Adrienne Perkins

Community Issue Script – Crosses for Losses

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Anchor intro ACCORDING TO EVERYTOWN FOR
GUN SAFETY. THERE HAVE BEEN 18
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS SINCE THE
BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR. MANY,
LIKE THE CROSSES FOR LOSSES
ORGANIZATION SEE THIS AS A CALL
FOR OUR NATION TO COME TOGETHER
AS ONE. NEWSVISION’S ADRIENNE
PERKINS HAS MORE ON THE STORY.

VO
B-Roll people looking over the crosses and ONE BY ONE PEOPLE STOPPED AND
wide shot with White House background STARED AT THE TWO THOUSAND
TRT: 5 sec CROSSES BROUGHT TO OUR NATION’S
CAPITAL.

VO CROSSES FOR LOSSES WORKED

B-Roll of volunteer talking to bystanders and
volunteers setting up crosses
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TIRELESSLY TO DRIVE THE UNIQUE
MEMORIALS 11 HOURS FROM A
CHICAGO SUBURB TO D.C. AS A
MEMORIAL FOR VICTIMS OF GUN
VIOLENCE

VO EACH HANDMADE CROSS REMEMBERS

B-Roll close-up of crosses A SPECIFIC VICTIM AND THAT’S JUST
TRT: 7 sec WHAT THE TEAM, LED BY TAO
MARTINEZ WANTED

SOT Tao Martinez “Robert Renteria, Greg Zanis, and I decided

Crosses for Losses Leader to come together in efforts to make this a
TRT: 12 sec display of love and compassion to the lost
(:10 – 0:22) lives of these victims of violence.”

VO VOLUNTEERS WERE ALSO EAGER TO

B-Roll medium shot of crosses HELP
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 “I just felt the need to help them and jump
SOT Dan Turner right in there because it really stuck to me too,
Crosses for Losses volunteer all these innocent people getting murdered for
TRT: 11 sec nothing.”
(:15 - :25)

VO ROBERT RENTERIA, ANOTHER LEADER

Still pictures of Martinez and Renteria with OF THE ORGANIZATION TAKES ITS
children and Renteria with book series MISSION ONE STEP FURTHER WITH HIS
TRT: 8 sec PUBLISHED BOOK SERIES

“We’re here to unite a nation, to bring people

SOT Robert Renteria together regardless of age, race religion and
Crosses for Losses Leader economic background. That’s why we’re
TRT: 12 sec donating the curriculum. From the Barrio to
(0:01 – 0:03), (0:06 – 0:16) the Boardroom, to kids in classrooms across
2 SOTs buffered together with B-roll of America, if not around the world.”
crosses

VO ACCORDING TO THE U.S. CENTERS FOR

B-roll medium shot of crosses DISEASE CONTROL, GUNS KILL ABOUT
TRT: 6 sec 96 AMERICANS PER DAY EVERY YEAR.

SOT Tao Martinez

Crosses for Losses Leader “We don’t want to bury more people. We
TRT: 3 sec want to try to save lives.”
(0:40 - 0:43)
On Cam/Sig Off ALTHOUGH THE DEMONSTRATION
Adrienne Perkins OCCURRED ON THE ONE YEAR
TRT: 15 sec ANNIVERSARY OF PRESIDENT
TRUMP’S INNAGURATION AND RIGHT
HERE IN HIS BACKYARD, MARTINEZ
INSISTED THAT THIS WAS NOT A
POLITICAL DEMONSTRATION AND THE
TEAM SIMPLY WANTED TO PROMOTE
UNITY. FOR NEWSVISION, I’M
ADRIENNE PERKINS

THANKS ADRIENNE. TO LEARN MORE

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