#operation splash

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April 9th

OS ABout Video 

Working on the script again- checked email and Eileen posted this version of the script 

BEACH SHOT People are on the beach and throwing trash in the water. VOICE OVER When people say oceanic pollution is this what you think about? CUT TO: BEACH SCENE 2 Teenagers are drinking and throwing bottles in the bay VOICE OVER And probably this too right? BEACH NIGHT SCENE People are partying at the beach. The party finishes and they leave debris in the beach. FADE TO BLACK VOICE OVER Or maybe even this... CLOSE UP LONG ISLAND AREA Someone is walking through the street eating a bag of chips. They finish the bag of chips and throw the bag into the ground next to the trash. Person shrugs it off and keeps walking away. CLOSE UP SEWAGE DRAIN Chip bag blows away into the sidewalk. It gets pushed by peoples feet and ends up in the sewer. CUT TO: VOICE OVER But do you think of the ocean when you do this?. BAY FADE IN: A person is walking on the beach and picking trash out of the bay. FADE TO: OPERATION SPLASH OPERATION BASE VOICE OVER Operation Splash was started with one goal in mind- to help stop waterfront pollution on Long Island. CUT TO: Background shots of the Operation splash office. VOICE OVER SPLASH volunteers have removed over 1.5 million pounds of debris since 1990. This exclusively volunteer based organization was established 25 years ago in Freeport, LI. Background shots of the bay and boat cleaning. SPLASH volunteers patrol the South Shore, Long Island urban waters removing debris, monitoring and identifying pollutants as well as their sources. CUT TO: Shot of people cleaning the bay in the boat. With the leadership of talented and environmentally passionate marine tradespeople, educators and business owners, SPLASH has remained focused on its mission and produced extraordinary results. Our mission is to spread empowerment in hope to inspire others to help our communities’ environment. All it takes is one small step, and together we can change the world.

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April 7th

Operation Splash Twitter

tweeting three times a day

one tweet will be themed by day- to show people what they are missing by not helping, show them all the bay has to offer

one tweet can be a video, quiz or other type of media - an interactive way to get involved with followers aside from retweets and favorites.

one tweet will be current events occurring with the environment, os headquarters, meetings, etc.- giving followers the information they want and need to help further the group.

Our goal is to have members get clear and concise information from the twitter of OS. The first few weeks we will be sending out all these different types of information and keep track of what gets more favorites retweets and replies. Once we are aware of what the followers want to see we will post accordingly to that. We will also get your followers up and help you get in contact with more environmental groups on twitter. Twitter will be linked on all other social media pages.

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April 2nd

OS About Video 

*Start with seeing people on the beach and throwing trash in the water*

voice: When people say oceanic pollution is this what you think about?

*Kids-Teens drinking throwing bottle in the bay*

voice: and probably this too right?

*show people leaving debris from a party on the beach and fade to black*

voice: or maybe even this

*fade up to the long island area someone walking through the street eating a bag of chips and throwing trash on the ground next to a garbage pail. Person shrugs it off and keeps walking away. Bag is blown by the wind to a sewage drain. (weather permitting) Or chip bag gets pushed by peoples feet and ends up in the sewer.*

voice: But do you think of the ocean when you do this?

*fade in of one person walking on the beach and picking trash out of the bay fade to Operation Splash operation base*

Voice: Operation Splash was founded with one goal in mind- to help stop waterfront pollution on Long Island.

*go from closeup of water to zooming out and seeing a boat on the bay with the operation splash logo* 

SPLASH volunteers have removed over 1.5 million pounds of debris since 1990.

*Footage with volunteers cleaning up the bay and start to go inside splash head quarters*

This exclusively volunteer based organization was established 25 years ago in Freeport, LI.

*Continue filming in the first area of splash head quarters. The one with the boats ( not where we had our meeting)* 

SPLASH volunteers patrol the South Shore, Long Island urban waters removing debris, monitoring and identifying pollutants as well as their sources.

*Go back to footage of the bay as we have people walking around, most likely a nice day, make it look like a vacation style spot to volunteer.*

With the leadership of talented and environmentally passionate marine tradespeople, educators and business owners, SPLASH has remained focused on its mission and produced extraordinary results.

*Video of founders leading a meeting or see if we could film them while they are at a school.* 

Our mission is to spread empowerment in hope to inspire others to help our communities’ environment. All it takes is one small step, and together we can change the world.

