Celebs

Power couple Beyonce and Jay-Z continue to show their love for each other from their Drunk in love performance at this years Grammys to Jay-Z continuing to support his wife with getting her pre-baby body make. Will the only green diet catch on?


Once a fresh faced teen to drugged up, confessed young man. Will Justin Bieber's career be over in a blink of an eye if he carries on down this road?

Fancy getting married by Queen Latifah while names like Madonna and Ryan Lewis sing for you. They married 34 couples at this years Grammys and
Ryan told The New York Times before last night’s show that the weddings represent "the ultimate statement of equality, that all the couples are entitled to the same exact thing"

celebrity's richest

Short term 
Look at stories and start script (opening of show) 
VT done 

long term 
Plan intro monday next week 

documentary, conventions

Documentary list of conventions

• Witness or victims of the event that has taken place
• Interviews with special topic people
• Clips from things that cover the same subject. For example the Outfoxed used clips of the Fox news stories which were meant to be 'real' news
• Trying to include celebrity's and people in the public eye, in the Blowing for Columbine the reporter when to an old Hollywood star, who also is in a guns club, to talk to him about a six year old boy who went into school with a gun and shot a six year old girl which ending up with her death.
• Voice overs
• VT inserts
• Archive footage
• Use of lots of music
• Use of montage - pace, fast moving, this was used a lot in the Blowing for Columbine when it showed the American history on weapons.
• Hand held footage
• It focuses on one subject but give different solutions to correct it
• Taking law into their own hands
• Tone, sarcastic
• For shadowing
• Irony, sarcasm, black humour 'about death'
• CCTV footage
• Statistics
• Amateur footage
• Use of multi-camera

The good use of Multi-camera is that you can edit by using the different camera shots with the different angles covering the same piece of footage. For example in Louis met the Nazi they used multi-camera edit for the conversation between him and the mother of the two young girls. They edited between three cameras, one focused on him and the other on the mother and one that kept flicking between the two of the girls themselves playing. One of the problems with Multi-camera use is they need an more complex lighting set up to give each angle the same lighting effect and colour balance.

Blowing for Columbine - The step by step set up for the documentary.


1- gun availability + views of gun ownership  
2- fear + safety
3- inequality between rich + poor in USA
4- killing of Columbine students
5- about American society + socialisation
6- importance of the media


Killing of students in school
fact - Students did a shooting at a school
opinion - Local people in the town and gun owners
bias
propaganda

feedback for pre-credit sequence for all or nothing

Very good intro, the armed robbery comes as a surprise and the mother being a victim works well. There's a lot of action which would get the audience interested and they would want to see what happens next. The pacing of the script works well. Improvement - give it a title. 

Research

What information might researchers need? 
To support a case or to back up what you are saying.
Research to ask questions.
the 5 W
Why might they need to conduct research?
 To give the audience correct information and not just say their opinion about a topic.

What would a researcher need to consider? 
No all the information given, especially in interviews, will be correct so a researcher should always double check their research before they call it fact

Live studio

1) what job roles have you undertaken in the last few week? What were the responsibilities? 

The job I have undertaken is lighting for the sets of the shows we did. The responsibilities I had were to make sure that the lights were not too bright for the cast and not too close to their faces. Also making sure the lights weren't too low for someone to walk into them. 

2) what equipment did you use? 

The only equipment needed were gloves so I didn't burn my hands when touching the lights after they were on for a while. Also I used a light rod which helped me move the lights up and down for the set. 

Shows 

On our quiz show I was the director and got to pick how our set was set out and what type of shots I wanted to have. In another quiz show I was cast which was different for me because I've never been cast before. It was hard because you had to sit there and listen to what the direcortor wanted to get from you and want you to get across to the audience. 

At the filming of our class chat show I was lighting for the first time and I got to see and understand how different amounts and different types of light can effect a set and the mood of what you are filming. 

Codes and conventions 

The codes and conventions of a quiz were having questions being asked and round with buzzers and points also the cast were  teams and a host or panels with the chat mostly being banter. For these quizs shows we used medium shots and medium close up shots so we mainly focused on the quests and host faces. 

In our chat show the code and conventions were having a couple of guests sitting down with a host sitting with them talking to them about their personal life's. 

The camera shots that were used for this type of show were wide shots,medium shots and medium close up. 

All or nothing - film

Actor - Sacha - Baron Cohen set in a wild west saloon
Genre - Tragedy/Tearjerker.


