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Author: Welch Suggs
Macroediting workbook
Here’s a link to my working document. Fill it out and and print out to give to your partner before you close it and send to me.
Macroediting partners:
Sam and Kelcey
Libby and Maryann
Daisy and Rachel
Katie and Nathan
Shelby and Lisa
My editing checklist
https://www.evernote.com/l/ABx_adXzaG9F95KdC5QFL68Bv7c23NB5V2o
Structure links
Audio profiles and notes
So I assume everyone is working away and doing fine, but please don’t hesitate to let me know if you run into problems. To review from the video and class, the key thing that will help you is Working From A Plan:
- You’ve all recorded your primary interviews so far. Listen to them a couple of times and write down good quotes and the time signatures from your recording (like 5:40-5:55).
- Compose your voiceovers–the sections where you tell your subject’s story to intersperse with their quotes. Record them, ideally in separate files.
- Go back to your reporting and export those good quotes (soundbites) to separate files.
- (This is my personal hack: name them in the order you want them to appear.)
- Open up Audition (or Audacity or something else), create a new multitrack file, and import your files to the timeline.
- Make sure the audio levels are comparable (i.e. it doesn’t sound like you’re shouting and your profile subject is whispering.)
- Upload to soundcloud and link as instructed in the module!
Thursday is work time for doing interviews for your profile, two of which are due Friday. If you’re having trouble getting hold of your profile subject, you need to switch to your plan B now and contact. Interviews should be done in person or at worst, over the phone. I’ll be in the classroom to answer questions or discuss anything you’d like, but you don’t have to come.
Poynter tests are due Oct. 1. Good luck!
Notes on Infographics and podcasts
Here are my notes from Tuesday, Sept. 20.
Instructions for Poynter grammar module for this course
We all sometimes need to review (or maybe encounter) the basic elements of grammar and word choice to make our writing as clear and precise as possible. To that end, you will participate in News U’s Language Primer online course and take their tests on punctuation, grammar, and word use.
Please note: it is totally up to you how much of the coursework, review materials, quizzes etc. you actually complete. What I care about is if you can pass ALL THREE of the tests. The passing grade is 80%. This is an all-or-nothing assignment: pass all three and you get full marks; fail one or more and you get nada.
That said, you get three tries at each test. So what I’d recommend is that you take each test once and see how you do. If you don’t get past 80 on any one individual test, then study those elements and go back and try again.
To access the tests, go to the News U URL for this class–https://www.newsu.org/UGA_JOUR5580fall16–and login or create a new Poynter account. The cost is $14.95, although if you’ve taken other Poynter courses you’ll get a discount.
All tests must be complete by Oct. 1.
We will do some practice work in class, but I expect this to be something you can knock out on your own. And first and foremost, don’t let this linger. The tests will be fairly straightforward, but you probably haven’t studied this stuff since high school, so it will take a little while to get those muscles going. If you wait until a few days before to start, I practically guarantee you will fail. Do the first round of tests preferably this weekend.
Here are some more documents that may be helpful:
My slides for Tuesday, Sept. 6 on story forms
For some reason wordpress doesn’t link my embeds, but you can access the slides at this link.
We’ll discuss this during class today
Imagine that your beat was higher education, and you specifically wanted to look into the future of the HOPE Scholarship. You might run across this story, the lede of which is…
(Here’s a link to the underlying report if you’re curious.)
We’ll talk about how you might identify sources to discuss this story.
Sample post
This is for my blog. Do not type http://welchsuggs.com. Instead here is a link to my blog.