Recently we have had to make a few changes to our previous plans. Originally, we planned to run our U2 album download story as a package piece, and have our Live story about a series of savage dog attacks on cats that have happened throughout the local area of Strood.
However, we recently pitched these two ideas to our course tutor and it was suggested that we drop the dog story as it didn't really seem to fit in with the U2 story we wanted to run. As mentioned in a previous blog, we have pretty much branded ourselves as "tech news" and so it is actually quite understandable that we may confuse some of our viewers what with our stories being very contrasting and different to each other.
We do not currently have another story set in stone, but we are interested in investigating a new story we have discovered about a series of photographic leaks of the popular app "SnapChat." These photographs have been hacked and released by a group of people, which much like the iCloud leak story I spoke about in a previous blog, is a massive invasion of privacy.
Some information about this story can be found here.
Although running this story would be fitting with our tech-branding, there is a problem, as this story has already been covered very heavily by major news corps throughout the media, and so there isn't anything really new for us to bring to the table. Anything we create, no matter how extravagant has already been done by the major news networks, and as such, it may be more desirable for us to try and find a more niche' story that is quite unheard of. This would not only attract potential new viewers, but also show them a story that they are less likely to have heard of, and then they are therefore more likely to stick around and want to watch the news we are reporting.
Another last minute change we have made to the structure of our news piece, is that we have made the U2 story our Live piece rather than a package. The reasoning behind this is that the stories we have been checking out to replace our dog stories would be much more suitable as packages, whereas the U2 story could always be performed as a live, with a sort of sub-package inside which contains the Vox-pop videos we collected previously.
As myself and Andrei are returning to Canterbury tomorrow to record my piece to camera (this will complete all the footage we need in order to create the Live Piece) we have taken it upon ourselves to severely overhaul our Live Piece script over the past couple of days.
The new script can be seen here;
We found that the previous incarnation of the script had a very formal style of wording, which whilst it gives all the necessary information that is needed- sounds very robotic and cold. I therefore decided to take it upon myself to take the script that has previously been written by Roxanne, and reword it myself to fit my particular style of speaking and presenting. Since I am the presenter for this particular Live Piece, I also made sure to actually speak the words as I wrote them, and continuously go back and read the sentences out loud to make sure they sounded correct.
Once we were happy with the way the script was written, myself and Andrei timed how long it took me to actually read my parts, and created a short estimate of how long the script was. Then we could add things or removes things as necessary to fit the 2:30 time limit this live piece has been set.
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