NZ HOUSINNG CRISIS - FINAL SCRIPT
INTRO |
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Drone
shots – maybe start with pretty coastal stuff 49.55 – or, if it works, pull
back from “Live the Kiwi Dream” sign (if we can work around the wobble)
1.39.24 |
MUSIC Extreme Music |
Maybe
also push past trees to reveal bucolic generic suburbia (1.12.30) - otherwise
also anything from middle class suburbia in Auckland 00.14
Please remove Amos shot and use below. Potentially replace it with shot from
00.48 Jacinda hand shake and forehead. |
Around the world,
many people think of New Zealand as a progressive, egalitarian place. Left-leaning
Australians look across the Tasman with envy… |
2020-02-06T022129Z_1_LWD0017JYW213_RTRWNEV_C_4004-NEWZEALAND-WAITANGIDAY Getty
images LIB091019 |
FILE
JACINDA – IN MAORI FEATHER CLOAK / IN HIJAB / HUGGING PEOPLE 01.19 Jacinda – I
am by no means the first woman to multi task. |
LIB091019 - 0326 Jacinda carrying baby into
work. |
…at a young, feminist
leader with a social conscience, who came to power promising kindness and
compassion. |
00.33 CHANGE SOURCE TO BOTTOM LEFT Source: The Late Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUPo62ouU84 |
COLBERT (00.55): I am also a huge admirer
of New Zealand prime minster and I am going to say personal friend Jacinda
Ardern. |
Amos
walking past beds Homeless
shots Amos Drones shots suggestion AT THE TOP PLS REPLACE HOMELESS PEOPLE
& OSMO SHOTS WITH DRONE SHOTS: 38.15, 1.10.46 - fancy houses 17.46 – big Auckland view 1.20.54 - normal houses Then
come back to street scene outside AAAP street scenes 1C 01:40:48 Then go to shots outside triple AAAP 1C 46:38 or 29:44 Family sitting down |
So you might be surprised to learn that inequality is rife here. The average house in Auckland now costs over a million NZ
dollars and the average rent is almost $600 a week. New Zealand’s housing crisis is pushing its
most vulnerable people into desperate situations. …and the fallout from the coronavirus
pandemic is about to make things much worse |
RICARDO STRAP Maybe
thought track last line with people outside AAAP because it’s a very tight
out |
RICARDO INTERVIEW (1C / 1.34.42): We hear the Prime Minister and her government talking about
governing with kindness and compassion and you know, taking a different
approach to the way that we do politics. --- But that's kinda just rhetoric when
the reality on the ground is incredibly unkind. |
AAAP |
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EXTREME MUSIC Clouds Neo Classical 2 VNC002_10 Every morning struggling families wait
outside the doors of AAAP – seeking help to access emergency grants from New
Zealand’s welfare system. UPSOT
MAORI PRAYER (1C / 5.36) |
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MARSHALL
(1C / 6.00) Amen. RICARDO: Let’s
get started. |
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RICARDO
GOES TO OPEN DOOR (1C / 6.55) Ricardo and his team
are on the front line of the housing crisis. RICARDO
INTERVIEW (1C / 1.17.51): Auckland
Action Against Poverty is a volunteer led organization that has been operating
in Auckland for 10 years now. |
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RICARDO
THOUGHT TRACK (1C / 1.18.00): We
do advocacy with low-income communities who are receiving a benefit, most of
them, but also working families to ensure that government agencies, such as
Work and Income, provide them with their legal entitlements. |
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KAFA
TO PEOPLE WAITING (1C / 7.19): We've
got all the appointments ready now. We've got everyone's names on the board. Kafa (7.37): So
take a seat guys. We will be calling yous one by
one ok. |
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PEOPLE
WALKING IN (1C / 7.47) |
2.39 The white top ladies face blur has
extended over the the man in blue shirts head. |
RICARDO INTERVIEW (1C / 1.17.29): The majority of people we work with are being squeezed out of
the rental market. They can barely afford the weekly rent or maybe homeless. |
Shalom
and Cassandra coming in and sitting down (1C / 8.29) |
Auckland’s become one of the most
unaffordable cities in the world - ranked just behind Sydney and Melbourne. For many middle class households high rents mean they can’t afford to buy a
house - but families like these can’t afford to buy food. |
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RICARDO
TO SHALOM (1C / 10.41): Today
you’re here, on top of all those issues, you’re also needing a food grant? |
02:21
Can’t identify that woman in white top |
RICARDO
INTERVIEW (1C / 1.19.36): The
housing crisis in Auckland looks like an ordinary working family on the
