Cooking Story Shooting Script

Visual
EXT; L/S; walking along street. Camera
facing Dave as he walks towards it.
GRAPHICS; MONTAGE; Students eating
instant meals, showing a meal being
microwaved e.g. pot noodles, rustlers.
(Takeaways/microwave meals) Pop
up on each side of the screen, around
the reporter.
EXT; M/S; still walking along street.
GRAPHICS; Statistics linking to instant
meals (bad food) Again pop up around
our reporter.
INT. Kitchen; M/S; Dave wearing a chef
hat, jacket & pinny.

EXT. Outside Aldi Entrance. L/S;

Reporter.

INT. Aldi GoPRO POV; Buying the

ingredients. Showing several items

Sound
Duration
COMM; Reporter When you can heat up a meal 00:00
in under a minute, why waste your time and
00:05
money cooking a propa slap up meal?!

COMM; Reporter Its been proven that a tenth

of us students dont make any of our own food,
and 29% of us miss dinner at least once a week?

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COMM; Reporter We all know that instant

meals are easy and affordable, but what if there
was a way you can have a decent meal for a
student price everyday of the week? Im here to
help you make meals your mum would be proud
of! Heres me earlier getting the ingredients...
COMM; Reporter - Im here outside Lidl, one of
the most affordable supermarkets with great
value. Of course being a student Im on a tight
budget, so with just 5 per day lets see what we
can get!
SUPERMARKET SONG

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Scene

being bought. GRAPHICS; Money in

Bank in one corner, SPENT in other
corner. JUMP cut between items,
showing spend go up, bank down.
EXT. Outside Aldi M/S Reporter with
bags of food, saying how much hes
spent. Leaving scene to go back to
student kitchen
GRAPHICS; Showing total spent, and
remaining (if any)
INT. Kitchen. Opening SEQ; PAN;
showing all ingredients spread out.
GRAPHICS; name of each item & price.
CUT after.
M/S; SEQ; Dave. GRAPHICS; DIY Kofta
Burger. Ingredients 500g lamb
mince, 4x pitta bread, plain yoghurt, 1x
onion, 1x garlic bulb, 3 table spoons of
taram masala, 1 tablespoon of chilli
sauce, 2x tomatoes, a red onion.
20 minutes to prep, 20 minutes to
cook.
SEQ; C/A showing kofta burger. ACT;
footage of it being prepared and
cooked.
SEQ; M/S Dave holding Kofta burger,
more coverage. Showing Dave
preparing the burgers. GRAPHICS;
How to cook: Mix 500g mince with

COMM; Reporter - So Ive just finished shopping

and bought food for myself and 3 of my flat
mates. It all came to just under 40, which is just
under a tenner each! Not bad going, now lets get
back and see whats on the menu

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COMM; Reporter - As you can see, weve got

your basics like pasta, eggs, sauces, chicken,
lamb, bacon and so on. So what will we be
making?
COMM; Reporter So Ive done a little research
and came across a meal which is your closest bet
to a takeaway kebab. Its called a Kofta burger, a
lamb based kebab with a little spiced kick,
served in a pita bread with onion and tomatoes.

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COMM; Reporter Why bother getting a

takeaway when it takes around 20 minutes to
cook and 20 minutes to prep?
COMM; Reporter All you have to do is to grab
your mince, onion, garlic, chili sauce and taram
masala and mix it all together, forming it into
around 8 burgers.

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table spoon of chili sauce, 3

tablespoons of taram masala, 1 onion
and 1 garlic bulb. Serve with pitta
bread, tomatoes, red onion, chili sauce
and yoghurt.
SEQ; ACT Showing the burgers
served on a dish, with the additionals
on a separate plate. Show someone
dish themselves (preferably Dave) one
of the meals.
SEQ; M/S Dave with Kofta burger
again, having a bite.
GRAPHICS; Total price: 11.19
Each: 2.79 (for 4 of you)
Left over Ingredients: 5x Onions, chili
sauce, taram masala, tomatoes, red
cabbage, red onion and garlic.
SEQ; M/S Dave introducing next
meal and holding a slice of the pizza.
ACT; of Pizza.
GRAPHICS; Ingredients Pizza base, 6
tablespoons of tomato & chilli sauce,
175g of spinach leaves, 300g of baby
mushrooms, 50g of parmesan, 4
medium eggs.
30 Minute preparation, 20 minute
cooking.
SEQ; Showing Dave making the pizza
base, putting eggs in the spinach,

COMM; Reporter Once youve prepared them,

simply grill for around 5 minutes then voila,
serve on a platter to share and help yourself to
pitta bread, tomatoes and red onions.

