Thursday, 26 September 2013

Brief programme outline and schedule (James)

The Cube



The Cube is a British game show which first aired on ITV on 22 August 2009. Presented by Phillip Schofield, it offers contestants the chance to win a top prize of £250,000 by completing challenges from within a 4m × 4m × 4m Perspex cube. The show is based on the idea that even straightforward tasks become extremely challenging when confined and put under pressure in front of a large live studio audience. Once inside contestants can feel both claustrophobic and disorientated. Using "state-of-the-art filming techniques" the show aims to demonstrate the intense anxiety which contestants undergo as they progress through each task. Colin McFarlane provides the disembodied voice of The Cube, who explains the rules of the games.



Eastenders

EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. EastEndersstorylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in theEast End of London. The series primarily centres on the residents of Albert Square, a Victorian square of terraced houses, and its neighbouring streets, namely Bridge Street, Turpin Road and George Street. The Square encompasses a pub, street market, night club, community centre, charity shop, cafe and various small businesses, in addition to a park and allotments.


Everybody Hates Chris

Everybody Hates Chris is an American television narrative sitcom that depicts the troubled teenage experiences of comedian Chris Rock while growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City. The show is set between 1982 and 1987, but Rock himself was a teenager between 1978 and 1983. Rock grew up with a boy named Kenny Montero, whom he has often referred to as the inspiration for a lot of the episodes. In many of his interviews, Rock has described Kenny as the reason he got into comedy in the first place. The show's title parodies the hit CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, in which Rock stated: "Everybody Loves Raymond, but Everybody Hates Chris!". The show's lead actors are Tyler James WilliamsTerry CrewsTichina ArnoldTequan Richmond, Imani Hakim, and Vincent Martella.

Task 1 (Sue) Unit Abstract



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Thursday, 19 September 2013

UNIT 24 WRITING FOR FILM & TV TASK 1 (Livia)


A screenwriter is a person who makes written blueprints of films. This person is in the original person designing the overall inspiration and understanding that they rest of the cast, crew and whomever else will start at.

Screenwriters have a task of designing the story that will be put on screen in the overall outcome of the project or idea that is being crafted, this is regardless of what other jobs within the project will do or add to this; it’s what the screenwriter crafts that will be the platform for any change or additional construction. The job is hard in the sense that a screenwriter commonly has to spend long periods of time crafting, building up and mastering a script to perfection.

A screenwriter has to be extremely imaginative in terms of having to already have a finished, ordered and perfect movie in mind to write out or at least have a perfect film, as an outcome with all of the competition is tough to pull of.

A screenwriters has to not only research whatever story they’re undertaking but develop the narrative, write and deliver the piece in the format it’s required.
Screenwriters require to present their work in a ‘Master shot’ format, as their work is unlikely to be considered without these minimum requirements harshly.

To conclude a screenwriter’s real job is to be a foundation to encourage creative flows to anybody they’re working with for or around; any body who reads their doing. They have to make their work a written film in which the reader feels one with and can see as if the script was being played out right in front of them.
A screenwriter is the fire-starter to the success of a project and without a good screen writer a good project is impossible.


Kameron Brown