News Day Mon: Oct. 5, 2009

Today I did a story on on FAMU's recruitment and retention plans for the near future.

After getting my story assignment from my producer, Jamesha Moore, I did some background research on the topic which included researching current and past enrollment numbers at the university.

Once I decided on my angle and approach on the story, I called the FAMU's vice-president of student affairs office, who is over recruitment. I set up an interview with Vice-President of student Affairs, Roland Gaines. Next, I went to the Foote-Hilyer building where their office is and I got my sound bites for the story. From Gaines, I received hard facts on numbers such as President James H. Ammons 15,000 student goal within the next five years. He also shared how the university plans on reaching that goal and how they plan to accommodate those students.

After interviewing VP Gaines, I went around the campus to get some b-roll of student/campus life and some of the buildings that were said to be renovated soon to accommodate the increase in students.

Once I was finished with b-roll, I headed back to the channel 20 newsroom and logged the soundbites I planned to use from the interview. Once I chose the soundbite, I wrote the story and went down to the edit bay to log and capture/digitize my video footage. After logging/capturing I cut my b-roll to the script and made sure my shot count flowed with what was being said in the script.

When all this was done, I exported my b-roll into the news feed folder as DV-Stream and 48k audio and checked to make sure the production crew had it. It went through safely and aired.

As the story was airing, Professor Horton looked at me when V.P Gaines Sot came on and he said..., "that was a great soundbite." I responded with a thank you and immediately felt proud that the day's work was a success... Till next time