minimum wage um spending 70% of their income on rent and being left with very
little to feed their children and living a couple of pay checks away from
homelessness. Um, and this is why so many families are coming week by week to
get a top up because they just cannot afford to cover those basic costs. |
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KAFA
AT WHITEBOARD (1C / 17.03): Is
there a Tasi out there? No Tasi? OK, Otolose. |
IN
Vision if poss |
KAFA
INTERVIEW (8C / 2.15.34): I'm
Kafa Momaya. I am a AAAP
advocate. I'm here to help the people. |
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KAFA
(1C / 17.31): So
what are you needing help with today? OTOLOSE: Food
and petrol. 1C Amos (22:25): So how much money do you have left when you pay your rent,
your bills? Otalose (22:30): Just a hundred. Amos (22:31): A hundred dollars a week for everything else - food, and
baby, and what else have you. Kafa (22:35): That's not even enough to be honest. Otalose (22:39): No it's not. |
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People on benefits
like Otolose can get emergency grants from WINZ,
Work and Income New Zealand, but these need to be repaid, creating a debt
trap. |
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KAFA
(1C / 19.22): Is your payments to
WINZ, is it high or anything? Have you paid over $40 or anything? OTALOSE: Oh
yeah $60. KAFA: $60
is too much. |
KAFA
OLAY FOR A BIT then come to her in vision. She does a lot of head shaking.
Anything of her just sitting still. |
AMOS
(8C / 2.20.53): You
said you came to work for AAAP partly because you knew what it was like to
struggle. What, what did you know about struggle? KAFA
INTERVIEW (8C / 2.28.31): Oh,
I have been homeless in the past /for
two
weeks. Yes. Until I got into a boarding house. AMOS
(8C / 2.28.43): What's
that like? KAFA
INTERVIEW (8C / 2.29.54): Wasn't
good. That's all I could say. It didn't feel good. It wasn't a safe
environment be in, um, being homeless, not a safe place to be at all. And
it's cold. It was cold being out there. |
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Vulnerable families
are struggling to keep a roof over their head and a record 14,000 households
are now on the waiting list for public housing. |
NAT
Walking up to see KAFA (1C 49.09) |
RICARDO
INTERVIEW (1C / 1.23.00ish): The
reality is, is that this government is not putting enough resources to even
house half the families on the waiting list over the next four years. We're
accepting that over 8,000 families are gonna go
without a safe place to call home. |
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KAFA
(1C / 49.15): So,
we dealt with you because you were homeless, ay? |
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KAFA
IN MEETING (1C / 51.38): They've
given you a place to stay but there's no furniture. Where you supposed to
sleep? |
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Yesterday, this man
was facing a night on the streets, until AAAP helped him access emergency
housing. |
Maybe end on Nat leaving1C / 1.03.09 |
RICARDO INTERVIEW (1C / (1.27.05): We're barely
coping with the number of people that are coming to our doors needing help. (1.26.38) You know, we've got a Labour-led
government that is not committed to lifting benefits, that is not committed
on building enough public housing. And what does that tell our families out
there? |
POLITICS (1) |
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MUSIC https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/today-is-tomorrow-2_61655 |
DO
YOU HAVE ENOUGH footage? Can use one establisher drone and then move to crap
houses. 05:33
POSS extend lovely drone to help cover extra VO or
Amos Suggestions Track
back from city skyline 46.16 Tilt
from suburb to skyline 9.54 State
housing Breath. O2
12.30 16.45 anything tracking that is useable and looks bad repair. 2D
with kapurs 37:75 37:36 3D
10:14 |
Last week, the government agreed to increase most
benefits by $25 a week as part of its Covid-19 support package. But last year it ignored an expert report recommending
that benefits be increased by almost 50%while spending $41 million on
emergency accommodation in motels. |
01.26
on this clip USE VISION of bags and motel room. IMP
050320 Motels making million_SBS_ID_8353774.mxf |
Housing people in Motels was
supposed to be a short term solution for the ballooning wait list for housing
a way to stop people from sleeping in their cars or in the street |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foo5wpIHBlU&t=9s 00.24
– No vancancy sign motel over crowded room. Cover some of the next new piece with above images. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7A7jAeHqgE |
