Family input -

In the last meeting I discussed with Fran the possibility of members of my family representing the youth, middle aged and older aspects of our doc. My 17 year old brother, my father and my grandma have all agreed should this continue in the direction we proceed in.

As for getting hold of an university level English teacher I have sent out some emails but as of yet have had no response.

Dan

Script

PIX	Sync/Comm
Opening sequence – Introduction L/S presenter on high street + C/U mobile phone	Sync: Presenter “With the birth of the noughties came the birth of a new form of communication, now widely known as text-talk…”
Title Sequence – Animated phone sequence	Music
M/S of presenter in the Maidstone Museum (Library)	Sync: Presenter “The way people have communicated has changed over thousands of years…”
M/S Secondary school teacher in a classroom.	Secondary school teacher “The way a students use of the English language has changed…”
Youth intro – different phones which spell out “youth view”	Music
C/U of public youth on the high street.	Youth gives general view.
M/S of presenter in Maidstone Library (museum)	Sync: Presenter “ The first book ever to have been written is of course the Bible…”
M/S  of the public youth breaking down a sentence into text-talk/ rebuilding a sentence.	Sync: Presenter “Are you any good at text-talk or do you write out the words in full?...”
C/U of secondary school teacher breaking down a sentence into text talk/ rebuilding a sentence.	Sync: Presenter “Do you think you could work out what this sentence means?...”
Middle aged intro - ? (We’re thinking of something)	Music
M/S of a middle-aged business person in café.	Sync: Presenter “Now we all say that text-talk was created by the younger generation but …”
M/S of a university lecturer in their office with the Presenter.	Sync: University lecturer “The English language itself is constantly changing because of how multi-cultural we have become…”
Older generation intro – cups of tea/ werthers originals which spell out “older is wiser”	Music
M/S of an older person 50+ on the high street.	Sync: older person “I can’t understand why the youth of today think it is clever to text all the time?”
Montage of M/S of the general public on the high street.	Sync: Presenter “ would you like to decode this for me?”
M/S of the Presenter on the high street, concluding shot.	Sync: Presenter “Either you love it or you hate it but either way text-talk is here to stay…”

Documentary Unit: Project Update

I do realize that this is meant to be posted first but due to time restraints it is the 3rd post, my apologies


The Pitch: The Joy Of Txt


The vast amount of technology that was introduced and embraced during the ten years that form the noughties is immense in comparison to every previous decade. Various forms of the introduced technology have led to people communicating in very different ways, many of which it would now be difficult to imagine day to day life without. One such form of communication is the use of text messages sent from one mobile phone to another. As this form of communication grew more widely used a seemingly endless list of specifically intended abbreviations, acronyms and combination of symbols was created that would later be broadly known as text talk.
My intention should this subject matter be commissioned for creation is to explore a number of interconnecting elements that the use and understanding of ‘text talk’ has had on the way that people communicate. These elements will include the social and academic impacts, generational opinions, professional opinions and posing the questions in order to discover and structure a well rounded view as to what the public as a whole think of the use of text talk in regards to whether it is a good or bad element of communication. Ultimately leading to a discovery of whether if normal people living in Briton are even bothered by its use or believe it to simply be the next eventual stage of the progression of the English language.

The way that I intend to present this to the audience would be through a mixture of interviews with professional individuals such as linguists, teachers and possibly representative from the English dictionary. I would also be keen to include a section where people that are aware but not necessarily frequent users of text talk would attempt to decode or interpret the meaning of pre set phrases written in text talk form which should keep the commission light hearted rather than hard hitting.

Documentary Unit: Project Update

10 minute documentary – The Joy Of Text

1)      Introduction

2)      Background

3)      Secondary teacher interview

4)      Public interview youth

5)      Public interview middle aged

6)      University lecturer interview

7)      Public interview older

8)      Decoding

9)      Conclusion

Hypothesis – Question we want to answer – Is texting being used to exclude people? (has it become a cult)? Is it affecting academic behaviour?

Element – 3 proper interviews (public), visible interviewer/presenter (makes it more relaxed and fun). Title sequence – Different phones showing the title “The Joy Of Text”, The Matrix introduction? Actuality – talking to the public. Archive is better to be recreated. The story will come out of the question.

30 seconds of something before the title sequence – 15-20 second title. 1 min of in depth background which leads onto the first interview secondary school teacher interview  and then youth interview. Presenter break up.

Youth breakdown of a sentence, teacher breakdown the same message.

(Break ups – something to do with the generation)

Interview middle aged public (business section)

University lecturer interview

Public interview older person

Original decoding segment.

Conclusion.

217 million texts a day in the UK. 6.5 billion texts per month in the UK.

When did phones come in. The advance in technology. How did it happen? Is it a good thing?

Documentary Unit: Project Update

The idea for this unit is the thought that text language has affected modern english language in such a way that not only is it used online in chat forums but it has also entered the classroom.