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The Animal Odd Couple – CBS News Video

Posted by live apt fire on February 27, 2009

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/26957540#26957540

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&brand=msnbc&vid=b298a208-2cb6-43cf-abf1-ee19692fce6f

http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-us&brand=msnbc&vid=b298a208-2cb6-43cf-abf1-ee19692fce6f
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4696315n?source=mostpop_video

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The high sheriff

Posted by live apt fire on February 22, 2009

Please use time codes to indicate locations of soundbites.  Please transcribe or closely paraphrase soundbites.

You may use your :30 stories as a basis for writing this piece.  This piece should be 1:00 to 2:00 long.   It should be no longer than 2:00!  Read your copy out loud, and time the soundbite to estimate the length.

This is a simple radio style story.  The narration is on-camera.  Throw to one or more soundbites to support the story.  Do not conclude the story with a soundbite.  Conclude it with at least one line of narration.

Since I was late uploading this video to the site, you have until 5am Thursday to e-mail your story to me.

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Camera snafu

Posted by live apt fire on February 13, 2009

From Todd Simpson this week:

As for cameras, this is the first I’ve heard that your class is on deck to check out any gear. As such, we have allocated every camera available for undergraduates and there are not enough to around for even our current class load. This puts us in something of pickle. As of now your students are not authorized to check out cameras and even if they were I have no cameras left to give them.

I’m going to copy our Chair on this as there has evidently been some serious miscommunication involved. At this point, we don’t have any options available that I can see but hopefully we can work something out.

Todd


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From Doug Barthow this week:

This is seriously going to hamper what you wanted to do.  I’ll have to ask Andree what her plans for the camcorders for her class will be but I’m sure she will need all of them for the first Fri. after spring break.
Perhaps you could assign the first story for your students to be completed by 3/13.  My students will not be using the camcorders over spring break so from 2/27 – 3/12, my camcorders would be available but they would all have to be checked in before 3/13.
Producing the second story is going to be very difficult due to her students’ use.

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Two links

Posted by live apt fire on February 13, 2009

Oklahoma tornado story:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#29147326

Lincoln
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#29169080

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Story ideas

Posted by live apt fire on February 2, 2009

Students need to have five story ideas in-hand when arriving for class Friday. The idea is:  One of them would become the basis of a video project for this class.  The stories aren’t set in stone.  They may, and probably will evolve.  Some of that evolution may take place based on the remarks of our guest speaker Friday.

I want five story ideas either handed to me on paper when you arrive Friday morning, or e-mailed to me prior to 9am Friday.  The ideas have to be do-able by you.  Example:  A report on the chess champion of Woodruff Park.

Do not pitch stuff like:  Coverage of the war in Afghanistan.  As long as the stories are potentially do-able by you under your GSU limitations,  you’ll ace the assignment.

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