Learning Target/Outcome: I can 

demonstrate knowledge of the three phase production processes (pre-production-planning, production-filming, and post-production-editing, color-grading, and visual effects) 

create scripts, formats, storyboards, timelines, schedules and editing video footage 

Skills to Master

Plan a news story

film the news story

Produce the news story in a shareable format 

News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. News is sometimes called "hard news" to differentiate it from soft media.

Common topics for news reports include war, government, politics, education, health, the environment, economy, business, fashion, entertainment, and sport, as well as quirky or unusual events.

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Broadcast writing:

Writing for radio and television is different from writing for print for several reasons:

First, you are writing for “the ear.” In print news stories, you are writing for “the eye”; the story must read well to your eye. The television or radio news story has the added complexity that it has to sound good; when a listener hears the story it has to read well to “the ear.”

Second, you have less space and time to present news information. Therefore, you must prioritize and summarize the information carefully. That means who, what, when takes precedent over why and how. Focus your story by summarizing in three words. Use one theme per story, one thought per sentence. Select, don’t compress, what goes in your stories.

And third, your listeners cannot reread sentences they did not understand the first time; they have to understand the information in a broadcast story as they hear it or see it. As a result, you have to keep your writing simple and clear.

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