Radio Report Script 5

Here's the new edition:

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Non-diagetic radio report interruption
Constant underlining beat throughout report

Hi this is Julie Noted keeping you up-to-date with “Your London’s” 60 second on the hour News, Travel and Weather bulletin.

We have received reports from the Camden Town area of North London, of a young girl who appears to be in distress. She is described as possibly in her early teens, with long blond hair, clothed in a ripped white t-shirt and ripped denim jeans, both reportedly blood-stained. Further reports describe marks across her face; these may be abrasions or bruising.

If you believe you have seen this girl, please do not hesitate to report any sighting immediately to your local Police Station or Your London. We’ll update you with a full report in tonight’s main News hour.

Fading out of constant beat and radio report

For Travel, both tube lines and bus routes are running well throughout London, we have no reports of any major congestion on any of the main lines or routes.

The rain is continuing to develop during this evening and this night, turning into heavy downpours. The Met office has issued a yellow warning for rainfall totals to increase across London and the South East of England.

That’s all for now, thanks for tuning into “Your London”

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There have been allot of changes made to the previous draft. I wanted to make it seem as though a listener had just tuned into the radio and make the introduction short and sweet, as it is supposed to replicate a 60 second news bulletin.

As my name would be used in the titles, I wanted to keep the continuity of the sequence correct, so I couldn't use my name otherwise the fictitious illusion would be broken. I used the name Julie Noted because it is a play on words - duly noted - I wanted to make the presenters name fit her job.

We changed the radio's name from 'Lookout Radio' to 'Your London' because it would contradict with our company name and 'Your London' helps establish the location of the film. The 'Your' also reflects that the radio appreciate a personal and trusting relationship with their listeners, as it expects it's listeners to tune in on a regular basis via the 'on the hour'. The 'London' also establishes the location of the broadcast.

The 'up-to-date' section is similar to what real radio's do because they want their listeners to remained tuned in to maintain or grow their readership. Also, by saying it's 'on the hour', it suggests that the radio keep the public 'up-to-date' and want to inform them - it's what news updates do and it replicates how regular they can be. I kept the previous details and description but added the 'News, Travel and Weather' to make it a more believable report.

I included editing directions to make it clear for Patrycja with what words should be used.

Radio Report Script 4

As I've experimented with and now wish to use the sound that I experimented with, I have edited in the effects and directions for Patrycja, so she knows where to put the non-diagetic radio and when to fade the diagetic Radio presenter of it: 

Radio report script

Non-diagetic radio report interruption

Good evening all you Londoner's! I'm Dawn Cope and you're listening to Lookout Radio's sixty second news updates

Have you recently seen anything unusual? We have reports  of sightings in Camden Town of a young female, early teens, wearing a ripped, blood stained, white t-shirt and ripped blood stained denim jeans. She is said to have marks across her face, possibly abrasions or bruising. She is also said to have long blond matted hair.

If you believe you have seen this girl, or someone of a similar description,please do not hesitate, report immediately to your local Police Station and Lookout Radio.

Our telephone is, 0800 454 6712, that's, 0800 454 6712. You can also contact us on our website www.lookoutradio.co.uk/contact

Radio presenter voice fading, decreasing volume slowly

Headlining today's 'More Money Than Sense' is Katie Price who has recently bought a new nine and a half thousand pound Loui Vuitton hand bag says, "It's a splash of cash for my little Princess"

The contact information in this Radio Report is fabricated and is not intended to be similar or the same as and living individual or company.

Feedback is welcome!

Radio beginning using Logic Pro 01

I experimented and searched through some sounds. I was looking for something before the 60 second news update that would grasp a listener's or audience's attention. I got the inspiration from BBC THREE, 60 seconds news update  as the broadcast began there was an electronic kind of echo effect beforehand, gaining the attention of the audience. I not only want to gain attention from my protagonist but also from our TA.

These sounds are only short and small but that's all they need to be. I was searching for ages to find suitable loops that I could merge together. The clips just to the right of the  long line are the ones that I've chosen:

Experimenting with Logic Pro

The bigger looking one, that i have circled in red, I tried at first on it's own, it was an 80's style theme tune, it didn't sound right on it's own and I thought it was missing an upbeat electronic edge.

The smaller looking one, that I have circled in red, was one that I cut out of a longer electronic beating sound.

I listened to it and merged them together, making sure the timing of both sound clips transitioned smoothly onto each other. Here's the final result:

I think this has everything I want for an interruption before the news update.

It's a possible radio sound so tell me what you think and comment on any improvements, I will be asking around!

