Project | 4-6 weeks
Project | 4-6 weeks
Sports have the power to energize a crowd, but they can also inspire and help athletes to overcome struggles beyond the scoreboard. The best work in sports journalism are the stories that provide a window into the athlete’s life. This gives the audience a chance to see that their lives are not that much different than the people they root for. For this project, find a young athlete with a newsworthy story.
What struggles has this athlete overcome? Does the athlete you are profiling provide a positive impact on those around them? Does the sport have an impact on the athletes themselves?
A video profile (2-4 min long) is the story of one person. It typically has voiceover (VO), b-roll, pictures, nats (natural sound), and may include interviews of family members, colleagues, teammates or peers of that one person. Here’s an example of a profile.
Use these questions to help you highlight a young athlete:
EXAMPLES
Women's professional football players on the successes and challenges facing the sport
What a cancelled football season meant for this teen athlete
14-year-old football player navigates NIL deals
Second grader showcases his talents as junior hockey reporter
Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information.
Ethical journalism strives to ensure the free exchange of information that is accurate, fair and thorough. An ethical journalist acts with integrity. Ethical journalism should be accurate and fair. Journalists should be honest and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
Media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages.
All forms of media created with the purpose of informing the public and delivering news through specific mediums such as radio and broadcast stations, digital news organizations and others.
The act of consuming any form of media including anything that is text or visual. It can be books, television, papers, flyers, advertisements, newspapers, information on the Internet, etc.
A simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group; a set form or convention
The condition of having or being composed of differing elements. Especially in the context of the inclusion of people of different races, cultures, etc. in a group or organization
The act or practice of including and accommodating people who have historically been excluded (as because of their race, gender, sexuality, or ability)
People are interested in other people. Everyone has something to celebrate and something to complain about. We like unusual stories of people who accomplish amazing feats or handle a life crisis because we can identify with them.
In news, it’s a story’s point or theme. It's the lens through which the producer or writer filters the information they have gathered and focuses it to make it meaningful to viewers or readers.
A conversation between two or more people where the purpose is to gather information and facts. The interviewer asks questions and the interviewee provides information based on their knowledge about a specific topic or issue.
An account of past or current events. In journalism, stories are presented with a combination of people, facts, and typically includes a beginning, middle and end.
A person or other physical being in a narrative. Stories are made up of different characters who provide information and help shape the narrative with their knowledge, experience and perspective.
The story of one person, has voiceover (VO), b-roll, pictures, nats (natural sound), interviews of family members or peers of that one person.
Sounds produced in their actual setting. Natural sound, commonly known as NAT sound, puts the viewer in the place the story was told by enhancing the scene(s) with video containing rich audio such as a musician singing at a train station, a storm approaching, or the sound of a tractor plowing the field.
The supplemental footage used to visually support your A-ROLL.
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Journalism
Representation
Video Production
Identity
Broadcast News
Projects
Intermediate
Mic
Computers
Camera or Mobile Phone
Camera
Mobile Phone
Internet
4-6 weeks