Preliminary

MEST4: Linked Production planning

Linked Production brief

Your Critical Investigation topic: 

To what extent did the media coverage of the EU referendum affect the engagement of young people in politics?

Your Linked Production brief: 
A Newsnight-esque report on the political engagement of young people in London and across the UK. 

Length/size of production (e.g. 3 minutes, 5 pages etc.): 
A 4-5 minute short news report. 

Give an example of an existing media text this is similar to what you plan to produce: 
Homeless and hungry: How benefit sanctions hit the poorest - BBC Newsnight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2psCDqh7IXk 

Any other works of Nick Blakemore which are mostly similar.

Give an example of an institution that would produce or distribute your planned production:
BBC Two/Four 

How would your production reach its audience?
The production could reach its audience through the spread of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Vimeo. It can also reach its audience through my connections with Ealing Council and also British Youth Council. It can also reach the audience through BBC Two/Four channels which could present the news report.

Who do you plan to work with on this project?
I plan to work on my own.

MEST4: Recreation task

Preliminary exercise: Recreation task

Name of the text you plan to recreate:

Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHun58mz3vI

Scene/section you will recreate:

00:10 - 00:50

From the beginning scene to the scene where he talks about the shots of overweight people

Location you will use for your recreation:

St Paul's Cathedral, Millennium Bridge, Central London especially Oxford Street.

Actors you will require for your recreation:

Myself as the news anchor of the report, aka Charlie Brooker

Props/costumes you will require for your recreation:

Suit and tie, with a long overcoat professional clothing. A collar mic set to the collar to represent a news anchor.

Equipment you plan to use:

Camera, tripod, 50mm lens and also another lens I have for longer shots of Canary Wharf and St Paul's Cathedral. Possibly monopod?

Any other relevant information:

Would need to do some voice over work in post production with a lot of the shots. Also need to do some editing work with text over video such as the lower thirds and also the facts showing up over the shots.

TRANSCRIPT

It starts here, with a lacklustre establishing shot of a significant location.

Next a walky-talking preamble from the auteur, pacing steadily towards the lens, punctuating every other sentence with a hand gesture, and ignoring all the pricks milling around him like he's gliding through the fucking Matrix, before coming to a halt and posing a question: What comes next?

Often something like this—a filler shot designed to give your eyes something to look at while my voice babbles on about facts. Sometimes it'll slow down to a halt, turn monochrome, and some of those facts will appear one by one on the screen.

This is followed by the obligatory shots of overweight people with their faces subtly framed out, after which the report is padded out with a selection of lazy and pointless vox pops.

Um, usually get some inane chatter from people.