Charlie Sheen: I Use VAccum Cleaners..

My scripted video found here:
http://youtu.be/h5aSa4tmVNM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5aSa4tmVNM



SCENE 1: CLOSE SHOT OF WOMAN REPORTER/SHOT OF BOTH MAN AND WOMAN REPORTER AT STATION DESK/SHOT OF WOMAN REPORTER AGAIN

Man Reporter: "He really wanted to prove to you that he is clean now."

Woman Reporter: "Yes, Good morning again George and he claims no drug use right now but we did talk a lot about his past drug use. Charlie Sheen has never been more candid about it and makes no excuses for it. He also shared with us what really happened that night last month when he was rushed to the hospital after a drug-filled night with porn stars."


SCENE 2: QUICK SHOT OF CHARLIE SHEEN/HEAD SHOT OF WOMAN REPORTER

Woman Reporter: “Your anger and your hate I think is coming off as erratic to people.”


SCENE #3: HEAD SHOT OF CHARLIE

Charlie: “Passion. My passion. Its all passion.”


SCENE #4: HEAD SHOT OF WOMAN REPORTER

Reporter: “Okay, your passion, is coming off as erratic to people.”


SCENE #5: HEAD SHOT OF CHARLIE/SHOT OF BOTH INTERVIEWER AND INTERVIEWEE SITTING/ CHARLIE SHOT

Charlie: “Right, well dd, yu you borrow my brain for five seconds and just be like dude! Can’t handle it! Unplug this bastard, yeah! Because it just fires in a way that is um, I don’t know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.”


SCENE #6: REPORTER SHOT

Reporter: “I think some of those things that you’re putting out there are making people thinking something’s wrong with you.”


SCENE #7: CHARLIE SHOT

Charlie: That’s up to them, that has nothing to do with me really, I mean they’re entitled to, I suppose, interpret stuff as they must…be the doctor..the doctor of…”


SCENE #8: REPORTER SHOT

Reporter: “Some are saying you are bipolar.”


SCENE #9: CHARLIE SHOT

Charlie: “Woow. What does that mean.”


SCENE #10: REPORTER SHOT

Reporter: “I guess that you, you know, are on two ends of the spectrum.”


SCENE #11: CHARLIE SHOT/SHOT OF BOTH IN SAME SITTING POSITION AGAIN/BACK TO CHARLIE

Charlie: “Woow. And then what. Whats the cure. Medicine? Make me like them? Not gonna happen. I’m bi-winning..I win here and I win there, now what. If I’m bipolar aren’t there moments where a guy crashes and is like in the corner and is like ‘Ooh its all my mom’s fault’ Shut up. Shut Upp. Stop. Move forward.”


SCENE #12: REPORTER SHOT

Reporter: “Have you had any celebrities reach out to you, to try to help you?”

SCENE 13: CHARLIE SHOT

Charlie: "Oh yeah, yeah, radical people, like Sean Penn and Mel Gibson and Colin Farrel and just radical people. And its, they're not telling me what to do.."


SCENE 14: REPORTER SHOT

Reporter: "Who gave you the best advice?"


SCENE 15: CHARLIE SHOT/REPORTER SH OT/CHARLIE SHOT

Charlie: "Well they didn't give me advice an, an within that theres great advice, just, zzwas, just love, so, you know, umm, justa justa see it often times, says unknown but occasionally a giant marquee name comes through on your caller ID and its like: sssWinning!"


SCENE 16: REPORTER SHOT

Reporter: "When was the last time you used?"


SCENE 17: CHARLIE SHOT/VIEW OF CHARLIE AND REPORTER DOING INTERVIEW/CHARLIE SHOT

Charlie: "Use, a, see, I don't use...I use a blender, I use a vacuum cleaner, I use, you know, household items. Aah when was the last time I ingested or took drugs?"


SCENE 18: REPORTER SHOT

Reporter: "Yes, when was the last time you took drugs."


SCENE 19: CHARLIE SHOT

Charlie: "Use is such a AA uh stupid um expression or term. I don't remember. I do not remember."


SCENE 20: REPORTER SHOT

Reporter: "A week ago, two weeks ago, two days ago..."

TOP TEN Electronic Media Writing Reflections I have learned in 2011!

