SCRIPT (preliminary)

NikkeiSeniorGardens

Fortmat: News Magazine (interview)

Treatment: Chroma Key

Talents: Stan Date

Toij Hashimoto

Bruce Louden

Harry Nakada

(see below for additional / replacement talents)

See / Say / Comments
Stan Date / Hello, and Welcome to this presentation on Nikkei Senior Gardens (NSG). Over the past years a dedicated and devoted group of volunteers …. / Music up and faces
We can use the NSG as the Background or something more neutral a first.
Fade to: Stan Date with Toji Hashimoto / “Toji, you are the President of NSG, and as such to have been willing to take on a major project for the Seniors of our Community. Can you tell us a little bit about the NSG and its operations? / Hold the background
Cut to: Toji Hashimoto / “Thank you Stan.” Yes the NSG was created in XXXX by a group of individuals from the San Fernando ValleyJapaneseAmericanCommunity Center to explore the possibility of creating an assisting living facility for our Community. We spent years in researching the prospects and in XXXX we found a way…” / Background changes to the NSG
Cut to: Stan Date looking towards Toji and then turning back to the audience. / “Thank you Toji. Well as Toji pointed out, there is a tremendous task involved in putting together is major complex. So, next I have Bruce Louden, Director of Operations of NSG / Hold the background
Cut to: Stan with Bruce Louden / “Bruce, the task of putting together this major facility, the Assisting Living Facility, involves a lot of work. Can you share some of the tasks that you have at hand?’ / Hold background
Cut to: Bruce / “Sure Stan and thank you for the opportunity to present this project to our community. . . The NSG project will accommodate 86 units, with 11 dedicated to clients with Alzheimer’s. This is a 24/7 assisted living program / Background changes to construction activities
SEE / SAY / Notes
Stand and Bruce / “Thanks Bruce, I sure our viewers will appreciate your dedication and the multitude of tasks that have to take place to finalize the NSG project.
Cut to: Stan / “My next guest is a long-time stalwart of the SFVJACC and Board Member of the NSG, Harry will help us focus on what we as a community needs to do to insure that all goes well with NSG / Background goes back to NSG renderings.
Stan with Harry Nakada / “Welcome Harry and thanks for joining us. Harry, you have been part of the landscape of the San Fernando Valley Japanese American Community for some time. You have a long lists of accomplishments and yet you elected to take on yet, one more, the NSG. Can you give us a little insight into your rationale? / Background:
NSG
Harry Nakada / “Sure, Stan.
As, you look around the community, we find that a vast majority of our membership is getting older. And while we have the NikkeiVillage, the fact of aging makes us look at what’s next?
Does one who has spent their entire life in the Valley have to root-up and go to BoyleHeights, Downtown or elsewhere to live in an assisting living facility?
Right now, the answer is “yes.” But in time we will have a viable option, the NSG….
We will need the continue help of our community though, to bring this project to life. In particular, we can use financial assistance in terms of loans to the project to help us meet the day-to-day functions of the NGS, and I might add, once the project is up and running, these funds will be returned… / Background
NSG
Cut to: Stan / “ Well, there you have it. The San Fernando ValleyNikkeiSeniorGardens, is a project that is underway and soon to be completed. There are still barriers to overcome and with your help it will be done. / Switch back to original background.
Music builds
Fade to Black / End / Credits.

We should consider using Phil Shigekuni in the production to address the issue of “conflicts” and its resolution. This will give us the basis for emphasizing how harmony and cooperation will help save the day.

Stan Date had an excellent suggestion of asking Tamlyn Tomita to serve as the Key Talent… this would be awesome and perhaps possible through Harry Nakada

Stan also asked if it would be appropriate to include major donors such as Mrs. Dixon and Dr. Oda

We want this first video to be within 3-5 minutes so we will have to give this serious thought. We can of course produce a second video and add talent as needed. You input is critical.

Remember, that the comments are just suggestions, using the interview format give us the advantage to edit, cut and insert elements/statements we want to add

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