movie blog on The Road

I picked the middle paragraph on page 83 where the man and boy are watching the rain inside the truck.

Starts with dog howling, nothing visual. This brings all attention to the howling dog. Then it would open with the camera showing a light gray smog, symbolizing the start of morning.  Focuses on gray slices of rain slowly dropping from the sky, watching until it goes faster and faster. Then the camera pans out and the audience sees the rain “dancing” in the road, in wavy sheets. Off to the side of this shot, is the car under the overpass. The camera makes a smooth pan under the overpass and looks on the roof of the car. The camera then focuses and zooms in on the rain drops hitting the windowshield, then focuses behind the windowshield where it shows the man and the boy looking out at the rain.

The next shot would be inside the car, maybe coming from the seat’s angle, so the view is looking up at the man and boy. This would create a more cramped feeling. The car would be old, dirty. They would be sitting against each other, any extra cloth like blankets or jackets they have at the time shaped into a nest around them. The boy’s big eyes in his starved face would be equal to the man’s shoulder, with a scraggly beard on the top of the boy’s head. At a profile angle, their eyes would be facing the window. Then the camera would refocus on the window, showing the rain slowing down. It would show the blankets on the floor of the seat, look back through the window, and then be back outside following the man and the boy walking up the road towards the houses. It would go completely gray, as they walked out of sight, then black like the beginning. There would be a pause where if this was filmed seamlessly, the audience would recognize the dog howl was missing.