rtv 440 week 1 cell phones off and put away chapters 1 & 9 appendix 1
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RTV 440 Week 1
Cell Phones Off and Put Away
Chapters 1 & 9Appendix 1
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Chapter 1
• Why do we tell stories to people?– Share human experience and understanding– Think about TV shows, movies, etc.
• Difference in visual stories and reporting:• Visual stories reveal someone’s goals and
actions as they unfold sequentially, along a timeline.
• Reports commonly emphasize just the facts.
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Storytelling basics
• Just as audio serves to draw audiences into the environment of a real-life event, listeners and viewers become more deeply and more tangibly involved if you allow them to see, and feel, and smell, and touch, and taste that moment.
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Storytelling basics
• What is a ‘story’?• Who, what, when, where, why and how.• Entertain, inform, persuade.• In video media you can only communicate in
two ways; one way is with images, the other is with sound.
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Storytelling issues
• Culture impacts perception• Plan the visual story– ‘theme’ / focus statement / structure
• The best stories convey a sense of progression• Find images that convey a clear story focus
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Storytelling issues
• Write the pictures first• Do Reportorial Editing: the process of
previsualizing the story, including the pictures, the sounds, the words, and even the visual and audio transitions – Like a movie director
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More Chapter 1
• PROVE THE STORY’S FOCUS VISUALLY– If your subject is a routine warehouse fire, you
may identify the focus by the statement as, “This is a big fire.”
– Your “visual proof,” just as your words, will then follow naturally.
– Visual proof is one or more shots that illustrate a main point or help convey the overall story focus.
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Chapter 1
• You select a focus based on available information
• The focus may change – be prepared to adjust the story you are telling.
• TELL YOUR STORY THROUGH PEOPLE• STRONG NATURAL SOUND HELPS TELL
THE STORY
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Chapter 1
• BUILD IN SURPRISES• KEEP SOUND BITES SHORT• ADDRESS THE LARGER ISSUE• CHALLENGE YOUR FOCUS STATEMENT– “so what?”
• PACKAGES ARE FACTUAL MINI-MOVIES
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The story structure
• The lead– Types of leads– Visual lead
• The main points– Prove points visually
• The close– Nothing else can top it
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Chapter 9 – The Package1. Focus (the story stated in a sentence)
2. Beginning (lead)
a. Studio lead-in
3. Package lead
a. Visual lead
b. Voice over (VO)
4. Middle (three or four main points)
a. Main point A
b. Main point B
c. Main point C
d. Main point D
5. End (close)
a. Final visual
b. Final VO
c. Strong closing sound
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Studio lead-In:
• If you want to lose weight and become healthy for life, you’ll never need a fad diet again. In fact, you never did. You learned the secret in elementary school.
• (Reporter) has the story.
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The Package Lead
• Plan the “visual lead,” or first video of your package (include a ‘nat pop’)
• Identify the central idea you wish to communicate before you worry about the words. In general, the thought process focuses first on (a) an idea to communicate; (b) images to prove the idea visually; and (c) words as necessary to interpret and explain the images.
• Summary lead, hard lead, soft lead, etc.
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WRITE THE MIDDLE OR MAIN BODY
• After the package lead, begin the middle or main body of your report.
• In a 1:10- to 1:30-minute package, try to limit yourself to no more than three or four main points.
• Again, focus on the ideas to be communicated before you worry about the images or words.
• B-roll with VO, sound bites, stand up
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Body Main Points
• Main Point 1– Supporting facts, prove visually, transition
• Main Point 2– Supporting facts, prove visually, transition
• Main Point 3– Supporting facts, prove visually, transition into
conclusion
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WRITE THE CLOSE
• Next, write the close to your package. The close makes it obvious to your audience the story is ending.
• Without a strong close, the package will stop but it will not end.
• As soon as you arrive in the field, begin your search for a closing shot—a visual close you can build toward throughout the entire piece, something so strong it’s obvious the story is finished.
• Lazy reporters sometimes end stories on interviews or standups, but such endings resemble unsigned letters.
• ‘stand up bridge’ (samples)
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Some Types of Leads
• Later, a bit more discussion• For now use this site to guide your practice
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Assignment
• Think of a “newsworthy” story from your own life: theme—the time I almost died -- (use the news elements to determine an event that could be newsworthy to you or your friends) and practice writing a hard news and soft news lead for it. Write three different kinds of leads (see next) and then the full story for a one-minute VSV news report.
• Details on the course outline.• Submit to Google Drive folder by 10 am Wed.