Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Instructions and guidelines for our youtube reporter
1- On your youtube channel, post 5 video tracks daily that you think the most important news of the day, the one that you think your classmates should know.
2- Your classmates are your target audience. This means that the 5 news should be adequate, interested and important for a freshman student in your department, faculty and university.
3- At least 2 news from the 5 should be taken by "yourself" using your mobile phone, digital camera or any other tools.
- They can be raw materials without editing.
- They can be with or without audio.
- They can be soundbites.
- They are not pictures, photos or still images but just video.
- Mention the names and credentials of individuals involved in the news and are on camera.
- Avoid dark lighting to have a clear and visible shots and footage.
- You can be on camera doing a standupper or on camera commentaries.
- They can be parts from an interview and considered a news.
- They can be a news read by an anchor in a newscast.
- They can be a news shown on television programs or said by a television presenter.
- They can be scenes, shots or footage with or without audio posted by any source even if not a wellknown person.
6- Write a description of each video.
7- Try to post news from different fields and domains.
8- Be neutral.
9-Youtube channel should be public at least during the period of being youtube reporter.
10- Enjoy what you do.
GOOD LUCK
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Instructions and guidelines for our twitter reporter
1- Write and post on twitter 5 news daily in English language that you think they are the most important news of the day and the ones that you think your classmates should know.
2- Your classmates are your target audience. This means that the 5 news should be adequate, interested and important for a freshman student in your department, faculty and university.
3- Try to write news from different fields and domains.
4- Avoid writing your opinions and views. You are a reporter and journalist. So, you only write news.
5- Stop writing your usual tweets that contain your comments and thoughts during the period of being twitter reporter.
6- Mention the source of the news.
7- you can be the source of the news if you really are.
8- Be direct, concise, fair, short, adequate, clear, neutral and specific.
9- Remember the 5 Ws and H.
10- Your tweets should be public during the period of being twitter reporter.
11- Enjoy what you do.
GOOD LUCK
Saturday, November 26, 2011
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Oprah Winfrey Wins Honorary Oscar
Oprah Winfrey will receive the prestigious Jean Hersholt
Humanitarian Award on Saturday at the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences’ third annual Governors Awards.
When the announcement was made over the summer, some
criticized the academy for choosing Winfrey to receive its
Hersholt award, which is presented periodically to “an
individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian
efforts have brought credit to the industry. Critics said
Winfrey belongs more to the world of TV than that
of film.
“I understood it because I was equally surprised,” Winfrey
said in a recent interview. “I was surprised because I am not
known as an actress. I’ve done film and I love the films that
I’ve done,” but she acknowledges that the list isn’t long.
Actor James Earl Jones and makeup artist Dick Smith will
also be honored at Saturday’s ceremony at the Kodak
Theatre, both receiving Oscars for their long and notable film
careers.
Winfrey’s Hersholt award won’t be her first academy honor.
She was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for her
role in 1985′s “The Color Purple.” She also produced and
starred in the 1998 big-screen adaptation of Toni Morrison’s
“Beloved” and 2009′s “Precious,” which won Oscars for
supporting actress Mo’Nique and screenwriter Geoffrey
Fletcher.
Winfrey has contributed more than $500 million from her
personal coffers to charitable causes, academy president
Tom Sherak said. She established her first charitable
foundation a year after launching “The Oprah Winfrey Show”
and has been a philanthropist ever since.
In 1998, she created Oprah’s Angel Network, which
supported charitable projects and provided grants to
nonprofit organizations worldwide. She funds scholarships
for about 100 students in American universities, and in 2007
she opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for
Girls in South Africa.
Winfrey remains deeply involved with the school and its
students, who call her “Mom Oprah.” She travels to South
Africa at least four times a year to talk personally with the
girls and takes calls in the middle of the night to discuss
their progress and curricula.
