(14 Mar 2007)
1. Various of 'ninots' on street
2. Various shots of "Mascleta" (daytime fireworks display)
3. Pan down of light display
4. Tilt down of "Convento" 'fallas'
5. Various shots of "Convento" 'fallas'
6. Set up shot of Jose Barrachina, president of "Convento" falla
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Barrachina, president of "Convento" falla :
"Fallas is an ancient tradition that began when the wood workers use to celebrate their patron saint day - Saint Joseph - and they used to make huge bonfires with all the spare wood they had. Later on they stated to dress the dummies with old clothes up until now when we make this wonderful things."
8. Various shots of artists and technicians assembling the 'ninots'
9. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jose Barrachina, president of "Convento" falla :
"This is a representation of Valencia in the year 7003 submerged under the sea. It will be a submarine city with the fish and the people living together. We show the future remains of the old Valencia. We want to make people conscious about global warming and to show how the future will be in a few thousand years."
11. Exterior shot of "ninots" (dummies) exhibition
12. Various shots of public looking at small versions of "ninots" (representing a bullfighter; Pope Benedict; movie director Pedro Almodovar)
13. Various of public voting to elect favourite"ninot"
14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Noelia Miralles, Exhibition supervisor :
"We have been exhibiting the dummies during the past month and a half. The public can vote for their favourite one and in the last day the chosen one gets pardoned. This means that it is saved from the fire and taken to a museum."
15. Various of 'ninots' in exhibition (Marilyn Monroe and Jose Luis Zapatero )
16. Various shots of 'fallas' at night
17. Various of "Jordana" 'falla'
18. Set up shot of Ernest Llacer, chief artist of "Jordana" falla
19. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Ernest Llacer, chief artist of "Jordana" falla :
"We are all kind of freaks and all of us are represented in this falla. The main figure is Michael Jackson followed by the monkeys. We all like to dress up with the first thing we have at hand for a celebration. Either as Elvis Presley, a "matador" or a flamenco dancer. All freaks!"
20. Mid shot of public observing "Jordana" falla
21. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Jesus, Vox pop :
"I have been a fallas lover for many years. And we all say that the fallas begin after the get cremated and we start to prepare the next year's ones. This is the fruit of a year's work."
22. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Consuelo, Vox pop :
"I don't feel sad because after they get cremated we start all over again. Is all very gratifying and I get very excited."
23. Various of "Jordana" falla
LEAD IN :
Every year the Spanish city of Valencia hosts a week-long celebration that culminates on Saint Joseph's day (March 19), the city's patron saint day.
The "fallas" fiestas are some of Europe's most famous festivals.
STORYLINE:
Heavy rain did not dampen revellers spirits as daytime fireworks, famous for their intense noise, echoed across Valencia's city centre at the start of the annual Fallas festival.
The "Mascleta" is an audio and visual fireworks' display that takes place every day at noon in front of the town hall during the festival.
But the highlight of the fiesta is the burning of the grotesque gigantic papier mache figures.
Fallas is the culmination of the work and effort of an entire year.
The 'ninots' and 'fallas' are the expression of a unique kind of art using large wooden structures covered with painted papier-mache or more recently polystyrene.

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