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Escape the football frenzy at a South African spa
(26 May 2010)
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Mangwanani Spa, River Valley, outside Pretoria, South Africa - May 8, 2010
1. Wide woman lying on treatment table after hot rock massage
2. Mid woman lying on treatment table after hot rock massage
3. Close rocks on back pull out to wide woman on treatment table
4. Cutaway water fall
5. Pan spa restaurant
6. Mid spa staff singing and drumming at the Mangwanani spa entrance
7. Close hands playing drum
8. Mid waitress offering welcome drinks to guests
9. Mid guests arriving
10. Wide guests on sunloungers
11. Wide two women drinking on sunloungers
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Mandy Berg, Voxpop:
The setting is great. The staff are great. They feed you all day, they water you all day and you just lie there.
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Iona Neill, Vox pop:
You leave your cell phone at home, and all your worries. And you're just, you're relaxed. You're not worrying about anything. You're out in the country, and it's lovely, the atmosphere's beautiful.
14. Wide treatment hut with guests having hand massages
15. Mid woman receiving hand massage
16. Close face of woman receiving hand massage
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Fordoun Spa, KwaZulu Natal Midlands, South Africa - April 21, 2010
17. Pan from spa sign to spa entrance
18. Tilt down woman diving into the pool at Fordoun Spa
19. Tilt down from floatation chamber ceiling to woman floating
20. Close woman floating in floatation chamber
21. Mid therapist rubbing African mud onto a guest's back
22. Close therapist's hands rubbing mud
23. Close bowl of African mud
24. Mid therapist wrapping guest in plastic sheet
25. Wide follows sangoma Eliot Ndlovu shaking bag full of 'bones' (a collection of bric a brac traditionally believed to fortell the future)
26. Close 'bones' on floor with Eliot pointing at them with a stick studded with animal hair tilt to guest
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Eliot Ndlovu, sangoma and designer of Fordoun's spa treatments:
As an African, I'm working with my ancestors. It's a calling. All the herbs in South Africa, they've got a name, they've got a meaning. With those meanings, you don't just go and take any herb. If, let's say, a person have got headache, I have to consult my ancestors. Then they can tell me, say, 'Okay Eliot, you take those three different herbs, you mix them, give that person to inhale or to sniff it. And then he or she will get better.' So that's how it works. Because most of herbs, they got meaning.
28. Wide pan therapist picking up knobkerries (South African tribal sticks) and using them to massage guest
29. Mid therapist rubbing guest's back with knobkerries
30. Close knobkerries on towel
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Seven Colours Spa, The Rosebank Hotel, Johannesburg - May 18, 2010
31. Wide pan Rosebank hotel lobby to spa store
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Seven Colours Spa, The Rosebank Hotel, Johannesburg - May 8, 2010
32. Mid spa reception counter, male guest arriving
33. Mid guest at counter speaking to receptionist
34. Close spa menu on counter
35. Wide follows male guest walking around reflexology pool
36. Wide male guest walking around reflexology pool
37. Close guest's feet leaving pool
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Seven Colours Spa, The Rosebank Hotel, Johannesburg - May 18, 2010
38. Wide therapist folding towel on chair, staff speaking to guest in background
39. Mid therapist speaking to guest
40. Close guest smelling oil on her wrist
41. Close therapist rubbing oil onto guest's wrists
42. SOUNDBITE (English) Elschen Lucas, Vox pop:
It was just amazing. And right now, I just feel so relaxed, and so calm. And they've really made me feel very special, like I'm the only one here, and I'm the most important thing. And that to me is worth a lot.
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