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Martha Stewart leaves prison
Stewart, the billionaire lifestyle expert whose life has been consumed by scandal in recent years, was released at 12:30 a.m. Friday from a federal prison in Alderson. She left the prison in a dark sport/utility vehicle and headed straight for a local airport, where a chartered plane took her to New York.
Martha Stewart leaves prison
A little more than two hours after her release, Stewart arrived at her home in Bedford, about 45 miles north of New York City. She'd spent the last five months at the Alderson minimum-security prison for women known as "Camp Cupcake."
Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Stewart's conviction on charges that she lied to government investigators about her sale of ImClone stock in late 2001. She was sentenced last summer to five months in prison and five months of home arrest, followed by two years of probation.
She will now serve the home detention portion of her sentence at her 153-acre Bedford estate, which she bought in 2000 for $16 million and has since been renovating.
She made no public statements in Greenbrier or at the Westchester airport. But in a statement posted on www.marthastewart.com, she called her incarceration both "life altering and life affirming." She said she was "thrilled to be returning to my more familiar life." "There is," she wrote, "no place like home."
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No One Does Halloween Like WCNC Larry Sprinkle
There may be no other TV personality in the country who
takes Halloween as seriously asWCNC morning
weathercaster Larry Sprinkle.
Sprinkle, who has been with the Charlotte NBC-affiliate since
1985, doesn’t just dress up for Halloween, he dresses up
several times during the course of a Halloween morning newscast.
This morning, Sprinkle wore ten (ten!) different costumes
during WCNC’s two-and-a-half-hour-long morning show.
Also, all of Sprinkle’s costumes are original characters.
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Modern Sports satellite channel is
suing Alaa Sadek for LE 5 million
for violating their contract after he stormed off the
set and resigned on air Friday night.
Sadek in turn filed a complaint against Waleed Daebas, the
channel's chairman, for allegedly offending him during a
phone conversation, he told Daily News Egypt.
On his show "Cairo" last Friday, Sadek apologized to the
viewers and walked out of the studio following a dispute
between him and fellow hosts.
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Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British epic romantic drama
Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British epic romantic drama
adventure film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon
Beaufoy, and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is
an adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author
and diplomat Vikas Swarup. Set and filmed in India, the film
tells the story of Jamal Malik, a young man from the Dharavi
slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire? and exceeds people's
expectations, thereby arousing the suspicions of the game
show host and of law enforcement officials.
After its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival and later
screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival and the
London Film Festival, Slumdog Millionaire had a nationwide
grand release in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2009 and
in the United States on 12 November 2008.It premiered in
Mumbai on 22 January 2009.
Slumdog Millionaire was nominated for 10 Academy Awards
in 2009 and won eight, the most for any film of 2008,
including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted
Screenplay. It also won seven BAFTA Awards (including Best
Film), five Critics' Choice Awards, and four Golden Globes.
Monday, November 21, 2011
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Script for presentation (8) Blind TV news anchor makes debut in South Korea  Lee Chang-hoon, the country’s first disabled news anchor, made a successful debut on the state-run broadcaster KBS Monday. Lee, a disabled man with grade-1 visual impairment, hosts a section called “Lee Chang-hoon’s Life News” on “KBS News 12” aired at noon from Monday to Friday. Before the much-awaited debut, he underwent a three-month training program as a cub anchor. The 25-year-old was recruited in July after receiving high scores from all the judges during a news reading test. A total of 523 people applied for the job. “I am glad that I performed better in a real setting than in practice. It should have been perfect but I made a few mistakes. But still I feel pretty good about how I did my job,” Lee said at an interview held after he completed his first live news program on Monday. The anchorman then said he had a hard time pronouncing words correctly and understanding the content of the news. “I studied various social issues during the training session. I also pronounced the same words again and again until I said them correctly. I would like to become a successful news anchor and a role model for the disabled.” Born in Jinju in South Gyeongsang Province, Lee lost his sight after suffering an inflammation of the brain and spinal cord when he was seven-months old. He was enrolled in the Hanbit School for the Blind for elementary school courses. Lee majored in social welfare at the Graduate School of Soongsil University. |
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Chelsea Clinton Joins NBC News as Special Correspondent
The company said Monday that Clinton, who was also recently named to the board of Barry Diller's IAC, will work with Rock Center with Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News to highlight stories within the "Making a Difference" franchise, which tends to profile organizations and people doing extraordinary things.
Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former President George W. Bush, already works as a correspondent for NBC’s Today show. And Meghan McCain, daughter of former presidential candidate John McCain, is a contributor on MSNBC.
One person close to Clinton told the Times that she planned to donate all the money she earned from NBC to the Clinton Foundation and the George Washington University Hospital in the name of her grandmother who died this month.
She will continue her work with the Clinton Foundation and her studies at Oxford as she pursues the new job with NBC.
Chelsea has a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University and a master’s in public health from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Enhance and enrich your knowledge of how to avoid nasality
Enhance and enrich your knowledge of how to avoid nasality
How to Avoid Nasality
Key Concept: Cultivate full, rich tones.
In the United States one of the most common faults in speaking is nasality—”speaking through the nose,” as it is commonly called.As a matter of fact, nasality is caused by not speaking through the nose. Take your thumb and finger, hold the nostrils tightly closed, and say this sentence aloud: “Well, now, I’m glad you’ve come down to town.”
You will find that closing your nostrils entirely in this way makes you speak in the dialect and tone often ascribed to up-state farmers.
Nasality is caused by the accidental or habitual stopping of the nostrils. If your voice is nasal in tone, practise breathing through your nose.
Open your mouth more widely than usual when you speak.
Make an effort to throw the voice forward in full, rich tones.
When you are practising to avoid nasality, think of a great, round ball when you speak. Think of it so clearly that you can see it. Say this line over and over in as full, round tones as possible: “Oh, the round, round ball, it rolls and rolls around in the merry morn!”
Then think of a gigantic cannon filling the air with sound. Say aloud in full tones: “Boom! boom! boom! came from the mighty cannon’s mouth!”
Make a firm resolve that you will not speak in nasal tones like a farmer. Train your ear to notice richness and fullness of sound in the speech of others, and try to imitate the most effective speech.
Practice:
1. Say the following words, giving your speech all possible resonance:
Clang! clang! clang! boomed the great gong.
2. Repeat the following, holding the sound as long as possible:
To whoo! To whooo! To whoooo!
3. Make a long humming sound as you say the following :
Hummm, hummm, hummm, buzzed the bumble bee around the king.
Enhance and enrich your knowledge of dressing for TV
Enhance and enrich your knowledge of dressing for TV
Dressing for TV
The source of information > Media Training Worldwide, New York
1. Don’t wear white. It glows and it becomes the most noticeable thing on the TV
screen.
2. Pastel shirts work well on TV.
3. Don’t wear black, it is too harsh and can suck up all the light.
4. Don’t wear bright reds. They “bleed” on camera and are distracting.
5. Don’t wear dangly earrings. They distract.
6. Be wrinkle-free.
7. Don’t wear stripes, herringbone, small intricate designs or flashy jewelry. They
are hard for a TV camera to pick up on.
8. Don’t wear checks.
9. Dress in a simple, boring manner, unless you are a fashion designer.
10. TV viewers should focus on your face and what you say, not your clothes.
11. Television will suck the natural energy out of your voice.
12. Speak louder and with more energy than usual - but don’t yell.
13. If you don’t boost your energy level, like you are telling a story in a noisy
restaurant, you will sound flat and monotone on TV.
14. If you are nervous, you may speak softer and flatter than usual.
15. Compensate in advance by speaking louder and with more energy.
16. You need to speak with more range and variety when on camera. If you just speak
with more volume, you’ll seem unnatural.
17. If you dictated a press release and sent it out without editing, spell checking, and
refining, you may embarrass yourself. If you go on TV without rehearsing, you
are doing the equivalent of sending out an unedited press release and you may beappropriately embarrassed. Videotape yourself and then watch yourself carefully.