*kind of a flash montage of video footage that we capture at the bay and stop at a picture of the operation splash main team. picture should be them in front of the boat with the logo clearly visible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4INXJ70DLyQ (like 1:38 on in this video) *

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Updated Version of script (from class)

Opening Scene

Son

[off camera / during fade in from black]

Jayden: Mommy, mommy hurry up lets go!

[B-Roll In kitchen, early morning, sun lit]

Cut to:

Darcie smiles and continues to prepare food to bring to the beach.

(Voiceover: from child perspective):

Every year Thousands of pounds of garbage make its way into Long Island waterways.

[B-Roll, Getting in car]

They both walk out of the house to the car. Darcie lifts her son into the back, car seat. She buckles him up and closes the door and gets into the driver seat. As they pull out of the driveway, Darcie drops a piece of garbage into the street.

(Voiceover: from child perspective):

Many people don’t realize most of this trash reaches the ocean through our storm drain and sewer system.

Cut

[B-Roll, Sunny day at beach, Jayden happy, seagulls flying in the distance]

Darcie and her son pull up to the beach and make their way to the water’s edge. Her son is more and more excited as they approach the water. As they step foot on to the beach they see that the beach is deserted and that it is full of trash.

Darcie's son is extremely disappointed and sad because no one else is there to play with and it is trashed.

Fade Out

Cut to:

[Sounds and B-roll of Operation Splash boat with Rob, Jayden and Darcie moving across water / shot from another boat]

(Voiceover: from child perspective):

Operation Splash has removed nearly 2 million pounds of debris from Long Island’s waters over the last two decades.

[Sounds and B-Roll of Operation Splash boat with Rob, Jayden and Darcie moving across water collecting trash / shot from another boat]

We are  a team of passionate, hard working and committed New Yorkers that are devoted to creating a better future for our children.

Cut to:

[Sounds and Aerial B-Roll of the water itself and the environment]

Cut to:

(Inside operation splash building, volunteers working on the boat maintenance and showing Jayden around the boat)

a spokesperson standing in front of operation splash building

Spokesperson

(Sample Quote)

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers are our bloodstream. We are all interconnected , what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

The actions we take today have an everlasting and impacting effect on the future. Lets start a legacy and change the world with Operation Splash one wave break at a time.

Life has a purpose, would you want to ruin that for the next generation?

B-Roll footage of dirty waters and of the child playing in the sand with Darcie.

[newsday]

I know the group, and they do great public service work. But the danger is that their relations with government have become confused, and that can affect credibility.

Richard Amper, head of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society, on he overlap between the private firm, VIP Splash Waterways Recovery Group, and Operation SPLASH, a grassroots group. 

Read the full story here: Operation SPLASH eyed over ties to private firm that got more than $12M for Sandy cleanup work in Nassau

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Day 8 Operation Splash and Social Media

What have my group and I learned about Operation Splash? They know how to Social Media. Which is a fabulous thing. They are just doing it in the wrong place for the demographic that they are trying to reach. While they are extremely active on facebook the twitter and instagram that they currently have are barren as a dessert. ( Which isn't good for a program based on a large body of water *joke joke pun pun* ). Anyway if they put the same effort into twitter and instagram as they do with facebook members will be flooding in. Maybe we can even get them a snapchat? Or a tumblr? Something relatable to a younger crowd of people. By following and networking them with other philanthropists with similar causes I am almost positive that we can help them out. Humans of New York, was also thrown around as an idea to get them alot of publicity in a big way for free.

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Day 5 Thursday Operation Splash

I think one of the main things that need to be considered are the lack of members and while it is nice to have doners and people who will donate one time I think a long standing group of people in a new generation are needed to not only get the ideas of the ground but to keep Operation Splash relevant.

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Day 4 Operation Splash

What are they selling?  A better future 

a better environment

education for our youth

more business for fishermen 

more ways for more people to make a living off of their job 

Obstacles 

government (federal, state, local) 

big business 

members

FUNDS

Helpful Solutions on Advertisement

better website

more school field trips  more online activity 

help with twitter

create a frequently used hashtag

t-shirt giveaway on fb 

have a summer splash event party where people also help clean up the bay 

school fieldtrips ( high school biology)