Opening Activity

1. How and where do you insert the memory card?
     It's inside the battery cover. You open the battery cover, then gently push the card until the card reaches the bottom of the slot.
2. Where is the on/off button?
     It's on the bottom right of the inside of the screen
3. Where is the Record button?
     It's in the middle of the back
4. Where is the zoom?
     It's above the power button on the back
5. How do you playback video?
     You press the mode button and use the joystick to switch to the My Works mode.  Or, you can
     press the play button on the left of the monitor.
6. How do you enter the menu items?

     Press up the menu button to get to the menu.
7. What are some menu features?
     Effects, Icons, Selftimer, Exposure, Picture Resolution, NightShot, Flashlight.

Opening Activity

1. What is a Wide shot sometimes called?
     Establishing Shots
2. Give the definition of a wide shot.
     A shot that shows setting and surroundings and one that establishes location.
3. Give the definition of a medium shot.
     They give a little less setting but a little more detail. They focus on a specific area.
4. Give the definition of a tight shot.
     [close up]. They give a really nice detail to your shot.

Camera Technique Notes

Notetaking on Camera Techniques

INTERVIEWING:
• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?
(Clocks Tick Tock Making Heads Pound Loudly)
Camera, Tape, Tripod, Microphone, Headphones, Power Source, Light Source
• Shooting into a light source = Silhouette
  Button to adjust =


• You always want the light _____________________.


• On what object should you focus the camera?


• No tripod= Bad


• Date and Time= This is permanently recorded on your tape, so NEVER do that.


• SP/EP: Standard play and Extended play. Camera always shoots in Standard play.

• Camera shoots in SP.
• Pre-Roll-2-3 seconds before you start your interview. Begin recording so we can edit without cutting off words.


• Post-Roll- 2-3 seconds after you end so you don't cut off words.


CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND: Dynamic. At least 6-8 feet from the wall.

• Interview Shot= 2 Eyes and 1 Ear


1 Shot= Straight on shot-middle of the chest


• 1 Shot with graphic=


• 2 Shot=For a show only.


• Establishing Shot

• CU- Close up. Tight Shot.


• MS- Medium Shot.


• LS- Long Shot.


• ECU- Extreme close up

• Wide-Medium-Tight


• Rule of thirds- Imaginary vertical and horizontal lines. (square of 9...3 x 3). Eyes should be 1/3 of the way from the top, eyes are drawn to these lines. Frames shot.

• Shoot Matched Action


• Get Sequences



CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt- Moving up and down.


• Pan- Moving left and right.


• Zoom-


• Dolly/Truck-

NATURAL SOUND:
• Nat Sound-

CLOSING SHOT:
* Closing Visual-

Opening Activity

1. What is a sound bite?
     A little piece of an interview that you're going to use in the video-the most important point said.
2. What is B-Roll?
     The footage of whatever you're covering-the visual that helps the viewer understand better

Story

Name: Lydia Narum

Date: September 26, 2011

Topic: LDT

Angle: Underclassmen competing Varsity dance

Script IN (for anchor): For the past month, Eastview High School's dancers have been working hard to have a good start to their fall season.


Stand up: The Lightning Dance Team, otherwise known as LDT, is a very successful team.  There are many underclassmen on the Varsity team, but everyone seems to get along very well. The underclassmen seem to feel welcomed and the upperclassmen enjoy having many underclassmen on their team.


1st Interview: The underclassmen and the upperclassmen have a positive relationship and support each other.  There’s not a grade divide between the sophomores, juniors, seniors and freshmen. We’re all very supportive of each other and we have to partner critique sometimes and the captains are very accepting of advice from underclassmen.

Segue: The underclassmen and upperclassmen are not only good teammates; they also bring a lot of skill to the team, as stated by an upperclassman dancer.


2nd Interview: Underclassmen contribute good skills and positive spirit.  They also have very high potential.  They have high standards for themselves and push themselves, which helps our team a lot.

Segue: The girls on LDT are good dancers and bring a lot to the table.  The bond between the dancers is something you don’t often find.


3rd Interview: There is so much potential in the team this year and I know we will do well this season.  We got a lot of new additions and the new underclassmen are really upping their game to Varsity level.  Our team’s chemistry really shows when we perform, and I think our team bond is great compared to a lot of other sports teams and a lot of dance teams from different schools.

Close: Good luck to LDT this year.

Reporting for the Flash, I’m Lydia.
Script OUT (for anchor): Thanks, Lydia. This season looks really promising for the dance team.  Be sure to watch them at the Varsity football games on Fridays at halftime.

