- Review syllabus. Discuss course objectives. Discuss types of broadcast stories and highlights of the Cronkite Legacy.
- News & Elements of Storytelling
Assigments for the week 1:
- Take home assignment: Read Aim for the Heart-Chapter 1 Aim for the Heart
- Take home assignment: Read Aim for the Heart-Chapter 2 The Shape of the Story
Assigments for week 2:
- Take home assignment: Read Aim for the Heart-Chapter 3 Find Memorable Characters & Chapter 7: Why Pictures Are so Powerful
- Take home assignment: Read Aim for the Heart-Chapter 6 The art of the Interview
- Video recording & editing review:
- Example of a good interview:
- Check the use of the SOTs to tell the story. Focus on the Interview with the survivor of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
- Behind the story
- Example of a inspiring long-format package: Saving the Children
- THE ART OF THE INTERVIEW” with Patty Obrow White
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| Weeks 3 & 4: September 7 (Labor Day Holiday- Univ. Closed)-9 & 14-16 |
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| Weeks 5 & 6: September 21-23 & 28-30 |
- Overview of the Equipment
- Organization, Leads, Script formats
- Broadcast news style and guidelines
- September 21:Writing and editing a VO
- DUE: Proposal VO-SOT
- Take home assignment: Read Hand-out: VO script format
- Take home assignment: Read Chapter 12: Working as a Backpack, VJ and One-Man-Band Journalist
- September 23:Writing and editing a VO-SOT
- Take home assignment: Read Hand-out: VO-SOT script format
- September 28:Writing and editing a Package
- DUE: Proposal Package 1
- Take home assignment: Read Hand-out: Package script format
- September 30: Review Script VO-SOT
- DUE: Script VO-SOT
- Take home assignment: Read Chapter 10: Caution, This May Get Graphic: Thinking Visually
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