Single - Devised Unit (CP) - Blog 20 - 26/02/16

Today, we began searching for headlines for which we could edit and use in our projection. This began with us searching the internet for headlines but a great deal of them weren't what we needed. They either featured a location which wasn't the one where we're basing our piece in (not North London) or they weren't worded in a way which makes it easy for us to cut. In the end we found one headline which will do for now but if we need another at all, we can always search for one in our own time. Below is the headline we found very useful:

We can add onto the end something along the lines of ":result of suicide." Which would be part of the big reveal.

After this we spent time trying to find news reports on suicides. We found a few but the mention of suicide was mostly in the middle of the reporter's sentences as opposed to the beginning/end. Instead we looked up text-to-speech to read out our news reports. We found one website (Oddcast) which provided very life like voices and after trying out a few sentences to hear how the voices sounded, we decided that this would be the website we would get our reports from.

Next lesson, we will record our text-to-speech news reports and focus on the order of events in our piece.