Year 8 Media - Bialik TV - Semester 1
Task 1
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Yours won't have the face blurred out obviously. I've only done that for this example to protect the presenter's privacy.
Your next task is to use a film editing program, such as Adobe Premiere, or Final Cut Pro, to remove the green screen and add a news studio backdrop to it. You will be able to find one on Google Images, or free sites like Videezy or Pexels. Your teacher will instruct you on how to do this if you haven't used the programs before, but you can also use the tutorials above and to the right if you get stuck. When you're done your footage should look something like the example to the right. |
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You should now have a roughly one minute long news clip of yourself presenting your story on a nice, news desk backdrop.
Task 2 due date: April 3rd (Week 10, Term 1)
Task 2 due date: April 3rd (Week 10, Term 1)
Task 4
Adding Lower Third graphics to your story
Your next step is for you to add a graphic to the bottom of your footage to give yourself credit. This is called a "Lower Thirds" graphic, so called, because it usually appears in the lower third of the screen.
This text should animate onto the screen about three seconds from the start of your clip, sliding on from the left, staying there for at least 4 seconds, and then sliding off again. The text should say:
YOUR FIRST NAME YOUR LAST NAME
reporting
Click on the image below to take a quick look at a 5 second example video to see what I mean.
This text should animate onto the screen about three seconds from the start of your clip, sliding on from the left, staying there for at least 4 seconds, and then sliding off again. The text should say:
YOUR FIRST NAME YOUR LAST NAME
reporting
Click on the image below to take a quick look at a 5 second example video to see what I mean.
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Your teacher will be able to show you how to do this, but if you need extra help, there is a tutorial above to the right that steps you through how to add lower thirds to your news story using Adobe Premiere. Task 3 due date: Friday, 24th April (Week 1, Term 2) |
Task 5
Filming and editing B-roll and interviews
Now that you've completed Task 3, you should have your news story footage with you presenting on a professional-looking news room background and a lower thirds introduction that slides onto the screen giving you credit for being the reporter/presenter.
Your next step is to turn this into a proper news story.
Here is an example of how that should look (you only need to watch the first 30 seconds, not the whole ten minutes)....
Your next step is to turn this into a proper news story.
Here is an example of how that should look (you only need to watch the first 30 seconds, not the whole ten minutes)....
Whilst the opening news story in the clip above is shorter than your own news story, it's only about 30 seconds long, the format that you use for your own story should be roughly the same:
1. We see the newsreader on screen at the start of the clip beginning to read the news story, introducing it.
2. We then see footage (b-roll) laid over the top that gives us greater context for what the news reader is talking about whilst still being able to hear them speak
3. We then cut back to the newsreader again at the end of the story for the last remarks/comments of your story (about the last 5 to 10 seconds)
Now, the opening story in the above example is more simplistic than what yours will be, as it only contains a few shots. Yours should contain a minimum of 12 different shots of B-roll to go over the top of your news story.
To add to the professional appearance of your story, you should also conduct an interview with one of the people that you interviewed for your original story. You will then cut to a snippet of that interview during your story.
With current restrictions getting B-roll and conducting interviews is going to be tricky, but one of the challenges of these tasks is problem solving, so you are going to have to use your creativity and figure out ways to overcome these obstacles.
For B-roll, you should film some of it yourself, but you may also choose to download free stock footage for some of it from such sites as Videezy, or you may access previously shot footage, e.g. if you're doing a story about the production, there is footage available from previous productions, if you're doing a story about the swimming carnival, there is footage that exists from our swimming carnivals, there are promotional clips about many facets of the college on the college website and social media pages that you will be able to get access too. You will need to figure out ways to get the footage you need, regardless of the challenges you face.
Getting the interviews may be a little bit trickier. You could use MS Teams to do a video interview and screen capture the interview footage. This should be your first approach.
If this proves impossible however, you could get family members to role-play the people you interviewed at home and film them saying the key lines that you need them to say for your story. Just make sure if you use your phone that you film it in landscape, because vertical footage is unusable for an interview and you'll have to do it again.
You should think about what your news story is saying and plan out what footage you should use for your B-roll. Think about what particular shots would complement the words that are being spoken at the same time, so that the footage is providing greater context to the story, rather than just being random footage on the screen while we hear the news presenter reading the story.
Once you've got all of your footage and you've filmed all of your interviews, you will need to edit this into your news story as B-roll to go over the audio of the news story.