04.40 UN – In a rich country like new Zealand it
should be possible to create the conditions were everybody has access to a
decent home. News reader 00.00
10s of thousands are homeless in this country so the government is pumping
nearly 200 million dollars into helping them get a roof over their head |
06:24 Source:
NZ Labour Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_kycR6u0Tg –
Campaign images |
NZ’s not the only country in the grip of a housing
crisis, but it’s had real political consequences here. |
Source: NZ Labour Party |
JACINDA ARDERN AD (00.06): One of Labour’s key policies is fixing the housing
crisis. |
Source: NZ Labour Party https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_kycR6u0Tg –
Campaign images |
Public concern about
housing affordability helped elect Jacinda Ardern. |
Source:
NZ Labour Party |
JACINDA ARDERN AD (00.18): We’ll build 100,000 starter homes for first home buyers
over 10 years. |
Source:
NZ Labour Party Official
Kiwibuild ad |
With its flagship Kiwibuild program, the government promised to flood the market
with affordable housing – but there were problems from the start. |
07:15
no source need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qPgX8Fg_0 07:19
Top right Source:
Newshub Nation |
NEWS ANCHOR
(00.00): Only 258 houses
have been built so fair under the scheme JACINDA (06.14): Yes kiwi build isn’t happening at the pace
we want, I’ve acknowledge some of the issues we faced. |
CONSTRUCTION SHOTS |
No Music over this VO |
Drone shots – construction –1.25.14 good opening,
also 1.30.47, 1.19.05, 1.54.45 |
ALT: BUT IT’S NOT AS
THOUGH THE GOVT’S BEEN SITTING ON ITS HANDS AUCKLAND IS
IN THE MIDDLE OF A HOUSING BOOM, THANKS TO NEW POLICIES encouraging
development. AND THE GOVT
FULFILLED A PROMISE BY BANNING MANY FOREIGNERS FROM BUYING EXISTING HOMES. But it’s those most
in need, who are still being left behind |
Jacinda Breath shots
from mission TVNZ Mission 17:15:10 Walking
into press conference 17:27:53 Greet at
the mission |
There are now an
estimated 41,000 homeless in New Zealand – JACINDA
(TVNZ MISSION / 05:05): |
Amos in the city with homeless people (2D / 9.11
onwards and 2O / 35.11 onwards) |
MUSIC |
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Those on the street are just the tip of the ice berg. |
THE OVERCROWDED FAMILY |
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KAFA
DRIVING (2D / 29.27): I’m
taking you to see Vika, an old friend of mine,
because of her living situation. (29.40)
Her and her children and her partner, their house is overcrowded. And her and her partner sleep in the
lounge. |
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70% of the homeless population live in overcrowded
houses, like the one Kafa wants to show me. |
Pulling
up outside Vika’s house |
AMOS
(2D / 31.47): This
is it? KAFA: Yep,
this is her house right there. |
Kafa leads Amos up the
garden path… (1O / 18.21) |
They’re called the
invisible homeless – people camping out in living rooms or garages because of
a lack of space. |
5C
VIKAS HOUSE MULTICAM / 35.44 |
KAFA
KNOCKS (1O / 18.58) |
Try
to place VO right after doorknock – I want to cut messy biscuits bit by
bringing up next upsot while I’m still walking (but
you can’t see my mouth) in shot above, then cutting to handshake – instead,
if you prefer, maybe put second part of VO after handshake over line in
italics… |
They’re far more
likely to be Maori and Pacific Islanders, and it turns out they really are
invisible. |
5C
VIKAS HOUSE MULTICAM / 35.59 |
AMOS
(1O / 19.15): Nice
to meet you, I’m Amos. Thanks for letting us come film you in your
home. I hear there’s a lot of
people living here. VIKA: There’s
8 of us. AMOS: 8! But there’s only you home at the moment? VIKA: They
all went and hide. AMOS: They
all ran and hide? VIKA: They
don’t want to be in the camera. Amos: Seriously there is a room with 8 people in
it hiding. |
View
from backdoor (5C / 43.11) NEED TO BLUR FACES OF EVERYONE BUT
VIKA |
MUSIC |
Kids
come inside and sit on couch (5C / 45.09) Pan
from Kafa to mum and kid (39.11) Dad
cooking (6C / 38.43 onwards) 53.24
kid walks past another |
Vika’s partner and six kids eventually come out
of hiding – but only when we agree to blur their faces. Shyness isn’t the problem - it’s shame at the way they
live. Eight people squeezed
into a small public house, with mum and dad forced to sleep in the lounge |
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DAUGHTER
(5C / 1.02.37): There's
um, judgmental people nowadays, so we don't like bringing people over and
when people come over we hide so that they don't know that we stay here.
