GE Webisode: Features: Olympics 08

Transcript: Features — Olympics 08 - Field Report

Black. Title: NBC AND THE OLYMPIC GAMES PUSHING THE LIMITS The Olympic Insider
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Montage of Scenes of a sign reading "PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA", Chinese citizens marching and carrying the Chinese flag, pedestrians walking though the streets of China, a technical crew working in a control center, and Alan Abrahamson walking in a hallway with a colleague.
Alan Abrahamson (voiceover):
Each time, you know, I- I walk up to the Main Press Center or the International Broadcasting Center, and I go, wow. It is so incredible backstage what goes on here.
Interior – Room. Medium Close Shot - Alan Abrahamson. The NBC Beijing 2008 Olympic logo hangs on the wall in background continuously throughout scene. TITLE: Alan Abrahamson Reporter and Columnist, NBCOlympics.com
Alan Abrahamson:
You can't believe how busy it gets when the games get going. It gets frantic.
Intercut to Montage of Shots of the Bird's Nest Olympic Stadium and an elite gymnast executing a routine.
Alan Abrahamson (voiceover):
Gymnastics and swimming, finals in the morning, take a small...
Medium Close Shot – Alan Abrahamson.
Alan Abrahamson (continued):
(unintelligible). Then I- then I write, or- or- or doing something on air. And then, I- I get a small break, and then it's...
Intercut to Montage of Shots of a building at nighttime, an elite gymnast executing a routine, and runners racing on a track and reaching the finish line.
Narrator (voiceover) (continued):
emissions...
Montage of man pushing cow manure cart, rickshaw driver pulling cart of cow manure, workers emptying carts.
Alan Abrahamson (voiceover) (continued):
nighttime. Because you either have swimming, gymnastics, or something. So it's really go, go, go.
Medium Shot – Alan Abrahamson holding a press pass and a cup of coffee. Alan Abrahamson raises the cup of coffee, then the press pass.
Alan Abrahamson:
Two things that make things go at the Olympics. Here's number one. Coffee. Without it, we're dead. This is number two.
Medium Close Shot – Alan Abrahamson holding his press pass.
Alan Abrahamson:
This is what you need to show all the time. You lose this, you're toast.
Montage of Shots of roadside buildings and scenery passing at nighttime.
Alan Abrahamson (voiceover):
This is my, uh, home away from home...
Interior – Alan Abrahamson's Office. Medium Shot - Sign on wall, "ALAN ABRAHAMSON, JOSHUA C. RAMO, 1.02/204."
Alan Abrahamson (voiceover) (continued):
my home during the Olympics.
Medium Shot – A laptop on a desk. Camera zooms out, revealing Alan Abrahamson in from off-screen left.
Alan Abrahamson (off-screen/on-screen):
But it doesn't need to be fancy. Really, it just needs to have, it needs to have an electrical outlet and a wireless, or- or- or an Internet connection and we're ready to rock and roll.
Intercut to Montage of Shots of articles on the NBC Olympics Web page and Alan Abrahamson's blog.
Alan Abrahamson (voiceover):
I'll probably write somewhere between fifty and a hundred stories while I'm here at the Olympic games. And blogging.
Interior – Room. Medium Shot – Alan Abrahamson.
Alan Abrahamson:
What I am most excited to write about is the thing I don't know yet.
Intercut to Montage of Shots of Olympic athletes hugging and celebrating during emotional moments at the Olympic games, and carrying the Olympic flag.
Alan Abrahamson (voiceover):
Someone from somewhere will have a moment that touches everyone's heart, and that's the moment that you, that you spend your...
Medium Shot – Alan Abrahamson.
Alan Abrahamson (continued):
professional sports writing life waiting for.
Montage of Scenes in Beijing, of a building, pedestrians passing on a sidewalk, and the Great Wall of China.
Alan Abrahamson (voiceover):
It's genuinely a thrill and a privilege to be in Beijing.
Black. Title: (Olympic Logo) (GE Logo) Beijing 2008. WORLDWIDE PARTNER. Fade Out to Black.
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