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Haddam Killingworth High School
March 14, 2008
Date Posted: March 14, 2008
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Student Art at Killingworth
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50
DELIVERY: Very good. Nice pace and energy. Nice job wrapping up the story in the stand up.
INTERVIEWS: Good interview choices. First sound bite was great. Second bite didn't really add anything. If she had explained why she thinks it is a great idea it would have helped.
ORIGINALITY: Good.
WRITING: Well written. Stayed on topic and was informative.
VIDEO: Nice shots of the students and the art on display. Would have been great to have footage of students working on art as well.
AUDIO: Clear and crisp.
EDITING: Flowed nicely.
OVERALL: Good work.
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Date Posted: March 14, 2008
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Advisor Program
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50
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OVERALL: Nice job re-editing to required length and adding a shot of the program in action.
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Date Posted: February 25, 2008
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Advisor Program
Status: Re-Submit
Length: 49
DELIVERY: Very good.
INTERVIEWS: Good.
ORIGINALITY: Good choice of subject but we needed to see program in action.
WRITING: Well told.
VIDEO: The opening shot was much too long. Nice shot of the students at the computer. Good composition of interview shots. Very well lit. Needed some tight shots.
AUDIO: Good.
EDITING: You need more-b roll and some tight shots. We need to see the process happening. Show students with advisors doing work.
OVERALL: Stories need 5 seconds of b-roll pad on the front and end of the story. This didn't have any pad and is a second too short. If it had pad we could use some of that to fill to 50 seconds but at 49 it will not fit into our broadcast schedule. Re-submit with pad so we can run!
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Date Posted: February 25, 2008
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Course of a Lifetime
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50
DELIVERY: Nice job. Good walk and talk in the stand up.
INTERVIEWS: Good choice.
ORIGINALITY: Very good.
WRITING: Nice job telling the story. Well focused.
VIDEO: Very nice job using stills to tell the story. The movement made sense. Be careful with the lighting. Both shots of the reporter needed to be better lit. Nice job using light on the interview. Still some shadows but they were not on his face.
AUDIO: Good levels.
EDITING: Nice job.
OVERALL: Very good!
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Date Posted: February 25, 2008
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: State Police Short a Few Dogs
Status: Broadcast
Length: 48
DELIVERY: Good.
INTERVIEWS: Good people to talk to and good information from their sound bites.
ORIGINALITY: Good subject matter.
WRITING: Pretty good but the story could have focused a bit more. You start the story talking about the shortage of dogs but then go on to talking about the need for them and the training program before actually going into why there is a shortage. If the story was writing in a more orderly fashion it would have worked better.
VIDEO: Good. Nice shots.
AUDIO: Good natural sound.
EDITING: Well edited. Would have been nice to see a tighter shot of the dog at the dog's eye view.
OVERALL: Good. Writing could have been a bit more focus.
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Date Posted: February 25, 2008
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Bio Fuel
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50
DELIVERY: Good. Nice bridge in the middle of the story.
INTERVIEWS: Good sources for the interviews. Both interviews gave factual information. Go for emotion. Try to relay some of their excitement about the topic. You can cover the nuts and bolts types of info in the voiceover.
ORIGINALITY: Good story choice
WRITING: Good job telling the story. Nice job staying on topic.
VIDEO: Good. Lighting and composition were good.
AUDIO: Consistant levels. Could have used some natural sound from the car.
EDITING: The start of the story was not as strong as it could have been. You started with a sound bite at the beginning before the interviewee is introduced. It worked okay but there was probably a stronger way to start story.
OVERALL: There was no pad on this story. You need 5 seconds of b-roll pad at the beginning and end.
************2004-2005 Evaluations**********
Date Posted: April 25, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Turtle Sub
Status: Broadcast
Length: 47.97
DELIVERY: Great job. No need to walk in stand-up. Suggestion: you only need to walk during your stand-up if there is an express purpose, IE: to show the relationship between one element in the story to another.
INTERVIEWS: Great choices. Good introductions.
ORIGINALITY: Interesting story. Nice job going to another school to get the story.
WRITING: Nice job setting up the story, telling us what they are working on, telling us why, and giving us the history. Great job.
VIDEO: Great shots. Felt like we were right there in the action. It would have really added to the story to show what the original Turtle Sub looked like. Showing a picture of the original would have been great.
