Focus On The Stars: Giangreco - ID# 511
Highland Park
News Package
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A focus on the stars interview with Chicago sports icon Mark Giangreco.
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- 3/16 8:15 pm - I struggled a little bit with this one, your opening shots of him being all negative I don’t think cast him in a great light as a respectable reporter if someone doesn’t know who he is. I understand why you used those clips however the “being honest” interview didn’t come until about 2/3ds of the way through and so those dots didn’t get connected right away. I might have considered establishing him from various news clips through the years so your audience has a chance to say oh yea, I’ve seen him before. And then use those “honesty” clips after he talks about being honest in reporting (to drive his point home). Which by the way I thought was a great question and a great answer so I am glad you asked it, because it truly captured who he is and what he is about. The location of the interview seemed a little awkward, I could not help but feel like you were in the opening steps into your media center which made it seem like an odd place for 3 chairs to be set up, what added to that was people walking occasionally in the background. Not that there can’t be people back there, but I just was distracted by the location and would find myself wondering why – and maybe there was a good reason for it but as a viewer I didn’t know, so I wondered, and was distracted, and as a result was not fully engaged in the interview. I know it was a news package but because it just really interviewed one person, it felt like just that… and interview and not a news story where people are sharing a variety of perspectives. I would have loved to hear a student speak to something they learned about him, or the industry as the result of his visit to your school.
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