9-13-11 Writing a Story

The Flash show example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqOE_gsK-k0

Friday's assignment: Watch 30 minutes of the news and do a news log (story, time, criteria of newsworthiness). This must be posted to your blog before class begins on Friday.

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a topic.
- Know your audience.
- Newsworthyness.

2. Find an angle.
- Determines direction.
- Okay to change.
- Focus on the topic.

3. Collect information.
- Find everything you can.

4. Conduct the interview.
- Three experts on a story.
- Ask at least 3 questions.
- Ask open ended questions.
- Soundbyte - a piece of audio that can stand on its own.

5. Shoot your reporter stand up.
- Should be seen at least once.

6. Organize your interviews.

7. Write segues in your story.
- Transitions
- Write information between the soundbytes.

8. Write the in and out of your story.
- Good communication
- What will the anchor say going into the story and exiting out.

9. Collect length to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
- Collect "B-Roll"


*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the "A-Roll".