{My Dèbut}

I'm always looking for story ideas. (I'm a journalism student at

ASU.) Since I needed to learn more about composting in order

to start my own compost bin as part of my April resolutions, I

thought I'd do a story on it. I'm ready to share that story here.

With you!

I haven't posted any of my packages yet, in large part, because
I didn't know how to burn them to a disk. That's the easiest
part really, but I hadn't gotten to it until recently.

I guess you could say I've also been a little shy, too. :)

It's easy to look like an amateur when you are one. And you

know how they say the camera adds ten pounds? It really adds

20 pounds. I'm getting more confident in my work though. We

had to do a stand up in this piece. That's when the reporter is

on screen, talking to the viewers. It was only the third one I've

ever done. I'm gonna need to do a lot more of them before

getting good and feeling really comfortable, but it was definitely

the most natural and confident looking of them all. Even though

I see a lot of flaws in it. I'm sure I'm my harshest critic.

This semester, I've seen that I need to learn how to write my

scripts more efficiently. I should be able to include more info in

this time frame. It's a matter of having a clear focus and writing

efficiently. I used to have a big problem doing that with papers,

but then I learned how to narrow my focus and write in a way

that kept me really organized. I know I can figure out how to

do that in my packages. Still working on it though -- clearly!

The requirements for this story:

• Open with a look live - say we're live even though it's prerecorded -- and tell viewers what they're about to see
• Include sound bites (comments) from at least two people
• Do a stand up that explains something, offers show and tell, or provides a transition
• Tell the story in about a minute thirty plus the time of the look live
• Include a some kind of a news angle
• Use lots of nat sound (noise from the background)
• Make it visually interesting

Lastly, the woman at the beginning and end of the piece with the
gorgeous blonde hair, sun kissed tan, and amazing energy --
That's Carlene. Recently mentioned in the stitch and bitch post.
It was fun working with her and awesome of her to help me out!

Now on with the show:



More stories to come. Hopefully soon. Thanks for watching!

I hope you enjoyed it. I'm totally open to feedback if you have

some to offer. I want to get better. So, don't hold back with

what you liked and what you didn't like.