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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
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?
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?
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.
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).
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.
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.