Thursday, February 5, 2015

             Today i woke up and brush my teeth, took a quick shower then i went to the kitchen and ate some breakfast. I looked at the clock and i saw that it was almost 6;40 so i had to go get ready really fast. I went downstairs and saw that i was early so ran upstairs to go get my coat because it's always cold in the mornings. I got to school and the school was empty, so i went to my locker and i spotted my friend so i went with her and we talked and we went to go get breakfast. we walked around, talked , and laughed. we stopped and said hi to our other friends and then left because they really didn't have anything to say. so we just went to our classrooms and sat there and at our breakfast and then we heard the first bell ring so we got up and went down the stairs because it always gets crowded so we got there before it got crowded and went down the stairs and went to class and we just started the day with first hour.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a Topic.

- Relate to your audience
- Has to be news worthy




2. Find an Angle.
- Break down the topic




3. Collect Information/Data.
- Who, What,
- Where, When
- Why, and sometimes how


4. Conduct the Interviews.
- Rule of three's. Interview 3 people
- Minimum of 9 questions.  3 Questions each, 3 people 
- Interview the experts/older experience people 


5. Shoot your reporter Stand up .
- Will always be on camera 
- The stand up should appear in middle of story, location, 



6. Organize your Sound bites.
- Is a piece of audio that can stand on its own 
- Open ended questions 
- 3 sound bites from each person


7. Write Transitions in your story.
- Write stuff between the interviews. 
- Put the voice between the interviews.
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8. Write the Opening and Closing of your story.
- Write the middle first. Go back to the opening if you cant think of the opening. 
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9. Write the anchor In and out (if necessary).
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10. Collect B/ Roll to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
-Broadcasting touch/ or footage
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*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A/ROLL.

- All the A/roll goes first then the b/ roll
A-Roll captures the main subject
B-Roll footage of what the person is talking about.