Push The Boundaries!
"...the primary aim of video producers too often still seems to be to present material that will not offend anyone(Hilliard 3)." Because financial rather than artistic or social considerations control programming content and decisions, the producers try to capture as large a viewer segment as possible. Media executives fear controversy and devote their time, energy and resources to get good ratings with the highest possible viewings. Programs that deal with hot and touchy issues with controversial material do not usually fall under this pretense. Now there are some programs that tentatively make up the exceptions such as Boston Legal and 60 Minutes, yet these only mildly touch on the sensitive topics. Shows that are bold enough to delve into our cracked system and exploit our hidden issues are yes, aired, but not for long. Take a look at a show that was dumped by both CBS and FOX despite the thousands of people who enjoyed viewing it on a regular basis: Michael Moore's TV Nation.



Know Your Tools!
"(Writers) must know the tools the director uses to bring the script to life, whether for a 6hour mini series or a 30second commercial...(Hilliard 20)." Writers must know what medium they are writing for so they can mold their scripts to the medium and access its strengths and weaknesses. With each medium comes its own variables- microphones, studios, terminology, cameras and visual or sound effects- and their own way of being incorporated into the scripts. When using television as the medium for production, visual and sound effects are both great tools to work with and around and can help push the audience towards a certain conclusion, or emotion the director wants. And with the help of special effects, the writer can use those to their advantage and build upon them to create a fuller script to match what the special effect video willproduce to viewers.



Know Thy Audience
"Advertisers seek audiences who are most likely to buy their products or services(Hilliard 80)." Using such information as demographics (age, gender, occupation, income, martial status, location, ethnic background, etc.) helps the writers and producers to understand their audience and from that, figure out what they would be interested in spending their hard-earned money on and how to get them to actually spend their money on these things. Advertisements and commercials are designed to appeal to their target market from all aspects of the production levels. This particular commercial is narrowly targeted at those parents looking to dress their young children in high end, designer clothing. Directed towards families who have money to spend and to who are concerned to with appearances; they themselves most likely wear designer clothing as well.



What Am I?
"The kinds of content and the level of presentation must be understood by and must appeal to the target viewers or listeners (Hilliard 154)." Each news station aims for a distinct style, aims for a certain target market, provides certain types of news to the people (local, global, controversial, hard or soft news), and tries to portray a specific personality. FOX News looks to provide stirring, current, shocking, hard and bias news; while local news station WCAX will focus more on local happenings, weather for their area, perhaps region news, such as New England, and emphasizing actual 'stories' such as home or school stories. People like to have a variety of these new station personalities to choose from so they are able to view a large range of news and information, each privy to its station and source.



The Highest Form of News and Information Art, huh?
"Many broadcast news personnel say that the documentary, combining as it does news, special events, features, music, and drama, is the highest form (of television and radio art)(Hilliard 229)." A good documentary can have a profound influence on social, political, or economic developments if written, produced and distributed correctly. Documentaries do present a point of view towards the subject and deal with controversial issues and have them aim to persuade their viewers to take action or a stand with the documentary's focus. I watched a documentary recently on the United State's Debt, it is called I.O.U.S.A and sheds light on our current debt issue and clearly takes a stand on the issue while presenting many facts and figures.


Here is the link to the "byte-sized" documentary online: http://youtu.be/O_TjBNjc9Bo (Unable to embed video: disabled)


"Reality" Programs
These monstrosities were introduced to the US in the 1990's and became an instant hit. We Love Drama! We are attracted to the format's combination of truth-based events, highly dramatized scripts, productions, and the competitive aspect of each of these shows. Reality shows deal with originally real events, but with much added scripture action to increase its likability in American's eyes. Many reality productions are actually scripted after the show has been filmed such as on America's Next Top Model. They film day to day, trying to capture usable material that will be entertaining enough to show on television and in the end they compile all the shots that made the cut, along with their scripted bits of video, and voila there is your reality show! Survivor was one of the first reality shows I watched with my parents and it is a show about people being placed on an island and trying to survive while there is drama and conflict revolving around the group.



No Full Scripts!
Talk shows and interviews do not require fully prepared scripts and are either outlined or a rundown or routine sheet are created. These scripts are not usually fully prepared since the interviewee is usually not able to read a prepared script and sound normal. It is also near impossible to previously judge the responses of the interviewee and sometimes the interplay of ideas and feelings does not play out as scripted and it is easier for those involved if they do not have a script to get back to. :The key to a successful interview is preparation (Hilliard 269)." Extensive research is a must in the interview so they may ask appropriate questions and be ready to base their next question off the answer received. In the case of a book being involved in the interview, the interviewee must be sure to read it as there has been many instances in where the interviewer asks bland, irrelevant questions to the book which ends up offending the author and their faithful readers. In this case the book is Harry Potter and the interview is from the Daily Show with JK Rowling.



