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…”