Final Film:
Satire is defined as “the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticise people’s stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.”
For my final project I’ve chosen to do a satire based on shows like The day today, Brass eye and The mash report. My film hopefully will have 4 elements of news satire: Reporter Links in the style of BBC documentaries and monty python, ‘interviews’ with professional people who know nothing, a 1 on 1 political style interview and ‘opinions’ from the ‘public’.
I only came up with the idea for this film on Monday (19/11) and I have rushed to write/make it. If I had more time I would of been able to focus more on the script and produce something more complex but with the time I had, was better then expected.
Film first ideas: here
Freddie script finished: here
Freddie Video: here
Gamer script finished: here
Gamer video: here
Democratic Swearing People’s Party script finished: here
Democratic Swearing Peoples Party video: Here
Brexit ‘popshots’ videos: here
Breaking news script finished: here
Breaking news video: here
Reporter links video: here
Dead Cat videos: here
inspiration for video: brass eye, the day today, not the nine o’clock news, monty python, the mash report… etc
Brass Eye, the channel 4 program that aired in 1997 with a one off in 2001, is the my biggest inspiration for my video. The show, created by the comedian, satirist and director Chris Morris, was a 30 minute satirical look on social issue in particular the sensationalism by the media. The most famous of these was the 2001 special entitled ‘Peadogeddon’ which looked at the peadophilia, moral panic and the name and shame campaigns ran by newspapers. In the episode they had roped in celebrities to advertise a fake charity called ‘nonce sense’. clip from that episode: here
The mash report is a modern take on the news satire format, being “the only fake news show”. Similar to brass eye with the inclusion of real news presented in a comical way. Clip from series 1: here
The day today was created by Chris Morris (Brass Eye) and Armando Iannuccci (The death of Stalin), the original British news satire which saw the likes of Rebecca Front, Doon Mackichan, Graham Linehan and Steve Coogan (the latter creating the iconic character of Alan Partridge.) Clip from show: here
I just spent 3 hours editing to not save it properly and to lose all my work minutes before the deadline.
Final video uncensored: here
Final video censored (main edit): here
The final video isn’t as good as the edit I lost. Its a bit rushed and clunky.
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