We recently went to the Student Television Network Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. My part of the competition was to create two feature stories; one story for our Crazy 8's competition, as well as one as part of the spot feature story contest. Our first story had to fall under the technology and science category. We chose to do a story relating to video production, which leaded us to a video transfer service. Most went well in this project, as we had a good interview, unique and interesting subject, and an excess of b-roll. However, our issue with this story was our lack of nat-sound. Although we had many clips of him showing all the different types of equipment, we were unable to use most of it. Our spot feature story was much harder than this one. Our topic was "Life in the Fast Lane." For this topic, we originally went to look for a homeless man who had to live on the streets. However, we were unable to find one and had to look for a new topic. We then looked for something having to do with a catering service. After numerous denials for interviews, we were forced to go in a new direction. At this point, we were going to be late for out editing time, so we needed to find a story and try to make something out of it. We interviewed a woman at the front desk of the Marriott and finished filming within twenty minutes. We then spent the rest of our time trying to make a story out of what we had, which was very difficult. Although it was not a good story in the end, I learned a lot about having to deal with what you are given.
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Danny SullivanSenior at Norwood High School, part of NHS-TV. Archives
May 2016
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