Yeah. AMOS: Are
you just talking about me? Or other people as well? DAUGHTER: Like
this is normal, ay mum? |
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VIKA
(5C / 1.02.58): That’s
just normal for them. When people come see, they run and hide in the room.
Not just you, it's just them. Even the church people, they come and knock on
the door, they run and hide. Because
of the situation of the house I think. |
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KAFA
(5C / 1.05.46): First
time I've seen yous all out. AMOS: Really
they hide from you too? One more shot to breath |
Need
to see Kaffa. |
KAFA
(45.23): They’re
big kids. They do need their own
rooms, you know, look at them. They're giants.......for teenagers, oh, and
they do need their own space now. |
10:15
Blur dad 10:20
Blur kids 10:22
need to blur pic on the key or add another CA Dad
on phone (1.19.16) 3
sets of feet (1.20.19) Extra
shots for coverage if you need O2
22:56 O2
28:08 O2
29:33 |
During a coronavirus pandemic, overcrowding will pose a
serious risk to public health, but there’s little hope of a short-term fix. Vika’s been on the waiting list for a larger house
for 3 years. |
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AMOS: Do
any of you have ambitions or dreams when it comes to a home? SON
(01:16:42): Um,
to own a house. AMOS
(01:17:05): Why
would that mean so much to you? SON
(1:17:08): Um,
just feel like you can have like bring your family over, bring whoever you
want. You know, you didn't need to like worry about everything else. -
You don't have to hide. SON: Yeah.
It's just your own property that you own that you can do whatever you want
with. |
Ext
house, lights out (1.20.40) |
But home ownership has
been declining in NZ for years. Most Kiwis need to
tough it out in the rental market, where the landlord is king. |
THE LANDLORD |
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Peter
Lewis loading trailer with stuff (start of 3C) |
MUSIC https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/break-of-day_68031 |
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Thought
track 11.43 Blur peters licence plate SYNCH |
PETER
LEWIS INTERVIEW (4C / 00.41): My
name is Peter Lewis. I'm a full time residential landlord. |
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LOADING
TRAILER CONT |
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Driving
off (9.19 & 10.03) SYNCH |
PETER
LEWIS INTERVIEW (4C / 9.41): I
set out to buy one house per year. That was my
initial plan. (9.10)
My goal was to have a sufficient income that I could afford to do, within
reason, what I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. AMOS: And
have you achieved that goal? PETER: I
have achieved that now. |
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DRIVING
Poss Go pro of Amos and
peter driving. 1D
26.28 ext of peter driving |
AMOS
(1D / 1.53.36): What
do people think of landlords in the middle of a property crisis? PETER
(1.55.22): Most
people dislike landlords. (1.55.39)
The image of any landlord is someone who dresses like a monopoly man, drives
around in a rolls Royce with a riding crop in hand and throwing widows and
orphans out into the snow, which of course is ridiculous because any sensible
landlord does not get rid of a tenant unless he's got a really, really good
reason. |
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12:38 Blur plates ARRIVING AT PROPERTY (1D /
1.30.46) |
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Tracking
behind us before we start talking (1O / 1.25.42) WS
walking up to house (O1 / 1.27.22) |
AMOS
IN DRIVEWAY (3C PETER HOUSE MULTICAM / 29.04): And
you own one of these places or…? PETER
IN DRIVEWAY: The
one on the left, AMOS: Was
this the first place that you…? PETER: The
one on the left was the first place, then I bought the one on the right. AMOS: You
own this one too? PETER: Yeah. Then I bought the one at the back on the
left. Then I bought this one here on the right. Then I bought that one there
on the left. AMOS: Hang
on, so how many houses do you have in this one block? PETER: Five. AMOS: Five
places? Wow. You must like this neighbourhood. PETER: Yes
I do. Um, and it's also handy because then I can come and fix the tip of one
place and paint a window and another and go and hang a curtain in another one
and have to restart the car each time. [EDIT] AMOS
(29.51): It's
very practical. |
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ENTERING
FIRST HOUSE (1O / 1.27.46) |
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Peter
putting up curtains (3C / 36.33 onwards) |
Unlike most
investors, Peter hasn’t bought property for the capital gains. He wants to make a
good living off the rental income – and that means he does everything himself |
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AMOS
(3C / 39.56): You
must have to really be a jack-of-all-trades? PETER
WITH CURTAINS: Well
you can get people to do it but of course each of them would charge you $100
travelling time |
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Peter
leaving (3C / 51.12) Peter
going to second property (51.25) SYNCH |
4C Amos (00:19:51): As property prices have gone up
and as rents have gone up, have you also noticed an increased interest, desperation among renters looking for
properties competition? PETER
INTERVIEW (4C / 20.44): What
I have noted of course is that the tenants I do have are now tending just to
stay a lot longer than they used to. AMOS
(21.17): Because
there are less options out there for them if they chose to leave? PETER: Yes.