Title: All or nothing

Aposter idea: An outline of a male cowboy with a hat on ' filled in black' with dark red, light red and purple mountain fading into each other behind the figure. The title ' All or nothing' in Western style at the top of the poster in sunset, gold colours.

Log line: Sacha Baron Cohen's most heart felt role yet. Colt Ruth moves his family to Alabama in 168




2. His wanted for bank robberies around southeastern america but just wants to protect and provide for his family. His utopia is destroyed when he comes home and found his wife murdered and daughter missing. His goes on a mission to find the killers and get his daughter back.



short description of lead character: Colt Ruth was born in Virginia. His not been educated and moves around a lot due to him not having a job and only getting his money from robbing banks around the United States. His tall with dark short black hair and dark soulless eyes which are covered by his hat. He has a long scar from the top of his right ear to the corner of his mouth.






Scene idea

Colt Ruth walks in to his kitchen, His 4 year old daughter comes running up and he picks her up to cuddle. His Wife is cooking dinner and turns to greet him and kiss him. They are getting ready for dinner and setting the table. All while this is going on the voice over with him

pre-credit sequence

Establishes tone
Establishes genre
Establishes subject



Protagonist - What do they want? What do they need?
Antagonist - What do they want? What do they need?
Pivotal Character(s) - How do they keep the protagonist and Antagonist engaged in conflict?
Dialogue - Its not everything
Intentions - motivation
Subtext - Whats going on under the surface?
Context - Whats going on around it? What happened before and after? Where and when is this happening?


Pre-credit sequence of ALL OR NOTHING

All or Nothing

INT. The Virginia bank

Western, set in 1659

COLT RUTH, as a young boy, walks into the bank with his mother. Shes paying money in then a group of men walk in with guns and try to rob the bank. While this is going on colts mother is shot and left for dead.

COLT RUTH'S mother takes him into the Virginia bank to put some money into the bank.

MOTHER RUTH:

Now colt stay close, there's a lot of people around and i don't want to lose you.

Colt holding his mothers hand while they line up, Colt watching everyone working, trying to get closer to them while his mother keeps pulling him back to her side

Mother ruth:

Colt, now stop here! look we are next up.

Colt and his mother walk up to the window to talk to the man

Bank worker:

Good morning madam, what can i help you with today?

Mother ruth lets go off cloths hand and hands over money to the man.

MOTHER RUTH:

I would like to put this into my account please.

The man takes the money, as he turns to give mother ruth papers to sign the doors of the bank bust open. Everyone turns, a woman screams

Bank robber:

Everyone! get down on the ground! this is a bank robbery!

People lower to the ground, women screaming and Colt is under a desk. Guns shot fired, the men leave with money and laugh.

Bank worker 2:

HELP! shes been shot, shes been shot!

Colt gets out from under the desk, moves over to the group of people standing around a body drowning in blood to discover its his lifeless mother. 

screen goes black

Title

Research types

Research 

Secondary/Primary Research

• Online news 
• Books 
• Interview people 
• Questionares 
• Reports 
• Wiki 
• Newspaper
• Polls 
• Diagrams/graphs 
• Magazines 
• Internet - search
• Journals
• Documents 
• Articles 
• Archives
• Historical journals 
• Radio 
• Statements 
• Letters 
• Observation 
• Video clips 
• CCTV 
• Undercover filming 
• Forums , social networking 
• Experiments 
• TV
• Focus groups  

Billboard

http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/5763192/one-direction-top-richest-uk-celebrities-under-30

Bias that is in news

Bias - Selecting which story will go forward.

Placement- what place that story is put. If its put at the start or end of the news. which one is the most important
Bias by headline - What words are used and if they are in capital letter or not. By word choice and tone.
 bias by photos, the camera angle,  photoshop.
Bias through names and titles
language
facts
interviews
Source control - where the source is coming from.  Bias story

Obese pregnant woman are the NHS problems. ........ Fat people are the problem of the NHS. Underweight people are also the NHS. The video shows normal weight pregnant women who are being called obese.

In the documentary 'Outfoxed'  they used bias a lot by having a group of guess that 3 of them that believe the same political views and one guess that believes the other side of political views. The documentary shows the famous American news show as a one sided news show that only has guess from one sided political parties and only presents news that will help their parties be picked. They also share their racial views and put them into news to give them reasons and back up facts about why they believe that and why it is right. They have a tagline 'balance and fair' which becomes irony in this documentary because what they are showing up is them not being balance and fair just them being one sides and lairs.

Facts and opinion

Definition of fact
Something that everybody believes and are statements that can be proven.