The Sound of Music
Music can be found on all sorts of mediums nowadays; anywhere from the good ol' radio to the high speed internet and even on television too! Whichever you are hearing your music through, the program "must have organic continuity.. (Hilliard 303)." Although the sounding of a disc jockey eludes spontaneity, the meat of their programs is always meticulously planned with a clear focal point all the material revolves around. Like TV, each radio station and DJ have their own image to hold up, and their music and technique reflects it but just through different medium than TV. Although they all have images and themes to uphold, their stations must include variety to keep the listener interested. (Found at: http://www.topnews.in/files/FM-channels.jpg)


How to Train Us, to Train Them, Through This
"Perhaps the most widely served corporate purpose is education and training (Hilliard 328)." Video training programs are made by many companies to aid in training all employees through equal methods, reiterating the same values to each. They are produced for many reasons to introducing a new product into the company, to training new employees or how to stop sexual harassment in the workplace. Writers for these must know the exact purpose as to why the company wants this video to be produced and from there learn the target audience and how to reach them. Corporate videos tend to be a bit dry and bland, and therefore not penetrating their audience as they had planned, the writers and the company must get together and decide what approach they need to take to reach their listeners and leave them with the urge to take action on what they had just learned. Here is a video showing how to use corporate videos to re-engage your workforce and managers.



Copyright!
"To protect yourself, copyright your work. Unfortunately, not everything that the writer creates for television and radio is copyrightable (Hilliard 462)." Ideas are not copyrightable and you may see or hear your idea on the air under someone else's name but it might not be a rip-off as more than one person can have the same idea at virtually the same time. According to the US Copyright Office, narrative outlines, formats, summaries of plays and movies and other outlines cannot be registered for copyright in their unpublished form, yet copyright will protect the literary expression of the author's ideas, just not the ideas themselves. To copyright a script, it must be ready for performance. For more information, here is a catchy song so you may learn more about copyrighting for yourself!


Book Referenced:
Hilliard, Robert L. Writing for Television, Radio, New Media. Boston, MA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2008. Print.

Charlie Brooker's TV News One Column Street

SCENE #1: BEGIN WITH STATIC SHOT...
CHARLIE AT DESK. BACKDROP OF CITY.
Static Sound
Charlie: “Before long a standard news report visual language established himself, one that is majorly recognizable to anyone. Me…has this report.”

SCENE #2 FAR AWAY VIEW OF SKYSCRAPERS IN DUSK.
Charlie: "It starts here. With a lackluster establishing shot of a significant location."

SCENE #3 CHARLIE WALKING IN CENTER OF BUSTLING STREET TOWARD CAMERA.
Charlie: "Next a walking, talkie preamble from the autor, pacing steadily towards the lens, punctuating every other sentence with a hand gesture, and ignoring all the pricks milling around him like hes gliding through the fucking matrix before coming to a halt and posing a question: what comes next."

SCENE#4 FUZZY SHOT OF PEDESTRIANS CROSSING BRIDGE. ANGULAR ARCHITECTURAL SHOT OF BUILDINGS...
PEOPLE WALKING OVER BRIDGE WITH SIGNIFICANT BUILDING IN BACKGROUND. TURNS BLACK AND WHITE-SCREEN READS “FACTS APPEAR ONE BY ONE ON THE SCREEN.”
Charlie V/O: "Often something like this, a fellow shot designed to give your eyes something to look at while my voice babbles on about facts, sometimes it will slow down to a halt and monochrome and some of those facts will appear one by one on the screen.”

SCENE#5 OVERLY OBESE PEOPLE SHOT, NO FACES SHOWN...
OVERWEIGHT FACELESS PEOPLE SHOT...
FLY TO ANOTHER OBESE PERSON SHOT, WADDLING DOWN THE BUSY STREET...
YET ANOTHER FAT SHOT...
AND ANOTHER FAT SHOT...
AND ANOTHER FAT SHOT.
Charlie V/O: "This is followed by the obligatory shots of overweight people with their faces subtly framed out. After which the report is padded out with a selection of lazy and pointless vox pos."

SCENE #6 HEAD SHOT OF RANDOM MAN BEING ASKED A QUESTION-USES HALF OF SCREEN.
Random Woman #1: "Umm, usually get some inane chatter from people."

SCENE #7 SAME HEAD SHOT OF INTERVIEWED WOMAN.
Random Woman #1: "Think they do have too much, I think what we wanna hear is actually whats happening and not what other people think of it."

SCENE #8 HEAD SHOT OF OLDER BALDED MAN.
Random Bald Man: "I..I hate these sigmn sound mates tha..that ta I..I don't want some bunter's opinion usually. No."

