Sunday, March 10, 2019

Further Development for News Broadcast

We already have an idea of the layout for our new broadcast in the sense of when the anchors would be speaking and when any clips/images would be presented. Thus, now we have to find a way to represent chaos through the clips/images that my partner and I would essentially be creating. So, we have settled on two ideas that we created to successfully capture the atmosphere of chaos in the video clips/images we would include in our news report.

The first idea that we came up with is a video clip consisting of what looks to be like a woman running through a crowded mall, with people that all have the same intentions as her in wanting to buy as much as she can in order to prepare for the worse. Furthermore, we would capture this description for the video clip by having one of us, me or Sophia, run through the mall with a cell phone pointed straight ahead, recording everything. Thus, by having one of us run while we film, we would be utilizing handheld camera movement, which would produce a shaky video clip, which is exactly what we are going for. Moreover, the shaky camera movement will help conceal the fact that the people in the mall were actually walking calmly and make it look like they were part of the chaos portrayed in the video clip. In addition, my partner and I have considered adding sound effects to this video clip just to add to the chaotic atmosphere. Furthermore, we are looking into screaming sound effects; however, we are not sure whether or not the screaming sound effects would make the video clip extremely chaotic because my partner and I must keep in mind that in our film opening the main character, Lucy, is not very concerned about the issue at hand. Moreover, we might just use the sounds from the actual video clip we record at the mall. Our decision on the use of sound effects in one of our video clips for our news broadcast will be noted in a later post.

For the first idea of running through the mall to capture a chaotic video clip, my partner and I plan on going to Sawgrass Mills mall in Sunrise, FL on March 15, 2019 to get this video for our news broadcast. Moreover, this new addition has been updated in our schedule.


The image above is what Sawgrass Mills looks like from the inside, so this is where we would be getting our video clip. Moreover, we plan on going to Sawgrass on March 15 (Friday) due to the fact that it will most probably be full because the weekends tend to be the days in which the greatest amount of individuals go. Thus, we could get the maximum effect in depicting a chaotic atmosphere.

The second idea we came up with consists of presenting images of our local grocery store, Publix, with empty isles where water bottles are supposed to be. Moreover, these images would actually be from when Hurricane Irma hit Florida, and they would come from my partner, who was the one who took these pictures when she went to Publix during the times in which people were preparing for Hurricane Irma. Furthermore, the images would add to the chaos occurring in the United States regarding the apocalyptic issue going on during our film opening.


The image above shows the idea we are trying to capture, of course we would use my partner’s own images that she took herself when she went to Publix during Hurricane Irma. We would also take inspiration from the headline and try to create something similar with our own special touches.

As for the order in which we will be presenting the video clip and images, we plan on inserting the video clip first and then switching back to the news anchors to explain the previous clip as well as lead in to the next image of the empty grocery isles. This layout will also be seen in a future blog post, which will include the storyboard for our news broadcast.

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