Writing steps

1. Find a topic
~ what is your story about? ~ who is your audience?~ why is this story important to your audience?

2.Find an angle
~what about your topic?
~ more specifically, what is important about your topic?
~ what sould the reader learn?
~ summarize in three words: subjec, verb, object~ wife awaits soldier.

3. collect information
~who are the experts for this story
~do you need a opposing points of view
~ what interview questions should i ask
~ what other research must be done to complete the story?

4.interview
~ask open ended questions.
~get good sound bytes. a pice of audio that can stand alone
~have the person restates the question in the interview

5. shoot your reporter stand up
~should have a good idea what story is about
~stand up should provide info that audience doesnt know
~use stand up for transition from one location to the next
~no first person: i went

6. organize your sound bytes
~what quotes should i use?
~ how can i organize the quates to tell a story
~what are my gold nuggets?
~sprinkle the nuggets throughout the story.

7. write segues in your story.
~use words that tie the interviews together.
~what other info can i ass to the story.
~can the story stand on its own?

8.write the baginning and end of the story
~write body first
~best sound bytes for beginning and end
~paraphrase a sound byte at the beggining
~leave them with strongest sound byte at the end
~leave them with hope

9.write ins and outs(if necessary)
~what should the anchors say to introduce my story or bring it to a close? no scoop went to find out.
~how should the story begin and end?
~use attention getters at the intoduction but avoid rheorical questioins.

a- roll
anything that is said in story
~anchor in
~stand up
~unterviews segues
~close anchor out

b-roll

how can video enhance my story?
make a list of items you liked photographed
how should i edit the audio and video together to enhance my story
should other enhancements like music graphics, effects be used.