Notes

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a topic.

-Theater productions,Sports,upcoming events.
-topic must be new worthy.
-know your audience do what applies to them.

2. Find an angel.

-ask questions based on what angel will be.
-focuses topic on a specific thing.
-fine if angel changes.

3. Collect information or data.

-location and time, schedule.
-past/history of something.
-where things go, where is it from.

4. Conduct the interview.

-Interview three experts on topic.
-ask them at least three question(should be written down before the interview.)
-ask open ended questions.(ex:why, how, what.)

-sound bite is a piece of audio that can stand on it's own.

5. Shoot your reporter stand up.

-the one time the reporter appears on camera on time.

-Stand up should appear in the middle.(may be on test)

-easier to shoot at end or beginning but best in middle

6. Organize your sound bites.

-choose order and location of interview choose best one.
-do it on computer.
-choose which you wanna do

7. Write segues(transitions)in your story.

-write information in between each sound bite.

8. Write the ends and outs of your story.

-what reporter says leading into your story and coming out of your story.
-anchor write scrip reporter helps write ins and outs.

9. Collect B-roll to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)

-B-roll is all video footage you can use for you story

-want natural sounds.
*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A-roll. 

-A-roll is all the audio in the story.

-do all A-roll first then put b-roll in. then put in footage.