Students will begin writing for broadcast news platforms. This course also covers basic equipment used in the newsroom and in the field. As a foundational course for the news major, this class will involve students completing a series of short-form electronic news reporting assignments leading up to a capstone assignment: the broadcast news package. Finally, students can expect to leave the course with a firm understanding of how news is conceived, gathered, written and reported in electronic media environments (television, radio, online).
At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
Pitch, shoot, write, and edit a good, do-able broadcast news package that includes an anchor lead-in and an anchor tag. More specifically, a student should be able do the following:
1. Demonstrate the ability to formulate/pitch a story idea
2. Find an interviewee for a story
3. Re-write an Associated Press wire story in broadcast style and into different formats.
4. Understand camera framing and picture composition
5. Understand the basic functions of a video camera and editing software
6. Understand the role of ethics and law in the work of electronic reporters
7. Recognize the various electronic reporting story formats when they appear in a newscast 8. Be familiar with terminology of the electronic reporting industry
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I took JCM 331 in the Fall of 2018. My work from the course is available below, including the video footage and the broadcast script I wrote for each.
Our VOSOT was the second project in JCM 331. Our main focuses for the project were on interviewing and choosing a SOT, and recording a voiceover that matches the B-Roll that's playing. The script is listed below and includes all recommended revisions from my professor.
For our first project of the semester, we were asked to shoot a VO. This project was to help us get comfortable with shooting B-Roll and editing it in Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as writing a script to go along with it. We turned the video in without a voiceover, so you can only hear nat sound in the video. The script is below, and all recommended corrections from my professor have been made.
This newscast was for JCM 261, which I took in Spring 2018. For our final we were asked to choose a topic, shoot B-Roll, write and record an intro and outro, and shoot a minimum of three interviews. We then edited the newscast in iMovie and presented it on the last day of class.