Repeat.
18. Wear makeup. If you don’t wear powder on your nose, forehead and face, you
will look shiny, oily and plastic.
19. Make sure the powder makeup you use is the same color as your skin, not lighter
and not darker.
20. Even if you never normally sweat, you will sweat on TV because of the hot lights.
Makeup will make you look like you aren’t sweating.
21. If you are bald or balding, be sure to powder your head so it doesn’t shine.
22. If you think you might have an opportunity to be on TV more often than once a
year, keep a compact of makeup powder in your desk or briefcase.
23. Don’t wear lip gloss or any makeup that is shiny.
24. Keep you hair out of your eyes and combed neatly. Otherwise, people will focus
on nothing but your hair and will never get your message.
25. For men, if you have zero fat on your waistline, have a new, perfectly tailored suit
and a perfectly tied necktie, you can leave your suit jacket unbuttoned.
26. If you are a man with even an inch of fat on your waist or are wearing a suit that
isn’t 100% perfectly tailored, then keep your jacket buttoned. This will keep your
tie in place, your suit symmetrical, minimize your gut and show less of your light
colored shirt.
27. Make sure your suit fits properly.
28. Don’t wear tinted glasses.
29. If you want to know how you look on TV, videotape yourself being interviewed,
and then watch the tape with the volume off.
30. If you are being interviewed by remote and there is a TV monitor next to the
camera, don’t glance over at it to look at yourself while the interview is going on.
You will look shifty-eyed, nervous and weird.
31. The more often you do TV interviews, the better you will get - if you review the
tape each time and try to improve.
32. Don’t look at the camera unless a producer orders you to do so.
33. When you are on TV, you are not giving a public speech. You are having an
engaging conversation with one or two people.
34. Don’t think about the audience; instead focus on the one person you are talking to
at that moment. Since you talk to one person at a time all day long anyway, there
is no reason to be nervous.
35. Don’t sit on the back of your suit jacket. That was just a stupid movie thing in
“Broadcast News.”
36. Shake hands with the talk show host on set at the conclusion of the interview.
37. For TV interviews, go to the studio when given a choice.
38. It doesn’t matter if your interview is 60 seconds or 60 minutes long. You should
communicate everything you need to in the first 30 seconds. Any additional time
should be spent expanding your basic points.
39. You never know when your interview segment will go longer or shorter than
originally scheduled.
40. You can not look at notes while you are live on TV or in an interview, you’ll
seem unprepared and unprofessional.
41. But since you’ve already narrowed your message down to three message points
and a few sound bites, you don’t really need to look at notes, do you?
42. If you were interviewed for two hours by a major news weekly or business
publication, and your major competitor was quoted, and you were not, guess
what, no one at the publication has a vendetta against you or an “in” with your
competitor. You weren’t quoted because you didn’t give good quote and your
competitor did.
43. If you want to get better at TV interviews, watch other people being interviewed
on TV with the sound off.
44. If you wear glasses most of the time, then wear your glasses when you are on TV.
45. Get glare proof glasses or have your existing glasses glare proofed.
46. Don’t wear a mustache if you plan on doing a lot of TV.
47. Mustaches obscure your mouth, teeth and facial expressions.
48. Tom Selleck looks good in a mustache. You don’t look like Tom Selleck.
49. If you want to be a good guest on a particular TV show, watch it regularly.
50. Don’t look up at the ceiling when you are thinking what to say. You’ll look like
you are BSing.
51. Look down if you need to look away for a moment. You’ll look thoughtful.
52. Watch all the cable news channels regularly.
53. If you are wearing an earpiece, make sure it fits properly.
54. If your earpiece pops out during the middle of a live interview, don’t scream, “Oh
my god! I can’t hear anything! I’ve lost my earpiece!” Instead, simply find the
earpiece with your hand closest to it, put it back in your ear, and act like it’s no
big deal.
