Thursday, May 30, 2013

reading 3

1.

 2. The name of the story is "Land of 10,000 Stories: Race For The Cure". It was aired on May 13, 2013.
3. The baby making noises
The runners chanting of celebration
    The band playing in the backgrod
     The bells going off for each mile they reach
4. T women's hat that says "survivor"
    W of the whole place walking
    M of talking to one runner with her mom
    M of the baby in the stroller

5.Walking for a cure

 6.  This story uses Bob Dotson's Building Blocks by the sound bites, words, silence, natural sound,  pictures, and graphics. the author used silence well in this story.  In this story silence was particularly a good thing to have to show the significance for this story to show and highlight the emotion of everything that is going on. The reporter would pause leaving silence to fill the the gap creating more emotion.  they used graphics throughout the story. They let us infer or make connections to the situations going on in the scenes. they also used a of a grandma holding a son that was pretty powerful.

mudhouse script

B-roll:
 W the coffee shop
Reporter standup
T coffee grinder
T expresso maker
M getting ice
M pouring ice in blender
M blender
T blending
T "ready"
T pouring ice coffee
M mudhouse worker


A-roll:
 Nat sound coffee shop



1.       everybody knows to come downtown to the mudhouse for a great cup of coffee, but nobody wants coffee when it's 105 degrees.



Well pretty typically I like a nice hot cup of coffee, but in the summer its really nice to come in and get a cool drink

Nat sound making iced dring

1.       You know during the summer months we ice most of our drinks. A lot of our customers still need their caffeine fixed, so you know if they usually get a latté then they will come in and get an iced latte instead.
 






Wednesday, May 29, 2013

run and gun

Run and Gun Interviews:

1.  What is a "Run and Gun" interview? When can we use a "Run and Gun" interview?
one or two questions.
2.  What is the first thing you should do BEFORE starting off for the interview?
test equment
3.  Why do you think we should ask for permission?
because possible legal issues
4.  Why should we always ask the interviewee to state and spell their names?
for our lower third
5.  Where should we place the microphone?
low in the shot and never give them the mic
6.  Should we hand the mic to the interviewee?
never
7.  The photographer is responsible for the sound levels.  What are two things the photog should be aware of?
how loud and soft the sound is and background nose
8.  COMPOSITION:  How we should frame our interview shot:
a.  Eyes on third
b.  2 Eyes One ear
c.  Camera should be Higher, Even, or Lower than subject? even
d.  Talking space or nose Room


BACKGROUNDS:
9. Avoid shooting in front of window

10.  Why should we keep signs out of the background?
they are distracting
11.  If we were doing an interview about the high cost of parking at EVHS where would a good place to interview be?
the parking lot
12.  What is a demonstration interview and what are the benefits?

Thursday, May 16, 2013

week 3


RT: 2:58
ST: Disappearing jobs: video store closes shop
  1. L: Sign of the store
  2. D: inside of the store
  3. M: guy sorting the video games
  4. m: of the owner
  5. L: outside of store
  6. M: video shelves  
  7. M: person looking at games
  8. T: movies
  9. T: DVD sign
  10. L: customer looking at videos then grabbing them
  11. L: sign
  12. M: owner
  13. d: lookng at videos
  14. W: cases of video
  15. T: suggestion box 
  16. m: customer purchasing video
  17. L; dog shot
  18. M: person picking up videos
  19. D: Customer looking at videos
  20. M: customer talking with worker
  21. l: showing the customer with stacks of video
  22. A: showing DVDs $2.50 sale
  23. W: customer getting interviewed
  24. M: customer
  25. M: customer with video
  26. D: customer looking at movies
  27.  T: of theowner
  28. M: the owner
  29. T: candy sign
  30. M: owner checking out videos
  31. T: tight videos
  32. T: owner face
  33. D: of the store
  34. M: of the owner
  35. W: outside of store showing the lights going off
I noticed a few really nice depth shots in this story and that really added to the story. I also really liked the dog shot for some reason I thought it was clever. one thing that I noticed a lot of was medium shots while someone was getting interviewed, and not really a sequence of wide medium and tight shots. im not sure that I like that. They showed the customers buying videos to make a point about the story. they also showed the owner checking out videos like 3 times in the story. one thing that they also did was show signs about 3 times throughout the video.

Elf Movie Remake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMikLMpwPx4

Tuesday, May 14, 2013


1st We come up with a Topic:
cross-country homecoming
2nd We decide on a Focus Statement:
cross-country team runs ball far
3rd:  We Conduct Interviews to get Sound Bites to use in the interview:
"our cross-country team holds traditions very dear to us"
4th We Shoot B-Roll to complement the sound bites
overhead helicopter shot. linking shot when they passed the ball off, tying the shoe for a run
5th  We Shoot our stand-up
the runners run past the interviewer and then the camera focuses on him
6th:  We Edit our story together adding Voice Overs as Seques between interviews.

Thursday, May 9, 2013

reading week 2

Dotson used the connection of stories and onions on page 43. He said they were like onions not because they make you cry, but because they have many layers. that really reminded me of the first shreck movie for some reason. I thought that was quite witty. one thing that caught my eye was how he wrote for people to be conversational when you write. He said to write the way you speak and make it more believable to yourself. That is great advice to me and I will take that in the next time I am writing. the last thing that stood out to me was how he explained that you can bring a story back that is like half a century old by connecting it to present day events. That way it can give people a little insight of history while they are checking up on the everyday news events. I think that is so true because you know what they say history repeats its self, so it might change a little bit but its pretty much the same thing.
 defeat the TV remote control was used at the beginning of the article, so the author could set up a scene in our heads to keep getting us hooked and keep reading. he did so by telling the reader little things in the story that wouldn't normally be told, but because the author told them it really enhanced the story. like how the dad couldn't tell the kids apart, or why nate didn't just write his name on the ticket. another thing that I noticed was that the author was really being conversational in his writing style. it made us feel like  we were right there when the boy was taking the shot. it made it really exciting and fun to read. another example of when the author was being conversational is when the boys told their parents that they wanted to give the money back.

the video really expressed the conversation between Steve Hartman and all the parents and boys talking, because they talked to the mom and dad about their sons and how long they have been going to these football games. This story uses active voices between most of the people it talks about how they speak about watching all of their sons football games has been a great experience and that it was almost coming to a sad, tragic end. now the poor mother has no other chlidern to come and watch play football anymore. It pointed out that these kids have been going to those football games for about 24 years now. A good thing I noticed in this video was that the journalist didn’t use any clichés or gobbledygook’s, but I thought that was a good idea because it wouldn't really make sense in the context of this story.