Footage that includes shots of anything visual mentioned during the interview.
What is B-roll?
100
What you can do to put your interviewee at ease.
What is small talk?
200
A story, written by a reporter or anchor that does NOT have video to accompany the story.
What is a reader?
200
Informal language that is easily understood.
What is "writing for the ear"?
200
Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand, like "drop shadow" and "keyframing".
What is jargon?
200
The intereviewee's name, spelling, title, and contact information
What is a lead?
200
The most important way to convey interest.
What is eye contact?
300
A type of story where the audience sees B-roll video and hears the anchor reading, followed by footage of comment from a principal player, the sound bite.
What is a VO-SOT?
300
Crediting the source of information used in a story.
What is attribution?
300
The way an interviewer should NOT read the questions.
What is word for word?
300
The two types of interviews for broadcast
What is live or edited (a package)?
300
The opposite of an interrogation. A natural way to conduct and interview.
What is a conversation?
400
A story that is 1 1/2 to 2 minutes in length, contains its own intro and outro and is edited.
What is a package?
400
The sentence construction when writing news stories.
What is subject-verb-object?
400
3 Types of interview questions
What is prediction, opinion, and narration?
400
What you can do while recording the lead.
What is an audio check?
400
Nodding, smiling and maintaining eye contact
What is non-verbal feedback?
500
The organization of stories and sequence of a newscast in written form.
What is the rundown?
500
Find the story, Identify the Angle/Research, Log Video, Write the Script, and Edit the Story.
What is the process of writing a news story?
500
The step that comes after background and formulating questions.
What is schedule the interview?
500
These type of cuts can be covered with B-roll.
What is jump cuts?
500
What you should do between the interviewee's comment and your next question.