Anchor/youtube link

Anchor In: Traditions for this holiday never seem to get old no matter how many years you have done it for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYHwp0uSzKU&feature=feedu

Anchor Out: When it comes to this holiday everyone always seems to have something to do making memories and tradtions extend.

Sengstacks video shooting tips

1. Two things I already knew is to always have the rule of thirds, and to a get a wide and tight shot to make the image more creative.

2. Two things i just learned is find unusual angles for a more interesting shot, and get more natural sound so it feels and sounds more like you're there.

Halloween Spirit Interviews

Identify Group members #12
-Emily Muckler
-Erica Anders
-Lindsey Schoenecker

Brainstorm Topic Ideas
-Caffeine
-Facebook or Twitter
-Halloween spirit

Finalize Topic
-Halloween Spirit
Research

Identify 3 Experts to Interview
Chris Lesch, Mr. Currie, Maddie Archer-Burton and Maddie Shultz

Interview Questions
1. What are your Halloween traditions?
2. Do you have a Halloween costume?
-yes: what are you going to be?
-no: do you have any ideas?
3. What's your favorite Halloween activity?
4. Do you go trick or treating? Or do you hand out candy?
5. What is your favorite Halloween candy?
6. What is your favorite Halloween memory as a kid?

Pumped up for pumpkins story

1. This pumpkin just keeps growing with love and patience.

2. Sound bytes: He is hoping the pumpkin will turn out to be 1,400+ pounds.
He named his pumpkin Chewbaca, because it grows 200 pounds a week meaning Chewbaca eats a lot.

3. When they showed the pumpkin at different angles, like super up close, backed up a little bit, e.t.c

Shayna's Story

1. The segues are that the reporter could talk and explain her story throughout the interview.
2. There was just no need for a stand-up for this story it could have interrupted the story, because its Shayna's story not the reporters.
3. I thought the biggest surprise was that the doctors found out she was pregnant and even though all the morphine and stress that was going through her body the baby came out with no complications.
4. That the baby was just fine.

Death of Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was the creator of Apple and all that technology that we all have today. (iPhone, iPad, Apple computer e.t.c) Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer. I would say Steve was a great man for what he had brought and designed for this world, it has changed so many peoples lives.

Manual for camera

-Open the battery cover
-Gently push the card until the card as indicated reaches the bottom of the slot.
-Open the LCD monitor or press and hold down the power button for 1 second to turn on the camcorder.
-Press the Record button to start recording. Press the Record button again to stop recording.
-Move the zoom button up or down to zoom in or zoom out the screen.
-Press the play/pause button on the left side of the LCD monitor
-Press the menu button, then use the joystick go up and down, press the OK key, then menu again to exit.
-Date and time, language, format, LCD bright, TV-out, flicker, beep.

Interviewing

• What seven items should you bring with you when you are shooting an interview?
(Clocks Tick Tock Making Heads Pound Loudly) Camera, Tape, Tripod, Microphone, Headphones, Power source, Light source

• Shooting into a light source = Button to adjust = Light should always be behind the camera. Causes a silhouette or a poorly lit shoot


• You always want the light behind the camera.


• On what object should you focus the camera?


• No tripod= Bad


• Date and Time= Security camera. Never if we're recording stuff.


• SP/EP SP- SP=standard play (higher quality)**use this. EP=Lower quality


• Camera shoots in pre-roll or post-roll.

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


• Post-Roll- 2-3 seconds after interview is over.


CAMERA SHOTS:

***BACKGROUND: Dynamic background- not plain. Interviewee is at least 6-8 feet away from the wall. Interviewee is the shot

• Interview Shot= 2 Eyes and 1 Ear


1 Shot= Middle of chest to just above head


• 1 Shot with graphic= Middle of chest to just above head. Move body to side so there is enough room for the graphic on side.

• 2 Shot= Only for conversation


• Establishing Shot

• CU- Close up. Tight shot


• MS- Medium shot.


• LS- Long shot.


