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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Our Lists and Planning: Teaser Opening Montage


These were our initial montage ideas -greatly inspired by the opening sequence of 'Gattaca'. Although we did not use all of these ideas, it was important to us that we built up a basis and ambiance for the montage. The main message we wanted to convey was the closure of media outlets and government intervention

To begin editing we required audio which would create a structure to the montage and hopefully set up the landscape of the social stage within our narrative. 
Our first base for research was YouTube where we searched a variety of key words eg. 'Freedom of speech', 'war', 'media impact', 'social networking debate','riots', 'terrorism', 'protests' and 'patriotism' to build a picture of the scenario within our narrative.
Below are our initial transcripts and links to the videos we took them from. Our manipulation of the resources online highlights the ease with which audio and images can be taken out of context and made to represent or symbolise something very different. This gives the media a great deal of power and creates, to a certain extent, fear, which is something we found during the casting of our Prime Minister figure.

Initial Montage Audio Transcript:

-          ‘An extraordinary moment in British journalism’
-          ‘The end of the News of the World’
-          ‘failure to start a reinvestigation into phone hacking two years ago’
-          ‘much tighter laws on media ownership’
-          ‘is closing down newspapers’
-          ‘those responsible being brought to justice’
-          ‘This Sunday’s edition will be the last’
-          ‘should you be celebrating tonight or lamenting today’s events’
-          ‘the damage could go beyond financial concerns’
-          ‘Thank you and Goodbye’
-          ‘Goodbye and stay well’

-          ‘undermining the judiciary’ (1:27)
-          ‘the very foundations of western society’ (1:37)
-          ‘journalists who corrupt the language to suppress the truth’ (2:27)
-          ‘defending the indefensible’ (3:07)
-          ‘they’re anti-freedom, anti-free thought, anti-free speech’
-          ‘this is just the beginning’ (4:57)
-          ‘a crime against humanity’ (5:57)
-          ‘poisoning the whole world’ (6:05)

-          ‘complete resolution, to defeat this terrorism’ (1:24)
-          ‘our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater then their determination’ (2:23)
-          ‘they will never succeed’ (2:50)

-          ‘the day the war started’ (0:18)
-          ‘the role social media can play in propagating news’ (0:33)
-          ‘influencing everybody else’ (3:20)

-          ‘extremist groups’ (1:23)
-          ‘fabricating information’ (3:14)





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