Elizabeth Hay - Description

00:00-00:06 - Fade in on Elizabeth Hay, who is giving an interview to someone off screen. She is sitting in a dining room and in the background are a vase of tulips and a piano.

"like to write about places that are overlooked but really meaningful to me"

00:06-00:10 - Elizabeth Hay is standing in her office with someone else and she puts one of her books on a table that is already covered with all sorts of documents.

"and about characters that are underestimated."

00:10-00:15 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room.

"So, I really need when I'm working to have character and place"

00:15-00:18 - Shot of Elizabeth Hay working at her desk. She is at her computer, revising a manuscript.

"working together. And then, my habits are"

00:18-00:24 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room

"very messy. I have notebooks and I jot things down in notebooks and then I transfer what I've"

00:24-00:30 - Close-up of Elizabeth Hay's hands. She is holding a pencil and turning the pages of her manuscript. The camera backs up slowly.

"written in the notebooks onto the computer. And I print that out and I have a hard copy to work with."

00:30-00:34 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room.

"But, there's a lot of"

00:34-00:36 - Close-up of Elizabeth Hay handling her manuscript, which is stuffed with sticky notes.

"patching and rewriting."

00:36-00:39 - Shot of Elizabeth Hay working at her desk. She is sitting in front of her computer, revising a printed manuscript.

"Huge amounts of rewriting."

00:39-00:42 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room. Fade out.

"It's a messy operation."

00:42-00:45 - Fade out on Elizabeth Hay in the dining room.

"The public tends to presume that what's"

00:45-00:48 - Shot of Elizabeth Hay in front of a bookcase, reaching for a book.

"interesting and important"

00:48-00:51 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room.

"happens elsewhere."

00:51-00:53 - Shot of Elizabeth Hay correcting a manuscript with an eraser and a pencil.

"So, for me the challenge is to try to write"

00:53-00:56 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room.

"about Canada in such a way that it wakes"

00:56-00:59 - Shot of Elizabeth Hay working at her desk. She is sitting in front of her computer, revising a printed manuscript.

"people up and it wakes me up,"

00:59-01:02 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room.

"to what's interesting here. This"

01:02-01:05 - Shot from behind of Elizabeth Hay correcting her manuscript.

"country, actually, is full of stories"

01:05-01:08 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room.

"and full of colour"

01:08-01:11 - Shot of Elizabeth Hay sitting at her desk and bursting out laughing.

"and intensity if"

01:11-01:14 - Back to Elizabeth Hay in the dining room.

"you just look for it."