News Headlines Script (1st draft)

This is a first draft of the script for the news headlines. I decided to focus on the increase of tuition fees, so students would be able to relate to it. I think the script is reasonably good length, it takes around two and a half minutes to read out, therefore after all necessary changes are done it will be the right length of three minutes when we begin shooting.

Words of Advice

Yesterday I helped out at the university with chatting to prospective students. I was able to speak to some third year film students who gave me some great advice on how to approach working in a new group. 


I was advised to sit down with my group and allocate every member with a title; producer, director, editing and sound. I believe this will be able to help us with planning and organising ourselves on the days of shooting and with planning the flow of the project we are working on.
Within the next week, I am going to suggest this to the rest of the team, this should be able to enable us to work to the best of our ability.


The responsibilities:


Producer: location spotting, script, casting, actors present on days of shooting, costume, equipment hire
Director: camera control, actor set up, editing
Editor: editing all footage, keeping a log book whilst shooting on location and making notes of best takes
Sound: music choice, sound levels, sound editing, soundtrack

Script Writing: Fashion Section

For each section, as a group we have decided to split the roles of the work load we have to do. I am responsible for writing up the script for the fashion section. For inspiration I have looked at morning shows, such as Lorraine to gather up ideas for how to structure this section alone. The final decision is to have two male and female models to present an outfit each, a casual (every day) outfit as well as a 'night out' one. 


We have started looking for two males and females who would be willing to help us out and model the clothes. 


This is the first draft of the script, the rest of the group and myself will look over it separately and as a group to decide whether it needs anymore work on it and how to improve it. I believe this will help me improve my script writing skills as well as strengthen our group to enable us to work together at our best.

These videos are where I got the inspiration from for the script. I watched a couple of videos of Mark Heyes to get a feel of what would work well on a morning TV programme.

I had a look at high street shops, which different age groups would be able to relate to and found that by looking into trends for Spring/Summer 2012, writing the script would be a lot easier.

Storyboarding & Structure

  

                                First draft of an idea for a structure of the morning show. 

                             

                             Beginning of a potential structure storyboard.

British and American Shows Research

To expand my research into entertainment shows, I've focused on a few shows for each category in both, United States and United Kingdom.

                                                                  U.S.A:             

                      

                                                            Chat Shows                     

                                           Jimmy Kimmel    

              

David Letterman

                                                            

                                                                                                      

                                                                        U.K

                                                               Chat Shows

                                                         Jonathan Ross

Alan Carr: Chatty Man

U.S.A:

Cooking Show

Paula Deen: Regis and Kelly

                                                                          U.K:

                                                                Cooking Show

                                      Gino D'Acampo: This Morning

Instead of having long section on cooking, 2 minute tips 'QuickBite' would substitute having a guest come in and a cook a particular meal.

The chat shows are for the entertainment section, the format in which would be ideal to carry out the interviews in, with one host and perhaps no audience. More like an interview.

Actor Research

Whilst researching the ideas to go into the programme, I wanted to expand the research a little further and create an actor post where potential presenters could be looked at.


                                                             Julia Richardson

                                               (Film Critic: Entertainment Section)

In the entertainment section, the film/ theatre part would include a film debate between two film critics, where their opinions clash. Julia is a film student with creative writing, therefore it would be good to be able to use someone who has ideas on how a film critic writes reviews and sees films as a whole.

Taking a similar idea from a show 'This Morning' with 'Matt Johnson in the Hub' where audiences are able to contact the show via social networking sites such as, Facebook or Twitter comments. 

                                                   

                                         

                                                                  Katie Dia

                                                            (main presenter)

The idea is to have one male and one female presenter, with main news and introducing the main show. Katie has agreed to do a test shooting and see if it goes well and all to plan, if successful she is willing to help with the project and be one of main presenters. 


                                                                Oscar Dunbar
                                                           (guest star interview)

                        
The guest star interview focuses on a film star which is interviewed by one of the main TV presenters, whilst they promote the release of their new film. This idea is based around the Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey shows in the U.S.A.

Ellen DeGeneres

 

Oprah Winfrey Show

References:
Video Clips, www.YouTube.com (accessed 8/03/2012)

Presentation

This is a presentation I have created to show the idea for the Morning Show in more detail.

There is a list of morning shows in the United Kingdom as well as United States of America. The idea is to mix these together to create something new and original. 

                                             (Fig. 1) 

                                            (Fig. 2)

                                             (Fig. 3)

Things to consider: 

• audience 
• location (studio/ green screen/ outside locations)
• air time (daytime/ night time)
• genre
• script (for each section)

The Today Show

Daybreak

I want to compare the format and structure in which these two shows have been created, The Today Show seems a little bit more relaxed, with audience in the background behind the windows which allows the general public to engage more with what is going on, whereas Daybreak is a studio only crowd on the guests and presenters as well as the film crew. Neither of these two shows seem scripted, the questions may be written down beforehand for presenter's preparations, however the guests speaking are free to answer however they like. 

When creating our show, we would need to write a script for our actors and a timeline to fit in with our plans of storyboarding and a shot list before shooting so the shoot goes to plan and alterations can be made. 

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