Task 4 due date: Friday 22nd May (Week 5 Term 2)
1. We see the newsreader on screen at the start of the clip beginning to read the news story, introducing it.
2. We then see footage (b-roll) laid over the top that gives us greater context for what the news reader is talking about whilst still being able to hear them speak
3. We then cut back to the newsreader again at the end of the story for the last remarks/comments of your story (about the last 5 to 10 seconds)
Now, the opening story in the above example is more simplistic than what yours will be, as it only contains a few shots. Yours should contain a minimum of 12 different shots of B-roll to go over the top of your news story.
To add to the professional appearance of your story, you should also conduct an interview with one of the people that you interviewed for your original story. You will then cut to a snippet of that interview during your story.
With current restrictions getting B-roll and conducting interviews is going to be tricky, but one of the challenges of these tasks is problem solving, so you are going to have to use your creativity and figure out ways to overcome these obstacles.
For B-roll, you should film some of it yourself, but you may also choose to download free stock footage for some of it from such sites as Videezy, or you may access previously shot footage, e.g. if you're doing a story about the production, there is footage available from previous productions, if you're doing a story about the swimming carnival, there is footage that exists from our swimming carnivals, there are promotional clips about many facets of the college on the college website and social media pages that you will be able to get access too. You will need to figure out ways to get the footage you need, regardless of the challenges you face.
Getting the interviews may be a little bit trickier. You could use MS Teams to do a video interview and screen capture the interview footage. This should be your first approach.
If this proves impossible however, you could get family members to role-play the people you interviewed at home and film them saying the key lines that you need them to say for your story. Just make sure if you use your phone that you film it in landscape, because vertical footage is unusable for an interview and you'll have to do it again.
You should think about what your news story is saying and plan out what footage you should use for your B-roll. Think about what particular shots would complement the words that are being spoken at the same time, so that the footage is providing greater context to the story, rather than just being random footage on the screen while we hear the news presenter reading the story.
Once you've got all of your footage and you've filmed all of your interviews, you will need to edit this into your news story as B-roll to go over the audio of the news story.
Task 4 due date: Friday 22nd May (Week 5 Term 2)
Task 6
Creating an animated Breaking News ticker
This is your final task!
By this stage, you should have essentially, a completed news story. It should start with the news reader on screen and a lower third title saying their name sliding onto the screen. It should then show b-roll footage over the top of the audio of the news story, at one stage cutting to a snippet of an interview or two, before cutting back to more b-roll footage over the audio of the news reader, before cutting back to the news reader in the "news room" again for the final remarks of the story.
It just needs one final touch.
By this stage, you should have essentially, a completed news story. It should start with the news reader on screen and a lower third title saying their name sliding onto the screen. It should then show b-roll footage over the top of the audio of the news story, at one stage cutting to a snippet of an interview or two, before cutting back to more b-roll footage over the audio of the news reader, before cutting back to the news reader in the "news room" again for the final remarks of the story.
It just needs one final touch.
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To add to the professionalism and authenticity of the news story, you are to create "Breaking News" animated scrolling text, known as a "ticker", that will scroll along the bottom of the screen.
Scrolling tickers first became prominent on TV news during the coverage of the 9/11 attacks on New York City, because there was so much information becoming available all at once that they used these tickers to update the audience of latest developments. Now they're pretty standard. Sports news programs use them to provide brief points about other sports stories, and news programs and breakfast television programs use them also. |
Sometimes they're used to provide greater details on the story currently being covered, such as in this example above...
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Or animated scrolling tickers are used to provide continuous updates on headlines from other news stories of relevance and interest currently taking place. This is evident in the example to the right where sports news is scrolling across the bottom of the screen, whilst an interview about politics is taking place.
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So this scrolling text ticker is the one that you're going to create for your news story. The stories scrolling across the bottom are going to made-up by you. They shouldn't be real stories, but headlines that you've invented. They should be appropriate, but be creative and have fun with it.
Animated tickers are pretty easy to make in Adobe Premiere. Your teacher will be able to help you with this, but if you need extra assistance, there is a tutorial video up above to the right that shows you how to do it.
Task 6 due date: Friday, 5th June (Week 7, Term 2)
Week 8, Term 2: Screenings of all news stories
Animated tickers are pretty easy to make in Adobe Premiere. Your teacher will be able to help you with this, but if you need extra assistance, there is a tutorial video up above to the right that shows you how to do it.
Task 6 due date: Friday, 5th June (Week 7, Term 2)
Week 8, Term 2: Screenings of all news stories