Behind the Scenes: 7-Day Challenge - ID# 334

Eisenhower

Division: AA

News Package

Entry Description

This news package informs the reader about the behind the scenes involved with creating a 7-minute movie for the MMEA challenge

Recent Teacher Comments

• 4/10 10:56 am - This news package has a great pace with all details covered, nice job! I especially liked your interviews and how they showed both the up’s and down’s of the project. The B-Roll of the students working was great and the voice-over and audio elements all came off professional and without glaring errors; this is all testament to your knowledge-base and foundational skills. I would change the order of the beginning sequence, starting with the countdown and then into the anchor opening, only to set the tone of the production in action, and I would love to have seen footage of both the unedited and edited project to see the outcome of the student’s work. Overall, great work!

Judge 1

Positives: Good production value all the way around. Good story idea.

Improvements: On air talent needs to speak more slowly and clearly. What have been nice to see a piece of the work that the students were doing in the seven day challenge.

Judge 2

Positives: Love the behind the scenes feel of production. The approach made it feel very accessible Visual Style- the movement style that you shot the broll is awesome i like the authentic feel it brought to it versus a static shot.

Improvements: I would advise to add music to bring more of an emotional connection and help drive the story and accentuate some of the story points I would have liked to see you use interviews of the filmmakers themselves to tell the story versus VO (like the last interview with the young lady who revamped her story)

Judge 3

Positives: The sequence off the top was good -- nice idea to have a montage of scenes from different movies. Using a nat pop would have made it even stronger. Good use of natural sound with the kids working together -- I would have liked to have a bit more of that. There were lots of different shots used, which was nice to see.

Improvements: The track was a bit hard to hear -- reporter should work on enunciation, and mixing of audio levels could also be improved. Soundbites would have looked better if framing was shot tighter. Also I would have considered shooting the sound with crew doing their thing behind them, or at least just a different angle. Both interviews were shot at the same desk, with the same framing. Some of the shots looked dark or as if they needed to be white-balanced.

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