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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world- Called ‘Syria: Agony of victims of
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‘napalm-like’ school bombing.’
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Pictures
BBC template with the text: ‘The
following report contains some
disturbing images’.
GV Exterior. EWS view of camp.
V/O
V/O The following report contains some
disturbing images.
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WS young boy playing in a field with –but the gates are closed and the people
barbed wire.
here can’t travel the final few meters to
safety.
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WS doctors backs walking to camp.
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WS Camera films doctors from
Doctors: “No water?” “No there’s no
front as they walk towards the camp. water apparently”.
This is Atmeh camp in northern Syria –
right on the border with Turkey
Two British doctors two thousand miles
from home.
(The doctors keep talking in the background
under the following narration):
V/O They’re here because they want to
bring relief to the near five million people
in Syria who’ve lost their homes after the
brutal conflict that rages here.
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GV View of camp. Close up on two
young Syrian boys.
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WS doctors surrounded by children.
The doctors are working with ‘Hand in
hand for Syria’
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WS Syrian girl/child walks holding
her toddler on her hip.
–a UK charity that helped set up the
camp. (Doctor’s talking in background stops).
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Interior. MS of baby crying.
Baby crying.
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GV -WS interior -tent.
V/O Every tent holds a tragic story.
Ahkmed’s six year old daughter was
killed,
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Two-shot of twins crying.
his home destroyed by government war
planes –his wife was pregnant with twins
at the time.
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WS Shot of baby from their level &
from foot angle (CU).
PTC / VOX POP In Arabic Ahmed says
(translation in subtitles):
WS Shot of baby from side, their
“We don’t have electricity, we don’t have
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baby milk. We don’t have cash. We don’t
have anything.
MCU Profile of Ahmed talking –his
family in the background.
Exterior. WS Ambulance drives
past.
Only God knows what will happen”.
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(Exterior but shot from interior of
the car). WS POV of driver –drive
down road.
V/O Travelling around Syria has never
been more dangerous
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MS -two doctors in car.
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WS Car in front.
–both foreign journalists and aid workers
have been targeted,
some have been killed.
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WS Different shots of rebel/man
holding gun –shot from inside car.
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WS Shot out of window –car driving V/O (Ian Pannell speaks directly to camera)
This is, um, an
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PTC Ian Pannell in the car talking
(includes shots of the driver’s POV
& the view out of the back of the
car).
PTC ISIS group –Islamic state of Iraq
and Syria- this is a state affiliated with AlQaeda –increasing numbers of jihadis
have come into Syria –they’re setting up
checkpoints so it means that any
foreigners in particular travelling round
the country run the gauntlet of these
checkpoints every few miles or so –and
the worst thing about driving around is –
you’re never sure what lies behind the
next corner.
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Interior. GV/WS of inside of
hospital with British doctors walking
through
V/O Last month we were filming the
doctors working at this hospital
Exterior. WS Car arriving. WS
Stretcher comes through. WS Shot
of patients on the floor. WS Doctors
working around patient.
when victims of an incensory bomb
attack on a school playground started
pouring in –their burns suggest that the
bomb was filled with a napalm-like
substance.
Interior. WS Footage of doctors
working around patient continue.
I/V (Dr Rola Hallam): “It’s just absolute
chaos and carnage here, um, we’ve has a
massive influx of what look like
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Ambulance siren.
Rival rebel factions now fight each other
as well as the government and more and
more foreign extremists are vying for
control.
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Exterior. MCU Dr Hallam
–the ambulance & people in the
background.
serious burns, it seems like there must be
some sort of chemical weapon –I’m not
really sure.”
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Exterior. Night –VWS dimly lit
footage of Dr Ahsan talking.
I/V (Dr Saleyha Ahsan): “Today was like
something out of flippin
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Interior. GV/WS hospital at night –
lights being turned out.
Armageddon –out of all the war zones
that I’ve ever been to, today has been by
far the worst”.
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V/O One of the most haunting images
was that of
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GV/WS Footage of victims in the
hospital soon after arriving (day).
SEQUENCE Darwish walks past.
WS Camera focuses on Darwish
sitting shivering.
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Cut to another hospital –GV/WS –
enter room –PAN- and slowly
approach Darwish in bed.
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CU of Darwish.
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SEQUENCE Exterior. CU Key in
door unlocks lock. WS Door opens
and man steps through it.
We visited him a few weeks after the
attack –what you’re going to see is
shocking. Described as a hard-working
boy with a smiley face, he has 40% burns
to his body.
PTC (Ahmed Darwish speaks in Arabic –
translation subtitles shown below):
“I’m in a lot of pain. I had a fever all
night long. Now my neck and shoulder
really hurt. Why bomb us when we are at
school? Why?”
