We start off on a cold cut, black screen. The sound of sellotape being pulled is heard and we cut to a young boy taping a kite down, and then putting a Paperbag on his head. We see him run off towards a ranch as the camera pans down to his kites. Fade out.
At the stump, the boy is looking at his kite, just looking, when suddenly....it comes down! Shocked, the boy runs to the peak of the hill to assess the situation, but unable to find neither the girl or the kite he simply lies on to the ground and rolls back down over the hill. Fade Out
The next shot opens with a pair of hands lifting a haystack. The girl is working the ranch, and by the fence, is the young boy once again, waving to her. She simply smiles and carries on working. The boy decides to try again, and frantically waves at her, she however is totally unaware of his actions and the boy is soon disheartened. He has another idea and with a click of his fingers the next shot cuts to him tying his kite string around the fence, just as before. The moment he looks up however, the young girl is stood over him, scowling. With a dash of smoke he disappears and we see him again back at his spot on the hill. With keen eyes he observes his kites movement...and just as the tension comes to a build....snap. The kite comes down, and the boy, losing his confidence completely, puts his head to his hands. Yet before long, he plucks up the courage, pulls his trusty piece of adhesive tape out....
And tries again! The screen is taped across, and as the camera pulls back we see the boy's next kite offering, as he is stood atop a hill. He runs down the hill and into the camera, the screen transitions to black through his eye.
The montage comes to a complete halt with a shot of the boy sat atop his stump, centrally framed, with his hands to his chin. Looking utterly tired and exhausted of this rejection. With one last look to his craft materials, he gets up, walks over to them and as the screen cuts to black. A LONG sound of adhesive tape being pulled is heard, before we cut to a shot of the boy with an incredible kite unlike he has made before. He throws it into the air, and as the camera follows and pulls back to a 3/4 shot of his face, we know he's ready, and he knows too...as he begins to walk towards the ranch!
The young girl is tending to a horse, until she realises someone is there...she looks round and is in complete awe! The boy is stood across the road, tie and all, with the incredible kite flying high in the sky. Cars are used to screen wipe closer and closer towards him, and as we come to an extreme close up, we see the immense determination in this young boys face.
Trouble is looming however. The incredible kite he has made is beginning to tear under it's weight, and the tape is peeling off...
The young boy is putting on all his moves to the young girl, however when he gets to offering the Spindle his face turns to shock. For behind him, on the road, lay his precious red kite. Torn and broken. Silence follows...only to be broken by the sound of a car whizzing by and adding insult to injury as it tears into his kite even more!
The young boy knows when to take a sign when he sees one, and simply gives up, chucking his spindle. With one final look to the girl, he walks off.
The girl, sad, and slightly guilty, looks down towards the spindle. And the camera pulls back with a depth pull...she has an idea.
It is now sunset and the young boy is back at his usual spot, looking onto the ranch. He gets up, expressionless, and begins to walk away...
Then, he notices a shadow of one kite...then another! He turns around quickly and before him, is a plethora of beautiful kites, soaring high in the sky...including his precious red kite! As the camera looks onto our hero with a long shot, the girl comes into frame, holding the broken (but now fixed) spindle. As the boy looks around, he sees his love standing there in the sunlight. She approaches him and he to her, and for a moment they say nothing. The girl then offers him the spindle just as he did the very first time, and dumbstruck, he looks at her before jumping towards her for a great big embrace!
As the camera pulls back on them to a long wide shot, the embrace lasts for a few seconds. When the camera closes in again, the 2 are slightly shy at first, until the girl holds out her hand. The boy stares at her for a few seconds, before taking it into his own and the two walk off into the sunset, and the camera pans down.
The last thing we see is the Paper bag now on the floor, he'd succeeded.
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