ESting Planning

Estings - Set Design

This is the set design for my original idea for the Estings until I changed my mind and used the penguin idea. The location is the top of a city. The buildings will be made of cardboard and separately cut out so that the character can fly in front of some and behind others.

Estings - Sound Design

I originally wanted to use Frank Sinatra - Pennies from Heaven as the soundtrack but due to the copyright problems I had to find a royalty free song with a similar sound. I planned to use a piano smash sound for when the E4 logo fell onto the penguin for comedy humor. I managed to find a piano smash sound on a copyright free sound effects website.

Estings - Synopsis

The Esting opens with a penguin in an icy setting with a microphone in front of him on a stand.  Instrumental music begins to play and the penguin opens his mouth to begin to sing. Before he begins to sings the first note the E4 logo falls onto him and squashes him and cracks the ice under him.

E4 - Report

E4 is a television channel available in the United Kingdom. It is a 'spin-off' channel from Channel 4 and started on 18th January 2001. The programmes shown on E4 are mainly US imports of old and current shows. These include; Friends (Crane, 1994), Ugly Betty (2009), Smallville (Gough,2001), Scrubs (Lawrence, 2001), How I Met Your Mother (Bays, 2005) and British shows such as The Inbetweeners (Beesley, 2008) and Shamless (Abbott, 2004). E4's most popular broadcast was an episode of The Inbetweeners (Beesley, 2008) which was viewed by 3.7 million people. On 16 December 2004, Channel 4 announced that the subscription channel would return to digital terrestrial television. From its launch until the closure of ITV Digital it was available as a bonus subscription channel.
    E4s primary target audience is male and female teenagers and young adult, this is evident by all the sit-coms and dramas that are aired because they were originally made for a teenage/young adult audience. E4 appeals to both male and female viewers as some of the shows such as Ugly Betty (, 2009) are aimed at girls and some shows such as Smallville (Gough,2001) are aimed at males

My EStings Idea

My idea would be suitable for an E4 esting because it has comedy elements that reflect the shows that are broadcast on that channel. My esting will also contain the E4 logo towards the end as the main purpose of estings is to show the audience what channel they are watching.