V/O Doctors expect Ahmed to survive
but say it will take weeks before he’s
discharged.
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CU Shot of used bomb remains. CU
Shot of burnt school book. MCU
Shot of burnt trainers. WS Pan from
sky to burnt ruins on floor. WS/GV
Shot of children’s swing/empty
playground.
Many of the other children injured in the
attack are also struggling to recover.
Victims of a war that shows no sign of
ending and unable to forgive or forget
what’s happened here. Ian Pannell, BBC
News -in Northern Syria.
Second report -ITV:
http://www.itv.com/news/2013-0930/empty-classrooms-in-damascusas-syrias-deadly-civil-war-continues/
ITV: Called ‘Eyewitness accounts of a
Damascus attack’.
Pictures
13 year old Ahmed Darwish. He was the
young boy shaking uncontrollably.
V/O
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Interior. GV/WS Shot of children
clapping and singing –filmed from
behind/diagonal.
Cont.
Children clapping and singing.
suburb of Zamalka. Filmed in early
August –a few days before Assad’s army
struck it’s toxic blow.
V/O The songs they sing are in praise of
Syria’s rebel warriors.
GV/WS children praying –shot from More clapping and singing.
in front of them.
Cont.
V/O And the prayers call out for the
destruction of their President.
Cont.
Boy prays in Arabic.
V/O But this school is in the doomed
Damascus
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GV/WS school children &
classroom –then PAN round
classroom.
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SEQUENCE WS Footage of
children learning (shot from behind
them) & teacher drawing on
whiteboard.
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Another WS of an empty classroom
–same angle –just devoid of people.
Today the desks are empty.
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WS Footage of western cartoons on
wall –pan of empty classroom.
The western cartoons an incongruous
reminder of children long gone –Zamalka
chemical weapons killed hundreds
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WS empty classroom –shot from
back of classroom. Similar to the
footage previously/part of sequence
(‘Today the desks are empty’).
–ten pupils and two members of staff
from this school among them.
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WS Ali sweeping empty classroom.
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MS Ali speaking.
Ali the caretaker remains to clean empty
classrooms.
(Ali speaks in Arabic –translated to English
via V/O):
PTC & V/O (IV) “Half the people
have been killed, the rest have run” he
tells us.
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Exterior. WS Street -child on bike
rides closer –his friend running
behind him. He gets off the bike &
they stop.
Child talks briefly in Arabic in the street.
V/O If it looks like life is back to
normality, that’s because
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MS of one of the two boys
war has become the norm. These two
friends say they are morning a classmate
MS of the other boy talking (Partly
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TWO-SHOT his friend in the corner and a teacher who died.
of the frame).
Boy speaks briefly in Arabic.
Interior. Shot from above -classroom Children noise in classroom.
of children holding hands and
playing.
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Two mid shots of school girls.
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SEQUENCE Darkened footage of
family taking a wheelchair coming
down the stairs. Another similar shot
from a side angle as reach bottom of
stairs.
For ten year old Kowchar, the descent is
a daily struggle, in her fight to reclaim her
life from the
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Footage of classroom –side view of
teacher writing on the board &
children. Filmed from children’s
level.
bomb attack that nearly killed her.
PTC In Arabic –her father says: “Doctor,
Doctor, Doctor”
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Exterior. Close mid shot of father
outside speaking.
PTC & V/O She wanted to be a Doctor
and she is still keen to study, her father
tells us, but
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Interior. Mid shot of Kowchar in
classroom in wheelchair.
these days she finds it all very hard.
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Pan from footage of classroom at
the children’s level up to the roof
and blocked out windows.
Her basement world offers some
sanctuary but even blocked out windows
cannot insulate entirely from the war
outside.
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Exterior. Kowchar in wheelchair
taken out into the day/down steps.
In another shot other school mates
watch her.
Syria has little room for innocence now
and even those who survive
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Footage of Kowchar in wheelchair as are part of a damaged generation.
John Ray, ITV News,
family help.
V/O So where they can Syria’s school
children are heading underground –down
into cellars to take shelter from the
horrors overhead.
Please note –sorry but there is a small repeat (of the sequence from 0:59) in the
ITV /second report just after 1:07 –this shows up when the document is printed
but not otherwise and Microsoft word is being very temperamental and deleting
whole pages when I try to change it!
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Terms:
EWS –Extreme Wide Shot
VWS –Very wide shot
WS –Wide shot
MS –Medium Shot
MCU –Medium close up
CU –Close up
ECU –Extreme close up
Cut-in
CA –Cutaway
Two-shot
Noddy Shot
Weather Shot
GV –General view
Sequence
I/V –Interview
Vox Pop
POV –Point of view
Analysis in separate document!
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