THE BIG DAY! PROJECT IS DUE

Today is the day my Sports Reporting project is due. There were several of obstacles I had to overcome for success completion of the project. Coming up with the story of informing students on campus that we have a Sports team was one. I say this because you have to figure out how you going to be able to get everyone attention and if your piece could actually make some type of difference. My goal was to try and get the word out so more students could support the Renegades. The second step was getting the video to support the words of the script that needed to be written. Like I said in my previous posts we got great interviews and good b-roll. I just didn't like the fact that they were practicing indoors at Roosevelt University gym. I understand the weather did not permit them to play out doors, but I think that getting video of them practicing outdoors would have been more relevant tome writing to video. Thirdly is my script, it turned out pretty good, but I know how important it is to write to video. When it comes to broadcast writing you have to be clear and precise, and conversational. When you have video to a package you should write to what the viewer see. If you mention playing baseball or throwing the ball that is the type of video the viewer should see. We have a great deal of video to go along with the good script we have. The project is a perfect example of what writing to video means.

Some of the stories on the web is more in depth then the ones we write. I say this because they have way more details, maps, and pictures to go along with what they are saying. Their blog to me is on a professional level whereas we just write what we can to get our point across in a timely manner. I think the ones online just some of them is organized and well prepared. The databases gives you really good information, and it tells you where they got their information from with links to follow it. I'm sure I will get on that level just as long as I keep practicing.