Tuesday, December 9, 2008

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


Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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