AUDIO: Very good. Nice use of natural sound in your story. Nice job using the lavaliere microphone in your interviews.
EDITING: Good job. Crisp cuts and nice flow.
OVERALL: Nice job!
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Date Posted: April 25, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Gazebo Project
Status: Broadcast
Length: 48.60
DELIVERY: Good pace and flow. Nice location for stand-up and great job dressing up.
INTERVIEWS: Good choices. Good sound bites. Really added to the story. Only need to have one stand-up per story.
ORIGINALITY: Interesting.
WRITING: Great. Good job covering all the information and telling viewers what it is, what the class is for, and why they are doing it. Don't say H.K. most people outside your school don't know what that abbreviation stands for. Use the full school name.
VIDEO: Great shots. Nice footage of the construction of the gazebo and in the shop. Great location for your interviews.
AUDIO: The background noise in the first interview was a bit too loud. Audio levels should be the same throughout.
EDITING: Nice job. Good flow. Nice work using the B-roll during your interviews.
OVERALL: Good work!
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Date Posted: April 25, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: M.S. Society
Status: Broadcast
Length: 48.69
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OVERALL: Great job! After spending time and re-working it you created a very nice piece. Good flow and everything looked very crisp. Nice job taking our suggestions and re-editing a very nice piece.
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Date Posted: April 25, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Teens in Action
Status: Broadcast
Length: 48.69
DELIVERY: Excellent delivery. Very well spoken. Great pace and tone. Suggestion: you only need to walk during your stand-up if there is an express purpose, IE: to show the relationship between one element in the story to another.
INTERVIEWS: Good choices. Great sound bites. They really added to your story. It would have been great to hear from someone they have helped or someone who runs the program.
ORIGINALITY: Nice community story.
WRITING: Well-written. Good job explaining what the group does. Excellent job covering who, what, where, why, when, and how. You mention stereotypes people have of teens, but it would have been good to give some specific stereotypes that people have (ex. lazy). It would help show how these teens are not like the stereotypes.
VIDEO: Lots of good shots of the teens volunteering. The footage you have is good, but if there were more shots of a variety of different volunteer activities it would be even better.
AUDIO: Good levels. Nice natural sound of the leaves being raked.
EDITING: Good job.
OVERALL: Very nice job putting it all together.
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Date Posted: April 25, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: The Mentoring Program
Status: Broadcast
Length: 50
DELIVERY: Well-spoken. Good pace. The stand-up would have fit better at the end.
INTERVIEWS: Great interviews and introductions. They gave a lot of information and really added to your story.
ORIGINALITY: Good.
WRITING: Great. Good job setting up your story. Nice first paragraph. Good job including research information.
VIDEO: Some shaky shots. When you were walking down the hall it was very shaky. It would have been better to just set the camera on a tripod and let people walk by, like you did later in the story. There was a shadow on you in your stand-up. Remember you need to think about where the sun is when you shoot footage outside.
AUDIO: Good.
EDITING: Nice job.
OVERALL: Good. This was an interesting and informative story. Good job putting it together.
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Date Posted: April 25, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: Title IX Sports
Status: Re-Submit
Length: 45.91
DELIVERY: Great delivery. Well-spoken. There is no need to walk during your stand-up unless you are showing the relationship from one space to another IE: "during the morning commute this car fell into this 6 foot deep pothole" and the car and pothole are placed twenty feet apart. Don't walk just for the sake of having action in your shot.
INTERVIEWS: Good interview, but we would have liked to hear from a female athlete or someone with a different perspective.
ORIGINALITY: Interesting topic.
WRITING: It would have really added to the story if you found somebody that loves Title IX. Right now even though your writing isn't biased, you only have one opinion expressed through the interviews, which leaves it unbalanced. Good job getting statistics and facts in. Interesting how much more money that men get in scholarships.
VIDEO: Good shots of people playing sports but we would have like to see more. It would have been great if you went to a college and shot some footage of all different sports in practice.
AUDIO: Good.
EDITING: Good job with what you had. More footage will really add to the story. We looked at the baseball players for a long time. Really need to add some more shots.
OVERALL: This came in at 48 seconds with out the 5 second pads of natural sound and video in your story, which makes it too short to broadcast. Use the extra time to get another interview perspective or explain the controversy. See if you have any additional footage that can be added to give the story more variety.
