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Building Confidence, Building Lives
Descriptive Transcript:
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Rectangular silver boxes with shine
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White and fade in to boxes as they become shelves at an angle
VO: Every day, thousands of students
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Rear shot of student at table in library
VO: with print disabilities face the task of attending school and trying to learn without the benefit of books.
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Quick shots trauma tone, of shelves, with quick drum riff
VO: Printed words,
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Fade in dark shot of student at table/mix with quick shots of shelves under drum riffs
VO: the foundation of learning for most,
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Shot of book, back to dark shot of student at table
VO: are inaccessible to them.
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School hallway advanced rapidly in trauma tone shots
Fade to white
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Graphic: RFB&D learning through listening
VO: Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic is changing that.
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Graphic: RFB&D learning through listening, Building Confidence, Building Lives
VO: Building confidence, building lives.
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Dissolve to: push in on photo still, Nick with balloons at party table
VO: For Nick Esposito, life seemed perfect.
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Head shot of Nick speaking: Throughout grade school, I was always, you know, a pretty good student.
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Cut to: Close up of Nick's face
Nick OS: I did well enough in high school, I guess,
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Cut to: Nick's hands on keyboard
Nick OS: to get into Pace University.
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Dissolve to: silhouette profile of Nick that brightens to color
Nick OS: I remember one time sitting in class
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Dissolve to: school desk with black spot in center, panning around desk
Nick OS: and covering my one eye, and there was this, this, kind of like a hole in the middle of my eye. To be honest with you, deep down
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Dissolve to: profile of Nick
Nick OS: in my heart, uh, I actually said to myself, I think I'm going blind.
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Dissolve to white then to Mr. Esposito speaking: To see my son like this, it actually felt like somebody' uh'
Graphic under Mr. Esposito: RFB&D (logo) Gaeton Esposito, Nick's Father
Mr. Esposito cont.: reached into my chest
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Cut to closer shot in black and white
Mr. Esposito: and ripped my heart right out of my
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Cut to close profile of Nick pulling back for head shot
Mr. Esposito OS: chest. And I says, you know something, we're gonna turn this around.
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Cut to: still photo of Tracy with family at birthday party
Narrator: Tracy Johnson's struggles began in elementary school.
Pushing in on still photo
Tracy OS: It was in the sixth grade.
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Cut to live shot of Tracy
Tracy cont.: I remember, uh,
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Graphic: RFB&D (logo) Tracy Johnson appears under shot of Tracy
Tracy cont.: being taken away from my class and being tested for, um, a series of days.
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Graphic: still photo of Tracy as a youngster
Tracy OS: They actually just said, OK, you're no longer going to be in the regular education classes.
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Cut to: live shot of Tracy speaking: You now have to be in special education, cas, classes, and at that time, of course, of it was considered
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Cut to: black and white profile glamor shot of Tracy
Tracy OS: LD classes. I just figured OK, this is it.
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Cut back to Tracy live, wiping away a tear, then revealing her emotional expression
Tracy OS: This is my potential. So I ended up just working for a while
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Cut to same shot, black and white
Tracy OS: in dead end jobs, and that's how I end up cleaning for the school system
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Cross fade to color profile of Tracy
Tracy OS: and the years went on, and I said I can't settle for this.
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Cut to Tracy live speaking: I can do the work. I just need the proper help. I need the tools to do it.
Fade to black
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Shot of Cooper as infant
Narrator: For Cooper Alexander, life began as a challenge.
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Fade to black
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Shot of Cooper seated on cement step playing with dog
Ms. Alexander OS: My youngest son, Cooper, was born very early,
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Cut to shot of Cooper with life support and bandages
Ms. Alexander OS: about a month after he was born
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Head shot of Mrs. Alexander
Graphic: RFB&D (logo) Mary Alexander, Cooper's Mother
Ms. Alexander: he was at the NICU and, um, developed meningitis.
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Fade to white
Fade in Cooper walking through pasture path
Ms. Alexander OS: Doctors told us that they knew he would be blind, uh,
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Shot of Cooper laughing, home in background
Ms. Alexander OS: that he was have cerebral palsy.
Cooper OS: It was
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Shot of Cooper sitting in rocking chair on porch
Graphic: RFB&D (logo) Cooper Alexander
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Cooper: like I couldn't do things all by myself.
