Fantasy Road Trip Contest: Tamora Pierce

Originally, I included a fight scene. (***ETA: The link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOdUWu991UM or just check out the video responses!***) Then I noticed the rules rules forbid violence. So I edited the video, to the censored version I have now. But the day it was due, the randomaudio youtube personnel told me that some, relevant, violence is okay. I didn't have time to redo it again, so I have put the fight scene up in another video that is not in the contest. I will put it as a video response to this one when it uploads. (I think it's worth watching...Beka kicks butt, as usual!)

The end scenes were actually filmed in FL, and I actually did go on a road trip this summer, from MA to FL, so the "walking" scenes were taken in many different states. Also, "Beka" (JoAnna) actually has light blue/grey eyes, but I know it is hard to see in the lighting. A spiked strap was actually braided into her hair, but the metal, needle-like stickers are hard to see (they camouflage!) :)

The song is Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov, and the images of Pounce, Achoo, and a pigeon are from google images. No copyright infringement intended.

This is my entry for the Fantasy Road Trip Contest, for Tamora Pierce's Beka Cooper series.

Beka: JoAnna
Jane: Michelle
Emily: Steffi
Hulking Guardsman: Tom
editing by JoAnna

The Script:
Jane: What!?
Beka: Alright, now, I know you'll likely think me cracknobbed, but where, exactly, am I?
Jane: Who ARE you?
Beka: My name is Rebakah - Beka - Cooper, and I'm here on a special task for my Lord Gershom. The king is aging swiftly, and his sons are yet too young to take over the thrown. The hope is that I can something of...importance here, to help him. Um...what's your name, Mistress?
Jane: Jane Lionheart. How did you get here?!
Beka: Can I trust you? ...Yes, I believe I can. And I don't have much of a choice, anyway. Now, where am I, and what year is this?
Jane: 1842, Wrentham, Massachusetts.
Beka: 1842 HUMAN ERA?!
Jane: No...AD. How did you get here!?
Beka: A fossilized basilisk egg. Curst hard to come by. Even the most powerful mage cannot transport a person without the aid of it. Even with this, I had to come alone, even though it's probably fair dangerous.
Jane: Why'd they send you then? You're young.
Beka: My partner is a GIANT. Even with this, there'd be too much of him to transport, and my Lord wanted one of us to do it. I begged him to come, but Pounce was busy with his stars again...
Jane: But why'd they send you HERE?
Beka: The mage said the spell was inexact. No telling exactly when or where I'll end up, but it's always around the time and place necessary for the task.
Jane: And the task is...
Beka: To fetch water from the Fountain of Youth. Mayhap you have heard of it afore?
Jane: THAT child's tale?! That's about as real as those talking books, audiobooks, that Pa keeps calling "the way of the future."
Beka: I have reason to believe it is real.
Jane: What would this Lord want with living forever, like the legends say?
Beka: He would give it to the king, but first mages would spell it so that it doesn't make a cove live eternal, but only for a few more years. Do you know where the fountain is?
Jane: Supposedly, Ponce de Leon searched for it in Florida.
Beka: Is Florida far?
Jane: Oh, very. We COULD do it, but it would take a while.
Beka: WE!? You want to COME?!
Jane: I could probably be of help...ROADTRIP! We'll need supplies, to tell my family, to prepare the horses...
Beka: Wait! Uh, HORSES? Me and those slubbering, sarden beasts do NOT get on. Might we walk?
Jane: It will take more time. How much of that can you afford to spend?
Beka: As much as is required. The egg will take me back when I'm ready, but only to the exact time and place that I left. So I'll appear just then, hopefully with the water.
Jane: So why don't you wait some years, learn to live in the 19th century?
Beka: There is always the chance the magic will fail and I will be stuck here. The longer I stay, the larger that chance grows.
Jane: Alright, we shall start out presently then!
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Beka: What?
Jane: I have a surprise for you!
Beka: What!
Jane: I have a cousin who lives here in Florida, and she knows her way around pretty well, so I've arranged for us to meet her... This is she.
Beka: Beka Cooper.
Emily: Emily Smith, pleasure to make your acquaintance.
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Emily: We should be getting close!
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Beka: I think this is it. I think I'd better go test it.
Tom: Hey! You can't go in there...Ow!
Beka: Sorry, but I needed the water.
Emily: Good job, Beka! Is it the fountain?
Beka: Yeah!
Jane: Test it with the orb!
Beka: Okay...It floats! It is it!
Jane: Get some of the water!
Beka: Yeah...I have the water from the Fountain of Youth! Okay, bye guys!

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[Lion8520]

I AM working on the fight scene, but I haven't had time to put the finishing touches on it and upload it because I've been SUPER busy with lots of homework!

[I have to repost this as multiple comments because of the character limit]

[Lion8520]

(I feel like Alanna as a page...they don't actually expect you to be able to do it all, but they want to teach you to take it without complaint. Get up at 6, go to school until 5 (I have an extra, after school class), come straight home and do homework 'til I call it a night at around 1 and just take the punishment for the undone work. Aghh! (Well, that just shows I haven't learned yet. Here I am, venting! :o ))

So, when I get a free moment (probably this weekend), I'll put that scene up. :)

[Lion8520]

Oh, and THANKS! And yeah, the heat was awful...that costume was thick enough to keep in heat but thin enough to allow lots of prickers to snag you (I went through 3 pairs of tights because the thorns ripped them (along with my skin).I think you can see the rip in a few scenes, but it might be far enough away that you can't!) Man, it just makes me feel bad for Beka! Corus must be HOT in the summer...the bread riot....wowzers!

[wolfspeaker2204]

OH MY GOD I GOT BOOK THREE! *explodes*

This looks like it was fun. Hee! I like this.

...I've been wanting to do something like this with my friend XD because they say I look like Daine with darker hair and eyes. XD yeah. lol. This was cool.

[DarknessOfTheViolin]

Very well done - this production must have been fun! :) :D I enjoyed watching. I would have loved if you guys would have re-dubbed the dialogues using a better microphone, but... I think we on yt here are all dreaming of perfect mics, aren't we? :) And anyways, thumb up! Great job! :) <3

[GuitaRocker2]

And deciding not to have Beka come to the present time and to another time (that;s not hers nor ours) was cool. Looked challenging (to not get modern stuff).

Haha to when she rams the tree...but I know what those mosquitoes are like!

When the "orb" goes in the water, I like the pretty colors. 8)

And BAM! I love how Beka just APPEARS!

And also, Florida looks HOT. - shudders -

But OOOOH! I want to watch that fight scene that was cut out! Put it up put it up!

:D Exceptional!

[GuitaRocker2]

Oh! I love it! Especially how you have an actually plot line...and haha, Beka doesn't want to go on the horses!

I like how you used Tammy's language ("curst," "sarden," ect.)

I also love the artsy stuff in there...like the camera in the mirror in the beginning. It makes it more like an actual movie, as are the multiple angles used when the people are talking.