Wasn't I just in Broadcast Journalism and eager to get my Mock Spot Story Assignment? I remember going off campus for an hour and a half, being the only group to get really amazing sound bites from an adjacent school Vice Principal for our Mock Spot.
Anyway, it's time for the next group of students to take the stage. Today was the big day for them- as they took a dive into getting a story within one class period. Taking direction from a Sun-Sentinel article that Dr. Petrich assigned, each person went out and got two sound bites to use in their story. They were to come into class with a lead and story outline set up so they would just edit and record later in the afternoon.
It seemed like not many students actually did work at home, since only a few students volunteered to present their leads and story ideas. This isn't such a good sign at the start of the semester, but I might be speaking too soon.
Once students came back from getting interviews around campus, I sat down with Kimberly and helped edit her piece. Editing here was more re-wording sentences and making sure each phrase was pleasing to the ear. As a class, we edited Nick's story and I contributed to those edits as well.
Alyssa was the first student ready to get into the studio to record and put her story together, so I accompanied her. I aided in setting up the mic, adjusting levels, and being the engineer/ear in this operation. I showed her how to do multitrack and put her sound bites in, after she edited her voice track and bites separately. She was the first student done with this assignment, and I think hers turned out to be fantastic. She took direction well the entire time, and was even taking notes on my instructions. I found that to be really great because editing can get tricky if you don't know what to press or highlight during the process.
The Facebook page was updated as well with a shot of the story the students were working off of for this assignment. I remember mine being school/education based. This is a really good and current story selection.
Thursday: January 23, 2014
WORKSHOP
In today's workshop, we focused on creating a billboard for the show. I took a ton of notes in case I were to construct the billboard, and they definitely came in use. I can see that finding bites from the two-ways will take a while, but those are most important snippets one will hear. They decide if a listener will be interested in the program or not. Co-Host materials are to be pasted into multitrack next, after adding the found two-way bites. The list goes on with how to construct a billboard, but I found it really fascinating. It's a real craft, and I appreciate it more now that I know what kind of work goes into it.
I updated the Facebook page with the new logo, thanks to Markella! She and I were conversing last week about what the logo should be after bringing it up on Thursday's class meeting. I love the owl fingers. They're just so unique to FAU.
As well as a new logo, South Florida Journal gave birth to a Twitter page. Tweet-Tweet!
I shared the good news on Facebook. Thanks to the Broadcast class for this idea, we now have a page where we plan on adding photos, videos, and other important newsy information as the semester continues.
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