Writing A Story Notes

1. Find a topic.
-Consider your audience

2. Find an angle.
-What is your story about?
-What’s important about it?
-3 words: Subject, verb, object.

3. Collect information.
-Find out who you should interview
-Find out about the people to interview and background information
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4. Conduct the Interview.
-Ask open-ended questions
-Get good sound bites (a piece of audio that can stand alone)
-Have the person restate the question in the interview

5. Shoot your reporter Stand Up
-Should have a good idea what the story is about
-Should provide information that the audience doesn’t know
-Use Stand-Up for transition from one location to the next

6. Organize your _______________.
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7. Write segues in your story.
-Use words to tie interviews together
-What other info can I add?
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8. Write the beginning and ending of your story.
-write body first
-Best sound bites for beginning and end

9. Write the anchor ______________ and ________________ (if necessary).
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10. Collect ___________ to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
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*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the ____________________.

Opening Activity

1. What is the topic?
        Childhood Malnutrition
2. What would you say is the angle?
        A child who is malnurished and the situation at home that explains why he is malnurished.
3. Which Criteria does the story have?
      -Timeliness
      -Human Interest
      -Proximity (partially in Minneapolis)
4. How would you make this a broadcast journalism piece? What footage would want to shoot?
       I would shoot a little malnurished child and show that they aren't in a third world country, they are very close to home.  Also, I would show food pantries and the many, many people that need to go there.  I would also include what people can do to help.

Opening Activity

1. Where is the reporter's stand-up?
       It was in the middle.
2.Where does Bob Dotson say is the best place to put a stand-up and WHY?
      In the middle because viewers can visualize the information that transitions from one location to another
3.How many key main points does Bob Dotson say should be in the middle of the story?
     3-5
4. What are the key main points of "The Boys of Winter"?
    Stay healthy, enjoy what you love, it's not too late to have fun.

LDT interview #1 answers

There aren’t many differences between JV and varsity except the other teams they compete against. In some schools, they have different JV and varsity levels, but at our school, they try to make them similar. For some JV dances, they have simpler routines, but at Eastview, we have different formations for JV and they’re not easy just because you’re JV

The underclassmen and the upperclassmen have a positive relationship and support each other.  There’s not a grade divide between the sophomores, juniors, seniors and freshmen. We’re all very supportive of each other and we have to partner critique sometimes and the captains are very accepting of advice from underclassmen.

The underclassmen bring length to the table.  Most underclassmen are on JV their 1^st and 2^nd years and it’s good to have people under you so you hold yourself to a high standard. It makes you want to push yourself because people want your spots.  You get to help the next dancers and they’re gonna become the upperclassmen.  They bring more fans. It’s super cool to see stuff they can already do and from day one freshmen year to now, everyone has improved so much and it’s cool to see how much they’ve improved.

There are more underclassmen than there are underclassmen. There are actually a lot of sophomores this year. On the team, there’s about 50 people, and I’d say 10 seniors maybe and there’s probably like 10 juniors I think, and I think there’s 18 sophomores and probably about 10 freshmen.  But that’s just guessing.

2 years from not when I’m a senior, I hope we’re a close and supportive of each other and hopefully were working really hard and working our way to a state championship.

Opening Activity

On a zip line in Hawaii on Wednesday, one man was injured and in critical condition and one was killed.  They were working on a new course at a zip line facility in Maui.  The man died after falling 200 feet from a test run on the actual zipline from the collapsing of a support tower.  The injured man was on the tower and fell from it as it collapsed.  The course will now be closed for two weeks to make sure it is safe.  I think this is really scary because I've ziplined before and it's so much fun. It is scary that a man died, since .  It is somewhat reassuring, however, no matter how awful it was, that they did not just open up the course to the public.  They made sure to test it first, though the test run was obviously unsuccessful and caused a man's death.

Story Topic

Topic: LDT
Angle: Underclassmen competing Varsity

Questions:
1. What are the differences between JV and Varsity dance?
2. What is the relationship like between the underclassmen and the upperclassmen on Varsity?
3. What do the underclassmen bring to the table?
4. How do the numbers compare when looking at upperclassmen vs. underclassmen on V?
5. How/where do you see your team being in 2 years?

Opening Activity

In China, marriage laws are changing; now, property purchased by married couples will become the property of the partner who purchased it or whose name is on the deed if they get divorced.  This new law puts women at more of a disadvantage in this culture because they most likely not receive property, even if they paid for much of the property.  The divorce rate is increasing in China, up to 39% in Beijing, and many people believe the changed laws could decrease the rate.

-Timeliness
-Unusualness
-Significance

Opening Activity

Who is she?
      She was a young african american girl who grew up in legally segregated New Orleans and was very smart.  She was smart enough to go to a local white school at age 6, but she was the only one who did at the one particular school.  There were riots and protests that the parents of the white parents had because they didn't want integration.  Many white parents took their kids out of that school.  Ruby stayed at the school despite the threats, and schools later started to become more integrated.
What time frame did she grow up?
      She grew up in the 1950's and 1960's when there was segregation before/during the Civil Rights' movement.
What is significant about her life?  She graduated from an integrated high school in a time and place that did not allow integration.

