Laura Deem Final Poem

[:00] Picture of a rainy city street with blurry headlights and taillights from cars at dusk. Ambient sounds of the city are heard. Title title appears, reading “The City Whispers by Ryan Williams.”

[:05] Picture of a shadowy woman walking a city street at night. White text appears on-screen reading, “Try Walking alone one night on some bright city street.”

[:09] Time lapse video clip of a city street corner. Text appears on screen: “Listen to the noise, confusion, and chaos that swirl around you.”

[:23] Video clip from the movie A Cinderella Story plays of two people dancing. Slow sentimental music plays.Text on-screen: “Like the music you remember hearing, [in the shape of a heart] “The first time you fell in Love.”

[:39] Acoustic music begins to play. An time lapse clip of a woman wearing white in a white bed is shown. Red text reads: “Listen hard, because intricately woven into every sound that passes you by”

[:47] Black and white clip of a woman blowing a bubble shows. Black text reads: “is a whisper, a quiet voice”

[:57] Image a sprawling green tree. White text reads, “that speaks with the wisdom only an aged and learned city can possess.”

[1:04] Clip of a tree with orange leaves plays. Black text: “And if you ever manage to fade away from the reality of it all”

[1:16] Time lapse clip of Times Square in New York. Text on-screen reads, “leaving only the intertwined rhythms that tell the stories of “

[1:36] Text persists on-screen. Montage of images depicting different city-dwellers.

[1:45] Text appears: “all the people this great city has seen.”

[1:48] Image of a woman writing in a journal outside. Text reads: “the words will finally make themselves clear” [Text appears hard to read and becomes clearer]

[1:58] Image of a woman waving a delicate piece translucent fabric by the sea, silhouetted against a sunset. Text reads: “to live, to learn, to love,”

[2:13] Image of two shadowy children looking at each other in the sunset. The boy on the right hides flowers behind his back. Text: ‘it”
[2:14] A couple in their 20s holds hands, and an elderly couple on a park bench follow. Texts read “takes” and “two...” respectively.

[2:17] Sources Page.