Sports Reporting Project

Students from JRN 225 covered the state football championship game after their article about the Shelton High School football team was published last semester. | Dylan Haviland photo

Deadlines and details for the sports reporting projects.

Groups:

Derby Baseball

Melissa + Vivian

Branford Lacrosse

Dan + Chris

Hillhouse Track

Mihai, Sherly, Abigail, Adrianna

Oxford Softball

Wes and Karlie

Deadlines

There are new deadlines, because the first ones became unrealistic after we missed a couple days of class, and extended the first deadline.

Story 2 and 3 (feature stories that use audio and video storytelling) will both be due on April 18. Each person will individually write one of the stories. So each team will still hand in two stories, but by different people.

As a team, decide who will focus on audio and who will focus on video. Also work together to make sure you’re doing different stories.

Details

Follow the same guidelines you had for the campus reporting projects, except that I want four unique photos, all of which should include people. Make sure you write captions for the photos.

In addition to unique photos, you should have a video or an audio file as part of your story.

Audio

Select one of the following options:

• Complete two “person on the street” audio clips (like the class project the other day)
• Create one short (30 seconds to 1 minute) audio piece that edits in more than one person.
• Use Soundcite to embed at least two audio clips into your text. (You’ll need to also upload your audio file to Blackboard so I can insert it myself when uploading the story to the site)

Regardless of which method you select, you’ll be graded on the quality of the audio, on the neatness of the editing, and on the news value of what you’re including. You’ll also be graded on how the audio is woven into the text story in a logical and seamless way.

Video

Select one of the following options:

• Create a 30–45 second video of B-roll with one audio interview describing what’s happening. (I suggest you record the interview on video so you can show the person talking before switching to B-roll).
• Record and upload two short “person on the street” type interview videos.
• Upload one video interview and one scene-setter GIF from a video you shot. That can be a video portrait, a video with some subtle movement of a field or court, warm-up video, etc.

Regardless of what method you select, you’ll be graded on the quality of your video recording, the neatness of the editing and on the news value of what you’re including. You’ll also be graded on how the video is woven into the text of your story in a logical and seamless way.

NOTE: Any vertical video will receive zero points for this assignment.

Grading

An updated rubric has been be posted with these two assignments. Because you’re technically doing one fewer assignments, each of these assignments is now weighted at 13.33 percent of your total grade for this class, instead of 10 percent of your total grade.

Combo Story

Together as a team, you’ll work on one last combo story, that incorporates two types of multimedia: Video, audio, data, social media, or other.

Final combo story due on May 4.