Monday, February 20, 2012

Presentation 2: Treatment Writing Component

Treatment 1:

1. Author Name: Lay Mei

2. Title of Show: Coffee talks with the world language and culture

3. Format of Show:Talks show

4. Target Audience: All age group

5. Opportunity or Problem Addressed: To understand language in different culture have differences and how language be used to understand the culture of others.

6. Desired Response: Awareness from people all around the world

7. Logline: Do you know that languages in different culture have differences?In this shows, we will invite people all around the world to share their common language and culture. Lets see the differences.

8. Themes: Reality-based

9. Treatment:
Coffee talks with the world language and culture is a talks show which will invite people all around the world. People from Asia, western and European country will be the guests and share with the audience about their language and culture in their country. At the beginning of the talks show, the host will first asking the guest do they aware that language do have differences. From what they have seen and know, the guest will share and discuss with other guests about their language. Besides, the guests will also teaching the audiences to learn and speak their language.

During the shows, the guest from Asia, western and European country will tell the audiences how many language they know and the guests will share their experiences in learning other languages. Additionally, the guests will also share with the audiences about learning more languages is very useful because they can used language to understand the culture of others. The guest from Japan tell the audience about people in their country like to nod even they don't agree on something.

Before the end of the show, a video about the language and culture of few country will be show to the audiences in order to bring a deepest understanding. In every episodes,15 minutes will be given to the audience for asking question. The guests will answering the question and the show will be end.

Episodes 1: Introduction of the show and started to introducing the guests. Then the host will starting to ask question toward the guest about the language difference in their culture.

Episodes 2: This episodes will discussing about the culture of every guests. The guests from Asia, western and European country will showing a few video clips which describing about the culture of their country.

Episodes 3: Every guests will teach the audiences to speak their country language and learning to know about their culture.


Treatment 2:
1. Author Name: Lay Mei

2. Title of Show: Game with language

3. Format of Show: Game Show

4. Target Audience: All age group

5. Opportunity or Problem Addressed: To increase the learning and understanding of different languages

6. Desired Response: People can learning more languages

7. Logline: Learning, understanding and enjoying languages to a new level

8.Themes: Reality-based

9.Treatment:
The Game show opens with the host introducing the team members. There are three team and each team is form by 4 people. Team 1 consists of children between the ages of 7-12 years old, Team 2 consists of youngster between the ages of 13-18 years old and Team 3 consists of adult between the ages of 21-26 years old.

The game will be separate into three part and every team must be answering in first and second round. In the first round, the host will be asking a close-ended question about "give an example of word which is same spelling and pronunciation but has different meaning. The team who is most quickly answering the question and giving the correct example will be the winner.

In second round, a voice over will be broadcast. Then, the host will require the team to find out what types of languages it is. After concluding the marks for first and second round, the team who score the first and second highest mark will proceed to the last round.

Come to the last round, the game will bring to outdoor. The two team will need to use the video camera and shoot a three minutes short video. The requirement of the video is the team must have at least 15 languages in speaking the sentences "can you help me". They must record the person who speak "can you help me" in their common languages. The team will be given 20 minutes to complete the video, the team who can complete and submit the video on time will be the winner. Prizes will be given to the winner by traveling to Bali.

Treatment 3:
1. Author Name: Lay Mei

2. Title of Show: Caucasian study life in China

3. Format of Show : Reality Television series

4. Target Audience: All age group

5. Opportunity or Problem Addressed: To examine whether learning more languages can get deepest understanding on culture of others.

6. Desired Response: The audience can learn through the language and culture of China

7. Logline: An interview with the student that reviews of their experience studying mandarin in China.

8. Themes: Reality-based

9.Treatment:

An interview with the student from western and European country about their reviews in studying mandarin in China. It will started with the student spend a semester abroad with The Education Abroad Network in China wandering hidden "hutongs" in Beijing or marveling at the majesty of Shanghai's Bund. They are prepare to slurp noodles with the locals, delight eager schoolchildren with a simple "hello," and even impress themselves with adventurous culinary experiences.

In the period of study mandarin in China, the student have learn on the culture of China such as using chopstick to eat, they use mandarin to communicate with the locals, they look through their Chinese temple and hiking great wall. The student also visit to the local family and see through the traditional Chinese culture.

After few months learning mandarin in China, the student found that Chinese does not oblige its speakers to specify the exact time of the action and they found the same verb form can be used for past, present or future actions. They also found that China people like to use snake, cat and dog meat to cook soup during winter, because they believe that those thing can help them to keep their body warm.

The student conclude that after learning mandarin, they started to know and understand more about the Chinese culture. They feel that Chinese culture is totally different from the culture of their country.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Lay Mei,

    Some suggested viewing:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language

    ReplyDelete