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Creating our Class Broadcast
Overview
In pairs, students will create the news local stories for our broadcast. Each student will then have another job in the actual production of the broadcast, either in front of the camera or behind the scenes. If all goes well, we will use the school television studio and produce a pre-recorded news show and air the final product.
Your Responsibilities
1. Reporting:
- With a partner, create a broadcast news story between 30 seconds and 2 minutes, relevant to the school and community audience. See this page for more details.
- You will do the research, interviewing, and fact finding for your story.
- Then you’ll write the story using broadcast format and conventions as we discuss in class.
- In addition you will locate or record visuals for producing the finished broadcast report. These need to be noted on the script.
- You must submit a properly formatted script before broadcast rehearsals
2. Broadcast Production:
You will have the choice of in front of the camera roles such as anchor or on air reporter or behind the scenes production, camera work, graphics, editing, etc. (More details coming soon.)
Our Broadcast Stories Should Include:
- School news and trends
- 21st century living
- Saratoga news
- Features-school or town
- School sports
Grading
You will be graded both on effort, and your demonstration of high quality broadcast journalism techniques. (Full rubric coming soon.)
Your News Story Must:
Use proper format for typed script
Use dramatic unity to structure the story
Be 30 seconds to 2 minutes long.*
Be relevant to the school community
Effectively use visuals
Use appropriate language for broadcast news
Be accurate and fair
Be interesting to the audience without using sensationalism
Give context for viewers to understand the story
Employ effective broadcast techniques we study in class.
*High quality 2 minute stories will receive more credit than high quality 30 second stories, because they require more depth and effort.
