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WDDE-TV: Behind the Scenes

Eisenhower

Feature Story

Entry Description

This is a package about the TV studio and why students should join.

Judge 1

Positives: Loved the variety of shots in the TV studio. Nice job editing to match the shots to what you were describing.

Improvements: Be careful with your audio levels - they were not consistant. And while I love the use of music to give the piece energy and flow, be very careful using music with vocals. You should only use instrumental portions of the music under your track or under a sound bite - and make sure you bring the audio down so we can hear what you or the interviewees are saying. When editing a sound bite, use video to cover the edit. Then come back to the person full to end their sentence. Also, don't have your interviewees look straight into the camera. I know this is tough to do if you're holding the camera! Try to give them a vocal point to the side of the camera. Very nice effort!

Judge 2

Positives: Great use of b-roll showing people actually doing the various TV jobs behind the scenes. Nice up-beat music. You actually pitch people at the end to join the class.

Improvements: Music at the end comes up to quickly and is to loud and competes with his sound- bite. You should have had some sound up full of an actual TV program. But very nice.

Judge 3

Positives: Donny invites us at the top to see the behind the scenes of WDDE-TV - the camera op does a nice job of moving towards Donny and through the passageway. The music segue works well with us moving through the control room and the studio. Jada Russell's sound bite was definitive as to what was expected in a class that was hard work but fun.

Improvements: Donny invites us at the top to see the "behind the scenes" of WDDE-TV and then moments later we also hear in the voice over, "now let's take a look at behind the scenes." Isn't that what we're already doing? So why use the phrase twice? Also - in the script we hear again over and over, "Now let's take a look..... the constant repetition of the same verbiage in broadcasting is known as a "crutch." Avoid the use of a "crutch." The audio mix at the very end is OFF - the music abruptly jumps too high as Donny does his close.