55. If you are wearing an earpiece and you lose the volume, quietly state your name
and say that you can’t hear anything. The producer should be able to hear you and
make the necessary changes.
56. Don't drop the volume at the end of a thought. This is OK and common in normal
conversation, but when speaking to a group or on TV, no one will be able to hear
or understand you.
57. Don’t curse on the set, even during commercials.
58. Be likeable.
59. Don’t get angry unless that was part of your planned message.
60. Don't make goofy faces - they will overwhelm your message.
61. Don't lick your lips; you'll look like a child molester if you do.
62. Drink plenty of water before the interview, or you will lick your lips.
63. Don't dart your tongue out while you speak, you'll seem like a serpent.
64. Really, really listen to the interviewer.
65. Get a video clip of the story you were interviewed for.
66. Do you like the way you look? If not, why not?
67. When you are interviewed standing, don’t move your feet.
68. Don’t stand up on the balls of your feet.
69. Don’t sway back and forth.
70. To be great on TV, you must not only look like you are having the time of your
life, but you must actually have the time of your life.
71. Find out as much as possible about other guests who will be appearing with you.
72. After you've learned the basics, develop your own style.
73. You can't count on the makeup department at TV stations or networks - they
might be busy, at lunch, or in a bad mood. Be prepared to do your own makeup.
74. Men should have about an inch of their shirt cuff showing.
75. Don't react to the energy level of your host. Focus on the energy level you want
and planned.
76. If you are attacked, smile.
77. If you are smeared, smile, and shake your head.
78. Don’t lock your hands together.
79. Don’t put your hands in your pockets.
80. Keep your hands out in front of you and ready to gesture.
81. Ask yourself why you have been asked to appear on a TV talk show.
82. Pump the talk show producer for as much info on how the issues will be
presented, what other guests will be appearing, and what position you are
expected to fill.
83. Don't take a position on an issue just because a producer says that's what the show
is looking for.
84. Know the format of any show you go on.
85. Ask the producer when you are expected at the studio and then arrive 10 minutes
earlier than that.
86. One extra person is OK, but don't bring an entourage to a TV studio.
87. Avoid light colored pants.
88. Wear over the calf socks.
89. Don't wear more than one ring per hand.
90. Women shouldn't wear short skirts, if you want people to focus on your message.
91. Don't sit behind a desk in your office when interviewed, sit in an open chair, or
while standing.
92. Don't dart your eyes.
93. Don’t fidget with your hands.
94. Don't gesture your hands above your chin, wider than your shoulders, or below
your mid-chest.
95. When sitting in a chair that swivels, don't swivel.
96. No single TV appearance will make you a star.
97. Occasionally, one should call the host by name.
98. If a talk show producer really liked your performance, ask if you can be scheduled
right away for your next appearance.
99. If a talk show producer absolutely loved your performance, ask if you can guest
host some time.
100. When you are in the green room before an interview, don’t tell the
producer or anyone else everything you are going to say. If you do, you might
forget what you said once you are on the program.
101. Your goal is to get invited back to appear regularly.
102. Don’t bring props to a TV studio unless they are essential or you have a
book you’ve written.
103. If you wear a dark shirt, dark suit and dark tie, you will look like you are
auditioning to be a hit man on the “Sopranos.”
104. Vests look stuffy on TV.
105. Don’t “think” on TV. Instead, focus on delivering your message that was
thought out earlier.
106. Don’t smoke on TV.
107. No, you aren’t going to be paid for being interviewed.
108. When the interview is over, sit still until the producer or host tells you that
you are done and may leave.
109. Be sure your microphone has been removed before you get up and walk
away from the set.
110. Let the producer know what you are most interested in promoting, i.e., a
website, hotline, opening, etc.
111. Videotape all of your interviews.
112. Watch your entire TV interview within 24 hours of the show airing.
113. Build a video resume tape from the best moments of your TV interviews.
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