools, pots, bits of
metal, string, wood etc
As the gnome looks around the shed he comes up
with an idea to build a telescope.
He sets about finding what he needs to build his
telescope orhe finds a telescope
He builds the telescope
Happily climbs up to look out of the window, uses
his telescope and sees much more of the
world beyond the garden
At night he looks up at the moon and the stars.
He then becomes sad again and wants to get out of
the shed.
Looks around the shed again
Sets about finding what he needs to build a rocket
Builds the rocket and breaks out of the shed
As he (ies away he looks back with sadness to the
man in the house
But looks happily forward to his new adventure.

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