Topic: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Angle: Prepping for the film at the theater. Excitement from both students and staff

Interview Questions:
What does this new film mean to you being someone who grew up with mainly the Original Trilogy?
How many theater rooms have been taken for the premier, and are they all sold out?
What is your excitement level for the Force Awakens?
Are you seeing the film in 2-D or 3-D?

1. What are the 5 freedoms of the 1st amendment?
Religion, freedom of speech, press, peaceably to assemble, freedom of petition. 


2. What is the Tinker Standard?
Student speech cannot be censored as long as it does not "materially disrupt class work or involve substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others." 

3. What is the Frasier Standard?
Because school officials have an "interest in teaching students the boundaries of socially appropriate behavior," they can censor student speech that is vulgar or indecent, even if it does not cause a "material or substantial disruption."

4. What is the Hazelwood Standard?
Censorship of school-sponsored student expression is permissible when school officials can show that is is "reasonably related to legitimate pedagogical concerns." 

5. What is the Frederick Standard?
January 2002, Olympic torch travels through town. Principal Morse cancels school. Senior Frederick unveils banner on the sidewalk across street which reads "Bong Hits 4 Jesus". Suspended for 10 days. 

6. What is the definition of libel?
Libel and slander are legal terns for false statements of fact about a person that are printed, broadcast, spoken or otherwise communicated to others. Libel generally refers to visual or written statements while slander refers to verbal statements. The term defamation covers both libel and slander. For a statement to be defamatory, it must be more than insulting of offensive. It must actually harm the reputation of another person.

First Report Project

Topic: Why Young Adults Should Vote

Angle: Asking a political official if they feel there are not enough people voting.

Information: According to the Economist paper, only 21% of people aged 18-24 voted in the United States in 2010, and in the British general election only 44% of the same age group voted. Come 2014, only 42% of these people in that age range voted in the United States. There are many studies that believe younger people cannot or do not have that responsibility or importance to vote for these elections. Though, with the younger generations growing older and the political system growing more corrupt, it is important for these younger generations to start paying attention and voting for political parties. 

Questions for Interviewees.

Politician
-Have you seen a decline in youth voting over the past ten years?
-Do you feel that youth are not even paying attention to the presidential and/or other political races? 
-Would you expect to see an rise in youth voting come 2016?

Student
-Have you been paying attention to any current political races including the presidential race?
-Do you feel like your peers are lacking attention to important races such as the presidential race? 
-Do you plan on voting on November 8th, 2016?

Teacher
-Are you seeing a lack of political attention in students? 
-Do you believe students should be given information who will be voting in the near future? 
-Would you like to see an incline in students paying attention to political races and events? 

10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a topic.
-Consider the audience

2. Find an angle.
-Do something that no one else has 
-Be creative and clever

3. Collect information.
-Know about the topic 
-Study the information that is unknown 

4. Conduct the interviewees.
-Interview three people for most stories 
-Minimum of three questions 
-Have open ended questions


5. Shoot your reporter stand up.
-Only show reporter once
-Should show up in the middle of the story 

6. Organize your sound bites.
-Sound Bites; A piece of audio that can stand on its own. 
-Write a transition of the story 
-Stand up should be a transition

7. Write transitions in your story.
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8. Write the middle first and the conclusion last in your story.
- Very good at the beginning and end of the story
-Attention getter is needed

9. Write the anchor in's and out's (if necessary).
-Anchor will introduce you, not story. 
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10. Collect B-roll to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
-Footage 
-A-roll comes before the B-roll
-Ten times amount of footage and have many different shots
-Have A-roll match the B-roll

*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the 

Notetaking on Camera Techniques

INTERVIEWING:
• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview? 
(Clocks Tick Tock Making Heads Pound Loudly)
Camera; VHS, Mini DV 
Tripod; Helps to keep camera steady
Tape; VHS tape, Mini DV tape, film, hard drive/ DVD
Microphone; In order to get the verbal discussion recorded
Headphones; Make sure the audio is heard
Power source; To charge the equipment 
Light source; To make sure there is light

• Shooting into a light source = causes silhouette 

Button to adjust = Back light button


• Where do you want your light source? 
Behind the camera 


• On what object should you focus the camera? 
The nose


• No tripod=


• Date and Time= Never have it permanent on video


• SP/EP- Standard play on tape. Electric play on tape

• Camera shoots in SP or highest quality possible.

• Pre-Roll-2-3 seconds before you start your interview


• Post-Roll-2-3 seconds after shooting


CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND: Dynamic- has some depth, not plain. Interviewee is at least 6-8 feet from wall. Interviewee is the shot, not a poster.

• 1 Shot= Middle chest to top of the head

• 1 Shot with graphic= Move subject with graphic on the side. 

• 2 Shot= Have at least two people talking. 

• CU- Close up

• MS- Medium Shot 

• LS- Long Shot

• ECU- Extreme close up 

• Rule of thirds- Have the frame divide up into three sections and have eyes focus as one line of the thirds.


CAMERA MOVEMENTS:
• Tilt- Moving the camera up and down.


• Pan- Left and right


• Zoom- Moving in and out 


• Dolly- Wheels that camera moves on. 

LIGHTS
• Key- Most important, splashes light on object, on the side, comes straight on to the object


• Fill- Fills in shadows that are coming off from the key light


• Back- Creates depth for people that are being interviewed.


MICROPHONES:
• Unidirectional- Focuses on sound coming from one location.

• Omnidirectional- Focuses on different sound that is around the interviewee 

• Cardiod- Makes a heart recording sound around the interviewee 

• Lav/Lapel Microphone- Attaches to a shirt to pick up unidirectional or cardiod sound.

• Boom Microphone- Sound focused on an area of noise.

Define “Broadcast Journalism” in 1-3 sentences. 
What is Broadcast Journalism? Journalism is the covering and retelling of events that are factual that need to be presented to the public audience. Broadcasting is finding the way for these facts to be presented to the public audience through the radio, t.v., and internet. 



List and describe the six criteria of newsworthiness. 

TITLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE
1. The unusual stories, those that do not occur everyday. 

2. Prominence of the celebrities. 

3. The current timing of news stories. 

4. Significance of a story.

5. Proximity of the story. 

6. Human interest stories. 




What are the differences between print journalism and broadcast journalism?
1. Print has deadlines while broadcast can be on the dot.

2. Print has the choice of what you read, while broadcast forces the stories on you. 

3. Print journalism has the advantage of unlimited detail on the stories. 


How is the Internet impacting broadcast journalism?
Consumerism. It attracts the younger crowd and earns what it gets.