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COMM; Reporter And there you have it, you

can cook all of this for 11.19, which is just 2.79
each for 4 of you! This doesnt even include all
the leftovers which you get, and if youre not
cooking all of the meat, you can freeze it for
another day.

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01:35

COMM; Reporter Now for your vegetarian

01:35
option, we have a Florentine pizza. But instead of 01:41
buying a ready made pizza base, Im gonna show
you how to make it yourself.

COMM; Reporter So first of all you need to

make your pizza base. You can make the base

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sprinkling cheese, putting into oven,

adding toppings, etc.

SEQ; Showing it finished. M/S; Dave

with the pizza once again
GRAPHICS; Total: 8.31, or 2.08 each.
SEQ; M/S of Dave introducing final
meal beer chicken.
ACT; Footage of the chicken, wedgies
and salad.
Showing the chicken on the beer can
plus the sides. Ingredients: Whole
chicken (1.65kg), 2 tablespoons of
vegetable oil, 2 tablespoons of salt, 1
teaspoon of pepper, 3 teaspoons of
mixed herbs, 1 can of beer. For
wedges, 1kg of red potatoes, 25g
butter, 1 tablespoon of curry powder.
For salad, salt & ground pepper, 3
tablespoons of oil, 2 garlic cloves, 1
pounds of runner beans, 2 small red
onions.
Prep: 30 minutes.
Cook: 1hr 15 minutes.

depending on how hungry you are, but not too

big otherwise it wont fit in your oven! Once
youve rolled your base, microwave the spinach
for 2 minutes. Then scatter the spinach and
mushrooms across the pizza base, sprinkling
parmesan on top. Once baked for 10 minutes,
make a whole in the spinach for the eggs, then
cook until the eggs are how you like them.
COMM; Reporter There we go, nice and
healthy! And this is only 8.31 in total or 2.08
each!
COMM; Reporter Now this is one of my
personal favorites, something a little more
creative. Its a beer can chicken, served with
potato wedges and a runner bean salad.
Something perfect for gatherings, and if you
dont eat all the chicken you can save it for
another day.

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SEQ; ACT; rubbing the chicken with oil

salt pepper and mixed herbs. Putting
the chicken on the can, discarding the
giblets. Putting it into the oven.

SEQ; ACT; Showing the wedges being

peeled, boiled, mixed then cooked.

SEQ; ACT; Showing the bowls of ice

and hot water, showing beans being
boiled and wedges being grilled.

SEQ; M/S; Dave with food around him.

Coverage of all the food together,
PANNING showing the salad, wedges
and chicken. Show how to cut the
chicken and remove from beer can.

COMM Reporter; Firstly well start off with the

chicken. Remove the neck and giblets from the
chicken and rinse it inside and out. Then rub it
with oil, salt, pepper and your mixed herbs. Now
this is where you grab your beer (it can be any,
whatever works for you), drink about half of it
then gently place the chicken on top of the beer.
Shove it in your oven for an hour and 15 minutes
then let it cook, until the thigh juice runs clear.
COMM Reporter; Whilst you wait for this to
cook, you can prepare your wedges and salad.
For the wedges, cut the potatoes into wedges
shape then let them boil for 5 minutes. Mix the
butter with the spice then add to the wedges
once youve drained them. Allow them to cook
for around 20 minutes.
COMM Reporter; And now for the runner
beans and onion salad. Prepare a large bowl of
boiling salted water and ice bowl of water. Then
get another bowl adding in all your ingredients.
Cook your beans for about 3 minutes, then
transfer to the ice bowl immediately. Grill your
onion with vegetable oil and seasoning then add
together.
COMM Reporter; And theyre we have it! A
huge and inventive meal if youve got some spare
time or in need food for a party. And the price?
Well its 13.36 in total, which works out to be
around 3.34 each!

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End of SEQ; L/S; Dave concluding film.

Surrounded by meals.

COMM Reporter; Well thats all weve got time 02:53

for today, Ive got plenty of other cheap meals for 03:00
you to see which is available on our website at....
However, the answers to most of your questions
are yes, you can cook decent meals for a
reasonable price. Back to me in the studio!
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