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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
- News worthy
- Balance
2. Find an angle
- Determine question
- Focus
- Angle can change
3. Collect information
- need to know the person you are investigating
- background info before the show
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4. Conduct the interview
- interview 3 experts
- ask at least 3 questions 
- ask open ended questions
- Soundbite a piece of a story
5. Shoot your reporter stand up
- stand up, is when reporters appear which they should appear in the middle of the show
- Usually use as transition
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6. Organize your soundbites
- choose interviews soundbites in order
- choose the best one
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7. Write transitions in your story.
- when the reporters speaks
- segues also means transitions
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8. Write the ends and outs of your story.
- communication with anchors and reporters
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9. Collect B-roll to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
- having videos that makes it interesting
- natural sounds - see, feel, hear
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*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A-Roll
It all the audio in the story. Do all the A-roll first then the B-roll because A-roll is important.