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Broadcast Instruction
Video Playlist from Holiday 2014
Broadcast InstructionSo every break I ask my students to do only one thing: get inspired by storytelling in some form and bring back something to share with the staff. This work is something that eventually will happen without even prompting your students. They will come back from break and say, “Mr. Waugaman, I saw the coolest video over the break. You gotta watch it!”
So here are five videos that I think have something with which to inspire us.
1. E:60 Owen and Haatchi
2. Runners: What Moves You?
3. Watershed Movie
4. The Secrets of Food Marketing
5, PSA – 1 is 2 Many
And a couple more for good measure…
An Asylum’s Final Secret
The Virus Hunter
Broadcast Script Writing
Broadcast Instruction
In the three short years that I have been advising broadcast, I have learned that script writing for news segments is perhaps one of the most important skills you can teach. Students who go out to film a story without a plan have very little success filming a high quality segment.
The first step of course is to instruct students on how a producer/reporter should structure a script. The basic process is to set up a two column sheet: left containing video, and the right containing audio. Or as we also tell them – the left has everything you will see, and the right has everything that you will hear. You must have both sides properly planned in order to have a successful video.
Media Advice 