Digital editing for BDJ 364

1. EDITING 2
Full Audacity

2. Type Script in ENPS
364.__ file --rundown

3. SLUG
Newie Newhouse
:48
(ANC)
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skd fjds jfsdjfk. As Newie Newhouse tells us, the sdjfsdjfsd
fa;sdjf.
TAKE MP3 FILE
NATS (:02)
(track1)
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sk;alskdj.f
SOT DURATION:09
A sdljf sdjf lks djf;lksjdflksjdksdf jsdkj fslkd lsdjf
A ;sdfj skdj fklsd jflksdjfklsdjfksdjfkdsjfk
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(track2)
Asldkjf sd jfksd jfkdsjfsdjfksdjfkdsjfkdlsfjsdk jjdslk
Fkds. Newie Newhouse, N-C-C News
Anchor Lead
Lead-in w/ name reporter
If Nats (wild sound)
Reporter narration
SOT (soundbite)
Write-out or snapper
Sig out with your name
Nan Newhouse , N-C-C
News

4. Your portable hard drive
Master archive for all your work – raw
audio, projects, work in process,
finished pieces
Needed someday for a resume reel!

5. SLUG
Newie Newhouse
:48
(ANC)
Asdlf jsd jfsd jflksjdflkjsd flskjdf. Ksjjsdkfjdsfa;sldfj
skd fjds jfsdjfk. As Newie Newhouse tells us, the sdjfsdjfsd
fa;sdjf.
TAKE MP3 FILE
NATS (:02)
(REP)
Akld ksdjfksdjfksdjfksdjfsdjfsdfsdk fjsdasdlkfj. Sldkfj
sk;alskdj.f
SOT DURATION:XX
A sdljf sdjf lks djf;lksjdflksjdksdf jsdkj fslkd lsdjf
A ;sdfj skdj fklsd jflksdjfklsdjfksdjfkdsjfk
As;dlfj skldj fsd
(REP)
Asldkjf sd jfksd jfkdsjfsdjfksdjfkdsjfkdlsfjsdk jjdslk
Fkds. Newie Newhouse, N-C-C Nws
Anchor Lead
Lead-in w/ name reporter
Nats (wild sound)
Reporter narration
SOT (soundbite)
Write-out or snapper
Sig out with your name

7. Work Flow – Scripting
364.1 file
Write the script. Start with anchor lead.
Edit script down to :45-:50 w/ anchor lead
If time -- Get script review from Fought

8. The Process: Wrap
editing

9. Which is better sound
Does turning up the knob on the screen make a difference?
How do you adjust the volume?

10. RAW interviews & nats
Narration
nats
SOT
write out

11. Naming Convention
• Not labeled correctly – doesn’t air
• Page# and slug, i.e. A2__PayWithLovin
• Don’t leave spaces on PCs.

12. for grading
for playing
in cast

13. • mp3 in Audio Share
• mp3 in Class Files
• script in ENPS
• In rundown
• In 364-_ <with source>
• Work files
• All your finished stories
• For your resume reel
However you do it –
Bottom line

14. Review the buttons
• To stop • Space bar or
• Time shift – move tracks
• Mute this track
• Play “solo” only this track
• Envelope – to fade or change
audio level
Common mistake – can’t do anything, can’t
move track,etc. You’re in PAUSE!

15. Zoom to set edit points

16. PRACTICE
• Import’ from your recorder

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Take a little extra…...zoom in and trim......... Move tracks l/r so no spaces

21. Trim
• Highlight and delete
• Click …hold SHIFT and Click. Hit delete

22. Fading
• Envelope Tool

23. NEXT 30 minutes
• Edit the wrap

24. PERFORMANCE 1
Drills and Info

25. BREATH – THE MOST
IMPORTANT

26. Performance: Breathing
• Chest breathing
• Diaphram breathing

27. Exercises: Breathing
• Breath flow & timing
• Grab stopwatch on phone
• Deep breath, blow out…how long?

28. Scriptmarking
/ = pause or quick breath
// = regular breath, i.e. end of sentence
_____ = emphasis
~~~~ = faster
= stretch
Hear Lakshmi’s version

29. Scriptmarking
• Mark the breaths
• / = short grab
• // = full breath

30. If Time
• Do a rundown with previous NCC Newscast Spring 14

31. Best Pitch
• Start from bottom • Start from top

32. Pitching orally

33. Pitch
• Type of story
• Enterprise, continuing, follow-up,
news you can use, explainer,
breaking news…
• Lead/summary
• Fact/new find
• Interviewees, nats
• So what?
This is a follow-up story
on DEC’s new program to
cull the deer herd on the
city’s east side.
Tomorrow it will inoculate and sterilize
deer
We’ll hear from an upset
resident and nats of him
pointing out deer tracks;
also the DEC area head.
appeal? Many people upset that deer
eat vegetation, cause accidents, as
evidenced by letters to editor

34. MORE ON
PRINCIPLES OF
JOURNALISM
Accuracy
Fairness
Independence

35. Be careful with studies
• Websites on cancer - U of Mich study
• “much may be “inaccurate, inappropriate or misleading”
• Nearly ½ claims not validated by science
• Other examples
• “1 in 4 college-age women has been the victim of rape or
attempted rape”
Reporter pitches a story about decline in meat
consumption…where did you hear that… Committee for
Responsible Medicine. Who is that?

36. How do you know what’s online is good
enough to use?
FOUR TIPS
1. Figure out the type of site
2. Use the A2-C-O criteria
3. See what it says about itself
4. Who registered it? Netsol.com

37. Attribution – what?

38. Attribution--How?
• Print/web
• comes at end
• Oswego County stands to make about $30,000 from last
weekend's Phish concert, county officials said.
• Radio/TV
• comes at the beginning
• County officials say Oswego County will make about
$30,000 from last weekend's Phish concert.

39. Fairness
• Be Objective
• Stay Neutral
• Stay out of the story
• Avoid stacking the deck with selective reporting

40. Ethics
• Don’t panic and do something stupid
• examples
• Don’t fake anything
• Options
• Do another wrap
• Do a long form
• WAER wraps are automatic A

41. Performance
• AP guide on pronouncers
• Breathing
• Script marking
• Commonly misused words
• Commonly mispronounced
• Resonance
• Corrections
• Timing