1 Use the following fact sheet to write a standard format news script, complete with director's instructions. (For your convenience, standard script blanks are provided at the end of this exercise.) Consult the scene break- down so your script will match the visuals as edited. Commonly used abbreviations are: * Est. LS = Establishing long shot CU = Close-up = MS Medium shot MLS == Medium long shot MCU = Medium close-up LS = Long shot Story #1: Threshing Bee Facts: This weekend (today) Platte County Fairgrounds Platte City, Mo. Twentieth Annual Old Fashioned Threshing Bee and Picnic. Dozen old time threshers McCormick Deering, John Deere International Harvester, Wilson's Thresher, showing how it used to be in the good old days 600 people attending the day film shot and aired machines (including dozens of old tractors... some with spoke wheels dating back to 1900) all makes and descriptions... most still running machines circling the block square fairground serving watermelons homemade ice cream barbecue beef many people brought tents and sleeping bags to stay overnight many old timers fairgrounds clogged with smoke old timers said the air still has a "clean smell" Photographer burned shirt as hot soot and sparks drifted through air no admission charge car races at night little boys impressed with the old machines and tractors some women wore sunbonnets. (Script should fill :47 total time.) BREAKDOWN SHEET Scenes Scene Length AT* LS MCU - establishing shot fairgrounds with steam engine visible man taps throttle; series of rapid cuts shows 04 04 11 15 machine speeding up, belt running, etc. MS man feeds bundles oats from truck into thresher with pitchfork Cutaway - people (some "old timers" in straw hats) standing around watching 880 08 02 25 22 23 MS threshing machine and man operating it LS smoke pours from thresher; man pitches oats into hopper (he's in a "T" shirt) 08 880 06 31 39 LS straw shoots onto pile 05 LS- fairground 03 655 44 47 *Accumulated Time