Schedule this week

PLEASE start thinking about a story idea for your first package...you will shoot at the middle/end of next week. Story pitches (yes, the way we learned at the beginning of the semester) will be due Monday, Oct 19. It will be a traditional package with narration, sound bites, stand-up, etc. We will discuss more when I next see you.

Tomorrow, you have Final Cut Pro with Nicole 9:30a-12:30p. By 1pm, you can finish transferring your interviews, screen, write a script and put a few bites together for a practice "In Their Own Words." PLEASE DO NOT WORRY ABOUT JUMP CUTS or lack of B-roll. feel free to put in dissolves if you like. The exercise here is to learn to get good sound bites and to have THEM, NOT YOU, tell a complete story....and I bet some of you will realize you should have asked more questions or formed questions in different ways. For the practice project, please write an anchor lead-in, but you can read it in class, you do NOT have to track it.

Wednesday morning at 9:30, we will look at the practice projects. After that, I will split you into groups of three and you can shoot Wednesday afternoon/eve and Thursday until 5p. Please check in at 5pm, this is a good way to make sure you are on schedule to screen, write and have a script (1:30) ready for the 3-5:30pm script approval on Friday. please include an anchor lead-in that you will track and edit (with a black slug) to your interview project.

If there are any questions, please let me know. I will not go over this again in class.