3: CREATING YOUR PACKAGE

• Television Journalism
• Higher Education (degree)

Unit 32 Interview and Presentation Skills

3: Creating Your Package

Lecturer: Lynda Bryans

Last week we....

• Looked at the assignment task 1 and 2 (podcast content)
• Looked at some of the components of an interview
• Discussed the SOUNDBITE

Today you will...

• Break down a TV news package into elements
• Structure your own TV news package (on paper)
• Record an interview on camera (in teams) using the standard codes and conventions of television interviews

Unit 32 Interview & Presentation Skills - Learning Outcomes

LO1: Explain the key features and purpose of interviews and presentations. 

LO2: Illustrate the technical requirements for the set up and recording of interviews and presentations for different media 

LO3: Carry out and record an interview, based on research, in response to an identified topic 

LO4: Present excerpts from an interview, and related research, to explain an identified topic  

The News Package

(Usually) made up of: 

• moving image/pictures, 
• voiceover 
• interviews 
• repporter piece to camera (or standup)
• A studio link at the start to introduce the package

Watch the video...

Pick out 3 things you will remember when you create your own package

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So, let's create a story of our own... Take 5 minutes to:

Review the story treatments by Katie Andrews on TEAMS at

First Year Journalism & Documentary

Unit 32 Interview & Presentation Skills

Session 3

Can you visualise her ideas?

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How has Katie developed her proposals?

What's consistent in each idea?

Do you think you could come up with a couple of your own ideas?

Based on what we've learned so far, let's create a 2 to 3 minute news feature package for TV... together.

Remember what Katie Andrews put on paper.

Read the story and plan it out as much as you can, based on the information you already know (from the print out).  Ask yourself: 

1. What's the story? Can you summarise it in a couple of sentences? (This might be the studio link)

2. Who can we interview?

3. What pictures can we get?

4. What MUST the viewer know?

5. What questions do we want to ask and to whom?

Making a TV package is like piecing together a jigsaw... to make (tell) the full picture (story).

 

STRUCTURING - How I do it...

1.  Write a studio LINK for the story first.  Then...

VISION

AUDIO

Once you have a structure, it's like a shooting script... 

It keeps you on track with

-  what  you need to script in order to tell the story

- what interviews/clips go where

- what to write/say to introduce an interviewee

- what shots will work where

It helps you organise your thoughts/story details in order

Mr. Doodle...

In teams - record an interview!

... Any interview.

THINK ABOUT:  standing up / sitting down?

Eyelines

Framing

Sound

Look / listen for the SOUNDBITE.

Thank you, and...