Unit 24 Assignment 1 - Prep Script

1. HOW DO YOU BECOME A WRITER & WHATS IT LIKE TO WORK AS ONE?

A career as a writer doesn’t have to mean an entirely solitary life. Instead of sitting alone at a desk, drinking mass amounts of coffee, and scraping your mind for material, you could choose to huddle in a conference room with other writers in an effort to burst the boundaries of one human brain. And also drink mass amounts of coffee.

• Take classes.
• Enroll in a degree-granting program. 
• Invest in some reference books.
• Read other scripts/Actively watch TV from a writer’s perspective. If you’re lucky or skilled enough to dig up an actual script of your favorite show on the Internet, dive in and study it. If not, when you’re watching your favorite shows, ask questions: What is happening? How is it being conveyed?

2. WHAT IS A STAFF WRITER?

• Work in tandem with the lead editors and writers on the blog
•  Research and write quality posts on a daily basis
• Edit content as needed
• Establish connections with industry leaders for research, interviews, and quotes

3. WHAT IS THE COMMISSIONING PROCESS, HOW DO YOU GET AN IDEA 'COMMISSIONED'?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/tv/how-we-work/how-we-commission.shtml


4. WHY DO YOU NEED AN AGENT AND WHAT ARE THE NAMES OF SOME SCRIPTWRITER AGENTS?

An agent is needed to find you work, a good agent should be able to hook you up with some bigger names that you probably wouldn't be able to get in touch with by yourself. Cynthia Whitcomb is quite a respected script writer agent and even holds her own classes.

5. HOW DOES A SCRIPT GET CHOSEN?

When a script is chosen there is a time that happens where errors can be addressed. This so called the option period. During this the option agreement is written giving rights to the written script to the production company that invested into the said script. Then a purchase price is made in the form of a contract or document.

6. HOW DOES A SCRIPT WRITER GET PAID?

A script writer gets paid weekly contracted for a certain number of episodes. The writers guild association that makes minimum payments the writer MUST be given.

7. WHAT LEGAL ISSUES DO YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT AS A WRITER? (PLAGIARISM/LIBEL?)

Plagiarism is a big legal issue which basically means taking someone else's work and passing it off as your own. And copyright, writers have to beware they don't accidentally steal other people's ideas and claim they came up with it when there could be a similar idea knocking around by someone else that could have it copyrighted. People could also mistake your work and you could have them done form copyright 

8. WHAT EXAMPLES ARE THERE OF LEGAL ACTION INVOLVING SCRIPTWRITERS OF TV AND FILM?

The show new girl is notoriously in the limelight at the moment. A woman is suing the writers of new girl for stealing the idea from their own show script. The case says that the writer of new girl Holly Harter looked at the script and told the writers it'd work better as a film. 

9.WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS AND LOW POINTS OF WORKING AS A 
WRITER FOR TV OR FILM?

The positives Andy negatives working as a to writer are so vast. Positives are obviously seeing your ideas and thoughts come to life. You'd get to meet allot of respected figures and celebrities, the pay is obviously good for a job you enjoy. And I really can't think of many negatives apart from maybe spending allot of time on a project and getting it rejected! That must be a real motivation killer.

Unit 32 Assignment 2

Production Dairy:

9th December 5:33pm : I have started to lay down some ideas on a mind map for my ident thinking of the transitions, fonts and colours I want to work with. I'm aiming to keep it consistent through my ident suite so it creates a brand image and identity so then if it was used in the real world it'd become a recognised suite.

10th December 1:02pm : Made a mind map listing things that I feel relate to the target audience, I felt this gave me a broader sense of what I want to produce

11th December 02:07am: Its early morning, very early. but cant sleep and need to get some of this done, so doing my 2nd idea brief and 3rd idea, I have a couple of creative plans for these and im pretty chuffed with my visions for it. (using my step dads computer so don't want to download loads of pictures so I need to do the story boards later on today at college)

Mind Map:

The targeted age bracket (16-25) are often stereotyped to certain items, especially men are associated with electronics. Almost everyone now owns some form of media product that allows them to browse the internet, play games or listen to music/videos. A good majority of people own a device that does all 3 of them things within itself.

Money is a huge part of reality these days, people like to be materialistic with everything they do and have. If people can splash out abit of money and wear the newest gear then they will. People will go out to restaurants because they feel that they can so the shall. which in all fairness if you can do it then why not?

People will go to big name retail stores to buy expensive items when they could pay less for an item that's less known. For example, people will pay £300 for Beats Headphones when they could pay £60 for a pair of Ultrasone HFI-450 which are MUCH better on paper, with better specs and value for money, But as I said people are materialistic and will pay £300 just to have a beats logo on the side of their item. (I'm guilty of this and being a complete hypocrite)















 The statistics below are taken from: Mobile Tech Fact Sheet

90% of American adults have a cell phone

58% of American adults have a smartphone

32% of American adults own an e-reader

42% of American adults own a tablet computer

Planning:Design Brief 1:
'Music is magical'

My first idea is to get some kind of garage style/practise room and have two guitarists a drum kit and possibly a bass guitar. they would all line up with a gap between them around half a metre, maybe a little wider. The camera would do a rotation in a medium close up, so you wouldnt see faces, youd see from just under the shoulders to just under the waist. obviously including the instrument once the rotation is complete id have my 3D animated ITV logo that i created with Cinema 4D. I want to keep the overall colour scheme a dark deep blue throughout my idents. throughout all this there will be starry twinkling overlays representing that music is "magical" and on the ITV logo at the end if use lens flare to represent that magic style and feel.

Planning:
Design brief 2:
Reality

For my second ident its reality based on reality, so as my mind map shows I want to base it on social media. I want to get two people sat at a bus stop or some kind of café and they'll have their heads down looking at their phones and ill animate a speech bubble effect coming out of the phone and itll be clearly showed as a tweet and itll say something such as "3 Hours left of college :( nandos time soon!" then the camera would cut to the another person tweeting back at that person saying something along the lines of "Cant wait!!". This idea to me shows a perfect example of todays people and how people actually act. The fact the use of the phones shows reality and modern day actions then the response off the other person shows how people actually talk these days, people deem it easier to text or tweet someone rather than find them and have a face to face conversation. After the text is displayed the person will get up and leave then this will reveal the ITV logo.

Planning:
Design brief 3:
Music surrounds us

For this idea I would require a green screen. it'd show one person facing sideways with headphones on, it'd shuffle through different backgrounds but the person would obviously remain the same, as the background changes the music would change to suit the background. Example, Walking through a city so I could use hip hop, 3 seconds later it could be in a club so I'd change the music to a heavier dance track, then 3 seconds later maybe like a hilly/mountainous scene so I could use motivational walking music then possibly a desert scene so id use motown etc and so forth... eventually the person would walk straight forward into the off screen space then the landscape would disappear revealing the ITV logo.