Today
We’ll be talking about how it went reporting your breaking news stories and then screening your footage and Instagram posts.
Reminders/announcements:
Wednesday will be another production day, a last chance to make edits on the final cuts of your visual poems. If you’ve already completed your visual poem, coming in to class is optional and you can use that time however you see fit: Get a head start on creating your portfolio website, maybe, or do some pre-reporting so you can get the ball rolling on your short doc.
Please note: Please create a new post on the blog clearly labelled as your final cut. Please have them posted by midnight on Wednesday.
Pitches for your second major edited video assignment are due on Monday the 25th. The assignment: a roughly 4-minute short documentary. For those of you who are interested in getting into broadcast and being on camera, you are welcome to do a narrated doc that included you doing a standup to camera; just bear in mind that this means you will be writing a script, which is an extra step; please talk to me if this is your plan so I can give you a timeline on that and give you edits before you record your narration.
Your doc should be character-driven and should be a story that you follow over time; that means it shouldn’t be something you can shoot all in one day. This assignment WILL be journalistic in nature, meaning you can’t stage things or simply use friends or family members as subjects.