Comparing Two Treaments

TREAMENT 1:
The first treatment is about a drama called, "With or Without You" and in this treatment, there is lots of information for the reader to get their teeth into. For example it starts off with the title then jumps straight into a piece of the script. I find this very boring as it doesn't have any colours apart from black and white. Saying that I think that this treatment contains most of the information that is needed. But overall I don't like this treatment because I feel that it needs some more colour or pictures so it makes look more visually appealing.  

TREAMENT 2:

First Aid

What is First Aid?
First aid is the actions taken by a person on someone, which try to prevent further injury/illness after the subject is taken ill/injured. They do this by giving basic medical treatment to the person that is ill or injured.
Why is First Aid important?
I think first aid is important because it can help save a persons life or even just make them feel better, either way it is the first step on the patients road to recovery. In my opinion not enough people know how to do first aid and feel it is vital for young people to learn at least the basic skills of first aid so they know what to do if they need to perform first aid on someone.
What are the benefits of First Aid?
A benefit of first aid is that the person performing first aid could potentially save someones life. It can also improve the person performing first aids self-esteem. This is because you will feel a great sense of gratitude because you will have helped a person in need of your assistance. It also will help the patient with their recovery so they will obviously be very grateful and happy that someone is trying to help them.
What impact does it have on peoples lives?
The main impact it will have on peoples lives is that people will feel more confident if they see someone in need of first aid because they know how to help this person. It will also improve the self-esteem of the person performing first aid as people will recognise the heroic act of this person and fill them up with their gratitude. In addition less hospital beds would be needed as more people wouldn't need to go to hospital as they will be able to diagnose themselves and will be able to treat themselves with the use of first aid.
General Facts about First Aid?

• Nearly 9/10 teenagers are faced with a medical emergency.
• 4/5 say that they would feel safer with some first aid training.
• In a survey by Mother and Baby Magazine, 82% of women wouldn't know what to do if their child needed medical attention.
• 52% of the public aren't confident in doing first aid in public
• 24% of the public would rather wait for an ambulance to come than try to help by themselves.
• 140,000 people die each year from medical cases that could have been prevented by first aid.  

Script Writing Essentials

Introduction:

This area gives you a basic idea on what you will need to start to develop your script writing skills, and get your ideas down on paper. It tells you that the best scripts are hard to write so if you are feeling under pressure because you are struggling half way through your script, then its probably going to be a good script.

Developing Your Idea:

When developing your ideas, you need to have a basic idea where you want to take your story too. This means you need to know want you want to make people feel. Whether you want your audience to feel excited or scared, you need to show your audience, whilst writing the script, how to feel otherwise your audience may not understand the story. Any basic ideas that you have need to be expanded on for your own personal understanding so you yourself know the story.  

Form and Format:

Before you even start to really get into writing a script, work out what will the best of showing off your work, whether this is on the radio or television. All good and strong scripts know where they are going and the audience can really get into the story. All bad and weak scripts struggle to get the audience really interested and don't have a clear path on what happens next.

Character:

A great character can make a good script into an amazing script. A great character can be created by you knowing who the character really is like, and how they would react in real life circumstances. You know you have created a great character when your audience can feel empathy for the character. This helps draw the audience into the script, even if the script isn't the best.

Beginnings:

The important thing is to hit the ground running. This is because you want to hook your audience in from the first minute. But make sure you have planned how it will start, end and all the little bits in the middle. This will help you create the impact that you will need to get your audience interested. 

Middles:

This is where your script could go from being a good script, to a boring awful script. You have to make things interesting and exciting to watch to a certain point, even if the story does start to become confusing, you have to make sure everything at the end of the day all comes together to make a great story. 

Endings: 

You need to work out how to not make your script not a let down for your audience, to help do this, make sure your ending makes sense and isn't too crazy, but it can't feel predictable at the same time. The audience will like a surprise! But try not to go over the top because it might not be relevant to the script.

Scenes:

Its a mixture of time, place and setting. This makes up the majority of a scene. Good scenes can help push the story forward whilst bad scenes can really hold the story back which may make the audience uninterested. Work out the affect on the characters in each scene so you can get the characters really involved. 

Dialogue:

When using dialogue, try to make it so it isn't all conversation. Try to make it so the characters can express their feelings in certain situations to make your story seem more realistic. Make sure you put yourself in the shoes of the character so you can think of something that the character is likely to say. 

