Video narrative description of visual information
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- 00:00 A young woman appears on the screen. She has light skin and long dark hair, pulled back tightly into a high pony tail. Her facial features indicate that she has Down syndrome. She shown from the shoulders up, wearing dark clothes against a dark background and speaks looking straight at the camera.
- 00:03 When she says “Hey bartender, you assume that I cannot drink a margarita”, the video moves to another frame to show a nightlife scene with bartended behind a bar, peeling a lemon. She has brown skin, bright pink curly hair and is wearing glasses and looks straight ahead.
- 00:05 The next shot shows that the same young woman in the first frame, and she is sitting at the bar smiling, but she is wearing evening clothes and make up and her hair is styled in pigtails. The voiceover, which is her voice, says “so you don’t serve me a margarita”.
- 00:06 The screen shows the bartender placing a bottled soda drink with a straw in front of the young woman, as the voiceover says “so I don’t drink a margarita” and the smile disappears from her face on seeing the soda drink she is being served.
- 00:09 The video moves back to the young woman as she is show in the first frame, wearing dark clothes against a dark background. She speaks straight to the camera, saying “Your assumption becomes reality”. She then begins again “And parents …”
- 00.11 The frames moves to show an older man and woman with light skin and greying hair, sitting at a dinner table, eating a meal as the voiceover continues “… you assume that I cannot live on my own” and the camera moves to show the same young woman who is sitting across the table from the older couple.
- 00.13 The frame moves to a scene in a child’s bedroom at night, with the same young woman being tucked into bed with a soft toy by the man, who kneels beside the bed. The voiceover by the young woman says “… so you don’t encourage me to live on my own”. The woman is not smiling.
- 00.15 The frame moves to a scene in the family’s bathroom, that shows the young woman brushing her teeth, with her parents doing the same action while crowding her at the basin, with the voiceover “… so I don’t live on my own”. The older woman offers the young woman a towel to wipe her face, but the young woman pushes it away in frustration.
- 00:18 The video moves back to the young woman as she is show in the first frame, wearing dark clothes against a dark background. She speaks straight to the camera, saying “coach …”
- 00:19 The video moves onto the next scene, first showing the face of an older man with light skin and short grey hard, training someone at a boxing gym. The voiceover of the young woman says “… you assume that I cannot hit harder” and cuts over to the young woman at the same gym, wearing exercise clothes. The coach then appears again, training someone else, while the young woman’s voice says “… so you don’t train me to hit harder” and the camera pans out to reveal the young woman wearing red boxing gloves but passively watching the coach train someone with her arms down, while the voice goes on “… so I don’t hit harder”.
- 00:25 The video moves back to the young woman as she is show in the first frame, wearing dark clothes against a dark background. She speaks straight to the camera, saying “And teacher …”.
- 00:26 The frame moves to a classroom scene, showing a man with light skin, brown hair and glasses, at the front of the classroom sitting on the teacher’s desk, holding a book, with a chalk board behind him. Students are shown seated at individual desks in rows in the classrooms and the voiceover says “…you assume that I cannot learn Shakespeare” while panning over to the teacher who is holding a book with the word “Shakespeare” on the cover.
- 00:29 The voice over continues says “… so you don’t teach me Shakespeare” and the teacher slams the book down and walks to the chalk board which he has divided into two sides, with the right hand side written up with information about Shakespeare while the left hand side has the words “Old MacDonald” underlined and underneath the words “old Macdonald had a farm E.I.E.I.O” appear with the teacher verbalising “old Macdonald had a farm” and then turning to the class and pointing to the young woman.
- 00:33 The video moves back to the young woman as she is show in the first frame, wearing dark clothes against a dark background. She speaks straight to the camera, saying “… so I don’t learn Shakespeare”.
- 00:35 The frame moves back to the classroom where the same young woman is shown at her desk, responding unenthusiastically to the teacher with the words “E.I.E.I.O” from the nursery rhyme.
- 00:37 The video moves back to the young woman as she is show in the first frame, wearing dark clothes against a dark background. She speaks straight to the camera, saying “But hey, if all your assumptions become reality …”
- 00:41 The frame moves back to the bar where the soda drink is seen exploding, and then to the young woman in the darked first frame who says “… then assume that I can drink a margarita, so you serve me a margarita”, with the camera then showing a lemon being sliced, ice blocks and the bartender placing a margarita on the bar.
- 00:41 the frame moves to the young woman with two friends, and they clink glasses together, smiling with the voiceover “… so I drink a margarita”.
- 00:49 The frame moves to the previous parent couple, who are standing in a doorway smiling. The older woman throws a set of keys in slow motion while the voiceover by the young woman says “Assume that I can live of my own”.
- 00:52 The young woman and her two friends are now in an empty apartment, while she says “… so I live on my own” with her arms spread out. The video is sped up to show the apartment being furnished and the young woman and her friend then sit down together on the sofa, smiling.
- 00:55 The video moves back to the young woman as she is show in the first frame, wearing dark clothes against a dark background. She speaks straight to the camera, saying “Assume that I can hit harder” and the video then shows her back in the boxing gym wearing boxing gloves, hitting a punch bag so hard that it bursts with the voice saying “so I hit harder” and then showing the young woman wearing a helmet inside a boxing ring and punching out.
- 00:58 Now the frame is back in the classroom, showing the young woman and other students seated at their desks in the classroom, but this time she is holding the teacher’s “Shakespeare” book while the voiceover says “Assume that I can learn Shakespeare, so …”.
- 01:02 The lights in the classroom dim as the young woman steps up to stand on the desks and looks straight at the camera reciting a line from Shakespeare “What fools these mortals be!” giving a very dramatic rendition, with papers flying around her.
- 01:04 The video moves back to the young woman as she is show in the first frame, wearing dark clothes against a dark background. She speaks straight to the camera, saying “So I learn fucking Shakespeare”. At that point the camera glass is shown to crack and she adds “You assumed I couldn’t swear right?”.
- 01:08 The frame moves to a workplace where the young woman is working at desk while the voiceover says “Assume that I can have a job”.
- 01:10 Then the frame moves to a nightclub where the young woman is seen on a busy dance floor with friends, laughing while the voiceover says “Assume that I can go to parties”.
- 01:12 Then the frame moves quickly over a blurred darked image of what appear to be people intertwined and kissing while the voiceover says “Assume that I can have sex”.
- 01:12 Then the frame moves to a theatre stage with the young wearing a period costume and holding a sword while the voiceover says “Assume that I can be on the stage”.
- 01:16 The video moves back to the young woman as she is show in the first frame, wearing dark clothes against a dark background, but this time there are other young adults with Down syndrome also standing with her in the same space. She speaks straight to the camera, saying “Assume that I can, so maybe I will”. These words also appear stamped on the screen in large yellow letters.
- 01:24 A new frame appears with the words “CoordownTM” in white against a dark screen.
- 01:27 The final frame shows the official logo of World Down Syndrome Day, followed by the words “in partnership with” and the logos of “Canadian Down Syndrome Association”, “Down’s Syndrome Association (UK)”, “Down syndrome Australia” in the first line. The second line shows the logos of “National Down Syndrome Society (USA)”, ” New Zealand Down Syndrome Association”, “Global Down Syndrome Foundation (USA)” and “[FCDS????] and then the words “under the patronage of” with the logos of “Down Syndrome International”, “Fondazione di Compagnia di San Paolo” and “Fondazione Cariplo”.
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