8.23 Answers to self-teaching questions: Exercise 1
QUESTION 1:
What are the hooks of Pitch 1 and Pitch 2?
Answer:QUESTION 2:
Pitch 1: A revolutionary substance, developed originally for neutralisation of poisonous gases, will now clean polluted air in our homes.
Pitch 2: Viruses that eat bacteria can heal incurable diseases.
What information is excessive in the two pitches?
Answer:QUESTION 3:
Pitch 1: Probably the paragraph “Thanks to a complicated technology called anatas modification of titanium dioxide (TiO2), researchers at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the company Rokospol, have created a substance that triggers photocatalysis (a reaction that uses light to split organic substances), to significantly reduce the amount of harmful elements in the air (within 10 hours by approximately 10 per cent) and transform them into harmless water and carbon dioxide.” can be reduced to: “Thanks to a new technology, researchers at the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the company Rokospol, have created a substance which significantly reduces the amount of harmful elements in the air and transforms them into harmless water and carbon dioxide.”
Pitch 2: We can do without the historical context: “As early as 1896 Ernest Hankin observed that the water from the Indian river of Ganges prevents the spread of cholera. Later Félix D’Hérelle explained that the cause is a virus which he called a “bacteriophage” or bacteria-eater.”
Can you think of additional sentences in these pitches that show that you have not only talked to one expert and that you can judge the scope of this topic?
Answer: Many answers are possible, but here are two suggestions:QUESTION 4:
Pitch 1: “I would like to mention that the company involved is still testing the new materials. They would like to have a product on the market soon, and this seems to be realistic. I am also currently trying to find an expert who can tell me which kind of regulations and legal requirements a new product of this kind would need to meet.”
Pitch 2: “Researchers in other countries are also pursuing this new research path. But the Polish are among the first to do a clinical study.”
(Of course you can only write something here that you really have researched and understood. Never write a pitch that is too boastful. Editors are smart and may find out.)
Make a list of the possible visuals you will need to collect in order to explain these stories to a viewer. Include all people, animals, activities, locations, archive footage, photographs, graphics and describe in detail what you hope and expect the viewer to see.
Answer:
Many answers are possible.
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