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Date Posted: April 11, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: M.S. Society
Status: Re-Submit
Length: 48.63
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OVERALL: Did you delete your timeline on Final Cut Pro? The audio sounded like you edited over your VHS master. There are two audio tracks playing during the sign off. It is too muffled to understand, and much lower than the other audio in the story. The story still has a lot of dissolves between shots. Use cuts instead of dissolves. Please give this one more try and re-submit. Thanks.
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Date Posted: April 11, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Slug: M.S. Society
Status: Re-Submit
Length: 48.63
DELIVERY: Nice pace. Easy to understand.
INTERVIEWS: Great interviews. Good choices with the doctor and patient. They really added to the story by giving good information. Nice job writing into your interviews. Suggestion: you could have used some B-roll when the doctor was speaking.
ORIGINALITY: Great. Effects people throughout the state. Nice feel good story.
WRITING: Very good. Well written with good facts.
VIDEO: The footage you had was very good. Nice footage of the fundraiser and the medical research. You could have used more shots, for example the patient having a check up. Also, the dissolves through out the story look unprofessional. Try using just cuts.
AUDIO: Good levels throughout.
EDITING: Good. Nice transitions. Our only concern is the use of dissolves.
OVERALL: Very good job overall. Good piece and nicely done. Dissolves are not used in news stories. News is a straightforward story telling technique and the images should convey that technique. Use cuts instead of dissolves. Also, you tag out saying "Fox 61 Student News" but that is not correct because this also airs on WB 20. You need to use the standardized tag out so that it can be broadcast. After your wrap up, tag out with "from…..(location)…., I'm…..(name).….reporting.
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Date:February 9, 2005
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Town: Higganum
Slug: "M.S. Society"
Status: Re-Submit
Length: 48.63
DELIVERY: Nice pace. Easy to understand.
INTERVIEWS: Great interviews. Good choices with the doctor and patient. They really added to the story by giving good information. Nice job writing into your interviews. Suggestion: you could have used some B-roll when the doctor was speaking.
ORIGINALITY: Great. Effects people throughout the state. Nice feel good story.
WRITING: Very good. Well written with good facts.
VIDEO: The footage you had was very good. Nice footage of the fundraiser and the medical research. You could have used more shots, for example the patient having a check up. Also, the dissolves through out the story look unprofessional. Try using just cuts.
AUDIO: Good levels throughout.
EDITING: Good. Nice transitions. Our only concern is the use of dissolves.
OVERALL: Very good job overall. Good piece and nicely done. Dissolves are not used in news stories. News is a straightforward story telling technique and the images should convey that technique. Use cuts instead of dissolves. Also, you tag out saying "Fox 61 Student News" but that is not correct because this also airs on WB 20. You need to use the standardized tag out so that it can be broadcast. After your wrap up, tag out with "from…..(location)…., I'm…..(name).….reporting.
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Evaluations for 2002-2003
Date:7/10/03
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Town: Higganum
Slug: "Women in Sports"
Status: Broadcast?
Length: :46
DELIVERY: Good delivery on your voice-over. The stand-up should be at the end of the story to wrap it up. Only use a stand-up in the middle of the story as a transition from one location to another.
INTERVIEWS: Good choices
ORIGINALITY: Good
WRITING:Good job writing into and out of the sound bites. Careful when stating facts. Many viewers might not know what Title 9 is. As you begin your story with mentioning Title 9, they are left hanging at the end with an unclear image of the impact of Title 9.
VIDEO: Use your tri-pod at all times. Only use pans, tilts and zooms for an express purpose in a news story. News is a straight forward story telling technique and the images should convey that technique.
AUDIO: Overall the audio is good. Be careful when recording the sound bites from your interviews. Sue Birds sound bites is very low.
EDITING: Good
OVERALL: Be careful with the timing of the spots. They need to be exactly :50 seconds from the beginning of the voice-over to the end of the voice-over/stand-up. With an additional :5-:10 sec. Pad at Both ends of the story. The pad consist of images and nat sound. We will try to borrow from your beginning pad to make up the difference in your story time.
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Date:7/10/03
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Town: Higganum
Slug: Special Olympics
Status: Re-submit
Length: :43
DELIVERY: Good delivery on your voice-over. The stand-up should be at the end of the story to wrap it up. Only use a stand-up in the middle of the story as a transition from one location to another.
INTERVIEWS: Good choices for your interview subjects. Make sure to pick the best of the interview as your sound bite. One sound bite shouldn't take up most of your time.