Rewriting:

After you have finished your script, you need to leave it for a few weeks so you can detach yourself from the script emotionally. After a few weeks have passed read through your script again, then you should be ready to make notes on what should change. Then, once you have gone through it all, rewrite your script. Repeat this for every rewrite that you do until you think it can't be improved further.  

What does a risk assessment have?

-They need to identify hazards or problems.
-Find out if anyone will have to face this problem or risk.
-Try and find an existing way around this problem.
-Workout a way to solve the problem/risk using the same or different way.
-Record this idea if it is ready to be put in as the safety measure.
-Review how well it went and write about what went well and maybe (if needed) what to be improved.

Interview Questions about Fashion

Can you talk us through your outfit today?

Can you tell us why you have chose to bring these extra clothes in?

Where do you buy your clothes from (online or high street stores) and why?

Do you prefer your clothes to be branded or not and why?

What would you say is the percentage of your branded clothes to unbranded clothes?

Are you willing to pay higher prices for a well known brand and why?

What sort of clothes did people buy when you used to work in JD?

Did you like the clothes they sell and why?

Were they branded or unbranded?

Do you think that the prices of these clothes were over priced, why? Do you know where most of the clothes you buy come from?

What would you say if I told that a lot of the clothes you wear are made in Asia by poor families?

Do you think its right that these poor Asian people have to work long hours for little pay and why?

And finally, what is your favourite brand to wear and why?

Writers

Russell T Davies:
Russell T Davies is a writer who is most famous for writing Doctor Who. He started to get into writing by working on children's TV. He gets his inspiration for writing before he starts to write so he has a clear idea on what his writing will be about. To help Russell create his characters, he uses his instinct and his mind to combine ideas together before he writes about them. When he writes his dialogue, he thinks through better and better ideas to use, this is because he hates lazy writers, so the dialogue has to be the best it can be. With the scene action the he uses, Russell is very specific with his word choices and he only uses three words to describe each character in that scene. Finally he is always on stand by so he can write new ideas down.

Paul Abbot:
Paul Abbot is a writer who is famous for writing Shameless. He started writing short stories for papers and magazines and this is how Paul got into writing scripts. Paul likes to dive into his writing and see where it takes him. He designs his characters on three different people to make one character. This can be one real persons actions, another's looks, and another's personality to combine and make one character for his writing. When writing dialogue he gets ideas from other people. For example if he wants his character from Yorkshire to say something what a Yorkshire man/woman might say, he listens to the accents and the way they say things. When working on scene action Paul tries to keep it simple and obvious for the actor. Paul tries to make the first draft as detailed as possible which takes him a while, but then he can take bits off and trim it down for second and third drafts.

Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain:
Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain are writers who are famous for writing Peep Show. They both got into writing at university where they started writing together. They also did a little bit of work for the BBC, mainly for BBC 4. They try and keep their work to normal office hours (10am until 6pm). When it comes to characters, Armstrong and Bain always have an idea in mind on who they want to play their character even before they have started writing. This means that they can design their characters on the actors themselves, so this allows the process of filming to be easier because the actors will understand their characters better. Also they try to mess around with ideas before they put pen to paper so they can get a clear idea of what they want. When writing scene action they take the actors into consideration. Finally they do lots and lots of drafts to help them finalise their ideas.

Graham Lineham:
Graham Lineham is a writer that is famous for writing the IT Crowd. He started writing and sent his work into producers and they signed him up. Lineham may not write for days when he starts a new project as he likes to know how it will start and finish before he puts pen to paper. When creating a character Graham likes to make the character link to a family life or make a few characters act like they are one big family. When coming up with new ideas, he like to take his time and think things through before he goes ahead and make decisions. With scene action he wants to add some detail as he feels its vital to help out the actor, but tries to keep it as short as possible at the same time. When it comes to first drafts, Lineham always finds the first draft the hardest but every time he finishes it, he knows that the next draft will be easier.

