JMC 336 Scriptwriting
Writing Assignment 5
New Reality Television Series
The Fox Network, originator of many reality TV series like America's
Most Wanted, When Animals Attack and World's Scariest
Police Chases that push the envelope of the genre, has lately been
feeling the heat of competition from CBS and NBC for the reality TV
audience. Now a producer has approached
the network with a concept that may put it back on top.
Fox has ordered a one hour pilot for the February sweeps.
The program has the tentative title News of the Weird,
based on the syndicated newspaper column by Chuck Shepherd. Staged as a TV newsmagazine, the
pilot may include categories like "People Different From Us," "Least
Competent Criminals," "Science
on the Edge," "More Things to Worry About," and others from the regular
features in the column. You may use actors or get the actual people
to
reenact real life situations. For details and content, click here.
Your assignment is to write a 500 word treatment that organizes
the show into five segments and explains how to dramatize each of the
vignettes for a prime time television audience, target Persons 18-34.
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