Definition of Opinion
Its what someone believes is right and correct and another person disagrees.


An example of an fact is that the sky is blue due to the reflection of the water.

An example of an opinion is that someone who wears glasses is a nerd.

Bias
Bias is when people only show one side of an argument and make it comes across as fact. they don't tell or look at the other side of facts/opinions. Its subjective not objective and can be classed as manipulation.


Definitions of primary research
research you find your self
Secondary research
research that has been done for you but you use it

what are the conventions of TV news
interviews
presenter
opening title
studio  someone talking to us then making links to a reporter out on location
different locations
moving images
reporter on camera
presenter talking and looking into the camera - idea of trust and truth
factual based
impartial - means of unbiased
voiceover
formal dress
posh voice and proper English spoken
use of graphics

format - titles or a summary of the news stories coming up. presenter welcomes and name ( in the studio)
            - main story
            - story 2 
            - 3
            - 4
            - 5
            - A light hearted story - feel positive about something 
            - sport and weather  
                  
breakfast news sitting on a sofa and a man and woman talk about the story and give opinions on that story. more relatable and comfortable.
            
create a 2 - 3 min presentation of a news story
taking a story and doing the planning for it. the format, what you're gonna use and see. presenters, interviews, VT, graphics.



news story - dramatic
Deadly spider found in the UK

1) presenter saying welcome to the news tonight I'm Jeremy Smith. Breaking news just in Deadly spider has been located in the UK.  
(VT of reporter at location)
reporter says this local shop found a group of spiders in there storage rooms which is now been closed down by the local pest control to try and stop these spiders from getting out. We have been given some information from scientist that these spiders are highly deadly and if bitten there poison is strong enough to kill a human within 7 hours after bitten.  (Back to presenter in the studio)
We will update with any more information about this story later on in the show.

Structuring the news

Structuring the news

Echo news story 

• Dog walker's cheekbone broken after pet face-off 
• Canvey Island boss Danny Heale: I'll give kids a chance to shine 
• Man left jaw broken after Southend attack 
• Fire breaks out in Southend flat 

Yellow advertiser news story 

•  Budget cuts threaten services 
• Sperm donor loses appeal 
• Another hole in the wall 
• The face of an attacker 

Daily mail news story 

• So that's why your feet are giving you grief! simple steps you can take to beat the toll of ageing 
• I was called a freak because my face: woman, 25, smiles for first time after surgery to correct her severe underbite 
• All aboard the SS Thistlegorm: Divers explore the rusting trains, trucks and motorbikes on British munitions ship sunk by German bomber off coast of Eqypt 
• John Terry seeks his luxury nine-bedroom Surrey mansion to the Sultan of Oman's top aide……. for a £10 million profit. 

VT 

Mind map


making my own Lead on a news story i am making up.

 Oprah Winfrey, the most powerful and successful woman in the world. Picked by billboard in the years 2013-2014. She has been working since 1983 and is still going strong. She started the Oprah Winfrey show in 1986 and sadly ended in 2011 but that willn't stop the goddess of hollywood. She is still working on new projects every day to make this world a better place and to entertain us all.

script writing - 25 bits to help

1- A clear setting : When and where does the story take place. the first thing after the title.
INT. CAFETERIA, SOUTH ESSEX COLLEGE - AFTERNOON


2 - Describe the setting : Short and sharp sentences. They people reading your script willn't know what the setting looks like.

Bustling, busy , full of fashionably dressed teenagers. chrome and glass surfaces, gossip fills the air as students talk and eat.


3 - Introducing characters: a couple of vivid details to help give a image in the readers head. ( only put what the people can see in the introducing character)
Kayla Forst, 19 - Stick-thin, looks like she might snap at any moment her Levis might be faded, but her eyes burn fiercely from under a gothic mop of hair.



4 - Naming your characters : Make sure each characters name is different and look different when written down. Give each character a surname. if you give your character only a first name it comes across as an incomplete identity.


5 - conflict, conflict, conflict : screenplay based on a wider conflict of some kind but each character should also have internal conflict that they are dealing with.
Doubts, unfinished business, insecurities. Non of us glide through life without stuff boiling away inside, and your characters shouldn't either.


6 - She's filled with secrets : giving your characters secrets big or small enables you to pick away layers and keep your viewers interested along the way.

7 - keep it consistent : make sure you keep your characters consistent in background and behaviour. if dave is an ex-con with a violent past, make sure he acts that way when confronted by trouble.

