Independent Media Project

The Mountains are Calling

Video Audio
Fade up text over black: Fade up VO

Text: Hey, pick up your phone VO: Hey, pick up your phone

Text: Why? VO: Why?

Text: Because the mountains are calling VO: Because the mountains are calling

Text: That’s so corny VO: That’s so corny

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Fade up from black Bring music up

EWS: Slow drone shot of the sun rising on a

mountain valley

EWS: Lake at dawn, mountain background SFX: Birds chirping

WS: Time lapse of the sun rising behind pine

trees

WS: Time lapse sun rising on river

EWS: Drone flying over mountain valley

MS: Sun behind trees

CU (Slow motion): Person 1’s hand brushing SFX: Birds chirping

branches of a pine tree

MS: A deer or elk grazing in forest

MS: Person 1 walking through forest

MS: Following behind person 1 as they walk

CU: Boot walking on path SFX: Boot crunching snow

MS-EWS: Aerial shot of person 1 hiking that
zooms upwards as the person keeps walking

EWS: Aerial shot of frozen lake in mountains

WS: Zoom up from ice

MS: Person 2 sitting on tree log beside lake,

tying their skates, hockey stick and puck
beside them

CU: Person 2’s face looking down as they tie

skates

CU: Person 2’s hands tightening skate laces SFX: Laces being pulled tight

WS: Drone flying low across frozen lake,

Person 2 skates into the shot

MS: Person 2 skating fast, pivoting, skating

backwards

CU (Slow motion): Person 2’s skates cutting SFX: Skates carving into ice
into the ice as they skate, have shards of ice
fly into camera lens

MS: Person 2 skating out of frame

MS: Person 2 skating and stickhandling SFX: Skates carving into ice
SFX: Stickhandling
CU (Camera attached to stick blade): Person SFX: Skates carving into ice
2 stickhandling puck SFX: Stickhandling

CU: Person 2 cutting into ice with skates SFX: Skates carving into ice

MS: Person 2 skating with puck

EWS: Aerial shot of person 2 skating around

on frozen lake from directly above

EWS: Shot of a mountain

CU: Snowy tree branch in forest as snow falls
on it
CU: Pine needles on tree branch

CU: Person 3 adjusting goggles on their face

CU: Person 4 clicking into skis SFX: Boots clicking into skis

MS: All is calm for a second then person 4 SFX: Person flying by on snowboard
flies past the camera which is positioned by a
tree

WS: Persons 3 & 4 coming down the hill

hitting little jumps

WS: Behind persons 3 & 4 going down the hill

showing off the mountain view in front of
them

WS: Person 3 going down hill

CU (GoPro): Camera facing person 4’s face as

they go down the mountain SFX: Skis going through the snow

MS (Slow Motion): Following person 4 as

they hit a jump

MCU: Following the skis of skier 5 as they SFX: Skis carving through snow
carve down the hill

MWS: Person 3 going off jump

WS: Following person 3 & 4 as they go down

the mountain

MWS (GoPro): POV shot from person 3 going

fast through trees

WS: Person 4 comes down towards the

camera then stops, shooting snow into the SFX: Skis stopping on snow
camera lens

EWS: River in mountains

CU: Ducks on the water

WS: River flowing in mountains

CU-WS: Camera in water, then comes up to SFX: River running

show snowshoers walking by SFX: Birds chirping

WS: Backs of snowshoers as they walk

through the snow beside a river

CU: Grass rustling with snowshoers walking

in background

CU (Slow motion): Person 5’s snowshoes SFX: Crunch of snow

walking through snow and kicking snow up
into the camera as they step

MS: Snowshoers (persons 5,6) looking up at

frozen waterfall

MS: Frozen waterfall from the side, camera

going down

ECU: Ice of waterfall, camera going down

CU: Icicles of waterfall

MS: Icicles of waterfall

ECU: Icicles of waterfall melting SFX: Water dripping

CU: Icicles of waterfall, camera pans away

EWS: Drone pulling back into trees looking

over mountain valley

MWS: Hiker (person 1) is sitting down on

some rocks taking out a hot drink from a
thermos on top of the mountain they just
climbed, overlooking the valley and opposite
mountain range

ECU: pines of tree branch

CU: Person 1 opening bottles

CU: Person 1 taking sip from bottle

WS: Pan of valley and mountain background

*Cut to skater on lake (Person 2)

WS: Arial shot directly above skater as they
play with puck

*Cut to skiers (Persons 3, 4)

MS: tracking shot of skiers going downhill

*Cut to snowshoers

WS: Arial shot of snowshoers walking

through forest, camera goes up

WS: River flowing through mountains,

camera pulls back

EWS: Mountain valley, camera pulls back

*Cut to hiker (person 1)

CU: Peron 1’s face as they walk

*Cut to skater

MS: Person stickhandling on lake

*Cut to skier (person 4)

CU: Skies cutting through snow

*Cut to snowshoers (persons 5,6)

MS: Following behind as they walk through

forest

*Cut to deer or elk grazing

CU: Deer or elk eating

WS: Low shot of treetops
CU: Grass rustling in wind (without
snowshoers)

*Cut to skater

ECU: Person 1 stickhandling

WS: River flowing in mountain valley

CU: Pine tree branch

WS: Reflection of mountain in water

WS: Skiers stopped at the top of the hill and

lookout over the mountains, camera pushes
past them

WS: Skater stopped on lake looking out into

the mountains

MS: Snowshoers staring at beautiful frozen

waterfall

MWS: From behind the hiker camera moves

forward and out over the mountain valley

EWS: (Timelapse) Shot of a frozen lake and

the mountains as the sun is setting

CU: Pine tree branch with sun setting in

background

EWS: Arial shot of frozen lake with sun

setting behind mountains, camera pulls back
and down

WS: Sun setting behind tress

CU: Pine tree branch with sun setting in

background

EWS: Mountains around frozen lake at dusk

EWS: Mountains behind frozen lake at dusk,
camera pans up from reflection of water to
real view of mountains

Fade up text on screen: The Mountains are SFX: Birds chirping

Calling SFX: Loon calling

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Fade up text on screen: Devyn Weir

Fade out text SFX: Loon calling

Fade to black.

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