News Show 3

09/22/13

I collected everyone's readers and VO's, fact-checked, reordered them for structure, created transitions, edited grammar, and sent the final script to Olivia. This was extremely difficult, as only a handful of writers got their stories in on time. 

Writing the script throughout the day: 4 hours

TOTAL: 20 hours

09/22/13

I wrote two readers to make up for stories that were not handed in.

Readers: 2 hours

TOTAL: 22 hours

News Show Week 2

09/15/13

I collected everyone's readers, fact-checked, reordered them for structure, created transitions, edited grammar, and sent the final script to Olivia. This went slightly quicker than last week but I'm hoping to move towards not spending this much time editing. 

Writing the script throughout the day: 4 hours

TOTAL: 13 hours

09/16/13

The second news show was filmed today and I got there early and stayed late (for a total time there of 2 hours). Again, this went more smoothly than last week but not everything is totally worked out yet. We are making progress! We also took photos for admissions today to put on Instagram and Facebook.

Show + Set up/clean up: 2 hours

TOTAL: 15 hours

from 09/16/13 - 09/22/13

Throughout the week, I check in with the other practicum students who were assigned to write stories.

Correspondence with writers: 1 hour

TOTAL: 16 hours

Start of the School Year

This semester, I will be co-producing the news show with Olivia DeArment. My roles will include assigning stories, keeping track of who is coming to the show, assigning jobs, following up with everyone's stories, editing the readers and voice overs, and writing the script. All of my duties will be in pre-production, and Olivia's will be in post. We decided to reconstruct 

from 08/30/13 - 09/08/13

Throughout the week, I check in with the other practicum students who were assigned to write stories.

Correspondence with writers: 1 hour

TOTAL: 1 hour

09/08/13

Tonight, I hounded everyone for their readers. Once I received their readers, I edited them for content and structure. Some facts were wrong and there were lots of grammar and broadcast-style issues. I wrote transitions and anchor tags and attempted to connect the script together. I looked back on my broadcast writing notes and used them for comparison.

Writing the script throughout the day: 5 hours

TOTAL: 6 hours

09/09/13

The first news show was recorded today. I got there early and stayed late and we had some issues with the tricaster and the set but everything was solved by the end. We made a list of what we need to fix for next week and are ready to film for the 16th.

News Show (with before and after): 2 hours

TOTAL: 8 hours

from 09/06/13 - 09/15/13

Throughout the week, I check in with the other practicum students who were assigned to write stories.

Correspondence with writers: 1 hour

TOTAL: 9 hour