Sunday, 26 February 2012

The Message: Fake Stories

The opening shots of The Message trailer are some stories showing Alex's work, awards she has won etc, printed in 'her' paper, titled 'The Daily Gazette'. The secondary stories relate to events by some of the victims. From a review of Robin McCarthy's new book, to the announcement of a new medicine (relating to Robert King), and a story about how Kurt Allen helped England win the Hockey World Cup. Apart from the first paragraph, the writing is stock due to the audience not seeing the text clearly. A mistake picked up later on in production was found: 2 articles had the same article text, but again this is not really noticeable.
These are the covers and certificates:
Certificate for Alex winning the 'Reporter of the Year' at the NJA's (National Journalist Awards), a fictional awards ceremony also mentioned in one of the reports.

A report where Alex's newspaper wins 5 press awards, of which Alex wins 2. The secondary headline is an exclusive review of Robin McCarthy's book 'Almost Midnight'. Robin is the 2nd victim, who is poisoned while writing the follow-up to this.

This relates to the certificate, where Alex wins Journalist of the Year, for the 4th time. The secondary article is about the miracle medicine keeping Robert King alive, although this is more subtle, as the article makes no mention of King, nor do we see King take the wrong medicine.


This is the final article, showing which reports Alex winning 3 BAFTA's for a current affairs show presented by her. The secondary story is on Kurt Allen captaining England in a 4-0 win at the Hockey World Cup.

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