Our Classification for our film

The classification decisions are all based on the BBFC's Guidelines: 

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  Video release suitable for 12 years and over

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  Suitable only for 15 years and over

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  Suitable only for adults
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• Adults works for licensed premises only

BBFC Classification

I understand that our opening sequence will not fit the 'U' and 'PG' grades because children aged four will not understand or may find our Ghost uncomfortable to watch.Our film may still disturb an audience of eight or a few years older. This is why we are not giving our film a rated 'U' or 'PG'.

We believe the rating '12A' is suitable for our audience as it will allow adults to accompany 12 years or over to the cinema but will not allow a 12 year old to buy a DVD etc because our film has dark elements, ghosts. The darkness isn't highly focused on in our film, although there are some sinister moments; not intended to frighten the audience but they are just intended to cause suspense. We don't plan to have any gore or sexual acts within our movie, although, if allowed full length, there would be a small amount of swearing involved in our film. I believe our film will have more views as a '12A' because more people are allowed to watch it, it will certainly reach our TA and will thus gain more money for our company.

BBFC 12 and 12A Classification

Target Audience

We want our target audience to be unisex, aged 16 to mid 20's.

Considering the supernatural element to our Thriller-Horror (ghosts) we understand that in current times younger people seem more attracted to films and TV series involving the supernatural. This involves the 'Twilight' saga and hit TV series 'The Vampire Diaries'.

Poster from the Twilight saga's first film

Poster from The Vampire Diaries TV series 1

I myself have watched both and, as a teenager, I understand why myself and peers are attracted to this.
Both 'Twilight' and 'The Vampire Diaries' have young attractive male actors that appeal to their young female target audience. Inspired by this, our film also has young actors, which is more appealing for our audience as they can relate to similarly aged characters. 
However, we didn't just want our audience to be young women because our film has more variety; we have a male protagonist who is weaker than the supernatural - our female ghost. This highlights that humans are weaker than the supernatural also subverting the expectations of the 'dominant' male gender. In addition, as our ghost is female, is supernaturally stronger and threatens the male protagonist she subverts the expectations of the 'subordinate' female gender; connoting a gender power struggle. This power struggle is designed to intrigue a unisex audience through the conflict of gender and conflict between the supernatural.

I understand the relevance to our TA and have researched the NRS social grades:

NRS social grades

Our setting was originally in Central London targeted at  a B-D grade audience. However, both complications with filming and realisations of the change in setting helped us understand and develop on our target audience more. Now, our setting being in Camden, we realise that targeting a young audience may not effect their social class as much because they will generally still be living with their families or living on University campuses as they are mostly still in education. We also understand that the area is urban and are purposefully targeting a more urban younger audience. Camden is a diverse multicultural area with variety, this is why we have chosen not to focus entirely on a specific ethnicity. Our TA can easily identify that the location is in the London area, if watching from abroad, and Camden's local community will also familiarise with it, which will help draw interest from our TA.
Although both of our actors are pale skinned we do not intend this to affect our target audience and realise that some ethnic backgrounds will favour our film more than others, like European ethnicity's. In addition, we aren't  heavily focusing on social class but understand that our type of film will attract a B-D grade audience; considering the ranges of family income's and social classes.

We wanted to follow a masculine stereotype of our protagonist - drinking a beer - to appeal to our young male audience. We want the under 18's to look up or aspire to him as he is older, suggested through the alcohol, being inclined to follow him as a main character. We want the over 18's to see him as their equal, someone who they can relate to and understand, via the suggestion of age through the alcohol, making him 'one of the lads'. 
He is also suggested to live at home or have some form of student accommodation. This would show the audience that he is independent and would help them aspire to be like him. We wanted our TA to relate to him as a peer considering that a large amount of our TA will be in education.
We didn't want to give away our protagonist as it is the beginning of the film and following a convention we want the audience to wonder who the characters are, their connection, their significance and generally act as part of a narrative hook for our TA.
Our male audience would be intrigued by the female ghost, firstly acting on a possible attraction to her as she is female and secondly, as she is a mysterious character - they will  want to know her intentions and connection with the protagonist.
Our female audience would relate to the female ghost initially via common grounds of her age and sharing the same gender. They may also relate to her via her costuming, white t-shirt and denim jeans, and will be interested in her character as she has blood stains and is of the supernatural. We wanted her to have blonde hair because it goes against the stereo type of having an unintelligent female. Having supernatural power - being a ghost - would make her seem more authorative and intellectual. This would help our audience realise not to underestimate or undermine her as a character because she is of the supernatural and, via her actions, is unexpected; giving her character a sense of mystery.