SCENE #9 SHOT OF CROWDED STREET-USE SPEED-UP EFFECTS...
DIFFERENT ANGLE AND SHOT OF STREET-BUSY WITH PEOPLE AND USING SPEED-UP EFFECT...
CROSS WALK BUTTON FRAMED IN ONE HALF OF SCREEN, IN OTHER HALF BUSTLING SHOT OF SPED-UP PEDESTRIANS.
Charlie V/O: “Another bit of dull abstraction to plug another gap now before the report seg-ways gracefully into a bit of human interest courtesy of some dowdy man opening letters in a kitchen and explaining how he has been affected by the issue.”

SCENE #10 DOWDY MAN IN KITCHEN AT TABLE...
SAME MAN, CLOSER INTERVIEW SHOT OF HIS FACE, HIS TITLE IN RED UNDERNEATH HIM ON SCREEN...
CLOSE SHOT OF HIS MAIL IN HAND, PAN UP TO HIS FACE...
BACK TO CLOSE INTERVIEW SHOT OF FACE OF DOWDY MAN.
Dowdy Man: “When I’m watching the news I don’t really, ya know, there’s a person talking to me telling me what’s going on and I don’t really listen to what they’re saying. Its just news. Its just news.”

SCENE #11 SKIP TO COMPUTER-MADE GRAPH ON GRAY GRAPH PAPER BACKGROUND...
ON SAME BACKGROUND, SHOW SILHOUETTE OF SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE, THE WORD ‘AVERAGE’ SLAPPED ACROSS THEM IN BOLD, RED LETTERS, INCREASING IN SIZE AS CHARLIE SPEAKS...
LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER BEING BEHEADED BY A LASER BEAM-BLACK AND WHITE EXPECT FOR THE RED LASER BEAM.
Charlie V/O: “He unfortunately was boring so to wake you up this is an animated chart, this is a silhouette representing the average family and this is a lighthouse keeper being beheaded by a laser beam.”

SCENE #12 ILLUSTRATIVE SHOT OF LADY IN BUSY STREET, LOOKING AT HER CAMERA...
MAN WALKS PAST CAMERA, SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT SHOT OF SAME LADY, DIFFERENT PEOPLE BUSTLING AROUND HER...
GROUND SHOT OF PEDESTRIANS CROSSING BRICK WALKWAY, NO FACES SHOWN...
SIGN SHOT...
INTRIGUING PIPE AT A WINDOW SHOT.
Charlie V/O: “As we near the end of the report illustrative shots of pedestrians and signs and a pipe at a window.”

SCENE #13 CHARLIE IN CENTER OF SCREEN, PEOPLE IN STREET BEHIND HIM GOING ABOUT THEIR DAY. CAMERA SLIDES UP THE WALL BEHIND HIM TO LAND ON A STREET SIGN “REGENT STREET.”
Charlie: “And then the final summary; ending on a whimsical shot of something nearby, accompanied by a rise sign off.”
Charlie V/O: “If you’re lucky a bit of word play fit for a king or in other words, Regent Street. Charlie Brooker, Newswipe, London.“

Bud Light Online Script

SCENE #1: FOLLOWS A SWORD FIGHT BETWEEN PIRATES. ENDS ON SAME EYE LEVEL AS PIRATES ON TABLE TOP-WITH BRUSH-X IN FOREGROUND.
Swords clanging
PIRATE PUSHED ONTO TABLE.
Thud

SCENE #2: STRAIGHT TO DIRECTOR, PAN AWAY SLOWLY WHILE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR APPROACHES.
Director: “Cut!” (Sounding annoyed)
Loud long ring
Director: “What’s that doing on my set?”
Footsteps of Assistant Director
Assistant Director: “Product Placement, Sir.”

SCENE #3: CLOSE SHOT OF ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, FAIRLY STILL CAMERA.
Asst Director: “Whenever we feature a product in a scene, we get tons of free stuff.”

SCENE #4: QUICK PAN TO DIRECTOR, SCREEN SPLIT BETWEEN HIM AND TV SCREEN, STILL CAMERA.
Director: “Here we go.”
TURNS SCREEN FORWARD
Music begins slowly

SCRENE #5: SWITCH TO ACTION ON SET-3/4 BODY LENGTH-PIRATE 2 AND DAMSEL. VIEW BL SIGN, PINBALL MACHINE AND TRIANGULAR HANGING SIGNS.
Swords clanging/ fighting music begins
PIRATE #2 HAS DAMSEL HELD
Damsel: "Aah! My lord!!"
Sword whipping sound

SCENE #6: TO BUD LIGHT WINDOW-MAN JUMPS THROUGH, STILL CAMERA.
Music picks up
Window crash/glass as pirate #1 jumps through

SCENE #7: FOLLOWS PIRATE #1 JUMPING PAST BL SIGN, INTO FIGHTING ACTION. AS PAN AWAY SHOW BL LIGHTS AND LARGE DRAPERIES UNRAVELING.
Landing sounds/swords
Pirate #1: "Aargh!"

