As Ira Glass was saying during the videos we watched during class this afternoon, every story should have some catch at the beginning and most of the time it's an anecdote.
With print or broadcast, an anecdote gives the reader or listener a visual for the situation, rather than just random statistics and information.
At the beginning of my piece, I interviewed someone who gave me a little insight about her first experience with the pay stations. I should have started the piece with a anecdote of someone walking up to the pay station for the first time. It could be them struggling to use the new technology, forgetting what parking spot they were, or waiting in line behind other people as they were late getting somewhere.
Then during the middle of the piece I would have gone in depth about why the university decided to change its system (to save $500,000) and what students think about the price differences and new options.
I also wish I was able to get better ambient sound for my piece. I tried to use a car driving by and coins dropping into the machine, but it was hard for me to get a decent enough recording for the listener to understand what the sound actually was.
UMD J-School "Slice Class" -- Multimedia for Print Journalists
This is the class blog for Journalism 328G/28G, "Special Topics in News Writing and Reporting," where we offer a crash course in audio, photo, and video.
As Ira Glass was saying during the videos we watched during class this afternoon, every story should have some catch at the beginning and most of the time it's an anecdote.
ReplyDeleteWith print or broadcast, an anecdote gives the reader or listener a visual for the situation, rather than just random statistics and information.
At the beginning of my piece, I interviewed someone who gave me a little insight about her first experience with the pay stations. I should have started the piece with a anecdote of someone walking up to the pay station for the first time. It could be them struggling to use the new technology, forgetting what parking spot they were, or waiting in line behind other people as they were late getting somewhere.
Then during the middle of the piece I would have gone in depth about why the university decided to change its system (to save $500,000) and what students think about the price differences and new options.
I also wish I was able to get better ambient sound for my piece. I tried to use a car driving by and coins dropping into the machine, but it was hard for me to get a decent enough recording for the listener to understand what the sound actually was.