First Newscast Critique

Our newscast was not terrible. We did pretty well for our first one. We did well with just getting through the whole thing. We tried to stay extremely serious, even if we weren't the whole time. The new positions we have are working a lot better than before. I prefer our new positions than our old ones. Lexi did a great job as the new anchor and Sam is a great director. Now, we did have a little trouble with pronouncing certain words, the camera people had troubles with certain shots, and Laura messed up on our first take of the newscast. It wasn't perfect. Everyone had a flaw at least in some way. I wasn't exactly paying attention for a couple seconds and forgot to change the picture on the TV behind the anchors. When there was supposed to be a picture of a yearbook page, it was people enjoying a picnic. The camera people could have cropped their shots a little better so there was less curtain. Also, Luke could have moved his elbow so that he wasn't in Laura's shot even the slightest bit. But other than those mistakes and probably some others that I am just forgetting about because they are small, it wasn't a bad newscast! I was very proud of our finished product!

Intro Ideas

Ideas from class:

• Time lapse shots in a busy hallway during mod change
• After time lapse, zoom in on one of us after crowd clears
• Names of people in class
• Transitions; pictures of people w/ names
• Voice announcing names, etc.
• Portraits of people from photo classes
• Someone getting a detention from Mr. Ireton
• Flip book idea; start from entrance, walk throughout school
• Go pro shot for football players
• Full house opening; acknowledge camera t end of shot
• Shot on football player; freeze on him, toss ball in air off frame
• Next frame is a cheerleader falling onto base
• Buffalo chicken wrap given to student from cafeteria worker
• Student slides plate across table
• Student late for school; running from student parking lot
• Tries to open door, door is locked
• Go pro shot; student making ceramic bowl
• Biology class or chemistry experiment shot
• Camera at the back of locker, locker opened, book grabbed, locker closed
• Yawning in hallway; Mr. Perry's class
• Mr. Miller tennis courts
• Running tracks; cross country course
• Pole vaulting; camera at high level
• School spirit (staged) basketball game
• Tucking/untucking shirt
• People "dying of heat" in Johnson's room
• Dorms/international kids
• Freshman on computers
• Dolly shots
• Broken computers; IT Tech office, all kids in the line
• Someone sleeping on library, Mrs. Drummey is making a blanket, hands it to Mrs. Welsh, and puts in on the sleeping kid

Other Ideas: 

• Something handing out the Eucharist at mass
• A shot in the chapel; someone praying
• Shots during practices for the musical
• Time lapse of kids in the cafeteria over time
• Maybe something with the one art teacher's dog

If I have any others, I will post them in another blog.