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ANCHOR: For the faculty and students of Deer Creek Middle School in Colorado yesterday must have seemed like the replay of a nightmare. The school in Littleton, three miles from Columbine High School, the scene of one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. Tonight, residence are thanking a teacher for saving lives when another shooter opened fire on a school full of kids. Our story from NBC's Reporter #1
ESTABLISHING SHOT OF SCHOOL
ESTABLISHING SHOT OF POLICE TAPE AND ROAD
REPORTER #1: An eerie calm at Deer Creek Middle School today, amidst a tangle of yellow police tape...
MID SHOT OF BACKPACK
REPORTER #1:...and backpacks dumped in a hurry.
CLOSE UP ON SQUAD CAR MIRROR
REPORTER #1: As students left campus yesterday...
LONG SHOT OF STUDENTS RUNNING
REPORTER #1:...a lone gunman pulled out a high powered rifle, and suddenly opened fire.
CLOSE UP OF STUDENT
STUDENT: I was really scared, cuz I knew I could die at this moment.
LONG SHOT OF STUDENTS AND FACULTY LEAVING CAMPUS
REPORTER #1: A horrific scene, the images all too similar...
CUT TO COLUMBINE TAPE
REPORTER #1:...to what happened just three miles away at Columbine High School in 1999, when 12 were killed.
LONG SHOT OF BUILDINGS AND FACULTY
REPORTER #1: At Deer Creek, two students were shot in seconds...
MID SHOT OF TEACHERS
REPORTER #1:...but quick action by a team of faculty members avoided tragedy
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One observation is they definitly try to connect this shooting with the Columbine shooting because of the closeness in distance. They are probably trying to evoke empathy from the viewer.
Another observation is how they had quite a few shot changes. I felt like there were more shots used in this piece than in a normal news segment. It changed almost once every sentence or statement.
My last observation is how they really tried to emphasise the heroic actions of the teacher that tackled the shooter. Instead of trying to make this a tragic case, they tried to make it into a heroic case, with the math teachers bravery.
Ryan,
ReplyDeleteEXCELLENT scripting here, and useful observations. I agree with you re: the quick cut edits, typical these days for a news story. Interesting that they choose to avoid any musical score - why, do you think?
Dr. W
Probably because they wanted to get the facts out as quick and efficiently as they could, and adding music would take away from that quick conciseness.
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