Where was the newsworthiness?

T –  timely because  submissions for enrollment are about to close for the 2013-4 academic year

O – is academic excellence odd? Is it odd when a student  is identified as a candidate to conduct research?

P – proximity? Honors students are in our midst and we all  have the opportunity to be one.

I – impact?

C – conflict?

A – about?

L – larger issue? Alienation real or imagined felt by people outside a narrow spectrum?

Involving a second source presented a logistics problem for me. I’ve started working on a solution to that problem by planning stories further ahead, but that didn’t help for this week. I wanted to either talk with another honors student or talk with a faculty person involved with the honors program. If I had extra time to spend being social on campus, this problem would be reduced. The big lesson learned here was to start earlier.

Other than  struggles with the newsworthiness of my piece, I really struggled with my voice. I recognized that my voice was very different when recording the voiceover portions of the story than it was while I was engaged in conversation during interview. By the time I was ready to record, it was way after my bedtime and neither my brain nor my mouth were working right. Fortunately, I conducted my interview early enough that I still had another day and could record my voiceover again, but I wasn’t that much happier with it the second day either.

I also struggled with the background noise. We interviewed outside a Starbucks and it seemed  quiet there  until I had to compare it with  the stillness when I recorded the voiceover. I did watch a tutorial about how to level out the background noise throughout an entire piece, but my effort almost lost the entire clip so I abandoned it.