Tony Jordan:
Tony Jordan is a writer that is famous for writing for Eastenders. He got the opportunity to write for Eastenders by writing a spec script and sending it to the BBC. Tony prefers to sit at his computer at certain times of the day because he feels that if he sits at his computer all day, he will get bored and his writing won't be as good. When creating new characters, he mixes and matches with people he has met in real life and tries to recreate their looks or personality into his writing. Tony Jordan likes to work out dialogue for his characters in his head. He does this by imagining the characters saying a line, if it sounds right then he will use it in his writing. With Tony's scene action, he likes to keep it short and simple as he doesn't want to over complicate things. Finally, Tony likes to try and keep his working hours similar to office hours, but often he can't keep to these targets he sets himself because he either works for too long writing or for less time.

Purposes of Interviews

INTERVIEW 1: Top Gear Interview with Michael McIntyre

I think the purpose of this interview was so Michael McIntyre could indroduce himself to a different audience and advertise himself to them. Also I think that another purpose of the interview was to see who well he did driving Top Gear's Reasonably Priced Car, and compare how fast a driver he was compared to other celebrities. I think that this interview was done for reasearch because Jeremy Clarkson wanted to know information about Michael's car history. A research interview is there to give the audience and the interviewer information about a subject.

INTERVIEW 2: Carlos Carvalhal's Post Match Interview vs Arsenal
I think that the purpose of this interview was so Carlos Carvalhal could express his views on the game against Arsenal. He also does the interview so the Sheffield Wednesday fans can see what their manager thinks of the game. I think this interview was done for interpretive reasons because Carlos gives his own views on the match from his perspective. An interpretive interview is there to give the audience and the interviewer a chance to listen to the interviewee's opinions on a subject from the interviewee's perspective.

INTERVIEW 3: Soccer AM Interview With Robbie Savage
I think that the purpose of this interview was so Robbie Savage could talk about life at Derby County F.C. and get his views on previous matches that he has played in. He also does this interview to talk about the type of football he is now compared to a few years ago or other players. I think this interview was done for the enhancement of audience understanding because Robbie wants to let the audience get to know him better as a footballer and journalist. An enhancement of audience understanding interview is there to give the audience and the interviewer a chance to hear what the interviewee has to say on himself and other subjects to allow the audience to understand them better.

Communication Skills

Building Rapport:
You need to build a rapport in an interview so your interviwee with feel relaxed and will be engaged in your questions that you ask them. This helps you build a relationship with your interviewee so you are more likely to get a better response from them.

There are four main things an interviewer can do to help build rapport:

Indroduce yourself to your interviewer-This is similar to confidence building as this generally happens before the interview starts. This is generally making good conversation with the interviewee so it makes them feel more relaxed.

Openness-This is basically how friendly, kind and conversational you are towards the interviewee. This makes the interviewee feel relaxed and comfitable during the interview.

Showing Interest-By showing that you are interested in what the interviewee is saying, you are showing to them that you care about what they have to say. This helps build up your relationship with the interviewee and they will be happier to be interviewed by you next time round.

Appropriate Smiling-This is also a good way of building rapport because it helps create the physical bond between you and the interviewee. It also helps you show interest in the interviewee and shows of your friendly and politness.

A good example of rapport building is this interview between Jeremy Clarkson and Mark Wahlberg. This is good because they have a laugh and a joke to start with and they are both comfitable and smiling all the way through.

Body Language During An Interview:

Body language is very important in good interviews because it shows how the interviewer is feeling during the interview. This may rub off on the interviewee as if they feel like the interviewer isn't enjoying the interview then the interviewee may not enjoy the interview.

Sitting Up Straight

Hand Gestures

Don't Cross Your Arms

Don't Be Aggressive

Active Listening:

This is basically how well the interviewer takes in the information that the interviewee is giving them. This can be affected by these things: 

Making Plenty Of Eye Contact

Don't Keep Looking Down At Your Notes

Make The Questions Seem Interesting

Short Responses After Their Answers

Telephone Techniques:

Often telephone techniques are used for arranging interviews over the phone. But sometimes you can get telephone interviews. This is hard because you can't see the person that you are interviewing so communication is harder. But always stay polite even though its not like a normal interview and say, "thank you for your time". It is also very important to pronounce your words properly because communication is often very poor on the phone. If the interviewer wasn't polite/confident/had poor communication skills, then the person they want to interview may not be up for the interview as they may feel like the interviewer isn't very good. But if they was polite/confident/had/good communication skills, then the interviewee may want to be interviewed.