1. Final Draft Planning – Timeline
and Script
Abigail Menzies
Jodie Foster-Pilia
Pamela Younes
Laura Cuk

2. Montage
Fast
forwarded
close up
shots of
people on
technology
such as
phones,
iPads,
cameras etc
Pan showing
different video
games
Archival photo of
Willy Higinbotham
Cut to clip of tennis for
two
Cut to brief timeline of the
history of video games
• 5 sec archival footage of
each clip
• Order of video games:
Pong
Pac-man
Super Mario bros
Mortal Combat
Sims
Angry Birds
Clip of someone
playing game on
bus
Cut to go animate
clip with voiceover
of presenter
explaining how
video games have
progressed into
genres and the
effect the constant
use of video games
has on players
Voiceover of
presenter
introduces ‘flappy
bird’ while there's
a clip of someone
playing flappy bird
Clip of someone
playing a video
game
on their phone

3. Cut to clip of someone using wii
fit with voiceover explaining the
benefits (include shot reverse
shot and match on action)
Voiceover of presenter
‘Are these effects
becoming a problem or
solution for players’?
(use of sound bridging so it
carries on over the two
clips)
Title of showCut to YouTube of
old man getting
angry from flappy
bird
Cut to public interviews
showing what people
think of flappy bird
Montage

4. 1 min introduction
Presenter
introduces
gender in video
games
Action game title
screen (go anime
writing on board)
Archival footage of an action
game (call of duty)
(whilst presenter explains the
portrayal of gender)
Adventure game title
screen (go anime
writing on board
Archival footage of an
adventure game (while
voiceover explains the
portrayal of gender)
Role play title screen
(go anime writing on
board)
Archival footage of a role-play
game (while voiceover explains the
portrayal of gender)
Public interviews
Public
interview
Purpose Title screen
(go anime)
Own footage of
someone playing the
Wii fit
Public interview
discussing gender in the
wii fit

5. 2 min development
Presenter
introduces
gender
representation
Cut to footage of blurred
lines music video &
explain how gender
representation in shown
in the media
Cut to footage of mr muscle
advert and explain how
gender representation is
shown in the media
Presenter introduces
debate regarding
whether or not
gender representation
video games has got
better or worse
Cut to Public
interview
Cut to archival footage and archival
footage of the game last of us and
explain how gender is portrayed Cut to archival footage
and archival footage of
the GTA and explain
how gender is
portrayed
Cut to archival photo
and footage of tomb
radar and explain how
gender Is portrayed
Public interviews showing
whether or not women in
video games are shown
provocatively
Cut to expert interview
with sociologist

6. 2 min development
Cut to presenter who
introduces experiment
Cut to Experiment, while
there is a voiceover
introducing the players, and
the question they will be
asked
Cut to each individual from
experiment answering the
question about gender
representation
Clip of interviews while
voiceover explains that
after the break we will
be continuing with
interviews
Cut to public
interview

7. Script

8. Script