Script

Introduction to the news show;

Chris - Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Essex Online I'm Chris Martin

Steff -  and I'm Steff Preston. One of our top stories today is the increasing prices on train faces and our reporter Joe Brinkman speaks to those who are most affected.

Chris - Here's what they had to say.

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Steff - Our reporter Joe Brinkman also spoke to Head of security at Stanford Le Hope earlier today, Joe talked about where your money is going and what it is being spent on.

Chris - Here it is.

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Chris - Tragic news hit seevic College last Thursday at 4.55pm when teachers of the college rushed to the car park after noticing a car on fire, fire services were called and were there within minutes, shortly after their arrival fire fighters discovered a body inside the car which was ablaze on the campus forecourt.

Steff - Fire fighters contacted police shortly after 5pm and more than 10 police cars rushed to the scene. The body was so badly burnt that investigators were unable to provide an identification, but the body is believed to be a local man in his 40's.

Chris - Shocked students and residents in the area have been reacting to the news on twitter one of their tweets was 'RIP to whoever was in that car at Seevic, absolutely devastating'. Students and teachers at seevic paid their respects with a minute of silence the morning after.

Steff - Plain clothed officers break down the front door of a house in Pitsea after a tip off, officers found a back bed room which had been converted into a cannabis storage room with powerful lighting to help the plants grow, they discovered 32 plants which could have been worth up to £20,000.

Chris - A search of the property uncovered a machete in one of the bedrooms and the bedside table, there were also chunks of cannabis being dried out in kitchen cupboards and in the same room as children's toys.

Steff - A man and a woman were arrested at the house and while the police were collecting evidence a second man arrived in a rented van containing hydroponics equipment, which can be used for growing cannabis. The three people were all arrested but have now been released on bail until april 9th.

Chris - A local taxi driver  aged 77 was ruthlessly attacked on Saturday 8th February at 11.25pm outside Sainsbury's on London Road in Southend by two men in their early twenties, the two men refused to pay the £11 fare so Kenneth Wolfe demanded it and was then badly beaten, then shockingly a third man, who is believed to be homeless, aided the two men on their heartless attack, Kenneth was left with a broken jaw, broken eye socket and missing teeth after the attack. 

Steff - The attackers were white and wearing dark clothing, anyone with information about the attack can call detectives at Southend police station on 101. Thank you.

Chris - Two men were arrested after trying to allure two young teenage girls aged 15 and 16 while they were walking in Rectory Road in Pitsea on 18th February, the white van pulled up beside them and tried to persuade them to get in, the young girls contacted the police, who then searched the area and arrested two men for public order offences, they have been released on bail until march 13th.

Steff - A man is wanted by police on suspicion of aggravated burglary, Alex Stephens, aged 31 has been linked to addresses in Finchley road and Palmerston road in west cliff, as well as Jones close and Chiltern Flats in southend on sea, he is suspected of aggravated burglary at Grampian Flats on Balmoral Road, southend, on december 5th. The picture on the screen shows Alex Stephens, Have you seen him? Do you know his whereabouts? If so please call Detective Layla Barker at Southend on 101.

Chris - Police would like to speak to these two women in connection with a theft at a supermarket in Basildon, these women shown on the screen failed to put all of their items through the self service checkout, they left the store without paying for these items which valued up to £80. The incident happened at 4.30pm on Monday February 10 at Asda in Pipps Hill Retail Park in Miles Gray Road.

Steff - Welcome back to Essex Online, coming up next our presenter Joe Brinkman speaks to Head Mistress at Gabel Hall Dr Asong.

Chris - Here it is.

Gabel hall VT for 3.45 seconds

Steff - A college student has been left paralysed on one side of his body after being stabbed with a chisel in a carpentry class at Prospects College on Southchurch Boulevard in Southend.

Chris - He remains in hospital where doctors fear it will be at least a month before they will know if the paralysis is permanent.

Steff - A 16 year old boy from Basildon appeared at Southend Magistrates' Court charged with inflicting grievous after the incident at Prospects College.

Chris - Prosecutor Lesley Chipps revealed, during the brief hearing, the extent of the boys injuries. She said 'Pieces of wood were thrown towards him and the allegations are that he picked up a chisel and stabbed the victim in the throat with that chisel, receiving very serious injuries as a result of that. It could be a month before doctors know what the implications are, but he is currently paralysed down one side of his body'.


Steff  - The defendant was granted bail and ordered to appear before Southend Magistrates' Court on Thursday 13th February for a plea and case management hearing.

