Student Yearbook Guide

Student Yearbook Guide

Reporting

1.     Good Reporters

a.     Looking and Listening for their readers, observing and reacting.

b.     5 H’s and W’s            

c.     Variety of sources that make the stories more interesting.

d.     Interviewing or being associated with people that are involved with that event.

2.     Research

a.     Researching a certain event or story helps the reporter with their understanding of their stories they are writing.

b.     Interviews, Surveys, Polls, and Focus Groups help material be produced for the final reporting story.

c.     Material from the same event from the past to be read to help your start on the new story.

3.     Interviews

a.     Lots of questions, the more the better, the better the question the better the answer. Open Ended, Close Ended, and Follow up Questions.

b.     Listening around to what others are saying during the event.

c.     Gather as much information as you can that retains to the story so you have lots of different things to work with.

Writing          

1.     Notes

a.     Using questions to help you focus on the story.

b.     Again with the many options from your notes while recording as many quotes, interesting information and more to make a great writing to go along with the story.

c.     Be as organized as possible with all of your different information.

2.     Stories

a.      

                                               i.     Lead –  Opening paragraph or sentence in an article that ties you into the story.    

                                             ii.     Quotes – Word to word from an interview from someone that adds interest to the story with the persons name and school year.

                                            iii.     Transitions – Details in story to tie it all together, facts, figures and descriptions.

                                            iv.     Conclusion –  Final paragraph or sentence that ties your story together to show completeness and should end with interesting facts/information.

b.      

3.     Good Writing

a.     Make writing full of lots of details and suspense, specific places, people, events and more.

b.     Tightly written and greatly developed story.

c.     Taking advantage of what people have to say about that certain event and use it as an inspiration.

d.     Make the writing into your own, not copying from what information you got from when you interviewed a person or the things you’ve read, take it into your own perspective and make it your own.

Read the article by Mallory Summers & see all the components working together

Writing effective headlines requires creativity, effort, and attention to details

What can you take from this page to help in writing creative headlines?

Describe the 3-step process to writing dynamic headlines

1.     Making it thrill suspending.

2.     Catchy words and describe

3.     Add an addition to rhyme and consider other literary techniques.

Captions                        

1.     Content

a.     Captions writing requires reporting.

b.     Answering questions about the questions in a photo in deep depth.

c.     Adding direct quotes from individuals in the photo to add deep depth.

d.     Captions should do more than state the obvious.

2.     Describe the 3-step process to writing captions

a.     Making a caption to help understand what’s going on in the photo.

b.     Reporting specific information, FORMAT.

c.     Direct quotes and information to add depth to make it more interesting for the person viewing it to want to see more.

Photography

We will be discussing this section in class