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Short Summary

With this project i have already got my main idea of the outline of the story and the events that are going to take place with my main character and have the idea of what i want him to act, look and the small details of him. I've also thought of different locations that will work but also practical for a student to be able to film in.

With the ideas i have for my single camera drama i don't plan on using any special effects however I'm playing around with the idea of flash backs. So i think using special effects might help show the audience whats the difference between the 'real' life of the character to a flash back of his past life. Also i think i will need to use sound effects more than special effects

I hope to get done in the next 7 days a storyboard, hopefully a script or at least a outline of a script. Budget.

Conversation between Elisabeth and Howard about Cult

INT. KITCHEN IN CULTS HOUSE - MID-DAY


 In the kitchen of the Ruth's house

ELISABETH: Cult's wife
HOWARD: Next door neighbour

ELISABETH:

sugar? 

HOWARD:

Two please, Wheres Cult today? 

ELISABETH: 

His at work, he will not be home till noon. 

HOWARD: 

You know, he works himself too much. The boy needs a break. 

ELISABETH: 

I've told him but you know what his like, he wants to provide for me and Macy. I worry about him, always off to work, never knowing where he is, what his doing. He doesn't talk to me, every time i try to speak to him, his off again to work. 

HOWARD: 

That man's got way to much pride to worry you with his thoughts. He wants to give you the world and his sure as hell is doing to do whatever it takes to give you that. 

Don't be too hard on him. 

ELISABETH: 

i know (long pause and looks out the window) 

i can't help but worry 

Live studio jobs for our news show

NEWS SHOW BREAKDOWN

Group Name	EMC News
Group Members	Harrison, Dan, David, Charlie
Job Roles		Crew Member
Director		Charlie
Producer		Harrison
Camera		Dan
Camera		David
Sound		Nathan
Host		Joe
Lighting		James
Host		Sana
Runner		Tom
Sound		Sam
Lighting		Alice
Vision Mixer		Briana
Camera		Emily
Runner/ Reporter		Rizz
Runner		Becky
Time	Action	Notes
13:45	Set Up	Full set design
14:10	Sound Check	Mic's working and people in their places
14:20	Lighting Check with camera	Make sure hosts look okay on camera and standing in the right places
14:40	VT play around	Give a run-through of where they will go in show
14:50	Set up auto cue
15:30	Run through
15:40	Run through
16:00	Watch Back
16:20	Live	GOOD LUCK
16:40	Back up

pitch for a film

Title: A peaceful life

Genre: Out of the bottle thriller

Casting members: Will (Russell Crowe)
Mrs Mule (Michelle Pfeiffer)

Logline: A middle aged man called Will (Russell Crowe) wishes for peace in his life after losing his job along with his wife, unaware of the consequences that come with it as well as the people surrounding him who are not quiet who they seem to be. After waking up the next day everyone around him seems to disappear along with their life, but will he enjoy his wish?

EMC script charlee

News Script for EMC News 

Reporters 

Sana Hufthy and Joe Mander 

Sofa, Intro of show 

Sana: 

Hi and Welcome to EMC News I'm Sana Hufthy 

Joe: 

And I'm Joe Mander, on tonights show we talk to viewers about IMDB's top 4 of the top 250 films, and find out their views on them. 

Sana: 

Myself and Joe will be having a debatable discussion on which Celebrity is better in our 'Pause' 

Oscar War 

Joe: 

Our Roving reporter, Rislene went to Yellow Media with Sana to talk to Radio DJ, Chris Brooks and find out about how music has changed in his opinion 

Sana:

Finally after your votes have been counted and verified we shall finally reveal who has won Best Celebrity, Film and Music Video. 

Joe: 

So now onto the Film segment, IMDB is the biggest online Movie Database for films and Tv shows. They hold online poles for viewers to rate all types of media from film to video games. 

The segment we are most interested by is the IMDB top 250 films. We looked at the top four most iconic films which were 

The Shaw Shank Redemption 

The Godfather 

The Godfather: part II

and 

The dark Knight 

Sana: 

We asked three Random viewers to come into our studio for an interview about the top four. 

(VT - Film interviews) 

(Information for presenters) 

During the interviews we will give the hosts an envelope to which each one has an name of a celebrity which will be the celebrity you will be using in the next segment. Each host will argue points why their celebrity is better than the other. This scene will be improvised and hosts will not know what celebrity they have until they open the envelopes live. 

 Joe: 

While we are on the topic of film, Here are this years top three grossing films so far. The third is 

The Monkey King 

Sana: 

The Second is Robocop starring Joel Kinnaman as RoboCop, Samuel L. Jackson as Pat Novak and Gary Oldman as Dr. Dennett Norton. 

Joe: 

And the top grossing film in 2014 so far is 'pause' 

The Lego Movie with voices from stars like Will Arnett, Morgan Freeman and Jonah Hill. The Lego Movie brought in a total of $338 million so far. Next on the show is my favourite segment called Oscar War 

Sana: 

In this segment we each are given a random celebrity. We have to say why our celebrity is better than the other. 

For the girls we have.. 'The name in the envelope'

Joe: 

For the guys we have.. 'The name in the envelope' 

(Information for presenters) 

From this moment onwards the host will be improvised for 5 minutes. Going from Sana's point to Joe's point. We will tell camera when the debate needs to come to an end and the camera will give the Hosts a signal so you know to give your last point to each other. Give a clear winner 

Sana: 

Moving on to Music. Music is such a big piece of our lives in Personally and Socially but what does it mean to Radio DJ Chris Brooks. Our reporter, Rislene and myself went to find out. 

