Documentary and Commission - SCRIPT CONCEPT 4 - POST SHOOT Shadowing script

Documentary and Commission - SCRIPT CONCEPT 4 - POST SHOOT Shadowing script

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EW-MW Various, Medway metro area, Map including london, MW Trains from london, historical still-Charles Dickens.	INTRO p1 COMM: The Medway Area, you may know it as a dormitory for London, a historic Naval port, or the home of Charles Dickens. This metropolitan area houses over 247,000 permanent inhabitants, and is a part of the Grater London Megalopolis which stretches from London in the north, all the way down to Ramsgate.	10s
SEQ: comparative images of urban scenes with tranquil meadows and scrubland/	COMM: But, it isnt all urban jungle. surrounded on almost all sides is an area of dense natural scrub and grassland, an area protected from the gradual urbanisation of the south east. This, is Hidden Medway	10s
Intro sequence	INTRO SEQUENCE: TITLE: HIDDEN MEDWAY	30s
SEQ: describing the medway smile, graphics and sat images showing Medway layout and the Smile project's boundaries.	COMM: The Medway smile is squeezed between the towns of Aylesford, Snodland, Halling and Cuxton to the west, the Medway conurbation to the north, and the Maidstone area to the south, with its easterly-most point near Stockbury.	10s
TOTAL DUR	TOTAL DUR	60s
SEQ: Satelight map, highlight specific, labelled wildlife preserves within the smile, zoom out to a wider view then highlight the Smile's catchment area.	COMM: The Medway smile is a part of what's known as “the living landscapes project”, instead of singular, protected sites, the project aims to protect larger, more complete biospheres-	10s
SEQ: the Medway river, graphics of its route ,graphics about its history, old photographs, industrial history ect.	COMM:The area gets its name from the river Medway, which runs from the High Weald in Sussex, through Tonbridge, Maidstone, The Smile,and then through the heavily industrialised Medway conurbation, Before finally emptying into the Thames estuary.	15s
SEQ: varios shots of wildlife from KW's HQ	COMM: This mixture of river valleys, floodland and marshes provide a unique biosphere, with some of the best examples of British riverside life available country-wide, a Green Gem in the middle of this south-eastern megalopolis.	10s
SEQ: satelite/map view zooming in on our location	COMM: Today We've been given the honour of shadowing a group of Kent wildlife's volunteers as they maintain one of the many nature reserves in the smile.	10s
SEQ: various shots of the volunteers working.	COMM: The volunteers at Kent Wildlife perform a vital job, their work ensures the continuation of thousand year old ecosystems, sometimes even bringing back the nearly lost. Today the volunteers are mending a fence, something that to an uneducated eye may seem unimportant, we talked with the lead Ranger to find out just how important this piece of possibly innocuous work actually is.	20s
ACTUALITY: ranger talks about fence and various shots of the volunteers working.	SYNC: PTC by Lead Ranger, describing the importance of the fence.	45s
	TOTAL DUR	170s
SEQ: graphics describing the reason for the fence	COMM: The fence in question acts as a boundary to a holding area for the cows whom live on the land here, the cows are moved from the north field to here via the lower pasture, its important to rotate the cows to allow for the chalk grass to properly develop. So we followed the ranger down to the current home of their herd, to get a bit of a tour of the area	20s
ACTUALITY: ranger talks and walks, explaining the chalk grass ecosystem	SYNC: Ranger walking and talking about the hillside ecosystem and important flowers	300s
ACTUALITY: ranger and various cow shots	SYNC: Ranger describes the cows and their stuff	60s
ACTUALITY: shots of particular field, the piles of wood etc.	SYNC: Ranger talks about the grassland where the cows have been moved, the piles of wood etc.	60s
SEQ: walk back to the work site, sequence of the volunteers working.	COMM:Once we returned to the work site we found the crew hard at work installing the new fence, working to a rhythm that may have been heard by generations before us.	120s
SEQ: various shots, scenery wildlife and interesting plants.	Various wildlife and scenery shots overlaid to the sounds of the work site.	300s
ACTUALITY: shots of tea being made, then walking back way from the site.	COMM:shortly after the tea break we caught back up with the ranger to find out more of the sites history. She led us to an area of the site that reflects its role in world war one.	20s
SEQ: shots of the remains of the trenches intercut with historic imagery and archive footage.	COMM/SYNC: ranger talks about the trenches and their role in training for world war one.	120s