(30 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST
Ankara, Turkey - March 2009
1. Pan of Esref Armagan walking in the house with Joan (his assistant)
2. Wide of Esref putting on his painter smock
3. Close of one of Esref's paintings
4. Medium of Esref preparing himself to draw
5. Close of Esref taking his glasses off
6. Close of glasses on the tabele
7. Tilt down from one of his paintings to Esref drawing
8. Close of Esref drawing
9. Pan from paint bottles to Esref drawing
10. Close of Esref's face with a painting in the background
11. Pan out of Esref showing the drawing he just made
12. Wide of Esref entering the living room
13. Wide of Esref preparing for the interview with help from his wife, Nilufer Armagan
14. Medium of Nilufer fixing Esref's tie
15. Close of one of Esref's paintings on the wall
16. Tilt down of another painting
17. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Esref Armagan, Painter:
"I was born in 1953 in Istanbul. I was born blind. I was born as my left eye never formed and the right much smaller than it should have been."
18. Medium of awards on shelf and a bird in a cage
19. Tilt down of shelf full of awards
20. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Esref Armagan:
"I started to draw when I was twelve years old with a butterfly figure carved on a piece of wood by my father. He did have a hard time to find a way to teach me how to draw. He carved the figure on a piece of wood. I examined the figure with my finger tips and started to draw on thick cartoons with nails. I kept drawing until I could draw something similar to the one on the piece of wood. But I finally manage to do it after twenty or thirty tries. After all I couldn't convince nearly anyone to believe that I drew that butterfly. They told me not to tease them."
21. Pan down of a certificate from the White House signed by Bill Clinton, the former President to Clinton's portrait painted by Esref
22. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Nilufer Armagan, Esref's wife:
"Because I was able to see until fifteen years of age, I know some of the colour combinations. When he asks me about the mixture of the colours, I can give him ideas."
23. Tilt down of a whirling Dervish painting on the wall
24. Various of a sea and fish painting on the wall
25. Various of Nilufer preparing cookies and cake in the kitchen
26. Medium of Nilufer pouring tea while Esref plays the piano
27. Tilt down from one of his paintings to Esref playing piano
28. Close Esref's fingers on the keyboard
29. Wide of Nilufer and a guest chatting
30. Close of wedding picture on the wall
31. Wide of Esref and Nilufer coming out of their apartment complex
32. Wide Esref and Nilufer walking towards the camera outside
33. Wide of Esref and Nilufer walking away from the camera
LEAD IN :
Esref Armagan is celebrated as a remarkable artist in his native Turkey.
A nature lover he paints the natural world including butterflies, trees and fish.
There is just one challenge. Esref has never seen any of these things in reality as he was born blind.
STORYLINE :
Esref Armagan lives in Ankara, Turkey with his wife Nilufer, who is also blind.
Nilufer lost her eye sight when she was 15 years old.
Her husband reports that he was born blind.
But Esref's disability has not prevented him from pursuing his passion for painting.
In fact he took part in an academic paper written by John Kennedy, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto in 2006.
Kennedy confirms that Esref is a 'congenitally totally blind man' and that one eye is absent and the other is deformed, being very small and insensitive to light.
Esref does ask his wife for help to depict shapes or describe different colours for him.

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