Extra credit assignment

For extra credit, if you want it.

Come up with an idea for our talk show, Table Talk With Gaston College.

Write an intro and a close for the host, plus come up with lists of questions for each guest.

Please list who the guests are and their contact information (must be REAL people willing to come on the show)

Show description: (a work in progress)

Get personal with Gaston students as they talk about everything important to them. From issues in their lives to what's going around on campus to current events, Table Talk is a comprehensive look into life at Gaston College: socially, academically and personally.  

Remember: Drafts!

If you want me to look at drafts of project #1, please e-mail them to me!

Assignment recap...

Thursday--Blog entry current event of your choice.

Tuesday--Extra assignment to make up for snow day. Write a radio show. 2 pages. Any topic of your choice. You are on the radio--what do you want to talk about? Have fun with this, you can write about anything! I will give you time on Thursday's class to start working on it.

Thursday 2/18--Project #1 due. This is a news package. Use the example I handed out in class as your guide. You need to do interviews, pick your best sound and write a news story from it. Try to include a reporter stand-up. This is pretty much the same as the VO/SOT, just use more soundbites and make it a full story. Should be around 2 pages. I will look at drafts, so please send drafts to me if you would like some help.

For next class..

Please do a blog entry on the current event topic of your choice.

Also, remember I will take a look at drafts of your projects if you like, so please send them to me if you want me to look at them.

Starting writing for radio on Tuesday!

For next class...

Please submit in writing questions for your interviewees for your package.
Do not put this in your blog.


Also, please do one blog entry about a current affair topic of your choice.

Package example

This is a good example of a package script, except the soundbites are not logged and it doesn't tell us what the video is.  But a decent example of how to put the story together...

THERE WERE MANY HAPPY HOMECOMINGS THIS AFTERNOON AT THE WEST VIRGINIA NATIONAL GUARD HEADQUARTERS.

EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER KENNIE BASS WAS AT THE CELEBRATION. HE JOINS US LIVE FROM OUR CHARLESTON NEWSROOM WITH THE STORY.

THIS TYPE OF STORY NEVER GETS OLD.

AFTER A YEAR SERVING OUR COUNTRY IN IRAQ, THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE 150TH ARMORED RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON AND 230TH FORWARD SUPPORT COMPANY ARE BACK HOME IN THE LOVING ARMS OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

NAT SOT

Kennie Bass/Eyewitness News: Rachel Hossain leaps into the arms of her fiancee's Specialist John Warner.

He and his fellow soldiers have been gone for a year working in Iraq.

Spc. John Warner/W.Va. Army National Guard:

Rachel Hossain/Ashford:

Kennie Bass/Eyewitness News: During their year in Iraq, the 150th and 230th performed route security, patrols, guard duty, humanitarian work and infrastructure improvement.

These soldiers are based out of several locations in southern West Virginia.

Their commanding officer says he's proud of the way they handled their mission, which for many was a second deployment to Iraq.

General Allen Tackett says it's much more enjoyable welcoming his troops home than bidding them farewell.

General Allen Tackett/W.Va. National Guard:

Kennie Bass/Eyewitness News: Although these reunions were delayed a few hours because of bad weather it didn't appear to dampen the spirits of either the soldiers or those waiting for them to arrive.



NOT EVERY MEMBER OF THE SQUADRON IS HOME YET.

ABOUT ANOTHER 120 SOLDIERS ARE SCHEDULED TO RETURN ON WEDNESDAY.

A FINAL GROUP CONSISTING OF ABOUT 140 MORE TROOPS WILL ARRIVE IN WEST VIRGINIA THE FIRST WEEK OF FEBRUARY.

REPORTING LIVE IN THE CHARLESTON NEWSROOM, KENNIE BASS EYEWITNESS NEWS.

VO/SOT example

POLICE IN PORTSMOUTH OHIO NEED YOUR HELP TONIGHT IN FINDING A MAN THEY SAY ROBBED A CREDIT UNION EARLIER TODAY.

EYEWITNESS NEWS REPORTER BRYANT SOMERVILLE WAS ON THE SCENE JUST AFTER IT ALL HAPPENED...HE JOINS US NOW LIVE IN HUNTINGTON WITH THE LATEST, BRYANT.

RICK, WITH TEN BRANCHES, THE ATOMIC CREDIT UNION HAS BEEN IN BUSINESS OVER 55 YEARS...BUT TODAY PROVED...THERES A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING.

PORTSMOUTH POLICE SAY THIS ATOMIC CREDIT UNION, LOCATED NEAR 27TH STREET AND SCIOTO TRAIL, WAS ROBBED AROUND 1030 THIS MORNING.

THE WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN CARRYING SOME SORT OF WEAPON AT THE TIME OF THE ROBBERY...AS OF NOW ITS UNDETERMINED IF HE MADE OFF WITH ANY CASH.

AARON MICHAEL, WHO IS THE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER FOR THE CREDIT UNION SAYS LUCKILY NO CUSTOMERS WERE INSIDE AT THE TIME...HOWEVER THERE WERE SEVEN EMPLOYEES, BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED.

"this is one of our busiest branches, ten branches we've been open for 55 eyars and this is the first time we've experienced anything like this."

POLICE NEED YOUR HELP TONIGHT IN FINDING WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT BANK ROBBERY.

IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION THAT MIGHT HELP POLICE IN THEIR SEARCH, YOU'RE ASKED TO GIVE THEM A CALL AT 740.354.5268

REPORTING LIVE IN HUNTINGTON; BSO; EYEWITNESS NEWS.