(23 Sep 2009) SHOTLIST
Petchaburi Province, Thailand, 12th September 2009
1. Wide shot of the sun rise over Petchaburi Province
2. Wide shot of the downtown area under the morning light
3. Wide shot woman marinating chickens
4. Close up of marinated chickens in buckets
5. Mid shot of Sila Sutharat pulling a chain on his solar panel
6. Mid shot 1000-mirror solar panel tilting down
7. Mid shot mirrors on solar panel
8. Mid shot Sila putting on protective headgear
9. Pan from mirror panel to Sila standing in front of chicken grilling cart
10. Mid shot chicken being hung up and grilled on the cart
11. Sila standing and checking the grilled chicken
12. Mid shot of Sila looking at chicken
13. Close up of grilled chicken
14. Wide shot of Sila standing in front of chicken
15. Mid shot of Thai national flag on top the solar panel
16. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Sila Sutharat, Solar Chicken Seller:
“A tour bus with reflective mirrors on the side was driven past me and I felt the heat and I went, wow, that’s hot! The second bus came, the same. The mirror on the bus reflects the heat, reminding me that, hey, the mirror can heat things up – same as I learnt when a kid.”
17. Cut away of a train passing by behind the solar panel
18. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Sila Sutharat, Solar Chicken Seller:
“First I build the panel with 600 mirrors, but I could not cook fast enough and when it got a little cloudy then I could not cook anything. So, I made this thing with 1000 mirrors. With this, I need only 10 minutes to cook one chicken”
19. Mid shot tree branch and smoke rising from the grilling panel
20. Mid shot of Sila steering solar panel
21. Mid shot of chicken hung on the panel with the focus of the light shifting from bottom to top
22. Wide shot of Sila’s wife taking vegetable out of a bowl
23. Mid shot Sila holding chicken that is being grilled
24. Close up pile of cooked chicken
25. Close up chicken being chopped up on cutting board
26. Tilt from the face of Sila’s wife to her hands chopping up chicken
27. Chicken being served to customers
28. Mid shot of customers eating
29. Close up of the chicken on the plate
30 Close up of a customer eating chicken
31. SOUNDBITE (Thai) no name given, Voxpop:
“The meat is more tender and the chicken is cooked throughout. Very nice”
32. Wide shot of customers eating
LEAD IN
Roast chicken, or “gai yang” is a very popular dish in Thailand.
It is usually roasted on charcoal grills.
But a roadside restaurant 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Bangkok is using a different cooking method.
Sila is roasting his chicken with help of a wall of 1,000 hand-sized mirrors.
STORYLINE
A lesson from a science class in the fourth grade taught Sila how several mirrors could heat objects when they concentrated light on one spot.
Forty years later he put the childhood lesson to practical use by roasting chicken.
He focuses the mirrors’ heat on chickens hanging on metal grill racks in front of a black metal panel.
The cooker reaches about 200 degrees celsius.
Sila explains how he got the idea.
“A tour bus with reflective mirrors on the side was driven past me and I felt the heat and I went, wow, that’s hot! The second bus came, the same. The mirror on the bus reflects the heat, reminding me that, hey, the mirror can heat things up – same as I learnt when a kid.”
His first effort in 1999 with 300 mirrors cooked too slowly, so he doubled the size to 600 mirrors.
That worked fine, but in 2004 he expanded to 1,000 mirrors, and bigger proved better.
The cooker works in partly cloudy skies but the rule is the more sun the better.
The 1,000-mirror wall is curved to better focus the heat on a small area.
The solar cooker has saved Sila a lot in charcoal costs over the years.
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Post time: Jun-17-2017