Week 12

Editing Processes

In order to edit the news bulletin package I first checked the rundown of the stories to ensure that they were in the correct order. The most important stories lead the bulletin to the more ‘fluff stories’ at the end of the bulletin. This also sometimes follows the theme that bad news comes first. Celebrity and sports news is classified as the entertainment news, so it follows the lead stories in most news bulletins, depending on its relevance and value too.

During the read of the bulletin, I rehearsed the story to make sure that I made as little mistakes as possible. I also learnt to read loud, clear and paced to make sure that the read matched the pace of the news bulletin as a whole.

The planning of the news bulletin editing process begins with a story plan or story log. This is known as the story bed (Alysen 2012, p.195). It frames the news bulletin and is a journalist’s tool to creating a pre-recorded bulletin.

To cut each video I chose to save them individually and test each sound level to ensure that they all matched up. In a bulletin the sound levels should sit between -6 and -12, to ensure they all matched up to the program. Next I cut up my bulletin read. I chose to cut them also piece by piece, but I edited the sound levels to suit the program first.

Next, I added the introduction and began to insert each bulletin read with its corresponding story. However, the project required time to pause at the end of each lead in to a story. Allowing for a short pause at the end of a segment allows for the viewer to process the information and the bulletin then begins in a timely manner.