Organising the News Report

I have decided to do a news report, as it is the genre to get across the social aspect of this technology. I watched a couple of ‘Tonight with Trevor McDonald’, where they investigate a phenomenon that is current in the news. They don’t have just a presenter; just a voice over and I think that is better because it doesn’t draw your attention away from the images been presented. Here are the following bullet-points explain what the report will include;

• 2/3 minutes in length
• Shall feature a 15/30 clip of an advert
• Voice over commentary
• Starting Titles

But first I need to come upon with a name and proper design for the watch. After playing around on Photoshop, I came up with the company’s name, TeLep. It is a play of the word Teleportation and the name sounds like leap, which is what the watch allows you to do and that is to leap from one place to another. Below shows the watch and Telep’s logo and phrase:

Once I knew the look of the watch and company, I set about storyboarding the report. The report would be broken down into four parts:

1. Advert
The plan is to feature a person running in a park or somewhere, and after hitting the watch they are running across a desert or up a mountain. The end shall be a still image with the watch and the name featuring. It will be quite a simple ad as I believe over complicated ones fail, as people get bored with them. Adverts like the Cadbury’s gorilla campaign became a shame hit, and all that was a gorilla playing drums. I might steal ads from people like Nike and Adidas, as they feature a lot of running and re-edit them into a whole new design.

2. Travelports
It shall show how the world has adapted due to this technology, and that airports have been replaced with travelports. I shall find clips of busy terminals and check-in desks, and show people disappearing as soon as they set through the metal detectors or something similar. It will show how people are now monitoring the flow of travellers entering and leaving the country. Also I will show here street shots of people teleporting in and out of a high street.

3. Crime
This area will be portrayed by video clips of a police raid and the crime been frozen in a bubble to stop them running away. I have got this clip already and when I had a quick go of editing it working quite well. Also a shot of house being protected my anti-teleport device will be a footage of a suburban estate.

4. Malfunctions
In order to show the viewers how the watch works and could malfunction, I will Photoshop some images and place them into the report with a voice over. The voice over will be recorded at the same time as the editing to see how long I need to talk or not talk. Secondly, I will have a shot of the wards that restore people after a watch malfunction in order to discuss that section.

Next I'm going to experiment with the footage and get more approval with my design before i go away for easter to focus on the report.