Day 1

 

• Very quick researching skills, writing bulletins (describe what happened and what I was doing wrong))
• Gathering stories: Wrong information/ given the wrong names from the ones printed in the paper. We have to wait until Wednesday for the next Court case, because it was postponed-
• we got from police media best to wait until the court case to unveil the names of the murdered couple go through White pages to find out the names of the victims because they were locals
• The RVO’s — no clips, but you can have grabs – no piece to cameras or voiceovers. Just the presenter speaking. (google just to double check correct term) reads all the way through with no clips. do a separate blog post on all RVO’S AND PACKS -all industries call them different things))
• When writing scripts:
• (()) the brackets mean that it is hidden from the prompt so the presenter doesn’t read it out- they are notes for the film editors/camermen when editing your clips together
• When putting together a piece always put your best picture first and 2nd best picture last to keep people interested in the story
• The software they use is called Dalet plus—- sort of like Audacity/ pro-tools—- so Dalet/ Final-cut pro
• There are no fancy editing techniques, no transitions or anything like that, everything is simple and straight forward.
• Always read your stories out loud, they need to sound the way you talk, KISS
• Always keep the intro to 1 par::: an RVO should be 4 pars, a grab, another par depending on the clip.
• You are writing to pictures, so when developing the story, you look at the footage first, and then you write the stories depending on what footage you get. you always tell the story through the pictures, the words will follow with additional information.