EXCELLENT - Candy to my eyes!! For hearing viewers/non-signers [00:3 - 00:10] Trees (upright arms/open palms “5″) passing by the deaf driver [00:11] smartphone flashing (ringing). The driver looks down, picks up the phone, “hangs up”, then puts the phone down, and continues to drive. [00:12 - 0:25] phone flashes again, she picks the phone once again, cautiously texts as she drove. Then she, visibly upset, puts the phone down once again. [00:26] the same person passes her a bad news. [00:27-32] she shifted the gears, and pressed the gas pedal, and sped up [index finger (speedometer gauge) rose up] as she rushes to an unknown location… [00:33-00:34] she leans over to check whether there are cars behind her, doesn’t see the pedestrian (an upright index finger bouncing) walking across the street but when she does, she turned the steering wheel to avoid a collision. [00:35] (Flat palm horizontally represents the car she’s in) The car swerves. [00:36 - 00:39] Two index fingers represent the car tumbling wildly. [00:40] (Flat palm / Car went airborne and flipped, landing upside down) [00:41] (Two upright flat palms represents the sides/windows of the car) [00:42] (Two fisted hands opening up represents windows breaking, pieces of broken window falling onto the driver). Driver lays motionless. [00:43-00:47] Ambulance arrives (two flashing hands), brakes hard (flat palm stopping hard). [00:47- 00:49] Ambulance door opens, EMT (upright index finger bouncing) rushes to the motionless driver. EMT holds the speaker off his shoulder (clawed hand, off shoulder), talks into it. [00:50-00:53] Helicopter arrives… (palm “5″ on a closed fist) [00:53-00:55] Two arms represent helicopter blades. [00:56-1:01] Helicopter door opens up (arm across the body with a closed fist, and a flat palm/door sliding open). EMT rushes out with a bag of medical supplies (closed fists / carrying a bag). [1:01-1:07] EMT attends to the motionless driver, checks for her carotid pulse, and performs resuscitation (two closed fists holding onto electrical cardio pads). [1:08-1:20] EMT covers the dead body with a sheet (closed fist, from the body towards the head). [1:21-1:25] Ambulance pulls up, backs up, and two back doors (upright flat palms) opens up. [1:26-1:27] Gurney was pulled out from the back and the body (two palms facing up, lifted up) was placed on a gurney. [1:28-1:30] Gurney was pushed into the back of the ambulance (two upright flat palms/doors closing up) and the doors closed. [1:31-1:35] EMT pounds the back of the ambulance to let them know. Ambulance departs. EMT then packs up his bag and walks away from the scene. Her spirit wanders in confusion as if saying, “No this can’t be. - Sign language wasn’t really used here. The sisters used “classifiers” (handshapes), body language and facial expressions to tell a story. From LIFEPRINT: Definition: Classifiers are designated handshapes and/or rule-grounded body pantomime used to represent nouns and verbs. The purpose of the classifier is to provide additional information about nouns and verbs such as: location, kind of action, size, shape and manner.
