10 Steps to Writing a Story – Broadcast Journalism

1. Find a Topic.
- Activities or sport.
- The people .
- Famous people or events (provinces).
2. Find an Angle.
- Football team.
- Describe team.
- Seniors and fundraising .
3. Collect Data.
- When? Who? Where? why? How? What?
- Research, who can I talk to.
- Get answers.
4. Conduct the Interviews.
- Find three people who are experts.
- Ask all three only three questions.
- Asked for roles, groups, angle.
5. Shoot your reporter Standups.
- Should be the middle.
- Validates the story.
- A Transition.
6. Organize your Sound Lights.
- Piece of audio that can stand by itself.
- Formal Questions to get answers that are important.
- 9 piece of audio to story.
7. Write Transition in your story.
- Words to help exposition story.
- Orderly, around angle, focus on interview.
- Interdiction and conclusion to story.
8. Write the Introduction and Conclusion of your story.
- First and Last.
- Do what you know.
- Attention getter.
- Tag tine, "reporting to"
 9. Write the anchor ins and outs (if necessary).
- What is going to happen.
- No repeats.
 10. Collect B-Roles to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9).
- Always film A-Role before B-role.
- Describes A-role in a sad way.
- Match B-Role

 *Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A-Role.