Big and Gay in...An Ice Cream Truck?!

I like the end...my favorite part. Sounds a little cut off almost, but was the best I could do. 

Cut a lot of noisy dialogue out, amplified the ice cream truck owner and customers dialogue, and faded some parts in the middle in and out and cut and pasted different parts together that made better sense that way.

I cut basically the last minute and fifteen seconds off and just worked and rearranged the first minute, which i thought told the most and essential parts of the story.

Yet again...enjoy this strange story!

Tajik Jimmy Re-Edited by the Queen

Silly, strange, confusing, odd.....yet intriguing. I decided to cut out most of the annoying singing made by Jimmy, but left enough to be essential to the story. At the beginning the narrator was saying a bunch of stuff about "two topics for today..." and I decided to cut all of that up until he starts "Tajik Jimmy's" story. 

At the end I decided to end with a little ominous part of Jimmy's song...which sounds like he is singing a "this story will continue.." kind of thing...sort of mysterious :)

I faded in and out in some parts, mostly in the middle where he's singing and faded in the narrator. Even though the file is about seven seconds over, about three seconds of that is silence and the rest, i believed was essential. The producer could cut the last seven seconds off if they wanted to, because the narrator had stopped before that point...so that would probably be the outcue and the producer would probably cut the end singing anyway....even though it's my favorite part! 

P.S. The end singing was also faded out..

This American Media Life

"Failure is a big part of success." - Ira Glass

On the series of YouTube videos created by Ira Glass, I learned a lot about storytelling that I didn't already know...even though I've been a storyteller my whole life. His theory on the two building blocks of birthing a good story was an excellent skeleton outline to go by:

1. The Anecdote-- He described the "anecdote" part of the story to be sort of a chronological guideline for a good story: this happened, which caused this to happen, which in turn disturbed this and caused that to happen, etc. It makes sense that the anecdote is a great building block for good storytelling, because some movies, books, TV shows, and articles can seem really vague and confusing when you don't have an anecdote...especially if you're searching for what caused what to happen. Example: Experimental films. They're really hard to follow and understand because they DON'T go by the anecdotal formula.

2. The Bait-- Mr.Glass basically described this block as you want you audience to constantly be asking questions. For example, the house was dead silent. You want the audience to think "Why was the house dead silent?" The more questions, the more suspense. The more suspense, the more intrigued the audience is, and the more they will come to love your story.

One thing that Mr. Glass said in one of his clips on YouTube that I already knew about storytelling was how hard it is to find a decent story. I stumbled across this predicament when I was a sophomore in college in my News Writing class. It was so, SO, SO hard for me to find interesting and decent stories to write about for that class....and we had to have four stories that semester that could not be related at all! And also like Mr. Glass said, you usually spend more time searching for a decent story than editing it! Now that I work at a news station, this statement could not be any more true. Sometimes on the weekends when it's just me and my producer Lana, we scour our news sources for HOURS looking for news, and not just any news but decent, relative news that is timely, close to home, and interesting.

More thoughts to come...

Media Interest

Multimedia and TV Broadcast

Multimedia is a big part of TV broadcast. We use video, audio, and computer graphics all the time---but not necessarily all of them at the same time. We edit video, audio, and make graphics at KAUZ, the station i work at, for every single show we produce.

So, multimedia plays a big part, or a major part, in broadcast journalism for TV...without each component, it would be boring to viewers and televised newscasts probably wouldn't be watched and would have died a long time ago.

Video is the main part in keeping the audience's attention in a newscast. If it were just anchors talking about what happened, it would lose the audience's attention.

You can go to www.kauz.com and see the newscasts we put online to view videos we use.
Also, www.cnn.com , has good video footage of breaking news.