visual arts - advanced class
Newscast production
Students in the advanced class of Visual Arts will be responsible for at least one newscast per week that highlights the daily bulletin announcements for the high school as well as other feature stories that will interest the student body. Students will learn the elements of a newscast and how to execute one from planning to the finishing product.
In addition, students will advance their story-telling skills by shooting feature stories on the side to eventually be incorporated into the newscasts.
Students have also created their own O Town News website that they update and work on to create new content. You can find it here: www.otownnews.weebly.com
Worksheets:
FEATURE STORY
WEBSITE
NEWSCAST
In addition, students will advance their story-telling skills by shooting feature stories on the side to eventually be incorporated into the newscasts.
Students have also created their own O Town News website that they update and work on to create new content. You can find it here: www.otownnews.weebly.com
Worksheets:
FEATURE STORY
WEBSITE
NEWSCAST
creating a newscast step by step
- Go over Daily Bulletin to begin choosing stories - Choose which stories will be used in the newscast. PRINT THIS SHEET OUT AND WRITE DOWN YOUR PLAN.
- The week's anchors will write the chosen stories unless otherwise assigned. Writers will be responsible for getting more information on that story to make it about 20-30 seconds long.
- Add more! Think about current events at the school to come up with at least three additional stories that can be used in the newscast. (This can be features, awards, upcoming events, sports, weather, etc.)
- Look over the stories and brainstorm visual elements for each one
-- The design of a newscast story is usually to have the anchor on camera for one sentence and then show video or a graphic over the rest of the script copy.
-- Visual elements can be video, pictures, graphic (title page) - Decide which order the stories will go in the newscast.
-- Start strong – start with your most interesting story that will get people’s attention. This is one that will impact/interest the most people in your audience – in this case, high school students.
-- End strong – you want to find a fun story to end with to keep the newscast memorable.
-- Fill in the middle – you want stories to flow easily from one to another so look for common elements to put them back to back. For example, if there are several stories for seniors, group those together. If there are a couple stories on different clubs, put those together - Plan, shoot, write, edit stories.
When writing your stories, create an interesting, attention-getting lead sentence. Fill in with at least 3 facts, end with a closing sentence (usually how to get more information.)
*If you get an interview, ask them open-ended questions that will offer reaction, emotion or explanation of a fact in a story.
Story scripts should be 20-30 seconds long.
Sound bites should be 8-15 seconds long. - Anchors need to go over scripts and tweak the writing so it sounds good to read. Read them over the night before recording.
- Shoot newscast on Wednesday morning.
- Edit newscast together
- Put the newscast intro on the timeline first.
- Lay the studio portion on the timeline next, along with any sound bites or feature stories that need to be inserted
- Layer the video/graphic elements
- Put in name supers
- Put in the newscast ending
- Export as a 1080 HD, best quality