TV-Style Snow Video

For our next Multimedia Reporting challenge, we were assigned to create a tv-style news video on a topic around campus. The difference between this type of segment and other projects we have done so far is the introduction of a voiceover. Basically, instead of letting quotes from interviews drive the story, the reporter drives the story and uses the quotes to add character.

When my group first attempted this project, we were confused by this fact. We didn't really do anything different with the video that we handed in on Monday...which is why we were back in Coppee today recording more footage. Luckily, it didn't take too long for us to get into the swing of things. Once we started, the voiceover kind of wrote itself and the corresponding footage fit in nicely.

The only thing that we found particularly difficult (besides, of course, The Program That Shall Not Be Named) was making the soundbyte quotes make sense out of context. Most of the people that we interviewed gave short answers and often responded with a simple "yes" or "no". Even when someone did give a full answer, it was hard to cut it down and still have it make sense without hearing the question or their thought process getting to the answer.

Still, it was much more interesting to watch back this segment than other, longer interviews because this one got more to the point. Even though planning is essential and can be more difficult than the internet-style videos we were previously producing, the tv-style segments make for much more interesting results.

Here is our video: