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Broadcast Journalism Actualities, Technology, Wraparounds, & Lead-ins

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Broadcast Journalism. Actualities, Technology, Wraparounds, & Lead-ins. Actualities – What are they and why are they important??. What is an actuality? A recorded segment of a newsmaker speaking, generally lasting from ten to twenty seconds. Why are they important? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Broadcast Journalism

Actualities, Technology, Wraparounds, & Lead-ins

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Actualities – What are they and why are they important??

• What is an actuality?– A recorded segment of a newsmaker speaking,

generally lasting from ten to twenty seconds.• Why are they important?– Think of it like a history question. Why would we

rather have Christopher Columbus’ diary than a historian’s account of what happened?

– It’s more believable and exciting – and who could capture what it was really like to “discover America” and kill everyone better than Columbus himself?

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Technology

• How do we get actualities for our class?– Sign out recorder, go find the teacher, get an

interview, plug recorder into the computer, edit in less than a minute. Done.

• How did reporters get actualities before we had digital recording devices?– http://youtu.be/IPtnLnTEctw– http://youtu.be/LkEfo4IVpjk

• So, how as technology made this easier for us?

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BTW…

• Newsbreak – a prerecorded break in the show– Advertisements– National news feeds– Local news inserts

• With new technology…– They are recorded in advance with relative ease.– Can be edited to stretch or squeeze into the

allocated time slot.

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Wraparounds

• Defined: an actuality sandwich on newscaster bread.

• (aka: a technique using the voice of the newscaster in the beginning and end of a story with the voice of a newsmaker [actuality] in the middle).

• Note: sometimes the sandwich has more than one layer with multiple slices of bread. (see example).

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Lead-ins• Every sound byte (actuality), wraparound, and

report from the scene included in a news script must be introduced by a line or phrase known as a lead-in.

• For example, a group may have two talents (James & Kyle), but the field reporter (Michelle) may have prerecorded a wraparound. Kyle would then write a lead-in to introduce Michelle’s prerecorded wraparound.

• SAY WHAT?! … let’s look at the example.

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This week’s reading assignment…• None.• Enjoy.• You’re welcome.• No problem.• Now move your desks into

production teams, please.• Unless I took the whole period to do this

PowerPoint.• Which is possible.