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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.

 

Length should fall between :45 and 1:15 TRT (total run time).

 

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.

FRIDAY

OPENING ASSIGNMENT:

Yesterday you were assigned the following:

Choose something that happened to you today (or any time in your lifetime) and write a paragraph in which you "cover" it as a journalist. Post it to your blog as an assignment.

Today you are to write the same story, but write it like it is a piece of literature.    How are the two pieces of writing different? How are they similar? How might you write a third account that combines elements of journalism and literature?



FINISH WRITING A STORY STEPS

Thursday

For reading time today:
http://www.Digg.com     Pick 1 story to read.  Write a 2 sentence summary and a 3 sentence personal response.

CLASS ACTIVITY FOR TODAY:


 Try to remember the most exciting thing you ever witnessed--a daring rescue, a momentous sporting event, the birth of a child. Imagine that someone has approached you immediately after the event and has asked you to describe it. Are you now a journalist? That is, is the story you are about to recount journalism, or is it some form of literature?

The answer depends on what kind of "story" you present. Is it a strictly factual account of people, places, and events? Does it primarily tell who, what, when, where, why, and how? Most of us would probably agree that this kind of story is journalism. At its core, journalism is an attempt to convey timely, useful information--that is, "news"--to readers or viewers in a truthful way. It may use sounds and pictures, but its primary vehicle is language.

Is your "story"  an imaginative evocation of the event? Have you employed creative use of sounds or figurative language? Is your purpose to elicit an emotional response from your audience? Have you invented details to deepen the meaning or effect of the story? We are inclined to think of this kind of story as literature. In its various forms--fiction, poetry, drama, even some forms of nonfiction--literature generally seeks to enlighten or move us through the imaginative use of language and incident.

Though different at their cores, journalism and literature are not always distinct. That is, while some of the qualities described above help to characterize them, they also share a number of similarities. Both, after all, primarily use language to capture and convey the human experience. Someone has famously proclaimed that journalism is "history in a hurry," suggesting that news reporters record the events that ultimately tell the story of people on earth. Similarly, literature often provides glimpses of not only the events of a time period, but the general mentality of its people. Both journalism and literature also capitalize on interest. In his essay "The Philosophy of Composition," Edgar Allan Poe emphasized the value of originality in creating a poem, and someone else once defined news as something with an unusual quality, noting that a dog biting a man is not news, but a man biting a dog is. Finally, both journalism and literature seek to effect change or move their audiences. A newspaper's job, it has been said, is to "raise hell." Some literary works, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, also raise hell. Others, such as the satires of Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, may effect a different kind of change by making us aware of the weaknesses in our personalities. Still others--the lyric poems of Poe and William Shakespeare, for example--heighten our awareness of the world or perhaps merely entertain us. In any case, all literature has some kind of impact. In short, journalism and literature are similar in many respects. In fact, we might consider journalism as a literary genre--that is, a type of writing with its own set of conventions.

YOUR TASK:
Choose something that happened to you today (or any time in your lifetime) and write a paragraph in which you "cover" it as a journalist.  Post it to your blog as an assignment. 

Tomorrow we will evoke this event in a brief work of literature. How are the two pieces of writing different? How are they similar? How might you write a third account that combines elements of journalism and literature?

Tuesday

Go to http://www.startribune.com/  and read/watch any main story.  Write a 2 sentence summary and a 3 sentence response. 


QUIZ


DISCUSSION