• ECU-

• Wide-Medium-Tight


• Rule of thirds-

• Shoot Matched Action


• Get Sequences



CAMERA MOVEMENTS: must be for a purpose
• Tilt- Up and down movement


• Pan- Left and right (usually slowly and hold)


• Zoom- Changing the focal image of the lens. Magnifies the image.


• Dolly/Truck-

NATURAL SOUND:
• Nat Sound-

CLOSING SHOT:
* Closing Visual-

Opening activity, shots

1. Establishing shots
2. Wide shot- show setting and surroundings and establish location
3. Medium shot- less setting, more detail and focus on specific area
4. Tight shot- close up, lots of detail

"The Boys of Winter II"

1. The end of the beginning
2. A location that doesn't interrupt the flow of the story
3. There should be 3-5 main points in the middle of the story
4.  The team has been playing for years even at the age of 75. George has been playing on the team for 25 years and even at the age of 99 he still keeps in shape, still plays the game and recently just got married. Everyone on the team is in love with sport and just have fun with it.

News article and summary

In the article "Man charged with theft after Freon inhaled" a man has been charged in Dakota County with felony after he inhaled about $1,800 worth of Freon from his neighbors air conditioning. He had inhaled the substance 5 units near his home. He inhales the coolant in the air-conditioning unit and was found initially unconscious but quickly became lucid.
This article is just very unusual and really got my attention on wanting to read more. It makes me wonder how this man got the idea, if he gets high, what it did to his body. He inhaled it multiple times too which i want to know what the positive side on doing that it.

Time news article

Mexican authorites say in the article "35 Bodies Dumped on Busy Avenue in Mexico" that gunmen have dumped 35 bodies of victims on a busy avenue of Guld of Mexico coastal city. The bodies were found Tuesday afternoon in two trucks near a shopping mall. They found out that 7 of the victims so far all had crimnal records, all linked to crime but they won't say what group.
Criteria:
Unusualness, human interest

Ruby Bridges Story

Ruby Bridges was the first black student in an all white elementary school of William Frantz Public School. She grew up during the time frame of segregation where blacks and whites did not mix. She was one of the six people chosen to first attend an all white school except she got chosen to go alone at a different school.

Jonesboro Shooting article

2 young boys the age of 11 Andrew Golden and 13 Mitchel Johnson asked to get out of class, the pull the fire alarm run outside 100 yards away and as the whole school started storming out of the building they just shot open fire at the students and teachers. Killed four students and a teacher and 10 were wounded. The 2 boys were caught soon after with 13 fully loaded firearms, they had a stolen van with stockpiles of supplies with a crossbow and several hunting knives. They were both sent to reform institute till they were 18 but then Arkansas bought a facility that enabled the state to keep them in custody till their 21st birthdays. I think the best angle for this story would be "what would interest them" mainly because this story is so interesting and you mainly want to know why these boys did this.

Steps to writing a story

1. Find a topic.
- consider your audience
- what will interest them?
- what will be valuable info for them?
2. Find an angle.
- what about your topic?
- what is important about your topic?
- what should the reader learn?
- summarize in 3 words: Subject, Verb, Object
3. Collect information.
- who are 3 experts for the story?
- what interview questions should I ask?
- simple details
4. Conduct the interview.
- ask the right questions.
- get a good sound bite (a piece of audio that can stand alone)
- restate the question in the interview.
5. Shoot your reporter stand-UP .
- have a good idea what the story is about.
- should provide more information that audience doesn't know.
- use stand-UP for transition from one location to the next.
- no first person.
6. Organize your sound bytes.
- what quotes should I use?
- how can I organize the quotes to tell a story?
- what are my gold nuggets?
7. Write segues in your story.
- use words that tie the interviews together.
- what other information can I add to the story?
- can the story stand on its own?
8. Write the beginning and end of your story.
- write body first.
- best sound bytes for the beginning and end.
- paraphrase a sound byte at the beginning.
- leave them with strongest sound byte at the end.
- leave them with hope.
9. Write the anchor ______________ and ________________ (if necessary).
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10. Collect ___________ to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)

Newsmap summary and criteria

Their finding out that breast cancer is rising in younger women of reproductive age of 15 to 49. They think that breast and cervical cancer could soon match pregnancy and childbirth s the number gets higher and higher.
When I hear anything about the number of deaths or diagnosis that breast or cervical cancer can cause just devastates me. Most of the women are so just young and healthy and then they get diagnosed with cancer, after that what are you suppose to do?