8 - Dialogue stuff: Sentences : People don't speak in full sentences, nor do people all speak a like. you need to let your characters dictate where the punctuation goes. gaps, pauses, unfinished sentences.


9 - stay away from the nose : The phase ' on the nose' refers to dialogue that states too clearly what a character is thinking without filtering it through their personality and agenda.
if dave tells his closes friend ' i want to be a policeman', chances are this won't play as well as having a application forms fall out of his gym bag.

10 - keep it unpredictable : when princess leia tells han solo ' i love you' in the empire strikes back, the scene is most memorable for his response;

' i know'

you want dialogue to flow, but you need to rethink predictable exchanges. throw away the first response you think of throw away the second and use the third.


11 - keep it varied : does a character even need to respond verbally to a statement?
if they someone says 'goodbye' to them, do they need to speak in return?
Couldn't they wink instead?

Once again, predictability is your enemy.


12 - First line : the first line your character speaks should sum up an aspect their personality.

If you're introducing a part animal like Stifler from the American Pie series, his first line would't be something mundane about being late from an appointment. Your characters only get one chance to make a first impression, so make sure to packs a punch.


13 - Languages = life : make sure your characters' dialogue reflects their life experiences. A 70 year old english professor won't speak the same war as a 25 year-old football player. A character born in 1960 will speak differently to one born in 1990. Make their dialogue reflect this.

14 - the double hyphen : has one character stepped on another's line? cutting them off before they finish speaking?
the traditional way to shoe this in a script is with a double hyphen.

WIFE 

you know, i never told you -- 

HUSBAND 

i don't want to hear it! 

15 -   Fresh slang : why not make up your own slang? using the latest words, phrases and cultural references will date tour script extremely quickly. Writers like Joss Whedon make up their own phrases and drop these into the scripts. Whats the switch? meaning whats going on? originated in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
An audience won't know the difference between a slang phrase you've made up and one they've never heard before but they'll certainly notice a dated turn of phrase. you dig man?


16 - mix dialogue and action : in life, stuff happens all at once. People don't stop talking because a bus is about to explode; the bus explodes whilst they're in mid-sentence. Don't be afraid to have action and dialogue crash into each other, because things in life don't happen in a neat order.


17 - Don't tell me what I've seen - if Debbie's head just exploded, the viewer doesn't need James to tell them;
' my God, Debbie's head just exploded'
They hd already noticed. Eliminate dialogue that narrates the action


18 - No place for closed questioned: If you've got a question which leads to a 'yes' or a 'no' response in your dialogue, get rid of it. They stop the dialogue dead, and the audience can anticipate the response.
Replace them with open questions, to let your characters personalities shine through.


19 - Misunderstandings : characters should misunderstand and misinterpret each other just as people do in real life. It gives you great opportunities for conflict and comedy, plus it makes the dialogue read as more authentic.

20 - style stuff present tense : always keep your action in the present tense.
Gaby chases Fred into the ice-cream shop
not Gaby has chased Fred into the ice-cream shop
You need to have action unfold in the present as it unfolds on the page.


21 - What not to include : the action descriptions in your screenplay should not include:

thoughts
hopes
back story
anything that can't be shown visually.

if you want to include these things, you need to show them through events or dialogue.


22 - Keep it clear

'the father of the bride who runs a pizza restaurant' is ambiguous
Who sells the pizzas?
the father or the bride?
compares it to ' the bride, whose father runs a pizza restaurant'
keep it clear. the less ambiguity, the better.

23 - OH MY GOD

using ALL CAPITALS in your actions descriptions signifies something important. its a way of making the important elements pop when someone reads the script. The whole building EXPLODES.
Don't get carried away and end up with half your action description in caps. use it sparingly.


24 - Keep it punchy : Break long sentences and keep your descriptions as vivid as you can. Jennie trying to keep her breathing under control as she walks across a tightrope? sometimes fewer words work better. Inhale, exhale. Jennie steps out.


25 - Write it first then edit it : This script won't be as punchy, exciting and engaging as possible on the first draft. Your mission on the first draft is just to get the thing written. Second, third, fourth, fifth crafts are the opportunity to make your screenplay everything it can be.

News project

Main deadline: 

Task 1: research, scrapbook on the type of news you want to do and are looking at. Deadline: 24th March 

Task 2: plan the live production 

Deadline: 9th February 

Task 3: VT inserts include at least two VT inserts. 

Deadline: 9th February 

Task 4: Live show, produce the live show and act our your role in yours and other shows. In a professional manner.  

Deadline: 24th march