News Broadcast Inspiration

As I stated last week, we have planned on including a news broadcast in our film opening. In Bird Box, the use of the news broadcast helped in setting the seriousness and the gravity of the event that was occurring. When the movie began, the problem had to be shown in some way, and it was done through the report. In this scene, the main character is shown watching the news with her sister. The reporter’s tone of voice is serious, desperate, and alarming as videos are shown of the mass suicides happening in Romania, Europe, and Siberia. As the woman’s facial expressions get affected by what she is watching, she changes the channel and another news reporter is also addressing the issue and how it is in Russia as well. Right away, she turns the volume off and says, “well, it’s in Russia so..”. The news broadcast helped the audience realize how the woman is ignorant to what she just watched. We were inspired by this news broadcast scene for our film opening. We will be introducing the worldwide conflict of our film by using a report like this one. Also we will be using the aspect of an ignorant character in our film opening, which will later lead to her death because of her personality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JcvQMM0Vzw

^^^This is the link to the news broadcast scene in Bird Box.


Furthermore, we plan on using the application iMovie to create this news broadcast. iMovie is an editing software application that will allow us to make a clip look like an actual news report. Using different effects, titles, and subtitle headlines, we will be experimenting on different ways that we can make it look like a news headline. My partner and I will be the anchors reporting the news. As I said above, in Bird Box, the reporters were very serious and had desperate tones of voice which we will be using to make it seem more severe and realistic. We will be adding videos of war-like chaotic scenes to make it look more extreme, since it will also be a mass-suicide type of film. Lastly, we will be using my computer to use iMovie for the news broadcast, not my partner’s. In the past with other projects for this class, we have tried using hers, but we have come across many issues with downloading the final project into her Files. Moreover, we will be playing it safe and using mine from the start so we don’t have to do it twice.