Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Week 4: Audio Story
A podcast is a digital audio file made available on the Internet for
downloading to a computer or portable media player, typically available
as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers
automatically.
This is a podcast series about relationships. This particular podcast focuses on cheating, more specifically catching your significant other in the act. The podcast will start off with the actual audio from the video of a man catching his girlfriend in the act of cheating. It will be the first 15 seconds of the video where the guy is explaining that he is about to catch his girlfriend cheating: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-catches-cheating-girlfriend-bed-5527408. Right after that the question will be raised “What would you do if you found your partner in bed with another person?” Throughout the podcast signs of cheating will be discussed as well as incorporating the guy who videotaped his girlfriend in bed with another guy. We will finish play the rest of the audio as well as interviewing the guy for the entire story. Although we hear his reaction, we want to know what was going on in his head the whole time it was actually happening.
This is a podcast series about relationships. This particular podcast focuses on cheating, more specifically catching your significant other in the act. The podcast will start off with the actual audio from the video of a man catching his girlfriend in the act of cheating. It will be the first 15 seconds of the video where the guy is explaining that he is about to catch his girlfriend cheating: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-catches-cheating-girlfriend-bed-5527408. Right after that the question will be raised “What would you do if you found your partner in bed with another person?” Throughout the podcast signs of cheating will be discussed as well as incorporating the guy who videotaped his girlfriend in bed with another guy. We will finish play the rest of the audio as well as interviewing the guy for the entire story. Although we hear his reaction, we want to know what was going on in his head the whole time it was actually happening.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Week 3: News Story- Numbers
Hard news is different than viral news. Hard news stories are based on a statistic. The
statistic should be the core of the news story, not incidental. The
rest of the story should revolve around the number, and show context,
how this number affects other people, how it might affect an industry,
and if there is a negative or positve impact what that impact is.
The news story will be about a 67 year old woman who was hit by a car on Queens Boulevard. The woman, identified as Maria Smith, was walking across Queens Boulevard at the intersection of 65th place at approximately 9 am Monday morning. The light had turned green before the woman, who needs a walker, had successfully made it across the boulevard. A white pick-up truck had noticed the light turned green, but had not noticed the woman crossing. The woman died immediately from the impact. Title: Boulevard of Death Strikes Again! This particular boulevard is known as the Boulevard of Death, due to the amount of deaths of pedestrians on this particular boulevard in Queens. The core statistic will be included in the story: The DOT looked at years of crash data and found there were 22 deaths along a 2.5 mile length of the street over a 4 year period. Nearly all of the victims of the boulevard were at least 60 years old. The group affected the most are those 60 years and older. It seems that the lights turn too quickly, not giving enough time for people, specifically elderly people, enough time to get across the street.
The news story will be about a 67 year old woman who was hit by a car on Queens Boulevard. The woman, identified as Maria Smith, was walking across Queens Boulevard at the intersection of 65th place at approximately 9 am Monday morning. The light had turned green before the woman, who needs a walker, had successfully made it across the boulevard. A white pick-up truck had noticed the light turned green, but had not noticed the woman crossing. The woman died immediately from the impact. Title: Boulevard of Death Strikes Again! This particular boulevard is known as the Boulevard of Death, due to the amount of deaths of pedestrians on this particular boulevard in Queens. The core statistic will be included in the story: The DOT looked at years of crash data and found there were 22 deaths along a 2.5 mile length of the street over a 4 year period. Nearly all of the victims of the boulevard were at least 60 years old. The group affected the most are those 60 years and older. It seems that the lights turn too quickly, not giving enough time for people, specifically elderly people, enough time to get across the street.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Process of Blogging
At first I was scared learning how to blog. I am not the best when it comes to computers, so I always try to do the minimum if I can. In this case I couldn't. However, the process was not as hard as I thought. Instead, once I began to get the hang of it and I wanted to continue posting! I love reading blogs, but I never imagined of being able to have my own blog. I learned different techniques in blogging. For example instead of posting just words, I learned to post videos and pictures as well, which are very helpful when blogging. People love visuals, it grabs their attention. I will continue with my blog week by week posting new story idea developments.
Week 2: Photo Story
This is a photo story which uses no words, just pictures but still tells the story. We can tell from the story that the woman in the picture was surprising someone, probably a lover, and was later rejected.
Week 1: News Pitch- Viral
A viral news story pitch: A viral news story is a story with "viral news" meaning
something catchy, a bit provocative or possibly controversial, or
something that is likely to get people's opinions and emotions stirred
up. It should be a feature type story, not hard news but not necessarily
soft news either. Things go viral because there is (usually) something
deeper behind what might seem like a lighter story. This is a
video so the use of visual description is very important when pitching the story.
My viral news story pitch: This is a viral news story pitch with the concept of controversy of legalizing marijuana.
To start the video, a man will exit his office building wearing a suit with his briefcase in his left hand and a joint in the other. As he walks from his job to his apartment, which is 4 blocks away, he goes about smoking his joint, which contains marijuana. When the camera is on him, upbeat happy music will play as he cheerfully makes his way home from work. At one point he helps an old man cross the street. The more he walks, the more good he does, all still smoking his joint. He helps a woman carry bags from a grocery store to her car. He helps haul a cab for a person who isn’t having any luck flagging down one. However, with each block comes a person who disapproves of him smoking marijuana. The first disapproval comes from a pregnant woman smoking a cigarette. On the next block, a man exiting a pharmacy, who is popping two oxycontin pills into his mouth, gives the man a look of disgust. A man stumbling out of a bar, obviously inebriated, manages to shake his head sadly at the man. At the final block, a man standing in front of a newsstand mumbles “loser” under his breath at the man, as he crumbles his food-shopping list containing formula, baby food, and diapers while purchasing lotto tickets. It ends with the cheerful man putting out his joint while entering his apartment building, but first holding the door open for his wheelchair bound neighbor. This is directed to those who believe legalizing marijuana would be a danger to society.
My viral news story pitch: This is a viral news story pitch with the concept of controversy of legalizing marijuana.
To start the video, a man will exit his office building wearing a suit with his briefcase in his left hand and a joint in the other. As he walks from his job to his apartment, which is 4 blocks away, he goes about smoking his joint, which contains marijuana. When the camera is on him, upbeat happy music will play as he cheerfully makes his way home from work. At one point he helps an old man cross the street. The more he walks, the more good he does, all still smoking his joint. He helps a woman carry bags from a grocery store to her car. He helps haul a cab for a person who isn’t having any luck flagging down one. However, with each block comes a person who disapproves of him smoking marijuana. The first disapproval comes from a pregnant woman smoking a cigarette. On the next block, a man exiting a pharmacy, who is popping two oxycontin pills into his mouth, gives the man a look of disgust. A man stumbling out of a bar, obviously inebriated, manages to shake his head sadly at the man. At the final block, a man standing in front of a newsstand mumbles “loser” under his breath at the man, as he crumbles his food-shopping list containing formula, baby food, and diapers while purchasing lotto tickets. It ends with the cheerful man putting out his joint while entering his apartment building, but first holding the door open for his wheelchair bound neighbor. This is directed to those who believe legalizing marijuana would be a danger to society.
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