In the article "Breast and cervical cancer rates rising globally" they hold the criteria of significance because this could affect anyone in the world and that most women should get checked out as a precaution, proximity because doesn't matter where you are you will hear about more and more women getting diagnosed with breast and cervical cancer, and human interest because hearing that the number of people getting diagnosed with cancer is rising and more and more people want to do something to help. (like the walk for breast cancer)

News article

The article "16 super-Earths found outside Solar System" is about how scientists have discovered at least one new planet outside of our solar system that could possibly sustain life. The European Southern Observatory has discovered more than 50 new exoplanets, which include 16 super earths. (meaning mass is between one and 10 times that of our own planet) If what they think is correct the planet could quite possibly be a new home. Its also about 3.6 times the mass of Earth but about 35 light years away. They still have searching to do whether life can live there or not and if they is alien life form or not. Scientists have confirmed 564 planets outside of our solar system.  

Google+ Gaming

Most of the games that we play today like "Angry Birds," "Bejeweled Blitz," and "Sudoku" that you could play on Facebook, on your phone, on anything, Google+ is now taking over. Facebook has taken 30% of t he games earnings and 70% to the developer and it will only take Google+ 5% from the developer. Google+ wants to keep the gaming apart from the social networks and the discussions going on. To see a game update you have to be interested in gaming and not just have it show up on your homepage. Personally I feel like Google+ is just like Facebook but in a different way, and I don't think we need it at all. Yeah you can play games on it but you can play games on Facebook too and pretty much every other site. I find it quite stupid and i understand now why people are not joining it anymore from the 25 million members that joined it in the first week. Facebook is doing just fine with what they have now.

9/11 News Story

In the article "September 11 memorial opens to public" 10 years later after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center the memorial for all the people who lost their lives is now complete. The memorial was open a day early only for the victim's family. Rising above the site is the start of the new World Trade Center. The walls of the memorial are dark granite with nearly 3,000 names of the victims who lost their lives, as well as the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. The September 11th museum is said to be completed and opened by next year.

Star Tribune News Story

In the article "Eagan man’s sentencing shows slavery persists in Twin Cities" an Eagan man kept 5 illegal immigrants in a house with no pay, kitchen heat, and only bits of carpet to sleep on. They had been working in the Twin Cities as siding installers and threatened by the employee's to call the police about them. The man Joo Ok Kim was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison. Kim must now pay $22,000 in restitution, he may also loose his legal residence and could be deported back to South Korea when his sentence is over. Neighbors had suspicion about the house and all the cars outside but never saw anyone over there.

Partner Interview Shortened

Lindsey Schoenecker is 17, born August 13th 1994. She plays soccer, is captain of the cross country team and she is in track, she is very excited to be a senior and graduate. She could snap her fingers at 9 months old, and she has been in 3 car accidents within the past year.

Lindsey is 17 and a senior, she is in 3 sports, had also been in 3 car accidents and she could snap her fingers when she was 9 months old.

17 year old girl: 3 sports 3 car accidents

KTSP News Story

In the article "Russians Search for Crashed Plane's Data Recorders" the crash happened Wednesday and 43 professional hockey players were killed, coach and staff. They found the plane crashed into the banks of the Volga River shortly after takeoff from Yaroslavl. They are not completley positive on why the plane crashed but they say that it struggled to gain attitude and only one of three engines were changed out a month ago after being built in 1993.

Partners Story

Lindsey Shoenecker is 17. She was born on August 13th 1994, she also passd her drivers test on Friday the 13th 2010. The only thing she dislikes is she is very young for her class. Recently she has been in 3 car accidents and has had some back problems from it. She is in soccer, cross country and Track, which she seems to really enjoy a lot! This summer she went to Florida with a couple of girls. A little talent she had was she could snap her fingers when she was only 9 months old. She is very excited for senior year and to graduate!