DIGITAL NEWS: (Pre Production) Scripting Our Idea & Cue Cards

Alex was in charge of formatting all of the information and research we had found into a script. We all contributed to the research of the hangover cures - with Melissa finding most of the information about the scientific cause of a hangover. We found many weird and wonderful hangover cures but narrowed it down to the ones which had the most research into them and most 'proof' that they would work (except for the lemon cure - but this had comedy value). I found the majority of the information regarding the Halloween myths and facts and the questions to ask in the interview - however, Alex formatted them into a much more logical order in the script.

As well as planning the visuals and sync, we timed the sections to give ourselves a rough idea of how long each section should take to film - this will keep us on track with our tight schedule. This is our finished shoot script - there are some rough patches and blank spaces that require improvisation on the shoot day e.g. Aidan's replies to Jason & John's replies in the interview. We can not script these as these parts are completely dependent on what our contributors say during their pieces. These will be updated in the edit script.

As well as making a script, we made cue cards for the live interview to prompt the reporter (myself) on the questions that need to be asked during the interview and the 'myth or fact' quiz. These will ensure a smooth live section as there is little chance of forgetting the lines. There are a lot of questions and myths & facts for the quiz - we probably won't have time to ask them all but this gives us room to pick our favourite questions / the questions that will give us the most valuable information.