College Admissions 101 - ID# 318
Metea Valley
Natural Audio News Package
Entry Description
Natural audio news package covering the regional college fair.
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Recent Teacher Comments
- 4/19 10:03 am - You did a great job pulling together different speakers to say one message, but after a while it was too much. Give you audience a breather so they can understand what they are hearing. Break up the ideas so they stand out instead of all run together. Put some Broll with NATURAL AUDIO in between to do that. Try and get some diversity in your shots. All of you speakers were on the left so when you cut it together it visually all looked the same and looked more like a bad jump cut than diverse footage. Sound was ok, but again, it was just talking so there wasn’t much to adjust. There was really no natural audio throughout. Your topic didn’t really lend itself well, but I still feel like you could have cut to conversational sound bites with interested students, their response at a booth (“oh that is cool”) something other than just recruiters talking the whole time.
- 4/16 1:37 pm - Remember that the purpose of this category is not about having natural audio on your b-roll, but it’s how you use that natural audio to help tell the story. This story did not have any natural audio from the b-roll in it at all, so it doesn’t fit this category. This should have had a reporter track and been entered into the News Package category - it does not fit into this category. Mic up a college rep and let's hear them talk to the students in attendance. Mic up a student and let's hear them interact with the college reps and what they are thinking.
- 3/6 2:31 pm - You did an excellent job organizing your interviews to share information on planning for college for your viewers. I loved the variety of interviews that you had and how you aligned your b-roll to a-roll. When talking about research, you showed online college research! Examples like this made this package easy to follow. I did want to hear more examples of natural audio besides the crowd noise at this college fair. Perhaps you could have recorded students talking to admissions counselors at the tables. Continue to look for more natural audio in this busy college fair setting.
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