It's probably more difficult for them to find another property. |
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Arriving
2nd property (3C / 51.35) |
MUSIC |
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Peter
going round property BREATH |
PETER
(3C / 52.25): Hi
there. Right, what we're going to do is our normal property inspection which
is required by the insurance. So it's just a matter of wondering around,
checking if everything is okay. Peter
Sot |
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MATCHING
TIMECODES ON 1D TENANT MULTICAM Thought
track with Peter doing inspection 14:33 STRAP????? ROSE Tenant |
AMOS
(1D / 1.36.19): So
what's Peter like as a landlord? ROSE
(1.36.23): Peter,
he's actually good. Like compared to my last landlord Peter is onto it as, he
always keeps us included with everything that's happening. His communication
is great. |
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PETER
UPSOT (3C / 54.37): Power
points are all OK |
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Family
in lounge (58.44) Peter
measuring damp on carpet (57.20) CU
tool (57.44) SYNCH |
AMOS: He
seems super thorough. ROSE: Yeah. That's good. AMOS: You
like the attention to detail? ROSE: Yeah.
Yeah. |
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Maybe
cover head with Peter taking water temperature (3C / 56.28) |
PETER
INSPECTION (3C / 56.40): Yeah,
52.2. So that's the same as last time which means nothing's got worse. |
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Hold
shot from above Cut
btw 1D and 1O |
AMOS
(1D / 1.36.58): What
a, you've had like other experiences with landlords that are different? ROSE: So
this is the second place that we've rented, but before this we used to rent a
garage for $450 a week [EDIT]
AMOS: You
rented a garage. What? To store things in? ROSE: No,
to live in. -
You lived in a garage, a $450 a week garage. ROSE: Yes. -
What happened there? That was like all you guys could find? ROSE: Yeah,
we were desperate at the time and nobody would take us on. -
How long ago was this? ROSE: That
a year ago. Stayed there for about two years. -
So this is you, your partner, your kids, girls. ROSE: Yeah. -
Four of you living in a garage. ROSE
(1.37.44): Yep. |
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2 shots of grab. Listening shot from Rose might work better.
1D 01:44:31 O1 01:54:24 two shot |
AMOS
(1D / 1.38.17): Oh
my God. Yeah. (1.38.31)
Must've been cold in winter. ROSE: Yeah.
And cause they had like makeshift windows in there, but they were like heaps
of gaps. So every time it rain the water would come through. 01:40:56 A – I just can’t get over that you lived in
a garage for two years. |
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Peter inspection 3C 55.50 |
AS NEW
ZEALAND ENTERS A LOCKDOWN IN RESPONSE TO COVID 19 THE GOVERNMENT HAS
ANNOUNCED A RENT FREEZE. BUT
BEFORE THE PANDEMIC - SOME LANDLORDS
WERE CLEARLY TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE HOUSING CRISIS - GIVING ALL OF
THEM A BAD NAME 4C (42.29) We are unacknowledged, we're
unappreciated and we're vilified. And as I said to someone the other day, if you really
want to be hated in New Zealand, say you're an Auckland landlord. |
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Checking
toilet (1.02.05) |
But Peter has a plan
to help tenants gain more rental security – offering a 10-year lease. It would give tenants
the freedom to do what they want with their home – but don’t expect landlords
to replace the curtains and fix the sink. |
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PETER
INSPECTION (1.05.40): Right,
I’ll just have a wander round the outside. |
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Looking
at outside of house (1.06.39) |
PETER
(4C / 53.05): The
landlord would provide the shell of the building and be responsible for the
outside maintenance. The tenant would basically rent a property that had the
floor, the walls, and the ceiling. They'll put in their own flooring, put in
their own light fittings. They would do their own wall decoration, they would
put in their own cabinets. AMOS: And
this is the model that they have in places like Germany and Scandinavia. PETER: That's
right. And then that would allow them to keep pets because of the pet damage
the floor. They wouldn't care because it's the tenant's floor. |
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Or
just continue interview, using reverse of me |
UPSOT INSPECTION
(1.07.38): Rubbish is OK, lawns
OK, garden’s OK. |
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PETER
INTERVIEW (4C / 55.23): And
that is an option I would like to see. And I think it would make a big
difference to the housing market. |