Chris - A student from the school next to the building, Futures Community College, was in one of her lessons when she heard about the tragedy, she said 'It was an extremely scary time in the college and school for all students and teachers, everyone was praying for the boy to be alright, I wasn't in the college at the time but some of us students do have lessons in there, everyone is still hoping the victim is okay and getting the help he needs'

Steff - Our next stories today are on Sports

Chris - Caroline Powell, from Basildon, secured her fourth medal in the Winter Paralympics on Friday morning with a silver medal in the visually impaired womens combined skiing.

Steff - Powell guided Jade Etherington to second place at Sochi as they finished just 0.63 seconds behind Russias Aleksandra Frantceva.

Chris - Southend United are still without a win in 12 games as their push for promotion has taken a massive blow, they failed to beat relegation fighters bury at home, it finished 0-0 at Full Time, in a fairly boring game, the highlight of the game came in the 82nd when Barry Corr got himself sent off and will now serve a 3 match ban. 

Steff - Other local results over the weekend involved Canvey Island drawing 1-1 with fellow promotion chasers, Met Police. Billericay lost 2-0 Margate FC at home, Southends biggest rival, League One side Colchester lost 1-0 away to newly promoted side Crawley and lastly Grays suffered a heavy defeat at home to Carshalton which ended 4-1 to Carshalton. 

Chris - A MAN is in hospital after being stabbed in the chest in Leigh on Monday night.The victim was assaulted in The Broadway and a woman has been arrested over the incident.

Steff - There are police cordons in place at Oakleigh Park Drive tuesday morning as police search for evidence.The man’s injuries are not thought to be life threatening.

Chris- A police spokeswoman said: “A 30-year-old woman has been arrested by police officers following an assault in The Broadway area Monday night around 9.25pm.“A man in his thirties was taken to hospital by ambulance crews with stab wounds to the chest, which are not believed to be life threatening.

Steff - She also said “We can confirm that the two people are known to each other.“There’s a scene guard in place and detectives will be searching the area and conducting house to house enquiries this morning.”

Chris - During February this year, Billy Higgins, six years old from Thundersley, wrote a message, and cast it out to sea in a bottle. The message included his address, and asked that whoever may find it could write back to him.

Steff - Expecting disappointment, Billy had a great surprise when a postcard from Iceland arrived. The postcard read that it was from the 'magical elves', and said that a whale from the ocean had given them the message whilst they were watching the Northern Lights. 

Chris - Mum, Kelly Higgins, said;  “It really does restore your faith in human kind when there is so much rubbish going on in the world.”

Steff - And now for the weather.

Chris - From 5pm today, we have clear skies and mostly sunny all the way to sunset at 18.06pm, at 13 degrees but is supposed to drop down to 8 degrees by 9pm tonight.

Steff - and tomorrow is supposed to be 15 degrees at the highest but mostly windy.

Chris - Thank you for watching.

Steff  - Goodnight.

The garage - Main Character.

Who is your main character and what do they want?

My main character is lonely and nervous and he wants to feel relaxed and loved, he also wants to be more laid back.

What are the obstacles they must overcome to get what they want?

The obstacles are Nazis and other things, they are not going to all be physical obstacles some of them will be mental, things that he thinks he can't do and doubts, these will be most of the obstacles.

In the end, do they get it? Was getting it ( or not getting it) good or bad for them?

Yes, my character does find love and he does also work on himself bait ( mentally and emotionally ), this makes it a better story as its not just him finding love because for all the audience knows that could of been the start of the story but they do know how my character is at first and when they see him in the end he has a family and a wife and is very laid back and relaxed which looks good on him and is good for him.

Why do we care? Whats so damn compelling about this story that u should spend 110 minutes of my life watching it?

You might not care because it might not interest you, but i think its compelling because you have different kind of themes in it like action, history, horror, love, friendship and some more, i also think it would be a good film and inspire young people to believe in themselves as everyone doubts themselves and feels nervous and lonely and it just goes to show that you can find love, friendship and happiness whoever you are. The them of him being a time traveller is also very exciting if I must say :).

What does my main character need? How is this different from what they want?

My character NEEDS to believe in himself and he also needs love in his life this is different to what they want because my character probably WANTS a better job, or a better car and things like that but i try to ignore that as i don't want my character to seem selfish and just cares about the way he looks, my characters NEEDS things that cannot be bought.

Why now? Why is this story happening to my character now?

Because i think it is time for my character to find love and to stop doubting himself.

