'Let's All Go To The Compost!'
A Leaf, an apple core, a chicken drumstick, a tea bag, a slice of bread (with bite taken out), and a piece of broccoli happily march in formation along a countertop.
As they march they sing:
Let's all go to the trash bin!
Let's all go to the trash bin!
Let's all go to the trash bin,
we're not used anymore!
A hand comes in from screen right, and brings the procession to a halt.
Narration:
Hold it there! You don't belong in the trash, you're a special kind of waste.
(The hand points over to screen left. Pan over to reveal the Green Composting Bin).
You should be going in the Green Compost cart so you can be turned into an additive for soil.
Apple Core and Broccoli:
Soil?!
Narration:
That's right, soil. Compost provides a rich growing medium, and acts as a natural pesticide. Composted soil can even be used for erosion control, and wetland construction.
Chicken Drumstick:
Can I be made into compost?
Narrator:
You bet, you can. Meat, including bones can go into the composting bin.
Teabag:
What about me?
Narrator:
If you're made out of paper, you can go, too.
A cork and a can of cooking oil march over
Cork:
What about us? Can we go in the compost?
Narrator:
Sorry guys, but you need to stay in the regular trash bin. Putting the wrong items in the green bin can ruin perfectly good compost.
The cork and cooking oil can dejectedly walk off screen.
Bread Slice:
How can you find out what can and can't go in the compost bin?
Narrator:
Contact your local recycling service. Here in San Francisco you just have to visit www.sfrecycling.com and you'll find a list of acceptable and non-acceptable green bin items. So where are you guys off to now?
The procession now marches off toward the compost bin singing:
Let's all go to the compost!
Let's all go to the compost!
Let's all go to the compost,
And make ourselves some dirt!
Intended to be done in the style of the 50s-movie-theatre-Let's- all-go-the-lobby ads. Very simple, slightly stylized, and a little camp.
2 comments:
That's pretty perfect.
I was laughing my all the way through reading what you wrote. I just think of the short film of the movie snacks and I crack up. This is going to be a great short! Good job Lori!
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