Your
name: ______________________________________________ Date: ______
Broadcast
Journalism A with Mr. Fornicoia
Mudhouse
package assignment
Assignment
sheet and rubric (15 points)
Rationale: Not every shot
fits – even all the cool ones.
Objectives: Plan, write,
and edit a news package without needing to go get any of the material yourself.
Stick to a focus statement. Learn the editing software without the trouble of
cameras. Discern good footage and audio from poor.
Directions: Individually, you will create this news package and complete the work for it in class. All the files you’ll need are in the Period 6 folder on your computer’s C Drive. Be sure to save your project to the Period 1 folder. Within the Period 1 folder, create another folder called Mudhouse.
Your focus statement
is: “It’s too hot for coffee.” The
location is a coffee shop in Missouri called “The Mudhouse” in the hot summer
month of July.
About the audio:
The package should include nat (natural) sound at least once, no music, and you
must use the interviews and stand-ups provided.
Before you move on and do too much editing, you need to hand
in the “Planning and Writing” documents below.
RUBRIC: Your Mudhouse
news package will be graded on the following criteria. Please check your video
against this rubric between every stage of the project. This is an individual project.
Aspect Points
PLANNING AND
WRITING (5 points) __/5
Catalog (shot-by-shot description) of the raw
footage is typed, complete __/2
All the sound bites and stand-ups are typed
up, word-for-word __/1
Your final story is written out, like a
script __/1
The interviews and VOs complement each other
and tell a story around the focus statement __/1
EDITING (10
points) __/10
Absolutely no digital effects (fades,
dissolves, graphics, digital transitions); just edits __/1
B-roll video matches the audio consistently __/2
Final cut lands between 45 and 75 seconds __/1
Final cut sticks to the focus statement __/1
Natural sound is used appropriately at least
once __/1
The interviews and voice-overs flow together
without technical hesitation (no black blips) __/1
Contains at least two sequences of
Wide/Medium/Close (or Close/Medium/Wide) __/2
Final cut includes at least 15 camera shots __/1
How do to this:
Step 1: Open Premiere and do the following:
a.
Create a new project, saving it in the C Drive, Period 2 folder
b.
Import the three files from the C Drive, Period 6 folder: B-roll, Sound Bites,
Stand-ups
Step 2: Describe each shot in the B-roll file. List this in a Word document (like you did for a blog posting a couple weeks ago)
Step 3: Type out, word-for-word, the Sound Bites and
Standups files.
Step 4: Write a script that uses the Sound Bites and Standups.
This must stick to the focus statement “It’s too hot for coffee.”
Step 5: Lay out your script (in video) on your sequence in
Premiere (on the Video 1 and Audio 1 tracks). Check the length and be sure it
lands between 45 and 75 seconds.
Step 6: Find B-roll that matches what the speakers talk
about and place it in the Video 2 and Audio 2 tracks.
