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Ansonia High School
April 20, 2007
Date: April 20, 2007
School: New London High School
Town: Ansonia
Slug: "Paddles of Life"
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50
DELIVERY: Great job. Nice location for the stand up.
INTERVIEWS: Good, but you didn't need to introduce the paramedic twice.
ORIGINALITY: Timely and newsworthy.
WRITING: Very well written.
VIDEO: We would have liked to see a tight shot of deliberator. Good screen direction. Is there something like a needle that moves when a shock is delivered that would illustrate it?
AUDIO: Good. Nice use of natural sound.
EDITING: Really good job with the effect at the beginning. Very well done.
OVERALL: Really good job. Some additional shots would make it even stronger.
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Date: April 20, 2007
School: New London High School
Town: Ansonia
Slug: "Censorship"
Status: Re-Submit
Length: N/A
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OVERALL: This disc would not play. Re-submit a new disc. Check it in another player besides the machine it was edited in to be sure it will play.
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Date: April 20, 2007
School: New London High School
Town: Ansonia
Slug: "Teamwork"
Status: Re-Submit
Length: 48.25
DELIVERY: Good job. Stand up was in front of a brick wall. It would have been better in front of a trophy case.
INTERVIEWS: We need to have the coach on camera first before going to the sound bite. Make sure sound bite is meaningful. It is a good place to add emotion to the story but answering how or why. Going to the coach was a good idea to get a sound bite but we needed to see and needed a meaningful sound bite.
ORIGINALITY: Make sure the story is newsworthy. This story needed a hook.
WRITING: This seemed more like a school report than a news story. What would make this interesting to viewers from around the state? If your football team was state champs and the success was due to teamwork that would make an interesting story or maybe something along the lines of lessons for America from high school sports. An essay on teamwork is not a news story. Find a hook and write to it by answering who, what, why, when, where and how.
VIDEO: All the shots were medium. You needed some tight and wide shots. The shots seemed random. There did not seem to be a particular reason for the shots. When the story is about teamwork you need video to back it up.
AUDIO: The audio was good except that the stand up was not on mic. You should be holding mic close to you. There was too much background noise.
EDITING: Unfortunately it was not possible to judge editing because the video and writing contribute to that and it wasn't there.
OVERALL: Address what makes a story newsworthy and then use meaningful video to back support the writing. There was no pad at the beginning or end of the story. The sign off should be generic so we can broadcast the story on both Fox 61 and CW 20. Instead of saying "For Fox 61 Student News….," you should say "From (location), this is (name) reporting".
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