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o Anastasia Trofimova o Raneem Meknas
 * Group Members:**

//Raneem//: second year student, double majoring in Art and Art History and CCIT. She works with film editing for design courses and artworks. Raneem worked in the newspaper industry as well as a graphic designer, teacher, and currently is a work-study student at the Blackwood Gallery, UTM. Raneem has been exposed to many documentary and spoof advertising through galleries of Toronto and will to apply some of the concepts she has learned from her experience.
 * Individual skills:**

//Anastasia//: third year student, specializing in VCC (CCIT) and majoring in Political Science. Experience with filming, acting and video editing in Adobe Premiere, Avid Xpress Pro. She has written several articles for the UTM-based newspaper, “The Medium”. Anastasia is currently working on a documentary about Lebanon and is learning photography.


 * Title**: The Way of the Fox


 * Concept**: expose the fact that news broadcasts in general, and Fox broadcasts in specific are not truthful.

o Expose facts behind the bias and sponsorship of news. o Spread awareness and resolve some aspects of the biased newscasts.
 * Goals**:


 * Audience**: Everyone in some way in general, TV viewers in specific.

We want our audience to be objective and careful in believing the news, Fox in particular.
 * Key message:**

o Election time in the USA 2004, Fox news was the first broadcast to declare the results of the Gore-Bush ballot count, even before the counting was over. Use clips of real video mixed with behind-the-scenes prebroadcast arrangements. o Written evaluation analysing the issue of news bias.
 * Content**:

Both real and fabricated video materials.
 * Media**:

//Why this medium//? We choose to work with video because this is the medium that the issue of Fox network bias was best seen on.


 * SCHEDULE**:

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 * Week 1:**
 * Research clips from Fox news
 * Find a specific clip from the election day
 * Make an advertisement to look for actors/actresses
 * Think of an overall script
 * Check out available rooms to shoot the clip

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 * Week 2:**
 * Analyse the data from the research write a finalized script
 * Getting needed props
 * Finalize the room
 * Finalize actors
 * Finalize script with actors

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 * Week 3:**
 * Begin shooting the clip
 * Finish up the written analysis
 * Work on the website

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 * Week 4:**
 * Editing film
 * Editing paper
 * Edit website

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 * Week 5:**
 * Putting everything together
 * Submit the project :)

o Fox News o books about the news truth o http://www.upcheer.com/images/foxnews/
 * Bibliography**:

Fox video broadcast
 * Visual/conceptual references**:


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