Post Production
1. report to your superior
2. ingest
3. log the pushes
- shot lists is good when you have to write scripts
- sound bites
4. Write the intro
5. The story structure
We write intro for the first thing because we may not have time and you may just copy for the script. The introduction is good for other people to see it.
Write intro before anything else.
White paper syndrome, white screen syndrome.
Techniques in writing intro:
To write intro:
- to sell a story
- to establish the presenter. The intro should be long enough to see who the presenter is.
How long an intro should be?
- at least 4 sentences.
- some situation the intro can go very long.
- each sentence should contain maximum two sides.
- the audience will not consume your points in not reading, but in hearing and seeing it.
The intro should be in three parts;
1 top line: the first sentence of the intro.
- wow factor
- put the most dramatic information. We use it mainly on incident, disaster, get the number of dead people.
- when you have running story, the one which develops over a period of time, ex. Plane clash, the most dramatic information would be the number of death. This the top line could be latest information.
- angle of the stories
2. The middle
- start demonstrating the top line.
- what is the evidence for the top line, who said so?
- you need information to demonstrate the top line.
Ex. One in five of people are sick of cancer. The UN research has compiled information...
3. The end
We are public broadcaster, we promise to be more in-depth, thus in the intro, please tell me why I should watch your story. Why I should watch it is the background of the story.
Ex. Background, on slimming coffee
4. Background context: so what...what are we going to see from the report.
The story structure:
Narration, sequence, sound bites, stand-up, GFX, libraries
1. story structure is the order of your story, what can you see, what can you hear, what can you see. It's not writing in details , think with picture. Such as: buses with smoke
Example: start with what can you see, then what can you hear.
1. sequence: buses with smoke in BKK/Narration explaining how many buses with old engines are in BKK.
2. SOT BUS DRIVER/ Saying how he feels about driving an old bus
3. SEQ Pi Noi directing the traffic on Lad Prao intersection/ Narration explaining who is Pi Noi and what she is doing
4. SOT PI NOI/ Complaining about the pollution
Package:
1. Pace:
change, every 15 to 30 secs.
Narration should be longer than 30 sec, sound bites should not be longer than 30 secs.
- sequence and talking head = narration in a book
2. Balance:
Balancing visual and the sound.
- bit of narration, bit of sound bites, spread them evenly.
- start with the best picture to catch attention
- we should not start a story with stand up, it will be like introduction to introduction
- attention span of audience is short, do not disappoint audiene when they watch and press play.
- our goal: audience watch it and never leave, because it is so captivating. We need to catch the audience and when big news happen, they will come to you. We have to keep them by not giving them junk.
- Make it round: make a story as a circle.
Ex: present with a victim, go through the journey and back to the victim.
General rule: start with affected people.
Narration
After having social structure, is to have narration
homework: finish the package
- finish filming
- shot list
- intro
- story structure -back to Horea
- narration - back to Horea
- edit - back to Horea
