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- Kuršių nerija
Risograph print explainer · 69 seconds · Lithuanian
Kuršių nerija
A 69-second explainer in Lithuanian about the Curonian Spit, the 98-kilometre strip of sand between the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon: the legend of the giantess Neringa, the dunes that buried whole villages, and the forest people planted to hold them.
- The brief
- “Kuršių nerija: the Curonian Spit, in Lithuanian”
- Style
- Risograph print
- Length and frame
- 69 seconds · 16:9
- Made for
- Lessons and courses
How it was made.
Narrated in Lithuanian, one of the 24 languages Explainers writes and voices. The script, the on-screen labels and the captions are all in Lithuanian.
Risograph print again, this time as a map: spot-ink blue for the sea, halftone for the lagoon and a pink line measuring the spit.
Every Explainers film is made the same way: one sentence in, a storyboard you approve, then the director paints, voices, scores and animates it, and a critic model grades the cut before you see it.
Transcript
- Tarp Baltijos jūros ir ramių marių driekiasi smėlio juosta.
- Devyniasdešimt aštuoni kilometrai.
- Sakoma, kad čia ją prijuoste atnešė milžinė Neringa, kad apsaugotų žvejus.
- Tik smėlis niekada nelieka ten, kur jį padėjai.
- Vėjas stūmė kopas vis toliau, ir po jomis dingo ištisi kaimai.
- Tada žmonės ėmė kovoti šaknimis.
- Žabų tvoros, paskui pušys, po vieną sodinuką, kol miškas sulaikė smėlį.
- Šiandien Didžiosios kopos prie Nidos vis dar slenka.
- O drožinėtos vėtrungės vis dar sukasi.
- Neringa – vieta, kurią vėjas vis bando atsiimti.
- Ir kasmet kažkas ją vėl sodina.
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