Editorial Report B

Rough Rough Draft:

Script of Section 2:

• Clips from the roundtable of several studio executives discussing the topic of gender pay disparity.
• "This has become such a problem in the entertainment industry that you have so many women now starting to realize their worth and how much they should be getting paid compared to their male counterparts, that studio executives are willing to pay stars like Jennifer Lawrence much more than they would have originally offered because they see the value of her work and how big of a following she has in the entertainment world."
• Comment from executive Tom Rothman from Sony, that he was more than happy to pay Jennifer Lawrence $20 million for her upcoming movie with them considering her box office numbers.
• "Anybody that's lucky enough to have Jennifer Lawrence in a movie, should be more than happy to write the check."
• Clip of 20th Century Fox CEO, Stacey Snider stating that women "often fall into the pit of wanting to be likeable or nice, whereas men don't seem to have this issue.
• My own comments and statistics from data collected by writer John Green
• "The real pay gap, which has no explained economic reasoning is actually around 4-8%. That's just for the average woman. This can be grossly different from women in Hollywood, who may even be paid less than half that of their male counterpart like what Sienna Miller faced, where she actually ended up walking away from a play due to that very reason. No matter how small the percentage may seem however, it still exists, and women lose $240,000,000 every year to gender discrimination. So how small is that 4% difference now?"

Revised Section:

Topic 1: Celebrity Commentary

• Voice over images of Jennifer Lawrence and screenshot of her pay gap essay published on Lenny.com “Perhaps the loudest voice on the topic most recently, has been that of Jennifer Lawrence. The movie star has voiced her outrage over the pay disparity she suffered from the movie American Hustle when she learned she made less than all of her male co-stars.”
• “And she’s not the only big name in the industry making noise. Other stars like Sandra Bullock, Sienna Miller, Anna Kendrick, Salma Hayek, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Oprah are speaking out. Pay disparity is something Oprah has been much too familiar with working in the industry for as long as she has.
• Video clip of Oprah discussing the pay disparity she faced in 1980 and why she decided to own her own show- She wanted to be the one calling all the shots.

So here's what I changed:

- Well as you can probably tell, the two sections look like they're not even related to each other, and they're not supposed to.

- I ended up deciding to cut this piece entirely. I may end up adding back in some of it, maybe here and there, but it will not have as much time devoted to it and will be more of a background type of reinforcement of what I will be providing as commentary.

- I realized halfway through constructing my rough cut that I had far too many video clips and not enough of me, so I cut a bunch of unnecessary footage.

- I really like the new section and how it ties in big names in Hollywood, especially sharing their personal experience with the pay disparity.