Blooper Reel

I did not get the students' permission to publish the final cut of the news program, however I got their permission to publish the bloopers. Here is the 55-second video of their bloopers.

Appearing in this video are...
Li Yuangcheng & Ran Ikeyama - news anchors
Yuguang Cai - meteorologist
Lin Yuan (Kevin) - investigative reporter on Obama
Yi Ding - investigative reporter on the economic crisis

In this video you can hear the voices of...
Aseel Aldbas - director saying "cut" and "action"
Jeremy Slagoski - producer saying "warm clothes"
the rest of ESL 100-001 laughing

JSC News Run Time

0:00-1:00 - Ran & Li's introduction
1:00 - 2:00 - News about Barack Obama
2:00 - 5:00 - Kevin's investigative report on Obama
5:00 - 5:30 - Ran & Li's segue from Kevin to Lin
5:30 - 7:30 - Lin's opinion on Obama
7:30 - 8:30 - News about the economic crisis
8:30 - 11:30 - Yi's investigative report on the economic crisis
11:30 - 12:00 - Ran & Li's segue from Yi to Una
12:00 - 14:00 - Una's opinion on the economic crisis
14:00 - 14:30 - Ran & Li's segue from Una to Yuguang
14:30 - 15:30 - Yuguang's short weather report
15:30 - 16:30 - News about Thanksgiving
16:30 - 17:30 - News about immigration
17:30 - 20:30 - Yuri's sports report
20:30 - 21:00 - Ran & Li's segue from Yuri to Candy
21:00 - 25:00 - Candy's interview with Najla
25:00 - 26:00 - News about UWL
26:00 - 29:00 - Shine's field report on the Turkey Trot
29:00 - 29:30 - Ran & Li's segue from Shine to Yuguang
29:30 - 31:30 - Yuguang's long weather report
31:30 - 32:00 - Ran & Li's conclusion

Producer's conclusion
The run time is 2 minutes longer than I would like, so I will change the following items:

• News about UWL will be cut
• Yuri's sports report will be changed from 3 minutes to 2 minutes

News Stories

Our class has decided on the following stories to be reported on our program:

• President-elect Barack Obama
• The economic crisis
• Thanksgiving
• Life at UWL
• Immigration
• Sports - football & basketball

Directions

For the reporters
Look into the camera.
Faster.
Slower.
Speak more clearly.
I need more emphasis.
Sit closer together.
Sit further apart.
Smile.
Look more energetic.
I need more enthusiasm.
Don't depend too much on the cue cards.
More serious.
Relax.
You're doing great.

For the camera operator
Zoom in
Zoom out
Get a wide shot of...
Get a close-up of...
Stand here.
Pan left. Pan right.
Cut after she says...
Cut after he does...

General takes
Camera ready.
This is take 2.
5...4...3...2...1...Action!
Cut!
Let's do the ending again.
Let's do the whole thing again.
Let's start over.

JSC News

Our class is developing a news program to be recorded and broadcast in early December. We have been practicing for it these past two weeks. This Thursday, we worked on simplifying the news from The Week so it is easy to report and easy to understand. The class chose on the name of our program, JSC News, which stands for Jeremy Slagoski's Class. Finally the class chose what kind of news stories they will report.

Here is a list of the cast and crew of JSC News
News anchors - Ran and Li
Investigate reporters - Yi and Kevin
Expert opinion - Una and Lin
Field reporter - Shine
Interviewer - Candy
Sportscaster - Yuri
Meteorologist - Yuguang
Director - Aseel
Assistant director - Di
Set designer - Coco
Camera operator - Lixiang
Producer - Jeremy

On Hiatus

This blog has been temporarily stopped for a few reasons:
1) My paternity leave.
2) The change in the class schedule.
3) The change in the number of students in class.

I will resume posting on this blog to summarize what has happened in the past month.
I will also start posting progress on our final unit about journalism.

Thank you for your patience.

Help for Drama

For Yule, here are few family sitcom videos.

One example from The Cosby Show.
One example from Roseanne.

One example from All In the Family

One example from That 70's Show




For FC Light, here is a podcast about checking into a hotel. It's about 15 minutes long, and it has a short script to read.

For AC, find a good example of job interview questions at this link.

For Dark Chocolate, here is a funny video about looking for an apartment in New York City.

Part 1


Part 2