News Production: Script Development
Scripting was an exciting process for us as we were finally able to see all our work coming to life. All we had on the ideas table, and pitches was now in its first stepping stones to becoming a real channel. After our practice news programme we now felt more comfortable writing a script. This was further helped by our documentary units last year where the scriptwriting process is similar in many ways, when writing dialogue for a presenter.
The main difference was with the live broadcast interview where we could only plan the questions we were going to ask. We hadn’t done this before properly other than with our documentary unit when we were interviewing people at the memorials but these were more VOX pops than live interviews.
We planned what we wanted in our script sharing all our ideas. I created a running order of how I thought the show could be done, and where goes where. Much of this was put into the draft script with a few different ideas here and there:
After our meeting with our course tutor, Helen, we found she very much liked our ideas. She touched on the fact that we listed some items off for the ‘top five’ money saving tips, and said they were a more common knowledge and is nothing new. As well as that it would be difficult to carry on from that every week with more ideas (we would soon run out). She suggested doing something different every week rather than a top 5 for just money saving. She also suggested to change some of the ones we already had for being too much ‘common knowledge’. To be honest, when she highlighted this to us I couldn’t disagree. We did need more quirky money saving ideas as many students would already know this.
We decided to then speak to Tasmin Brindly, UCA (The University for the Creative Arts), who was the head of the student union for UCA Rochester. She gave off loads of statistics for us, and gave us some new tips top say, whilst agreeing with a few of our more ‘obvious tips’ saying that “most students wouldn’t actually think to get a part time job, many just assume their own covers it so when their funding runs out, they are stuck between a rock and a hard place”.
The main difference was with the live broadcast interview where we could only plan the questions we were going to ask. We hadn’t done this before properly other than with our documentary unit when we were interviewing people at the memorials but these were more VOX pops than live interviews.
We planned what we wanted in our script sharing all our ideas. I created a running order of how I thought the show could be done, and where goes where. Much of this was put into the draft script with a few different ideas here and there:
After our meeting with our course tutor, Helen, we found she very much liked our ideas. She touched on the fact that we listed some items off for the ‘top five’ money saving tips, and said they were a more common knowledge and is nothing new. As well as that it would be difficult to carry on from that every week with more ideas (we would soon run out). She suggested doing something different every week rather than a top 5 for just money saving. She also suggested to change some of the ones we already had for being too much ‘common knowledge’. To be honest, when she highlighted this to us I couldn’t disagree. We did need more quirky money saving ideas as many students would already know this.
We decided to then speak to Tasmin Brindly, UCA (The University for the Creative Arts), who was the head of the student union for UCA Rochester. She gave off loads of statistics for us, and gave us some new tips top say, whilst agreeing with a few of our more ‘obvious tips’ saying that “most students wouldn’t actually think to get a part time job, many just assume their own covers it so when their funding runs out, they are stuck between a rock and a hard place”.
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