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PETER
(1D / 1.11.48): Okay
well I'm very happy as usual with the condition of the property. ROSE: Thank
you (1.13.17)
Okay, thank you. ROSE:
It's
alright. Have a good day. PETER:
Bye
bye. |
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PETER
LEAVING AND DRIVING OFF (1D / 2.00.17) – or cutaways home 1.13.57 &
1.13.46 |
PETER
INTERVIEW (4C / 55.09): As
it turns out, my tenants are secure now, but I'm not gonna
live forever. And when I die, they're gonna be
looking for a new home. |
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POLITICS (2) |
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MUSIC |
Use For Sale signs later (see next page) – replace with
drone of new housing development – 1.31.12 (this one shot should hold up OK) |
But
there’s little political appetite for any significant reforms to the housing
market… |
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JACINDA PRESS CONFERENCE: Today I am announcing that the coalition government has
ruled out implementing a capital gains tax. |
OSMO 1 02:25:55 Tracking of empty building site |
Like
Kiwibuild, this was another reluctantly-broken
promise for Jacinda Ardern. |
CHANGE to Bottom left as runs over
his head. Source: Newshub
Nation |
05:34 JACINDA TV INTERVIEW: This was an issue that we just couldn't form consensus
on. But I also had to acknowledge it
was also an issue that Labour had campaigned on for multiple elections, and
we just hadn't been able to succeed. |
17:36 I think we have used that shot before. Please
ditch. Rest of drone is nice Start with 1.12.11 –
then top shot & WS Auckland – lose jerky suburban shot and maybe replace
with 49.44 |
This
is an election year, and when it comes to the provision of housing, the
government doesn’t have a lot to boast about - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
and Housing Minister Dr Megan Woods turned down our repeated interview
requests. |
DRONE Shamubeel in Vision Strap |
AMOS (2C / 18.43): New Zealand goes to the polls again this year. Do you
think the government's gonna pay a political price
for its failure to do more? SHAMUBEEL: I think the government is already paying a price in its
polling when it comes to a lack of delivery |
AMOS NODDY COVER Shamubeel in vision STRAP Change spelling of last
name SHAMUBEEL EAQUB POVERTY SHOTS |
Shamubeel (00:01:47): The
crisis is pretty bad in New Zealand. So if you think about our house prices
in places like Auckland, they're nearly 10 times the average household
income.
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Go to drone that you used below in shamubeel
section I love that road shot! |
VO
The winners are the people who are already on the property ladder but for
young people this crisis will play out for years to com. |
COME BACK TO SHAMUBEEL IN VISION FOR THIS GRAB |
SHAMUBEEL INTERVIEW (2C / 9.23): New Zealanders believe in home ownership as kind
of one of those rites of passage. /
it's seen as something that
makes you an adult, a fully functioning member of society. So when you don't reach it, they've… You've got this
sort of sense of being disconnected or not achieving being a failure. |
Replace drone shot of Kaitaia with drone shot of whare ora housing like 1.51.18 |
Coming up LEONIE I told her that we were going
to live in a tent with our kids. The man who mortgaged
his own home to fund a unique solution for desperate families Change grab to this. RICKY ENTERS KITCHEN
(8C / 1.37.14): You have to have an
ability to look beyond all of this. To
see what it can look like, whether it’s a house, Or whether it’s people’s
futures. |
OUTSIDE AUCKLAND |
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Amos
driving (2O / 54.50) Start
with drone crane up as I drive past camera D / 54.27 Try
to avoid the pan in the shot of me driving |
MUSIC https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/into-the-drive_1010295 |
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Auckland is ground
zero for NZ’s housing crisis – but Northland
is New Zealand’s fastest growing province |
Welcome to Northland sign 2D 38:20 |
MUSIC |
If
not used in opening, maybe model
house with “Live the Kiwi Dream” sign (2D / 15.48) – possibly drone shot
driving past it 1.39.51 or 1.41.17 |
…with many Aucklanders, often Maori, moving here in
search of more affordable housing. |
Drone
shot driving in countryside – 54.27 |
MUSIC |
Kaitaia
drone tilt reveal – 48.07 |
That’s pushed up prices in Kaitaia, a small town in one
of the country’s most deprived regions. |
Kaitaia
GVs (2D / 16.29 onwards & 27.58 onwards & 6C / 2.13.00 onwards &
3D / 00.00.00 onwards) Cut
down end of drone shot to include Kaitaia sign (6C / 2.17.19), car wipe to
