Prefocus Segment
- Simon: [Reaches across and gets some assembled straws and starts taking them apart to redo]Ê
- Andy: [Works on the base]Ê
- Tim: [working on the top piece (cone) reaches across table for a pin]Ê
- Tim: Ouch! [pokes himself with the pin]
- Tim: I'm making the....[reaches to try cone top on top of the base. Then drops a straw onto the floor and the gets down and picks it up]Ê
- Simon: Why didn't you put supports here, Andy?Ê
- Andy: What?Ê
- Simon: You need to put supports here.Ê
- Tim: I'm just about to finish the cone top.Ê
- Simon: Ok but we still can't use it yet.Ê
- Tim: We can use this cone top.Ê
- Simon: Not yet though.Ê
- Tim: I know.Ê
- Simon: Okay, we have--almost finished the assembly [the piece he has been working on to attach to the base].Ê
- Simon: [Makes a devilish laugh] Here is Tim's thing now [holds up straws he has been disassembling--hanging down in pieces--Tim glances at Simon and continues working]. Okay.Ê
- Simon: What are you doing, Andy? [as he has spoken, Andy has been placing braces on the base. Simon jumps up.] This won't work.Ê
- Sam: [Walks over to table]Ê
- Sam: What kind of a thing are you trying to build?Ê
- Simon: This won't work [to Andy]. Andy this won't work [shaking his head].Ê
- Tim: An earthquake proof [to Sam].Ê
- Sam: Very Interesting [bends over and says this in false voice. Sam is ignored from here on]Ê
- Andy: Why [to Simon]?Ê
- Sam: An earthquake proof?Ê
- Andy: Why [to Simon]?Ê
- Simon [answers by showing that his second piece and the main pieces do not fit together].Ê
- Sam: It should be earthquake proof otherwise it will go bye-bye.Ê
- Andy: [Watches, smiles] Oh, yeah [moves his pieces and changes as Simon has suggested].Ê
- Sam: [Sam leaves]Ê
- Simon: Okay, now, Unmungh--get off [takes apart piece he is working on], okay..now, I shall make it again, Tim's thing.
Focus Segment
- Tim: See, here's the cone top.Ê
- Andy: Well, there's a triangle at the bottom [points to Tim's cone top].Ê
- Tim: So?Ê
- Andy: That's gonna be hard to put it on [putting hand on top of existing structure; Tim takes pin out of top joint].Ê
- Tim: Don't put it here. [talks simultaneously with Simon]Ê
- Simon: Make a pyramid, make a pyramid out of it. A pyramid.Ê
- Andy: [Faces and talks to Tim] Cause, look all these are squares--[touches and points around top of existing tower] now.Ê
- Tim: Yeah, well then we can just put a few supports like that and put it on.Ê
- Andy: No.Ê
- Simon: Not really, that is too hard Tim.Ê
- Andy: It's too hard.Ê
- Tim: No it isn't.Ê
- Simon: Yes it is.Ê
- Tim: You only...need...Ê
- Andy: It won't look good though.Ê
- Tim: Yeah, it will.Ê
- Andy: No, it won'tÊ
- Simon: It won't work.Ê
- Tim: What, you want me to cut it down?Ê
- Simon: That would work.Ê
- Andy: Just cut down the bottom...Ê
- Simon: Just make a pyramid.Ê
- Andy: Just cut down the bottom...Ê
- Simon: All you have to do is make a pyramid [attempts to address Andy].Ê
- Andy: The top..eh..the bottom needs to be square [Speaking to Tim--pointing to Tim's cone top].Ê
- Tim: Square?Ê
- Andy: Cause look, all these are squares [points to and touches the base].Ê
- Tim: I just need one thing to put on.Ê
- Tim: It's gonna be a small square. [Simon is working on his own piece, away from the conversation].Ê
- Andy: So we'll make a lot of cubes and make them all smaller.Ê
- Tim: Ok you guys get started on that, I'm making this.Ê
- Andy: I'm making cubes.Ê
- Simon: Make it three layers high, not...[still working on his piece]Ê
- Tim: Let's make it sort of like the empire state building.