Narrative structure

1. Introduction with monologue to the production – Posing

questions to the viewers with some philosophical
statements
2. Title cards, “The Cosmic World” title
3. Expert interview gravity – basic definition of what gravity
is.
4. Multiple shots of handheld common objects
5. Piece to camera – Toby stands with hammer and sheet
of paper and drops them at the same time
6. Archive footage – Commander David Scott dropping
hammer and feather at the same time.
7. Cavendish experiment – explain how all mass has gravity
8. Stop motion animation – Zoom out transition to stop-
motion animation of Earth – explain how the earth’s
gravity keeps us down due to its mass, then the moon is
introduced – explain how Earth’s gravity holds the moon
in orbit then the whole solar system comes into shot –
explain how the stars mass holds the entire solar system.
9. Gravity expert – Explains gravities effect on a larger scale
10. Whiteboard animation - Jupiter and explain how
Jupiter is so massive that gravity curves the paths of
deadly asteroids away from us.
11. Relativity expert – explains how gravity then relates
to the effects of relativity.
12. Piece to camera – Toby poses questions based on
relation made between gravity and relativity.
13. Gravity visualised experiment mixed with piece to
camera to explain what is happening in the visualisation.
14. Relativity expert explains space-time and how
physical matter exists on it.
15. Whiteboard animation of space-time plain. Draw
distortion from mass and how it warps space-time. Then
go onto explain positioning of observers to an event with
narration from interviewees.
16. Stop-motion animation of light travelling past two
observers and how one observer will see an event before
the other because the light has travelled to them first as
they are closer to the event. Then explain how if the
person travelled at the speed of that light, they would
only observe the event as it was when that light was
emitted from it which concludes that when travelling at
the speed of light, time stops for the person travelling at
that speed.
17. Piece to camera – (start with torch shining into
camera)Explain how if light has to travel to us in order
for us to see events then whenever we look up at the
night sky, we are seeing light that has travelled millions
of light years to get to us which means that when we
look to the stars, we are looking back in time at the old
light that has been travelling from distant stars, light
years away.
18. Whiteboard animation goes onto to show the
distortion in the space-time plain from a black hole –
Toby asks what could be creating such a distortion.
19. Black hole expert – Explains what a black hole is in
simple terms for viewers.
20. Archive footage – first image of a black hole – Black
hole expert explains the scale of gravity from a black
hole.
21. Piece to camera – Toby asks how could something
so dense and powerful could come into existence. Toby
lights a match and talks about how the match stays a
light as long as it has the fuel(wood) to burn and
compares it to the sun burning up fuel, but what
happens when the fuel runs out.
22. Whiteboard animation - There are two forces
keeping a stars structure, the explosive force pushing out
and the gravitational force from its mass pulling the star
in, the balance between these forces keeps it structurally
stable but when the star runs out of fuel, the continuous
explosive outwards force cannot hold up against the
gravitational pull of the star itself and the star collapses
in a great explosion, a supernova, if the star was massive
enough, the star will collapse into a singularity, a single
point in space of infinite density with no surface or
volume. Then go onto explain because of the infinite
density, the gravity is so powerful that not even light can
escape its pull.
23. Black hole expert – tells viewers how we owe our
existence and position in the galaxy to a super massive
black hole.
24. Archive footage of Deep field Hubble image of
galaxies, each galaxy has x number of stars and planets
then conclude by saying that at the centre of each one
there is a black hole holding it all together.
25. Piece to camera – Toby concludes the documentary
by saying that; These laws of physics bind our existence
on a daily basis. Gravity holds all physical matter. We
distort space-time which causes the gravitational force
and black holes are the remnants of massive dead stars
that hold everything in our galaxy and millions of billions
of others.
26. Ending credits