NOTES

NOTES

1. Find a Topic.
-What is your story about?
-Who is your Audience?
-Why is this important to your audience?
-New Music
-New Video Games
-Sports
-Current Events

2. Find an Angle.
-What about your topic?
-More specifically, what is important about your topic?
-What should the reader learn?

-Summarize in 3 words: Subject, Verb, Object

-Wife awaits soldier

-Class misses students

 

3. Collect Information.
-Who are the exprets for this story?
-Do you need opposing points of view?
-What interview questions should I ask?

-What other research must be done to complete the story?

4. Conduct the Interview.
-Ask open ended questions.
-Rule of 3's

-Filling the silence.

-None question question.

-Get good sound bytes, a piece of audio that can stand alone.

5. Shoot your reporter Stand-UP.
-Should have a good idea what story is about.
-Stand-Up should provide information that audience doesn't know.

-Use Stand-Up for transition from one location to the next.
-No first person: I went.

-In MIDDLE of story!

6. Organize your sound byte.
-What quotes should I use?
-How can I organize the quotes to tell a story?
-What are my golden nuggets?

-Sprinkle the nuggets throughout the story.

7. Write segues in your story.
-Use words that tie the interviews together. 

-What other information can I add to the story?
-Can the story stand on its own?  

8. Write the Beginning and The End of your story.
-Write body first.
-Best sound bytes for beginning and end.
-Paraphrase a sound byte at the beginning.

-Leave them with strongest sound byte at end.

-Leave them with hope.
9. Write the
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10. Collect ___________ to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)
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