SCENE #8: SEE JUMPING MAN LAND, FOLLOW HIM THROUGH CROWD, PAN AWAY TO SEE MORE OF THE ACTION.
Clanging/grunts of fighting/yells
PIRATE #1 FIGHTS THROUGH AND CONQUERS AND SCOUNDRELS IN HIS WAY
Swords, footsteps

SCENE #9: CLOSE-UP FACIAL OF PIRATE HOLDING BL BOTTLE IN CENTER OF SCREEN WHILE FIGHTING. BL DRAPERIES IN BACKGROUND.
Rapid sword clanging

SCENE #10: 3/4 BODY LENGTH SHOT OF PIRATE #2 AND DAMSEL IN DISTRESS, SHOW BL PINBALL MACHINE/BL SIGN IN BACKGROUND.
Pirate #2 sword whoosh
POINTS AT PIRATE #1

SCENE #11: FACIAL SHOT OF PIRATE #1, RIGHT HALF OF SCREEN-LEAVE ROOM FOR BUD LIGHT BOTTLE IN OTHER HALF.
PIRATE #1: "Really?" COCKS HEAD, AMUSED. HOLDS UP BL BOTTLE IN RESPONSE
Music climaxes- da da da DAAAA

SCENE #12: HEAD SHOT OF PIRATE #2 AND DAMSEL.
PIRATE #2 GIVES FUNNY YET MENACING FACE

SCENE #13: 1/2 BODY SHOT OF PIRATE #1 THROWING BL BOTTLE. BL DRAPES AND SIGN BEHIND HIM.
Whooshing sound of bottle being thrown

SCENE #14: BACK TO DAMSEL AND PIRATE #2.
Bottle crashing, crank noises
PIRATE #2: "Ow!"
DAMSEL: "Sigh" of relief

SCENE #15: FAR SHOT OF PIRATE #1 COURTING DAMSEL IN DISTRESS. SHOW BL LIGHTS, SIGNS, DRAPES, FLAGS AND PYRAMID OF BL BOXES. BL TRUCK BARGES IN.
PIRATE #1: KNEELING, "My lady..."
BL TRUCK COMES CRASHING IN
Honking, skidding, boxes crash

SCENE #16: CLOSE-UP OF BUD LIGHT BOTTLES
COMMENTATOR: "It's a sure sign of a good time. The just right taste of Bud Light. (Aaah) Here we go."

SCENE #17: BEHIND THE SCENES-FULL SHOT OF DIRECTORS/BUD LIGHT KNIGHT. DRAPES IN BACKGROUND.
DIRECTOR: "Hmm, more Bud Light?" LOOKING AT THEIR BUD LIGHT KNIGHT, COVERED IN BL ARMOUR.
Quiet swords clanging in background

2011 Bud Light Super Bowl Ad-Product Placement Script

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(All facts and giveaways in this production may or may not be true)

HeAthEr in a NUTshell

1. I am from Walpole, New Hampshire, right next to Keene which some of you may know better as it is larger and holds the infamous Pumpkin Festival!

2.For Christmas we got my dad (well, and the whole family) a new TV along with HD service and On Demand. Only some of the channels are in HD, with some of the same channels available in HD and..non HD, letting you to see that there really is such a big difference in the quality. My parents did need help with the On Demand though, they had noo idea how to use it even though its fairly simple, which just goes to show the gap between both generations' strengths and weaknesses. I'm sure once I'm back at school Ill be receiving calls asking how to use it again!

3.I like that we can access information so quickly and with such ease. It gives many more people the ability to reach information than before. Though I dislike that information is so easily given to us, more is thrown at us than needed, and we are being forced to multitask with each thing we do, leaving us to absorb less of the never-ending information than intended, while trying to master too many tasks and skills at a time. This technology boom has begun to alter the way we think, read, use and act with information and daily routines.

4. To be completely competent in my field of study and others related. Be able to learn from some and teach others what i in turn have learned. I am hoping to market and advertise for sustainable companies, ideas, knowledge and products.