In Class Questions

1. What is the rule of threes/filling the silence?
                  People often answer your questions three times.  If you stay silent before they answer a third time, then they may not share the third answer.  Leave the silence so that the person explains their answer very clearly.

2. Explain the non-question question.
                  Something an interviewer says that is not a question but implies an answer.  They often cause the person interviewed to share things about themselves.  You gradually bring up the topic, rather than directly asking a question.

Opening Activity

Part of I-35E South was closed this weekend as part of a road resurfacing and improvement project.  I thought it was important that people knew because it will affect a lot of people and they should be aware of the reasons behind the closed lanes.  The project is supposed to be finished by the beginning of November, but many are hoping it will be done sooner.  I think it should be done as soon as possible because of the number of people who use the road.

-Timeliness (happened recently)
-Proximity (in Minneapolis)
-Signficant (changes peoples' work routes and affects many people when driving)

Opening Activity

What happened? At a middle school in Arkansas, a student pulled the fire alarm and ran outside to meet the other student involved.  As people ran outside, the two students open-fired on them.  4 students and a teacher died and 10 others were wounded.  The students were caught with a great amount of ammunition.
Who did it? Two middle school students did the shooting, ages 11 and 13.
Why? There is some thought that satanism may have contributed to their reasons.
What type of angle would you do for the story? I would do a story on the people who survived the shooting because I think it would be interesting to hear what they said happened or the shooting in their perspective.

Opening Activity

In the current economy, the U.S. Postal Service has started to cut expenses, but this will likely mean that mail will take at least 2 days, on average, to be received after being sent.  These cuts include shutting down up to 250 mail processing facilities, cutting its mail processing equipment in half, and reducing its nationwide transportation network.  I think that it makes sense that the post office needs to cut back, especially because of the probable decrease in letters being sent.  However, mail is something that can be very important and necessary to be received on time.

Significant
Timeliness

Opening Activity

Burger King is trying to compete with McDonald's by offering a new option on its menu: oatmeal.  I don't think Burger King has much of a chance when compared to the wildly popular McDonald's.  I have always thought of Burger King as bad quality food, even though McDonald's isn't very good either.  Even though Burger King's oatmeal is slightly cheaper, I don't think introducing oatmeal is going to make a large difference in their success.  If you're going to go to Burger King or McDonald's, you probably aren't planning on getting oatmeal, and if you do want a healthy breakfast, Burger King and McDonald's are probably not where you are planning on eating.

Opening Activity

I think that Facebook is really big and has been big for a while, so this will not work in comparison to Facebook.  I think that if they introduce something bigger, better, and/or different, people may transfer over to Google+ after getting tired of Facebook.  However, I don't think that will happen anytime soon and I don't think it will pass Facebook because of its huge success.  It may become a popular site, but if Facebook is who they are in competition with, I don't think they will pull ahead.

Opening Activity

One day after the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the September 11 memorial opened.  There are two open-topped cubes, nearly an acre in size, in place of the twin towers that were once there, and there are waterfalls that flow down.  I think this sounds like an amazing memorial.  I think it is cool that it was made in the 10-year anniversary as well.

Opening Activity

The increased use of synthetic drugs is causing more deaths, two already this year in Minnesota.  They resemble drugs such as cocaine and marijuana.  However, they are dangerous and it is easier to overdose than with the real drugs.  The first Minnesotan, a 19-year old, died in Blaine last spring, and the second, a 22-year old, died very recently from shooting himself with an "altered state of mind".  These synthetic drugs are legal but very unpredictable.

Shortened Stories

Anum Ahmed has traveled all around the world, which sets her apart from most 15 year olds.  She's been all the way to Dubai in the Middle East and seen the famous world islands and the tallest building in the world.  She also traveled across the world to Pakistan for a month when she was 13 to visit family.

Anum Ahmed has traveled all across the globe, from everywhere from Dubai to Pakistan.

Anum, global traveler

Article Summary

Last Thursday, September 1, a new pedestrian bridge opened in Forest Lake with the mayor, state senator, and a few other city and leaders in attendance.  It was built so that runners, walkers, and bikers could get to downtown Forest Lake safely.  The bridge cost $1.2 million and was a part of the Road Reconstruction project.

Partner Interview

Anum Ahmed thinks she is just like everyone else, but she is very unique. She is a traveler and has been many places in her 15, soon to be 16, years of living. She has traveled all over the United States and to Canada and once took a road trip to Texas. However, she has been across the globe as well, which is something most teenagers can’t say. She has been to several countries in Asia and the Middle East, including Dubai and Pakistan. On her recent trip to Dubai, she saw the newly-made world islands and the tallest building in the world. On a month-long visit to Pakistan, she experienced the nation first-hand and was able to visit her family there. So, if you were to describe Anum Ahmed, "ordinary" and "boring" would not be the first words that come to mind.