Chinese restaurant (6C / 2.16.01 |
MUSIC |
Replace
shot of painted house with man on mailbox (6C / 2.17.52) and dad playing
video game with kids (6C / 2.22.43) and boys doing gang signs (6C / 2.15.35) RICKY IN VISION Add this - super poor family eating on street (6C
/ 2.23.18 O2
02:09:37 Tracking past social housing in not good condition. Caravans outside
O2
02:11:37 |
RICKY INTERVIEW (6C / 1.02.46): It's very much a reversal of the 1960s urban drift
where 95% of all
Maori lived in the rural areas and moved down to the cities. We're seeing a reverse of that today in
2020. (1.00.08) There are no private rentals available. (1.00.40) So many of the families are living in
makeshift cabins, buses, cattle sheds, lean-tos and overcrowd living
conditions and it’s going to get worse. |
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MUSIC |
Better drone shot
revealing the suburb Ricky on GoPro Tracking shots of houses (2O / 1.49.18 onwards
& 1.51.48 onwards) |
RICKY
DRIVING (MULTICAM / 3.53 & 2G / 10.36.43): So
kia ora and welcome to Whare Ora. This is
a gateway into the property. (2G / 10.35.26) We bought 50 acres of land up here
from a local farmer. Turned it into
medium density housing. (10.37.24)
these are the homes that were initially designated to be, uh, demolished and
landfilled. |
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Maori community leader Ricky Houghton mortgaged his own
house to buy this land in the hope of giving his community a new lease on
life. He then found abandoned and derelict PUBLIC houses in
Auckland and trucked them up here. |
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AMOS
IN CAR (6.10): And
this was just farmland before. RICKY: This
was just barren farmland AMOS: You’ve
created your own little suburb. -
Yeah. |
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AMOS
WALKING (2O / 1.36.36): They
look pretty shabby now. RICKY
WALKING: Yeah
they’ve been sitting in Auckland and school holidays and you get a lot of
young people go in there and kick holes in walls and they steal the copper
spouting off these houses. |
Shot
above and Amos and Ricky walking into derelict home (O2 / 1.41.07) |
Ricky has a bold and
unconventional plan for addressing the housing crisis up here. |
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RICKY
GREETS UDU (8C / 31.36) Kia
ora Udu |
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The first step
involves recycling the homes, and making them habitable again. |
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RICKY
IN HOUSE (8C / 31.47): It’s
looking good, Udu.
It’s looking a lot better than what it was. |
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RICKY
ENTERS KITCHEN (8C / 1.37.14): You
have to have an ability to look beyond all of this. To see what it can look like, whether it’s
a house, Or whether it’s people’s futures.
You have to be able to see the goodness in everything. |
|
UDU
WORKING (8C / 1.52.26 onwards) |
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RICKY IN HOUSE (8C / 1.30.50): Udu is not just a builder, although that’s his skill, but that’s not how I
know him. (1.31.30) I know Udu
because Udu got a house from the trust. |
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UDU: We had nothing (1.32.20) and Ricky gave us a
chance and now he’s giving us a home.
Put a roof over our heads, and I’m very grateful for that. |
Udu working on house
(1.52.26 onwards) Ricky
leaving (8C / 1.43.24) |
The second step of
Ricky’s plan involves housing families, but it’s about more than just putting
a roof over their heads. |
Lawnmower
(8C / 1.49.47) Have
lawnmower come into shot |
MUSIC |
Man
taking down laundry (1.50.53) Kids
on lawn (2O / 1.29.49) Woman
hanging laundry (2O / 1.59.20) Mail
delivered (8C / 1.48.28) More
drone shots of property? |
Ultimately, the goal is to
take people who are homeless, and turn them into homeowners WITHIN JUST 14
YEARS. Families
here pay $275 a week, most of which goes towards paying off the $160,000 cost
of their house. Ricky hopes this is just the beginning – he
wants to turn around a historic decline in Maori home ownership |
Leonie
and Udu taking washing outside to line (7C / 7.17)
– or go straight to hanging up washing |
MUSIC |
Keep drone reveal shot over edit then come
to Ricky in vision |
RICKY INTERVIEW (6C / 58.33): Our mission is assisting families (1.18.51) to move from state housing dependence to
housing independence. |
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AMOS (7C / 9.47): What did you guys think the first time you saw
this place? LEONIE HANGING LAUNDRY (7C / 10.29): We were excited. ‘cause it’s a dream for
everybody. - Having a house? Having a home.
