1 / 15

Shaping a News Feature

Shaping a News Feature. Pt. 1: Preparing for the Story Pt. 2: Going on Location Pt. 3: Orchestrating the parts. Pt. 1. Preparing for the Story. Pick a Topic. How many _______________________________does it have?

kalyca
Download Presentation

Shaping a News Feature

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Shaping a News Feature Pt. 1: Preparing for the Story Pt. 2: Going on Location Pt. 3: Orchestrating the parts

  2. Pt. 1 Preparing for the Story

  3. Pick a Topic • How many _______________________________does it have? • The more it has, the more newsworthy it is. Choose topics with ____________________________________determinants.

  4. Preparing the Idea • Select _____________________________people to interview. • Who has the best information about the topic? • Create questions that will uncover the topic. • Make them ______________________________________. • i.e. cannot be answered with a _____________________ • At a minimum, cover the 5W’s & 1H. • Make meeting arrangements. • _________________________ time • _________________________ time

  5. Anticipate the Visuals • Great visuals are a story’s _____________________________. • Words only support them. • List the shots you should record. • What pictures will _________________________ your topic? • SEQUENCE, SEQUENCE, SEQUENCE!!!! • Wide, medium, tight, tighter, tightest • Solid __________________________________________offers: • Comprehensive coverage for the edit • Flexibility to get unique shots as they arise

  6. Pt. 2 Going on location

  7. Shoot the Interview • Visuals: • Frame the subject in an _______________________________________________. Get CU’s as needed. • Audio: • Record clean sound with these: ____________________________________________________________________________________. • AVOID STICKS. • GET ROOM TONE!!!!!!!!!

  8. Tips to Get Editable Interview Content • Coax the interviewee to speak in _______________________. • SOUND BITE DEFINITION: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. • Tell interviewee to ______________________ their question into their answer. • Re-ask the question if the response _____________________: • “That’s a really great answer. Could you maybe say that again in a slightly different way?” • Interviewee will usually retell it better and shorter.

  9. Shoot the Follow DEFINITION: Shoot the interviewee doing something _________________________to the story. • E.G. If they organize Toys for Tots, get them collecting donations, making phone calls to donors, or giving the toys to kids. • Visuals: • Refer to the shot list. • Use it as a __________________________________________. • Get other cool shots of relevant action. • Wide, medium, tight, tighter, tightest • Audio: • ___________________________________________________.

  10. Shoot the Stand-up • STAND-UP DEFINITION: The appearance of the reporter. While frequently done __________________________________________, they don’t need to be.

  11. Stand-up Style • Shoot at the location of the action. • e.g. Be near a Toys for Tots collection bin. • It is used to smoothen a _____________________________point. • It’s best kept ___________________________________________. • Shoot several different __________________________________. • Will be inserted at 1/3 or 2/3 mark of story. • NOT AT THE BEGINNING AND/OR END—THAT’S WEAK.

  12. Pt. 3 Orchestrating the parts

  13. The Beginning Transformation from Topic to Story. • Center the story around the ____________________________. • Viewers relate to people. • There is a _________________________________within every good story. • Write the __________________________column for the script. • Remember the hey, you, see, so format.

  14. The Continuing Transformation from Topic to Story • Envision how to ___________________________________the interview. • Find the best ________________________________________. • Write the audio column for the script. • Lead into and out of those sound-bites with ______________. • This______________ connect the storylines. • Do the above while keeping the hey, you, see, so style.

  15. The Concluding Transformation from Topic to Story • Revise your writing • Make sentences ___________________________________. • Subject + verb + the rest of the sentence • Avoid ___________________________________________. • If you can say it in fewer words, do it. • Replace weak verbs or linking verbs with _________________________________ whenever possible. • Fix ______________________________. • Only time will tell. No one knows for sure. There’s no end in sight. It was business as usual. Etc, etc, etc….

More Related