Advanced Students: News Feature

A second option for Advanced Students by permission only: The News Feature (ENG). It can be about a student, a faculty member, a class, or something else that occurs on campus such as a story about the flaf football team, After school activities, etc. It should be 60 to 90 seconds long. There must be no blood/gore, profanity, or negative messages (such as glorifying gang life, drug use, etc.)Other requirements are listed below.

Requirements:
Title: (Story title over black)
Lead-in: (Interviewer telling us what we are to see) [example below]
Interview: OSS (Over-shoulder shot - with interviewee looking at YOU) [example below]
Interview over B-roll (B-roll - ancillary footage of pertinent stuff) [example below]
Commentary over B-roll [example below]
Lower-thirds for all (titles on the lower "third")
Music (at beginning and end)
Tag: (Interviewer telling us what we have seen) [example below]
Begin and end in black (five seconds each)
It must obey the Rule of Thirds, Leadroom, Headroom
Decent sound quality (any dialog must be heard)
NO inappropriate themes
NO unnecessary filters, special effects, etc.
NO backlighting.

Due Dates:
Scripts & shot list: TBD
Final cut: TBD

Examples:
Lead-in:


Interview OSS (over shoulder shot):


Interview over B-roll:


Commentary over B-roll:


Tag: