Video Descriptions #6: Moving a Ladder in Hell
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Moving a Ladder in Hell, 48 seconds
3D titles reading, ‘MOVING A LADDER IN HELL’, zoom past the camera over a black screen as a spacey synth sound plays. There is a hard cut to a shot of Tammy and Daniel walking around in a green screen studio. The floor is green, the wall behind them is covered with green curtains. The cut breaks into the scene just as Tammy laughs and Daniel looks up and smiles, then from behind the camera, the demon says, ‘So do you mind if we just put it back over there?’
Daniel exits the left side of the frame, but Tammy stays on camera. They look up and to their right, and shuffling can be heard. Daniel appears on screen holding one side of a large ladder, facing the camera. Then the demon appears, holding the other side of the ladder, facing away from the camera. They move the ladder across the room, from the left to the right of the shot. They put it down at the right edge of the frame. One yellow leg pokes into shot. Daniel is visible but the demon is not. Tammy stays quiet throughout this process, which only takes a few seconds.
Once Daniel and the demon have put the ladder down the demon says, ‘Yeah.’ And then he says, ‘And then put it back where we put it before.’ They pick the ladder up again, and shuffle across the frame while Tammy stands watching. Daniel and Tammy, whose faces are visible on screen, both look up at the top of the ladder. Perhaps it is very tall and there is a chance it might hit the ceiling of the studio or some of the lights that must be up there.
Daniel and the demon exit the frame and Tammy says, ‘You’re getting good at that.’ From off camera the demon says, ‘I was just thinking it’s funny how even something that essentially is just a series of really basic movements, you can get better at.’ Tammy looks a bit bored. From off screen Daniel says ‘Yeah’ and Tammy nods her head. The demon says, ‘That was much better, that time.’ Daniel walks back on camera and says, ‘Nailed it.’ The scene cuts to black as a percussive glass sound plays.