Now that your second out-of-class story and blog/tweets assignments are in, I'll start going over them. Here's some work to keep you busy until then:
First, start working on your third and optional fourth out-of-class story pitches. Use the same formats as before. If you choose to do a fourth story, it will replace your worst grade from your other three stories. Your pitch deadline is no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 7 to omars@msu.edu.
Second, we now have a video story assignment. For this assignment, you will be asked to create a news video no shorter than 1 minute long and no longer than 2 minutes long, on the subject of, what have people been up to this semester? Your interview subjects can be working or going to classes or hanging out; whatever.
You will be required to interview at least two people on-camera and shoot b-roll (a video camera would be great, but a simple Flip cam or a good smart phone will suffice); edit the raw video using iMovie or FinalCut Pro or some other comparable video editing software; create an edited news video with a lede and attribution and such; upload the video to the YouTube account you were supposed to create for this class; make sure that the YouTube account is set to a public setting (and not private); and then email me a link to the video to omars@msu.edu, with a subject line of video #1.
As long as you meet the basic parameters of this assignment, I will give you a 4.0 equal to that of a practice story. Those parameters include:
-- staying within the 1-2 minute range and on-topic
-- containing at least two human interviews on tape
-- containing B-roll
-- showing signs of editing; that is, not simply pasting entirely unedited tape onto YouTube. You want to create a video story using raw video as a base to be edited and moved around, in the same way we want to write a text story using raw information as a base to be edited and moved around.
-- containing NO fatals
The penalty for failing to meet these parameters is 0.5 of your grade, per error. In addition, a fatal resulted in a 1.0 grade. And failure to turn it in, of course, is a 0.0. Please review the video links provided in the earlier blog post to get an idea of what this assignment may look like, in finished form.
These same deductions will apply on all future multimedia assignments. But future assignments WILL include consideration of content and journalistic value.
The deadline for this assignment will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 7 via email to omars@msu.edu. Again, you should be emailing me links to your YouTube account, and not an attached video file.
If you are unsure about your topic or fuzzy on some of these concepts like B-roll or captions or whatever, or if you have any questions whatsoever, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Third, I will have your graded out-of-class stories back to you later this week. Your rewrite deadline will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14 to omars@msu.edu.
Now, how do you do the video assignment? Follow along in the following posts, and good luck, everyone!
First, start working on your third and optional fourth out-of-class story pitches. Use the same formats as before. If you choose to do a fourth story, it will replace your worst grade from your other three stories. Your pitch deadline is no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 7 to omars@msu.edu.
Second, we now have a video story assignment. For this assignment, you will be asked to create a news video no shorter than 1 minute long and no longer than 2 minutes long, on the subject of, what have people been up to this semester? Your interview subjects can be working or going to classes or hanging out; whatever.
You will be required to interview at least two people on-camera and shoot b-roll (a video camera would be great, but a simple Flip cam or a good smart phone will suffice); edit the raw video using iMovie or FinalCut Pro or some other comparable video editing software; create an edited news video with a lede and attribution and such; upload the video to the YouTube account you were supposed to create for this class; make sure that the YouTube account is set to a public setting (and not private); and then email me a link to the video to omars@msu.edu, with a subject line of video #1.
As long as you meet the basic parameters of this assignment, I will give you a 4.0 equal to that of a practice story. Those parameters include:
-- staying within the 1-2 minute range and on-topic
-- containing at least two human interviews on tape
-- containing B-roll
-- showing signs of editing; that is, not simply pasting entirely unedited tape onto YouTube. You want to create a video story using raw video as a base to be edited and moved around, in the same way we want to write a text story using raw information as a base to be edited and moved around.
-- containing NO fatals
The penalty for failing to meet these parameters is 0.5 of your grade, per error. In addition, a fatal resulted in a 1.0 grade. And failure to turn it in, of course, is a 0.0. Please review the video links provided in the earlier blog post to get an idea of what this assignment may look like, in finished form.
These same deductions will apply on all future multimedia assignments. But future assignments WILL include consideration of content and journalistic value.
The deadline for this assignment will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 7 via email to omars@msu.edu. Again, you should be emailing me links to your YouTube account, and not an attached video file.
If you are unsure about your topic or fuzzy on some of these concepts like B-roll or captions or whatever, or if you have any questions whatsoever, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
Third, I will have your graded out-of-class stories back to you later this week. Your rewrite deadline will be no later than 9 a.m. Monday, Nov. 14 to omars@msu.edu.
Now, how do you do the video assignment? Follow along in the following posts, and good luck, everyone!
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