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 ____________________.