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Shot of Cooper on porch petting dog
Mrs. Alexander OS: How can this child ever be independent? How can he do for himself
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Shot of Cooper on lake beach
Mrs. Alexander OS: like my older two children can do?
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Over shoulder of Cooper, hands on Victor, working the machine
Narrator: Discovering RFB&D is often a life changing experience.
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Shot of Cooper listening to Victor, pushing in close
Mrs. Alexander OS: This was an organization that recorded textbooks, which was kind of one of my fears for Cooper. That he wouldn't be able to have
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Cross fade to over the shoulder of Cooper with Victor working it in slow motion
Mrs. Alexander OS: an accessible textbook other than Braille that, that he could, that he could use.
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Shot of Mrs. Foster
Graphic: RFB&D (logo) Mary Ann Foster, Cooper's Vision Teacher
Mrs. Foster: It was almost like it was a miracle that this was going t. help him in so many different ways.
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Dark profile of Cooper at Victor in slow motion
Cooper VO: I knew that from
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Fade to head shot of Cooper in rocking chair speaking: then on, my life would be totally different.
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Cut to Nick's hand on Victor, panning up to face
Mr. Esposito OS: He was able to get the nourishment from the book, by this,
Fade to head shot of Mr. Esposito
Mr. Esposito: these wonderful developments from Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.
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Over the shoulder shot of Tracy looking at book
Tracy VO: It opened up a whole new insight
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Tracy's face undercut
Tracy VO: for me where I'm like wow.
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Shot of Tracy live speaking: Now someone's finally gonna see everything that was building up in me for so long.
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Profile of Tracy, then turns toward camera
Narrator: The new feelings of confidence and independence are incredible
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Black screen
Narrator: to see.
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[music change]
Cut to Walk/Don't Walk sign
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Nick crossing street with Guthrie.
Nick VO: Without RFB&D, I think I
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Nick shaking hands with guide at RFB&D
Nick VO: would always be behind, I would
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Nick smiling broadly
Nick VO: never feel
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Cut back to Nick in interview
Nick: that I was the professional equal of my sighted peers.
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Head shot of Mr. Esposito speaking: As far as he goes, I want him to enjoy it, because he's already attained his goal of being a teacher.
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Nick's hands on keyboard of computer, panning back across his arms to the Victor on the table behind him
Nick VO: You don't have to rely on people. You don't have to schedule readers.
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Close shot of Nick's hands on Victor
Nick VO: You have the book, it's sent to you and, uh,
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Profile of Nick walking in front of back lit and out of focus greenery
Nick VO: those are your tools to do a, a really good job.
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Nick walking away from library with Guthrie
[music over]
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Tracy at table with students in class
Tracy: This equipment is not just
Shot of Tracy speaking (out of synch with VO)
Tracy VO: to help students read
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Cross fade to students at table, panning across
Tracy VO: but it's to enhance their life. The teachers and instructors
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Fade to shot of Tracy speaking: that told me that I would never be able to make it, the one thing that I would tell them is that I proved you wrong. Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic proved you wrong, and I
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Fade to Tracy in cap and gown still shot
Tracy VO: would tell them if you're giving me the proper tools, I can make it.
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Fade to Mrs. Foster speaking: The sky's the limit for Cooper.
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Shot of award ribbons on wall
Mrs. Foster OS: He can go anywhere he wants to go.
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Shot of trophies
Mrs. Foster OS: He can do anything he wants to do,
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Shot of Cooper lying in bed resting, panning over to Victor on night stand
Mrs. Foster OS: and he has access, um, to information because of recorded books.
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Panning shot of Cooper's class working while Cooper wears headphones, listening
Cooper VO: I think y'all should have more people join
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Close shot of Cooper's hand on Victor
Cooper VO: so they can tell the people
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Close shot of Cooper's happy face with headphones
Cooper VO: that there is something out there
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Panning shot of classroom, to Victor
Cooper VO: for their children if they can't read properly.
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Full shot of Cooper in rocking chair rocking and speaking: There is something out there, there is a solution. That's Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.
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Graphic: 'ogo spins in: RFB&D learning through listening, Building Confidence, Building Lives
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Fade to black at music dead stop
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