(10 Apr 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of coffins and congregation
2. Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi talking with relatives
3. Pull out of coffin
4. Wide of coffins and congregation
5. Priest leading service
6. Berlusconi at front of congregation
7. Mid-shot of priest speaking
8. Wide of service
9. Close-up of children's toy on child's coffin
10. Close-up of emergency worker
11. Close-up of mourners
12. Close-up of mourning women
13. Pan across emergency workers
14. Close-up of women hugging
15. Pan across coffins in centre of congregation
16. Slow pan wide rear shot of priest leading funeral service in the open air
17. Close-up of candles burning, crowd in background
18. Close-up of photograph of young man, flowers on coffin
19. Close-up of mourning woman
20. Travelling shot along line of emergency workers, pan right to coffins
21. Man carrying flowers
22. Zoom in on Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi
23. Mid-shot of grieving man comforted by woman
24. Woman holding daffodils, nun stands up next to her
25. Mid-shot of woman wiping face with tissue
26. Pan across crowd to stage
27. Various of people shaking hands
28. Priest taking eucharist
29. Various of priests giving the eucharist to congregation
30. Wide of coffins and congregation
STORYLINE
Sobbing mourners gazed on coffins and comforted each other on Friday as they said farewell at a funeral mass for Italy's quake victims.
In a message delivered at the exceptional Good Friday Mass, Pope Benedict XVI urged survivors of the devastating quake, Italy's worst in three decades, to keep up hope.
The 6.3-magnitude temblor, which killed 289 and left some 30-thousand homeless, struck on Monday at the start of Holy Week.
Weeping mourners were joined by firefighters, rangers and other rescue workers at the funeral service.
Amid the rows of coffins, five small white caskets of the youngest victims rested on those of their parents.
Twenty children and teenagers were among the dead.
The youngest victim would have turned five months on Easter Sunday.
The Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, presided over the Good Friday funeral Mass for about 200 of the dead.
Some of the 289 victims had already been buried privately.
Two more bodies were located in the rubble as officials prepared for the funeral.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and other key government officials were among the 10-thousand people attending the outdoor ceremony beneath Abruzzo's snowcapped mountains.
The funeral was being held outdoors because none of the region's churches was stable enough for the ceremony.
Berlusconi comforted mourners, shaking hands and giving hugs before the ceremony began.
Friday was declared a national day of mourning and many shops across the country were closed during the funeral service.
The Vatican granted a special dispensation for the Mass.
Good Friday, which marks Jesus' death by crucifixion, is the only day in the year on which Mass is not normally celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church.
Benedict, who noted that the quake was felt at the Vatican, is to travel to the region sometime after the Easter holiday.
Aftershocks, including some strong ones, have continued to rattle residents in recent days, nearly 18-thousand of whom are living in tent camps around the stricken region.
An additional 10-thousand have been put up in seaside hotels, out of the quake zone, and the Italian railway provided heated sleeping cars at L'Aquila's main train station, where nearly 700 people spent the night.
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