ORIGINALITY: Good story with a nice community touch.
WRITING: Good opening sequence used to intro your piece.
VIDEO: Tri-pod at all times. More variation in your footage is needed. Remember to get plenty of close-ups and medium shots when out in the field. This will help with your editing.
AUDIO: Great job getting nat sound on location. Be careful when editing - The natural sound overwhelms your delivery and sound bites.
EDITING: see video and audio
OVERALL: This is a nice story, unfortunately it times out at :43 seconds from beginning of voice-over to the end of the voice-over. We need it to be exactly :50 seconds with an additional :5-:10 second pad at both ends of the piece. We have been able to borrow from the pad if it's just a second or two, but 7 seconds is too long of a difference.
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Date:7/3/03
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Town: Higganum
Slug: "Ashleigh's Rainforest"
Status: Broadcast
Length: :49
DELIVERY (How is the voice used to tell the story [pitch, tone, diction]): Good voice-over.
INTERVIEWS (Sound bites interesting and did they enhance the story?): Good interview choice. Limit the soundbite you use to the necessary information to add to your script – don't let your interview tell the entire story.
ORIGINALITY (Story creative, unique, statewide appeal?): Good, interesting story.
WRITING (Report written clearly, creatively, & grammatically correct?): See interview note. Much of the information given in the interview should have been in your script.
VIDEO (Pix illustrated the story? Tri-pod used, lighting, composition?): The close-ups in your b-roll where great. What happened to using a tri-pod in your establishing shots? Also, please no pans!
AUDIO (Clarity, natural sound, enhance the story?): Good
EDITING(Pictures and sound used in the proper sequence to tell a story? Pictures match the script?): See video. Overall good job editing.
OVERALL(All the elements used to tell an interesting story for the viewer?):
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Date:7/3/03
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Town: Higganum
Slug: "Character Counts"
Status: Broadcast
Length: :50
DELIVERY: Good voice-over. Well done on your stand-up.
INTERVIEWS: Good choices
ORIGINALITY: Good.
WRITING: Good job covering what the "Character Building" program is. Careful on how you introduce your soundbites.
VIDEO: Good, creative use of your b-roll.
AUDIO: Good
EDITING: Good
OVERALL:
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Date:7/3/03
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Town: Higganum
Slug: "Blood Drive"
Status: Re-submit
Length: :48
DELIVERY (How is the voice used to tell the story [pitch, tone, diction]): Good
INTERVIEWS (Sound bites interesting and did they enhance the story?): Good choices. Note: don't let the interviewee hold the mic.
ORIGINALITY (Story creative, unique, statewide appeal?): Good, community story.
WRITING (Report written clearly, creatively, & grammatically correct?): Good. Note: be careful not to let your interview tell the entire story. You will want to use the best of the sound bites and write into them.
VIDEO (Pix illustrated the story? Tri-pod used, lighting, composition?): Good job getting plenty of medium and close-ups to help with the pacing of your story. Good framing on your interviews. Notes: remember to use a Tri-pod at ALL times. Please no pans, tilts or zooms. This is not MTV, news is a straight forward story telling genre and best viewed in wide, medium and close-up shots. Remember to frame your stand-up as tight as you've done in your interviews. This helps place you in the action of the story.
AUDIO (Clarity, natural sound, enhance the story?): Good consistent levels.
EDITING(Pictures and sound used in the proper sequence to tell a story? Pictures match the script?): See video notes.
OVERALL(All the elements used to tell an interesting story for the viewer?): D o you have any additional footage which is not a pan shot? You are very close, but we would like to ask you take one more try at editing. Please re-edit your stand-up as a wrap-up at the end of the story. Currently, jumping between the stand-up and your interview subject is disconcerting.
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Date:7/3/03
School: Haddam Killingworth High School
Town: Higganum
Slug: "Tattoos: Are there Health Risks"
Status: Broadcast
Length: :48
DELIVERY: Good delivery and stand-up.
INTERVIEWS: Good choices covering both sides of the issue. We would have liked to have seen equal time given to both interviewees.
ORIGINALITY: Good
WRITING: Good job writing into the sound bites. Don't forget to cover Who, What, When, Where, Why and How in your story.
VIDEO: Good variation in your b-roll.
AUDIO: Good consistent levels throughout.
EDITING: Good
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