WORD COUNT- 2000
Introduction
The purpose of this assignment is to produce an example of a video, audio and text story on a newsworthy issue and incorporate them into a 500 word blog demonstrating a range of journalistic skills.
You will accompany this with a reflective 2,000 word essay of your work.
This topic must be different to the topic you used in your first assignment.
Task: To produce multimedia news stories, incorporate them into a blog and reflect on the work.
Weighting: 60%
Instructions
Choose a news worthy topic or theme and explore how best to cover it using text, audio, video and images incorporating those elements into a blog accompanied by a reflective essay.
You can use the same two interviews for all components of this assignment.
The ideal way to approach this is to do your two video interviews and then use quotes from those interviews for your text story, audio story and video report.
It is permissible to use the same quotes through all mediums.
Your overall assignment must include these elements:
- A 200 word text story incorporating two quotes.
- A 1 minute video package including two interviews.
- A 1 minute narrative audio/slide show package.
- A blog with links to the above.
- Reflective essay.
Components:
Text story (weighted at 10 marks)
Text must include:
- Strong headline & lead
- Written in news style including two quotes.
- 200 words
Video package (weighted at 10 marks)
The video component must:
- Include narrative and interview grabs from at least two interviews you have recorded yourself.
- A script needs to be written & submitted for this report.
- Duration: 1:00 minute.
Audio/slide show (weighted at 10 marks)
Your audio/slide show must contain:
- Interview grabs from at least two people – they can be the same audio grabs from your video story.
- You will need a still shot of each interviewee as they are talking.
- You will need at least 15 jpeg images with your audio.
- A strongly voiced narrative.
- Titles.
- A script also needs to be written and submitted for this report.
- Duration: 1:00 minute.
Blog (weighted at 10 marks)
A 500 word blog incorporating and linking to the text, video and audio/slide show elements you have produced.
Reflective Essay (weighted at 20 marks)
Your reflective essay should analyse the work you have covered with the various multimedia elements of this assignment taking into account how the text, audio, video and images have worked together to present a complete package.
In your reflection you should explain how the various multimedia elements of text, audio and video have their own strengths and can be used to compliment each other and produce a complete package.
Other important information
- Deakin related stories and interviews with family members, Deakin students and friends will not be accepted.
- Your interviews should be with representatives of groups, organisations or associations who can speak on behalf of that organisation, group or association.
- The names and contact details of the people interviewed for the assignment must be included at the end of the script.
- All reports are to be on the same broad topic, with each element telling a different part of the story
- All reports must be produced and edited observing the lessons/resources in the unit.
- You must ensure your stories are ‘fact checked’ for accuracy.
- They must be uploaded to your blog and that blog URl must be included on your reflective essay uploaded to Cloud Deakin by the assignment due date.
As your stories are to be publicly available you must ensure you:
- Do not defame people
- Do not create news stories about sub judice matters (a case before the courts)
- Do not breach copyright (intellectual property)
- Your story should be community related but at the same time have a news angle to it.
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