(Chris Brooks VT)

(Information for presenters) 

While the Chris Brooks VT is playing you will have four minutes to get dressed into your formal clothing. Sana in the back room where the Mac's are and Joe will be in the fire door way. Both hosts will have someone standing on the other side of the door to make sure people don't walk in on them getting dressed. For the EMC awards Sana will be our main host. 

Award set - Standing behind the table with the green screen behind you both. 

Sana: 

Thank you Rislene for that report. 

Its now time for Oscar War. Last week we asked you to vote in a poll to see who you wanted to win best celebrity, best Music Video and best film.

Joe:
Good evening and welcome to the EMC Oscar War.
Tonight we shall begin with Best music video and the nominees are
Ke$ha - Timber
Avicii - Hey Brother
Jason Derulo - Trumpets 'pause'
and the winner is
(whoever won)

Sana:
We will now move onto the best film of the year so far and the nominees are
The wolf of wall street
The hunger games: catching fire
12 Years a slave
American Hustle
'pause'
and the winner is
(whoever won)


Joe:
We have now reach time for our final award, the best celebrity
and the nominees are
Leonard DiCaprio
Jennifer Lawerence
Amy Adams
Christian Bale
'pause'
and the winner is
(whoever won)

Sana:
and with that its time to end tonight's show with a big thanks from all the crew I am Sana Hufthy

Joe:
and I am Joe Mander, this has been EMC News
good night.

Crew e.g. cameras clap and lights fade.  

news and documentaries

Nearly every documentary has the same list of conventions, for example in documentaries, depending on what they are about, will have interviews with witness or victims of the event that has taken place also clips of interviews with special topic people. Its very typical of documentaries to add in clips of over footage that cover the same subject. For example the Outfoxed documentary used clips from previous Fox news stories to show the documentaries message across to their audience that fox news are making up news stories. Documentaries that have a very big and important message world wide tend to include celebrities and important figures in the public eye. In the 'Bowling for Columbine' the reporter went to an old Hollywood star who was a member od the LA guns club. The clip was of the reporter telling the star about a six year old boy who went into school one day with a gun and shot a six year old girl in his class which ended up with the young girl dying. Documentaries tend to use voice overs which are used to tell the audience what is going to happen also it can be used to give some extra facts or information that the reporter has missed out. Its not typical of documentaries to use VT inserts but some do for example the Black Fish put in VT's of past whale shows and past trainers talking about working there. Documentaries use music in the same way as most films do. They pick their music carefully to get an emotion across to the audience and want them to have a reaction to what they are seeing compared to what they are hearing. In Bowling for Columbine the opening is of clips about the wars and killing in America however they had what a wonderful world playing over it to give you a different emotion to what you see and to what you hear. In the same opening they use a montage which was fast pace to show how long America has had a history or war and use of weapons.  Documentaries are most famous for hand held and archive footage. This is was separates documentary from TV shows and other types of media. Most documentaries focus on one subject but give different  solutions on how to correct it. In the bowling or Columbine they take the law into their own hands which is a typical thing for documentaries that focus on political subjects. Every documentary has a tone, sarcastic that include for shadowing Irony, sarcasm, black humour 'about death'. For extra footage some documentaries use CCTV footage and amateur footage that normally are added with statistics

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.
The use of single camera makes it lot harder to use because you have no extra footage, all you have is what you capture on that camera and unless you can go back to film it again, you cant cover things such as live news or live events.

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



Louie met the Nazi - Documentary 

The documentary was Louie following and living with the American Nazi community. He followed the leader tom and questioned his beliefs and ways.

He also met a mother of two little girls and got to see how she was bringing up her children. We saw how what they sing about and how they played. We learned that they have to hide their beliefs from friends because their mother doesn't want them to lose friends over what she has brought them up to believe in. 

The Bias 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.

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. 

 

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.

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

The conventions for news are very important for the audience to understand that it is a new show and to give the same effect, to provide the audience with the information they are looking for.

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. This is shown in ITV1' This Morning show where they have two relatable hosts that present local news and up coming events. The presenters are formally dressed however because they are not sat behind a desk unlike BBC News it gives a more approachable feel than BBC News. More formal news like BBC News is very to the point and the presenters are there to give you, the audience, the information you are looking for. Its very unlikely the presenters will break the script and talk about their opinions on the matters at hand. Some of the audience for this type of news programme will just watch it for the information to be given in a short amount of time and they wouldn't want to hear the presenters opinions. All types of news programmes use  Multi-camera, like some documentaries, however its for different reasons. News programmes use multi-camera because of the set up of the studios. One camera would be fixed on the main presenters and won't move through the whole show, another camera will be on the weather man and another would be fixed on a reporter with a guest if they are in the studio. They use multi-camera because news shows are live and they wouldn't have the time to keep moving around one camera and get it focused again on the new image. The use of the camera's also helps the editing, Due to news being live the editing must be done live as well and if they use multi-camera the editor can move back and forth between cameras to make it more effect to the audience which will hold their attention for longer amounts of time. Also if one camera needs to change its focus or white balances or something goes wrong with it then the editor has two or more other cameras he can use to cover up the other camera changing. If its done in the right way the audience will not notice this happening and just think they changed the camera because something else in going to happen or someone else is going to talk other than the main presenters.