Running Order

Running time; 20 minutes
Running order;

Essex online Introduction (graphics) - 30 seconds
Presenters introduction - 15 seconds
C2C public VT - 1.30 seconds
Presenters intro to next VT - 15 seconds
Head of Security VT -2 mins 30 seconds
Presenters talking about Seevic incident - 60 seconds
Pitsea raid drug bust - 60 seconds
Taxi driver - 60 seconds
Teenage girls - 30 seconds
Wanted - 30 seconds
Asda theft - 30 seconds
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Gabel Hall intro - 15 seconds
Gabel Hall VT  - 3.45 seconds
School stabbing - 2.00 minutes
Sport -60 seconds
Duck on Skate board - 60 seconds
Weather - 30 seconds
Outro - 30 seconds

Contributors release form

Purpose of Music video - Chris Cunningham.

Chris Cunningham - Purpose of his videos.

Chris Cunningham's videos have all different kind of purposes, but I think the main purpose of his video 'Window licker' is to get people to look at the way men look at women and force them to think about it, this video was very shocking for me to watch and I think that it is a little sexist as the men are looking at women in a way that makes me feel uncomfortable, Chris uses his videos to express his feelings and force people to get to know him, I don't think it is about being liked or disliked, its about how you produce your work in different ways - Chris' videos are shocking to his audience but it is memorable and people will know him for the difference in his videos compared to other peoples. Chris is also advertising his services so that other artists and bands can see what he can do. 

In Chris' other video, 'Come to Daddy' another of Aphex twins, there is another life form in a television and it is being released from it and he huddles children while he is naked, I think that the purpose of this music video was to make people feel uncomfortable and make them realise that its wrong, the purpose is also to entertain the audience as it doesn't have to be happy or sad or anything it can be shocking too, this video makes you think about different things going on in the world, I think Chris' purpose was to express his creativity in a shocking way, but it just shows that you can entertain people with the most shocking scenes. This video is advertising everyone included in it - the film maker, the band, the industry and also the video. I feel like this video has a message about paedophilia and that is also one of the purposes. I think that Chris used this video to show that the media creates monsters in its own way, because the monster is coming out of the TV screen, this made me think a lot about how we influence these things because they are always in our faces and we are forcing people to look at these things.

In 'All is full of Love' by Bjork, Chris expresses his work in a different way as it wasn't so shocking to watch but still a bit uncomfortable, the purpose of this one was to show people that it doesn't matter who or what you love as long as you're happy, it teaches people that it doesn't matter if you're gay or straight as long as you are happy and that you shouldn't care about what other people think, I think this video has a moral to its story and it made me change how I see people and things in the world, that was one of Chris' main purposes in this video.

In all of Chris Cunningham's videos there are many purposes, but the main one is to change peoples views on things even if it makes you feel uncomfortable, all of his videos are very memorable and I think that is another main purpose as it doesn't matter if you're liked or disliked you can still change the views of people in the most shocking ways. All of Chris' videos made me think about different things, some things that are wrong and some things that people think are wrong but aren't. These videos promote Chris, the band/artist and the industry, these videos are like a portfolio of Chris' work and even though they are shocking and made me feel uncomfortable I will always remember them, advertising his work is probably the main reason he does so many shocking things. 

The industries purpose of these videos is to make money and advertise their services to different artists and bands, the industry encourages more people to buy them as they are the ones getting most of the money, when a video accompanies a song it automatically doubles their profit in the financial business as the single will not only be played on the radio and audio only services like iTunes but also on YouTube, music channels and the music charts.


The bands/artists purpose of these music videos is to also promote their songs and make money, I also think it is a way to feel close to their fans as they are giving them a video as well as a song, they're showcasing their music to get liked and get more fans, this will encourage people to their gigs and performances, if they did not have videos to their songs then they would eventually die out in the music industry.

Diary Entry. The Garage

The most important day of their lives before the plot of your film begins. The day that made them who they are.

What is this diary like? - a daily thing, to get this emotions out as he hasn't got many people to talk to.

Optimistic or pessimistic? - optimistic


Martin Freeman. 10th April 2001

Today was the worst day of my life, i found out that my beloved girlfriend of 3 years has been having an affair with another man, i couldn't be more angry with her and myself for falling into it, i promise myself that some day i will find someone who will love me, care for me and most importantly not cheat on me and i will do the same for that person, so thank you Carrie, thank you for helping me realise that  you are not the right person for me but someone out there is.. and you never deserved my love because the right person does. have fun with your new man Carrie. Goodbye.