farewell and next week

Good luck to the students leaving us. please let us know how things go for all of you as you enter the next stage of life. it's been a pleasure having all of you in class.

For those remaining, Monday we have class from 10am to 11:30am (approx). From 12:30-3:30pm, we will do more practice interviews. Please come to class with prepared questions.

On Tuesday morning, Nicole will teach another FCP class (9:30a-12:30p). The remainder of the day will be spent screening your practice interviews and forming a short piece of about :40 seconds using your interview subject as the entire spot. This is a production workshop for the full interview piece you will do at the end of the week. Please start thinking of somebody OUTSIDE of class with whom you can do a sitdown inview....someone who has an interesting background or job or lifestyle or merely a news or feature story to share.

Have a good weekend.

Friday's project

Please shoot your stand-up before about 12;30p Friday. The only thing I need you to do is capture the one you like best and put it on DVD. We will look at your stand-ups at 2pm Friday. After that, those of you leaving after 4 weeks will receive your certificate.

If you'd like to bring in something to eat and drink, that would be great. We'll have a little soiree in Kubrick post certificates.

For anybody extending, please be sure I am aware and also tell Nina in Admissions.

-Marian

More reading

Please read chapters 7 and 8 of When Words Collide and Chapters 10 and 11 of Advancing the Story by tomorrow.

extra camera/lighting class Tuesday

On Tuesday, July 28th, Chris Tine will teach from 4:30-6:30 p(an hour later than the original schedule) and there WILL BE AN ADDED CAMERA/LIGHTING CLASS AFTERWARDS...from 6:45-9:15p. So, Tuesday is a long day and Wednesday is also a late day, but you'll be clear of 30 Rock by about 6:30p on Wednesday.

VOSOT Format

Helpful hints on the script format for the VOSOT....
1) the script should be only on the right side (right column) of the page; double spaced would be helpful for editing.

2) please remember to mark your script to show where you will be "on camera" and where your video will start (just edit black onto your project where the "o/c" occurs.

3) put the verbatim of your "sound on tape" in cap letters.

4) write the name of the sound bite speaker on the left column, across from where the sound bit appears in the script.

30 Rock visit and VOSOT assignment

Next Wednesday after class (approx 4:30), we will head to 30 Rockefeller plaza for an NBC tour.

For those of you who did not ready Chapter 2 and Chapter 6 of Advancing the Story, please do so. Also, don't forget to read the 5th and 6th chapters of When Words Collide.

Thursday morning I will be at school meeting with some of my other students and I will be at 30 Rock in the afternoon. On Friday, I will be in Soho with my other students in the morning and at 30 Rock in the afternoon. If you have ANY questions or concerns regarding your VOSOT assignment, please text me (347-891-0550) or call me (917-921-3456).

reading

Hi all-

Please read chapters 2 (Reporting the Story) and 6 (Visual Story Telling) by tomorrow's afternoon class at 2pm. Also, please read chapters 5 and 6 of When Words Collide by Friday.
Tomorrow you will have a guest speaker in the morning and I will meet you back in class at 2pm for Basic Reporting and Intro to VOSOTs. Your lunch break tomorrow will be a bit longer than usual.

Alex posted the Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin that we will discuss next week.

Couric/Palin Interview

Watch CBS Videos Online

Update on "tell"

The "tell" on Monday morning should only be 20 seconds long, not 30.

Hi all- A few things, please. First of all, please be in class at 9:30 tomorrow (Friday) WITH your v/o burned onto a DVD. We will start viewing and critiquing them at that time. Any and all questions will be address tomorrow.

Monday....we will start class at 10 AM, rather than 9:30. Please read or watch the news of the weekend as we will have a current events discussion for the first hour... come prepared. At 11am, we will be joined by Lester Holt, the anchor of Weekend Today and Weekend Nightly News. Lester will be with us from 11a-1p and lunch will be at 2p.

In the afternoon, we will go over YOUR HOMEWORK! By Monday, please write TWO tells. A reminder that a "tell" is a straight on camera with the anchor telling a story without the use of video or full screen graphics. Go to the Internet or the newspaper and read a story that you then write as a (n approximate) 30 second tell. We will review this tomorrow at the end of the morning class.

See you in the morning, I hope the editing went well.

Wednesday/Thursday/Friday

Wednesday's schedule: FCP in the morning....
1:30-3:30p Legal and News Standards with David McCormick and David Sternlicht
3:30p camera check-out (after I have split you into groups)
remainder of the day shoot v/o

Your voice over will be 30 seconds of copy with :20 to :25 seconds of video, once cut.

Thursday morning Continue shooting
11:30am camera check-in
11:30a-3p screen footage and write copy
1:30p-4p copy approved
after script approval edit

Friday at 9:30a v/o's are DUE You do NOT have to track the v/o, you can read to the video in class. Projects must be ready to screen on a DVD at 9:30am. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Good afternoon- I just want to keep you updated on a change in the schedule. NBC's VP of Practice and Standards is unable to make Monday's class, so that guest lecture is rescheduled for Wednesday from 1:30-3:30. On Monday, we will complete the Glossary of Terms in the morning and I will teach the lesson originally planned for Wednesday (Developing stories/Telling it with video/natural sound and research) on Monday afternoon.

Please remember to keep up with the reading assignments, stay in touch with the news and to have your THREE story pitches in typed form to hand to me on Monday morning.

Thanks-

Aren't blogs fun? This is the blog I would like to use for my postings. I would love for the class to have an interactive blog and I think many of you would like to see that, as well. We'll talk about that in the morning...and create one.

7/8

Welcome to the class blog. I will post homework assignments and other messages here. By Monday, you should have completed the following...Chapters 1-4 of When Words Collide, Chapters 1 and 5 (not 1 THROUGH 5) of Advancing the Story and three completed, PRINTED, typed story pitches.

Marian Porges' Journalism Class

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