To own. AMOS: What
was your situation before you moved here?
LEONIE(11.10): We
were living from house to house. With
our suitcases. |
Leonie
and Udu carrying washing inside (7C / 12.19) Kids
playing outside (2O / 1.10.00) |
MUSIC WATERS EDGE https://www.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/waters-edge_96343 Leonie and Udu, who’s
originally from Papua New Guinea, tried making a go of it in Australia - but
came back with their two kids when it didn’t work out. |
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AMOS: How did you find yourself in trouble when you came
back? LEONIE FOLDING WASHING: There was a lack of rentals here (14.45) (16.33) Looking for somewhere to live was pretty
stressful, with 2 young kids in tow. - Why? LEONIE: No one wanted to rent to a couple with a 2 and a 3
year old probably. |
Udu folding laundry
(16.57) – pans to Leonie in next grab |
They applied for emergency accommodation with a social
worker at Ricky’s NGO / TRUST |
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LEONIE FOLDING LAUNDRY (6C / 17.05): And she put us down on a waitlist. And asked us what we were going to do if we
didn’t have anywhere to go and I told her that we were going to live in a
tent with our kids. |
|
LITTLE BOY ARRIVES (7C / 21.19) |
Little
girl arrives (22.40) Trip
to garden with kids (7C / 24.03 onwards) OR preparing dinner (3.50 onwards) |
They were given emergency
accommodation and the opportunity to join a home ownership programme –
learning about what it takes to own your own house. |
This
is still folding laundry – thought track all with trip to garden with kids or
them preparing dinner |
LEONIE (7C / 19.32): The reality of home ownership is that if something
breaks, you have to fix it. And you
learn all about that.
You learn about insurances, interest rates, what’s a good
rate. How to spend your money. |
|
Here at Whare Ora everyone signs up to strict rules – no
alcohol, drugs or violence. Sot: Udu - We are living the dream L - Country
living |
Intercut
interview with story time – and tighten when thought tracked STAY
IN IV |
QUESTION (7C / 42.07): How’s the way you’re bringing up your kids here
different to the way you were brought up? LEONIE INTERVIEW: They’re not brought up around alcohol, violence Um yeah they are not bought up around any of that. Amos – That was your childhood Leonie – Yes it was I used to watch my mum get hidings, and jump in
and save her, |
Meal scene
|
44.41) I didn’t want my children to be scared in their
own home. |
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AMOS (6C / 46.19): What does this home mean to you when you’ve grown
up like that? LEONIE: It means everything. To have security, it’s a place that my
children will run to, anyone in my family, and not from. Q / You ran away from your home but you know your
children will never have to run away from this one. LEONIE: Yeah (lovely
smile – and then almost crying) |
7C
54:33 ADD WIDE SHOT OF leone and Udu talking and
then GVs housing at dusk eg 54.55, 54.33, 55.08,
55.21 |
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Ext (8C / 2.09.35) |
BRING MUSIC UP OVER SHOT OF DERILICT HOUSE MUSIC |
Café
(8C / 2.01.45) Ricky
walks past camera on deck (8C / 2.08.09) Feeding
homeless (6C / 2.08.37) |
Ricky’s dream has come a
long way since he mortgaged his house - the He Korowai Trust now employs 27
staff with assets of over $6 million |
|
RICKY ARRIVES AT MEETING (8C / 37.01): Good morning. |
Someone
else arrives (37.20) |
Although he’s now got government
backing, Ricky says he’s still hamstrung by bureaucracy and a lack of funds. |
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MAORI PRAYER (8C / 39.34) |
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RICKY INTERVIEW (6C / 1.16.38): Maori are not proud to be amongst the poorest, the
most homeless people in such a beautiful prosperous land that was sort of
bequeathed to us from our ancestors. In fact, I know if they came back today
and looked at the housing situation, they would say, what the heck did you
do? I left you with the best of everything. |
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SONG AT MORNING MEETING (8C / 40.21) |
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RICKY INTERVIEW (8C / 1.06.35): I've asked the government and prime
minister to declare a state of emergency for Northland housing. (1.00.07) I've told the government that I can fix
it completely for 11 million dollars. I will fix it. I will put 500 houses in
Northland for 11 million bucks. And it's as simple as that. AMOS (1.00.41): And what did they say? RICKY: They're silent, it's silence. The silence is
almost deafening. |
29:17 Try ending on drone 1.45.05 or 1.51.33 |
SONG
ENDS (8C / 42.21) |
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