News Log (9/15)

1. Story about a wildfire
-significance, timeliness, proximity
2. Weather
-1 min story
-timeliness, proximity, significance
3. Convoy Mission in Kuwait to resupply and take MN guard out of Irag
-6 min story
-siginificance, proximity
4. Marine earns the medal of honor
-human interest
5. Mom trys to pass an Anti Bullying Law
-1 min story
- human interest, unusual
6. Gopher football coach back from hospital
-1 min story
- prominence, proximity, unusualness
7. Denard Span helped out at a fundraiser
-1 min story
-prominence
8. Wild Training Camp Open
-1 min story
-promince
9. NightCap (football moments)
-1 min story
-prominence, proximity
10. Weather
-timeliness, proximity, significance

9-14-11 Camera Notes

INTERVIEWING:
• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?
1) Camera
2) Tripod
3) Tape (Memory Card)
4) Microphone
5) Headphones
6) Power
7) Light
"Clocks Tick Tock Making Heads Pound Lightly"

• Shooting into a light source = silhouette


• Where do you want your light source? behind the camera


• On what object should you focus the camera? the person's nose

• White Balance= sets the iris (amount of light coming into the camera), hold up a white sheet of paper, focus camera on it, and hit white balance button

• No tripod= BAD!


• Date and Time=  Never (display button; should never be shown in bottom corner)


• SP/EP- SP: standard play
             - EP: extended play


• Camera shoots in SP


• Pre-Roll- want camera to roll 3-5 seconds before interview


• Post-Roll- want camera to roll 3-5 seconds after interview


CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND: should be dynamic-has some depth, not plain
                                                                 -interviewee is at least 6-8 feet from wall
                                                                 -interviewee IS the shot, not a poster

• 1 Shot=  middle of the chest to above the head

• 1 Shot with graphic= 1 Shot slide to the side allowing room for an over the shoulder graphic

• 2 Shot=  2 people side by side, only do it during anchor segment

• CU-  Close Up

• MS-  Medium Shot

• LS- Long Shot

• ECU-  Extreme Close Up


Want to create a series of shots! Shoot from different angles!

• Rule of thirds- imaginary lines are drawn dividing the image into thirds both horizontally and vertically
                       - place the important elements on these lines


CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt- up and down


• Pan- side to side


• Zoom- getting closer or farther away from a subject


• Dolly- camera on wheels

LIGHTS:
• Key-the main, bright light that comes from the front, usually from the side


• Fill- light that fills in the shadows opposite of the key light


• Back-opposite of the key light, separates the subject from the background


MICROPHONES:
• Unidirectional- picks up from sound from ONE direction

• Omnidirectional- picks up sound from ALL directions, microphones on top of cameras

• Cardiod- a unidirectional mic that creates a heart of sound around subject

• Lav/Lapel Microphone- pack mic (clip on to shirt)

• Boom Microphone- unidirectional microphone that's on a poll, allows one to place the mic into a situation

9-13-11 Writing a Story

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a Topic
- sports
- theatre
- community
- know your audience

2. Find an Angle
- determines your questions
- okay if angle changes
- focuses on topic

3. Collect Data
- locations
- background info

4. Conduct the Interview
- interview 3 "experts"
- ask at least 3 questions per expert
- ask open-ended questions
- good start words are why and how (not do and are)
- sound bite: a piece of audio that can stand on its own

5. Shoot your reporter Stand Up
- the one time the reporter appears on camera
- should appear in the middle of story

6. Organize your Sound Bites
- choose order and location of interviews
- only end up using one sound bite from each expert
- put in order you want

7. Write Segues in your story.
- write information in between sound bites

8. Write the Ins and Outs of your story.
- what the reporter says leading in to and out of story
- communication between reporter and anchor
- write anchor ins and outs

9. Collect B-Roll to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
- video footage you can use for your story
- want a nice variety of shots
- want natural sound (sound that is already there)

*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A-Roll
- all of the audio that makes up your story
- edit all of the A-Roll first, and then the B-Roll

9/12/11 What is Broadcast Journalism?

Define “Broadcast Journalism” in 1-3 sentences.
   Reporting of current events that are news worthy through television, radio, and/or the internet.

List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness.
1) Significance- events that impact a large amount of people (hurricane, elections)
2) Unusualness- out of the ordinary (economy in recession)
3) Proximity- events that are close to us (geography)
4) Prominence- people (celebrities)
5) Timeliness- events that are current (weather)
6) Human Interest- feel good story (new animal born at the zoo, someone saved someone's life)



What are the differences between print journalism and broadcast journalism?
1. Broadcast journalism is much more current (have ability to shoot live)

2. Print journalism allows you to go to the section you want to. Broadcast journalism you have to sit through    the whole show to get the section you want.

3. Print journalism is much more in depth


How is the Internet impacting broadcast journalism?
     Is the best of print and broadcast journalism.