Coginchaug Regional High School

April 26, 2008

School: Coginchaug Regional High School
Town: Durham
Slug: ECO (2)
Status: Re-Submit
Length: 48

DELIVERY: Good job. Clear delivery and good pace.

INTERVIEWS: Great sound bite. Good job getting information and emotion from the interview.

ORIGINALITY: Good.

WRITING: Nicely written. Good job covering the event and its success.

VIDEO: Good footage. Some shaky shots. Always use a tripod.

AUDIO: Good levels.

EDITING: Nice job.

OVERALL: Good story but it is too short to broadcast. It needs to be 50 seconds to fit into our broadcast schedule. All stories should have 5 seconds of b roll pad at the beginning and end to help us in post-production. If you are a little short we can use some of the pad to make the story the correct length.

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School: Coginchaug Regional High School
Town: Durham
Slug: Nintendo
Status: Re-Submit
Length: 49

DELIVERY: Good pace and clear delivery. Work on your energy level so it is less monotone.

INTERVIEWS: Good sound bite. Nice job writing into the interview with the stand up as a bridge.

ORIGINALITY: Timely story.

WRITING: Well written. Nice job discussing the changes in video gaming and usage.

VIDEO: Needed more variety. Would have been good to show little kids and adults playing the game as well as the teens that you featured in the story. You say that all different ages use it but you only show one.

AUDIO: Good. Some natural sound of the video games being played would have benefited the story.

EDITING: Good but more b roll would help the flow of the story.

OVERALL: Next time shoot more b roll to match up with the script. Nice work but the story is a second too short to broadcast. Needs to be 50 seconds. By using 5 seconds of b roll pad at the beginning and end of the story we are able to borrow some to make story the correct length when a little too short, but there is no pad on this story.

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School: Coginchaug Regional High School
Town: Durham
Slug: Indi
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50

DELIVERY: Good but there were a few pauses in the script the felt a little awkward. Try to keep the story moving through out.

INTERVIEWS: Very good sound bites. Informational and emotional. They added to the story. You have to introduce your interviews. We figure out that that is Indi's mother but not until her second sound bite.

ORIGINALITY: Interesting story.

WRITING: Good effort but next time work on adding more details. How old is Indi? Has she had this disability since birth? How will this affect her future? Does she plan on attending college?

VIDEO: Needed more b roll. The shots you had were good but you reused the same cheer leading shot 3 times. Story needed footage of Indi in class, at home, doing other activities. You mention track and chorus but you don't show any video of it. Could have also used stills of her participating in other events. Also needed more variety. All shots were medium.

AUDIO: Good.

EDITING: More b roll would help with over all editing. Story was loose with t he long pauses.

OVERALL: Good effort and interesting topic. Next time introduce your interviews and tighten up the editing. Add more information so there are not such long pauses and add more b roll to move the story along. You need to have 5 seconds of b roll pad at the beginning and end of the story. This helps us in post-production as we prepare the story for broadcast. If you are a few frames short of 50 seconds we use that to make the story fit in the broadcast schedule.

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School: Coginchaug Regional High School
Town: Durham
Slug: CRU
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50

DELIVERY: Good pace and energy.

INTERVIEWS: Good interview. An interview from a student who participated would have really added to the story.

ORIGINALITY: Very good.

WRITING: Nice job telling the story. Answered the questions about the event and included good statistics and information

VIDEO: Great job. Good shots of the students collecting the food and delivering. Good mix of tight, medium and wide shots.

AUDIO: Consistant levels.

EDITING: Nicely done.

OVERALL: Good youth leadership story with great video to support it. Nice job. You need to have 5 seconds of b roll pad at the beginning and end of the story. This helps us in post-production as we prepare the story for broadcast. If you are a few frames short of 50 seconds we use that to make the story fit in the broadcast schedule.

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School: Coginchaug Regional High School
Town: Durham
Slug: ECO
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50

DELIVERY: Clear delivery. Nice job using the stand up as a bridge.

INTERVIEWS: Great sound bite from the teacher. Nice job writing into it.

ORIGINALITY: Good conservation story.

WRITING: Well written. Would have like to have heard a little more about the environmental club and the effect it has on its members and the way they reuse things.

VIDEO: Nice job getting a lot of relevant b roll. Good mix of shots.

AUDIO: Good levels.

EDITING: Flowed nicely. Very good job matching video with script.

OVERALL: Good work. Next time add pad to the story. You need to have 5 seconds of b roll pad at the beginning and end of the story. This helps us in post-production as we prepare the story for broadcast. If you are a few frames short of 50 seconds we use that to make the story fit in the broadcast schedule.