Video Description for 2024 ML2 Holiday 3D Animation
Elves’ Workshop by Simon Folwar is playing in the background as the video starts. This is a 3D animation video. The video starts outside facing a house and there is snow all around. The house has a lot of Christmas light strings set up, as well as Christmas lights around a tree nearby. The camera zooms slowly toward the house, through the house window, (where we see steam rising up near the window from inside) and into our classic kitchen.
The camera zooms in on the kitchen table, focusing on a pan where three gingerbread cookies are standing and waving to the camera.
The cookie’s faces: white frosting eyebrows and characteristic lines, soft brown eyes, and red lips are visible in remarkable detail. They also have three candy buttons lined up on their belly.
They start signing, “Hi!”. They start to look near the window and GASP! The camera zooms out quickly to show what the cookies are looking at: a steaming holiday pie!
The camera comes back to the cookies.
The cookie chorus unveils a procession of ASL rhymes utilizing the 5 handshape with closed fingers. The cookies merrily sign/sing PIE, (ooooo), SMELL GOOD, SMELL WONDERFUL, YUMMY, *nodding*, CLAP, HOLIDAY PIE, CANNOT WAIT, YES COME ON, EAT, and CLAP. White text emphasizing each rhyme is shown above the cookies.
They end the song with a final clap, and then all three cookies start running toward the camera (where the pie is behind) and the screen closes in a black circle.
The black circle opens facing the pie plate, which is now empty except for pie crumbs. The three cookies are sitting around the pie plate. They sign, with white text above them emphasizing twice: WOW FULL. The video fades to black.
The video fades back up to a cookie standing with a gray background. The cookie wishes the viewer (YOU) happy holidays. Red text appears above the cookie as it signs HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY HOLIDAYS! The screen starts snowing as the cookie waves goodbye. The video closes into black screen with the Motion Light Lab and Gallaudet University/Visual Language and Visual Learning logos appearing.
Video ends.