Week 13: Review

Review

17/1/12

Looking back at last week’s documentary idea “The Lost Friday” and listening to what Nicola Lee author of “Green lit” had to say in the Skype lecture I found myself looking back and asking where the people, just having a story on people who may miss a birthday or an anniversary wasn’t enough, the real story maybe about the political implements that made the island jump 24 hours in the future last year, to put

Over this semester I have created some good ideas for shows and programmes but all the shows need improvement, and all need a special angle or story focal point to get them to jump off the screen, and over the last 12 weeks the one thing I have learned more than anything is that any news story can be made in to a programme, but it is the characters that make the story come to life, a human story is better than a factual piece. 

Another point I have learned is how to write a proposal, how to try and keep concise and to the point with what I want to say.

Route 66

During the summer of 2011 I took a trip along one of the greatest roads in America, Route 66. Along the way I saw some brilliant sights and took in some of Americas rich history. The road is over 2,400 miles long and construction started in 1926 from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California.
For a program id love to hear the sounds of Main Street USA. The Music, The Stories, and just the sound. it is one of my most treasured memories and something id love to share with people, and hear other peoples tales on the famous road.

For example Episode 1 would be:

Starting the series in Chicago, Illinois, where it all began, where once a great fire burnt half the city to the ground, and where Gangsters run the streets. its also a city of Blues, Jazz and Pizza pie. Leaving the "Windy City" and hitting the open road, rows and rows of fields, through Joliet, Dewight. Pontiac, Lexington, Bloomington, Lincoln  and Springfield where the  President of Amercia Abe Lincoln was born, lived and worked, Then 300 miles down the road St Louis. along the way I met Shea a 90 year old man who has been collecting Route 66 memorabilia since the road was constructed from old phone boxes, to road signs.