STORYTELLING
• Movie: Broadcast News Writing
• Writing for Broadcast
• Writing News Copy
• Irving Fang, UfoM: Writing Style Differenes in Newspaper, Radio and Television News
• Media College: How to Write a News Story
• Newswriting.com: Groaners
• Poynter Online: What Newspaper Writers Can Learn from TV
• Cybercollege.com: Scriptwriting Guidelines
• RobertNiles.com: Statistics Every Writer Should Know
• Sources for Good Stories and Critiques
Facebook: Storytellers Group
NPPA: Best of Photojournalism
• Knisely: Survival Guide on Form and Sound
• Kniseley Story Analysis Example
• Knisely Story Analysis Form
• Package: Mentor
• Package: U Lock
• Package: Gun Accident
• Package: Dancing Chicken
• Package: Basketball Player
PRODUCTION
General Topics
• Apex Web Media: Tutorials - All Programs
• Web Video Report: How To Build a Video Computer Work Station
• Web Video Report: How To Build Rip and Resize Video, from A to B
Editing
• Log and Transfer SDHC Card Video into Final Cut Express
• Final Cut Express: Keyboard Shortcuts
• Apple Discussion Forum: Final Cut Express
• Atomic Learning: Final Cut Pro Basics
• LAFCPUG: Tutorials and Troubleshooting
Final Cut Express Bike Theft Story Training Movies:
• FCE Training #0: Getting Started/Starting a New Project
Pages 27-36 Explains the Final Cut Interface
• FCE Training #1: Laying Reporter's Track (page 40)
• FCE Training #2: Laying SOTs (Interviews) (page 41)
(For the following movies, you'll need the script on 13 of your syllabus handout.
The movies incorrectly
say page 25.)
• FCE Training #3: B-Roll/Nat Sound Pops and Breaks (page 42)
• FCE Training #4ABC Graphics: Background Color, Text on Background, Images on Background (page 42a,b,c)
• FCE Training #4DE Graphics: Lower Thirds, Timing (page 42a,b,c)
• FCE Training #5 Timing and Pacing (page 42d)
• FCE Training #6 Setting Audio Levels (page 42d)
• FCE Training #7-8-9 Check for Markers, Check for Flash Frames, Exporting as Quicktime Movie (page 42d)
Page 44: Exporting as 16:9 Quicktime Movies
• Log and Transfer SDHC Card Video into Final Cut Expres
Graphics
10 Tips for Journalists for Designing Infographics
10 Awesome Free Tools to Make Infographics
Video Camera
• HRNX70 Video Camera Operations
• Sony HXR-NX70U SWEFF Check
• Poynter online: Two Pros Teach You to Shoot Video in High-Def
• Media College: Video Tutorials
• Wikipedia: Cinematic Techniques
• Wikipedia: Film Techniques
ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE VOICE
• Capital Community College: The Passive Voice
• The Writing Center UofWisc: Use the Active Voice
• The Writing Center LAVC: Active vs. Passive Voice
• Seton Hill: Active Verbs vs. Passive Verbs
• Grammar Girl Tips for Better Writing: Active Voice versus Passive Voice
BROADCAST NEWS STORY FORMS AND CONTENT
• Terms for TV News
• Story Forms - Types and Examples
• Story Forms - The Reader
• Story Forms - The VO - Voiceover
• Story Forms - The VOSOT - Voiceover Sound on Track
• The Script and the Package - Putting the Two Together
• Writing into Bites - Ten Examples in Five Minutes
• AP Story and a VO, VOSOT and Packages
• Using Graphics in Broadcast News - Twelve Examples in Four Minutes
• UReport Director's Cut
• Jump Cuts
MARKET INFO
• Assignment Editor
• Pew Research Center
• Poynter Online
• Shoptalk
• Top 100 U.S. Televsion Markets
• NY Times: Two Decades of Super Bowl Ads
