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Title: STEPS%20TO%20WRITING%20A%20STORY


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STEPS TO WRITING A STORY
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1. Find a Topic
  • What is your story about?
  • Who is your audience?
  • Why is this story important to your audience?

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2. Find an Angle
  • What about your topic?
  • More specifically, what is important about your
    topic?
  • What should the reader learn?

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3. Collect Information
  • Who are the experts for this story?
  • Do you need opposing points of view?
  • What interview questions should I ask?
  • What other research must be done to complete the
    story?

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4. Interview
  • Ask open ended questions.
  • Get good sound bytes. A PIECE OF AUDIO THAT CAN
    STAND ALONE
  • Have the person restate the question in the
    interview

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5. Organize your sound bytes
  • What quotes should I use?
  • How can I organize the quotes to tell a story?

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6. Write transitions and segues in your story
  • Use words that tie the interviews together.
  • What other information can I add to the story?
  • Can the story stand on its own?

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7. Write ins and outs
  • 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?
  • What should I say in my stand-up? No first
    person I went
  • Use attention getters at the introduction but
    avoid rhetorical questions

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A-ROLL
  • Anything that is said in story
  • Anchor In
  • Stand-Up
  • Interviews
  • Segues
  • Close
  • Anchor Out

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8. Collect B-Roll
  • How can video enhance my story?
  • Make a list of items you would liked
    photographed.
  • How should I edit the audio and video together to
    enhance my story?
  • Should other enhancements like music, graphics,
    effects be used?
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