We aren't heavily focusing on out TA music interest because there is so much variety and we realise that our TA will listen to various genre's and styles of music. Having our protagonist listen to music on a radio station re-iterates his youth, as younger people are highly interested in music and it's variety. With an instrumental playing, interrupted by the news update, we didn't want to highly focus on a type of music genre - fitting to our TA, and we understand that Radio's do interrupt the music or begin updates after a song has finished playing - I have researched this in a previous post.

Radio Report Script 3

As we've changed the location of our filming and costume of our female ghost I needed to edit the dialogue for the Radio report script. After making the necessary changes and printing the script I realised that any Radio broadcast that wanted the public's contact would give their contact information.

I annotated it and made the next changes:

Here's the newer version:

Good evening all you Londoner's! I'm Dawn Cope and you're listening to Lookout Radio's sixty second news updates

Have you recently seen anything unusual? We have reports  of sightings in Camden Town of a young female, early teens, wearing a ripped, blood stained, white t-shirt and ripped blood stained denim jeans. She is said to have marks across her face, possibly abrasions or bruising. She is also said to have long blond matted hair.

If you believe you have seen this girl, or someone of a similar description,please do not hesitate, report immediately to your local Police Station and Lookout Radio.

Our telephone is, 0800 454 6712, that's, 0800 454 6712. You can also contact us on our website www.lookoutradio.co.uk/contact

Headlining today's 'More Money Than Sense' is Katie Price who has recently bought a new nine and a half thousand pound Loui Vuitton hand bag says, "It's a splash of cash for my little Princess"

The contact information in this Radio Report is fabricated and is not intended to be similar or the same as any living individual or company.

I do realise that this is just the dialogue for the script and I will be configuring the final one after composing more sounds for it.

Thanks for following, feedback is much appreciated :)

Radio Report Script 1

I wanted to conduct research on Radio stations and how their reports or sentencing is crafted. So I listened to various clips on YouTube to get an understanding of how I should structure my own:

Radio News Reporting Project 5#
BBC THREE, 60 seconds news update 01

I have a better understanding of how Radio's construct their information. The presenters introduce themselves, the Radio station and can state the time, also advertising certain products and merchandise. However, as I'm intending to do a 60 second news update, I realise that the information needs to be said at a fast pace and must contain no waffle - sticking to the point and facts.
I've listened, watched and focused upon some more 60 second news updates, here's the links:

BBC THREE, 60 seconds news update 02
BBC THREE, 60 seconds news update 03
60 Seconds News Update
GT ONLINE, 60 Seconds News Update

Their introduction's are very brief and can state the time of update but don't always seem to because of the limited amount of time. The presenters pace of voice doesn't seem to really matter, as-long as they state all of the information given within the time limit. I think a presenter can have an accent, as-long as the information is clear for the listener. A slower pace may be used to allow listeners to process the information more. Also, I've noticed that the presenters pause in between stories - indicating each different update to the listener. I will need to create my own sound to announce the 60 second news update for the protagonist and our audience. I'm planning to do this using Logic Pro.

Here's the result:

Good evening, all you Londoner's! You're listening to 'Look out' Radio's 60 second news updates
I'm (NAME)
Have you recently seen anything unusual?
We have reports of sightings in Oxford Street of a young female, early teens, wearing a ripped, blood stained, white night gown.She is said to have marks across her face and shin, possibly abrasions or bruising.She is also said to have long dark matted hair.Unfortunately, we cannot give further details due to the lack of information received from members of the general public.
If you believe you have seen this girl, or someone of a similar description, please do not hesitate to get in contact with your local Police station and Lookout Radio...

Katie Price has recently bought a new 9 and a half thousand pound handbag and says "it's a splash of cash for my little Princess"

I wanted to immediately ascertain a rough time estimate and audience location within the first sentence. I wanted the audience to know that this was a 60 second update - as the normal music played and was interrupted a listener would need to be notified why or what it was interrupted by. Then beginning with the story I tried my best to decrease the waffle, getting straight to the point. By questioning the audience I intended to grasp their attention and intrigue, adding my own twist to the 60 second news update. I then moved on to Katie Price - at this point I intend the volume of the non-diagetic Radio to decrease through editing as the audience follow the protagonists reaction; closing our opening sequence.
I realise that this is only the 'skeleton' of the script and that it will be improved over time.

I have recorded multiple clips of this on camera and will edit it soon. I realise that this will most likely need improving and or tweaking to get it to a high standard and the best quality to make it a believable Radio for our audience.

Thanks for reading, hope the see some helpful feedback :)

Idea for our Opening sequence Title

My idea for the title of our opening sequence is 'The Forgotten'. I thought this would be good because I think a ghost is forgotten and it really relates to our film.
I think it could have a ghostly effect, possibly looking like fog and then this could be enhanced in editing via the title blowing away with a non-diagetic exhale. The fog disappearing would reflect the title as the whole concept of forgetting something is that it's lost or gone. I'm interested in a non-diagetic exhale because it's a common sound that can make an atmosphere creepy or tense for an audience; which is what I think it would do when merged with our title.

I researched different effects for the title:

I really like the 'smoke' image as it could be adopted and changed to look like fog, we could base our effect on it and experiment with it if we want to use this type of effect for our title.

I also liked the pictures with a grey foggy shape over the screen. It would be quite interesting to fade the title into a shot using this because it would intrigue an audience and create a supernatural atmosphere; which is what we're aiming for.

Thanks, feedback and keep following :)

Research on Toderov's Narrative Theory

I researched diagrams of Toderov's narrative theory to help me understand via visuals, here's what I found:

Toderov suggests that narratives begin with equilibrium or  a status quo, where any potentially opposing forces are in balance - i.e the protagonist and the antagonist. This harmony is disrupted by an occurrence, causing disruption and a series of negative events to follow. These problems are solved in the climax/resolution and a new order is restored in the world of fiction.

He also suggested that the structure of conventional narratives are a follows:

• A state of equilibrium at the begining
• A disruption of this equilibrium by a type of action or event
• Recognition of the disruption
• Success or attempt at repairing the disruption
• A new equilibrium

This cycle continues like a loop hole. It reiterates that there is always something bad in the harmonious world, an antagonist, wishing to create discord. They are confronted and, conventionally, defeated by the protagonist who creates or restores order to the land or situation concerning. This narrative style also contains a sense that there are always consequences to an action, be it positive or negative.

I really enjoy this narrative theory and understand it very well. I appreciate that, although the theory's simple, it reflects everyday life in a way, making a narrative seem realistic and more human.

Feed back is welcome! Thanks :)

Video Questionnaire - Characters

Finally have been able to upload the video!

I used Adobe Premier Pro for the editing. It was very interesting, as I had my first hands on approach! It was fun to actually import, move the clips, cut invalid sections and listen to the flow of diagetic sound; instead of me normally watching. I discovered that you can add transitions to clips; which was very useful in making the cut smoother, if it was originally sharp/harsh, and showing the next question/section. I even added a title at the end!

There have been many technical issues - mainly to do with converting the edited clips to a video that can be uploaded. However, with patience (and a colleague that knows allot about computers), this was achieved.

I hope you like my findings and the differing opinions that people have.

Own Idea for Preliminary

Before I go onto my ideas, I want to show you my understanding of the 180 degree rule and shot reverse shot:

A camera can go anywhere on the green line but if it goes on the red line the actors and set will appear opposite to other shots; therefore it will be seen to be 'crossing the line', (e.g. instead of one actor facing right and one left, both will be seen facing left).

This used to see both actors reactions and to make the conversation seem spontaneous.

My first idea is about a couple. The boy would be waiting to meet the girl in the school canteen, as there had been an argument. However, we would start with the camera following the girl to the canteen.

They would have a tense conversation - close ups, prolonged shots for tension, shot reverse shot (baring in mind the 180 degree rule), a two shot showing awkwardness between two, possibly a CU of the girls hand on the table and the boys touching hers then she moves hers away - dramatic - CU or OTTS of either boys or girls reaction, OTTS showing girl "I can't do this anymore, it's over", two shot she leaves, CU on boy, POV from him of her going round the corner...

With this idea I wanted to create a sense of drama and humanity; as we all have ups and downs, peaks and troughs in relationships. However, this relationship may be too stereotypical, I think it's likely that allot of people would have this idea. Also, it could be too complicated and not simple enough for a Preliminary.

My second idea is rather simple. It's about a broken friendship. I'm not exactly sure if the friends should be male or female and how it could be set out dramatically; as it's not as intimate as my other idea.

If they were males, I would try and make a character seem butcher than the other. If they were two females, I would make one seem needy/pleading and the other stubborn. 

There could be a sense of higher and lower authority between the two. The relationship could either be re-kindled at the end or discarded.

I've only grasped the concept of this idea and I feel I'm following it very stereo-typically, but these are only my first ideas and I haven't elaborated on them thoroughly or discussed them with my group yet; I think they are allowed to be less precise.

Thank you for reading :)