Journalism 061
Spring 2008
Final TV Project
Due (with radio assignment) April 29
You will write a news segment that includes the following elements:
Voiceover
Voiceover
VO/SOT (Voiceover to SOT)
Package
The length of the news segment is not important - write to the length of your video and the value of the
story:
You will be evaluated on the following:
News judgment
Leads and transitions
Use of broadcast journalism writing
Writing to the video
You will write the intros, leads and transitions, as well as the script for the Voiceovers and to the SOT
Please follow the television script format you were provided in class
The stories have the following slugs, and appear in this order on the video
ARTICLES FROM THE SPARTAN DAILY HAVE BEEN PROVIDED FOR YOUR INFORMATION - YOU DO NOT NEED TO ATTRIBUTE THE INFORMATION TO THE NEWSPAPER -
The Final Television Project Video
Live Art Cafe [package]
Reporter: Ann Reginio
Time: 1:33
Outcue: (sounds trails)
Zapatista [voiceover to SOT]
VO Time :40
SOT Time: :29
Names: (have been provided)
Outcue: "was very impressive"
UPD Shooter Drill [voiceover]
Time: :22
A.S. Elections [voiceover]
Time: :14
ALL ARTICLES FROM THE SPARTAN DAILY
LIVE ART CAFÉ
Musicians, artists, filmmakers and poets will perform and showed their work at the first ever Live Art Cafe event in the Student Union Barrett Ballroom.
The Creative Arts Club created the event to give students artists a chance to display their work and mingle with other students in a lively atmosphere.
"The vision, the purpose and the goal of the event is to bring the arts on campus together and provide a place where we can have music, film and art all in one spot," said senior creative arts major and the event's creator, Cara Wilson. "We're also supporting different clubs like the Film Production Society and the MOSAIC."
The Live Art Cafe was open from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The art displayed included five short films, 12 artists' works, and a 10-piece Latin jazz band, Chachismo, as well as an open mic for people to read poetry and perform stand-up comedy..
BILINGUAL PLAY PORTRAYS ZAPATISTA MOVEMENT
Around 400 people gathered at the Barrett Ballroom on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. for "Zapatista," a bilingual play by Teatro Milagro (Miracle Theater in English), bringing to life the tale of sub-commander Marcos and the history of the revolution in Mexico in the 1970s.
"The play is about the uprising of the Zapatista movement," said Gilberto Martin del Campo, 37, who plays the character of Subcommandante Marcos.
The Zapatistas are an armed group of resistance fighters in Chiapas, Mexico's poorest state, del Campo said.
"It's based in the real facts of how the uprising happened," del Campo said, "and the relationship between Subcommandante Marcos and the indigenous groups."
The play condenses 20 years of Chiapas' history into one hour and 20 minutes, following the day-to-day lives of six characters who try to inform the world about their existence through their actions and beliefs.
"My character is a philosophy professor," del Campo said, "that through studies of Buddhism and the outrage of some branches of the church, started to work in the very poor communities."
Del Campo, who has been working with Miracle Theater for three years, said that through learning each other's languages and communities, the indigenous Chiapas started an uprising to gain recognition by the rest of Mexico.
"It's very important that young people have as much information as possible and as many points of views so that they can create their own ideology," he said about the opportunity of performing for SJSU students and community.
Omar Vargas, 42, plays the character of an old, indigenous man who seeks building peace without killing people and bringing the community closer to their ancestral people.
"From my point of view, the indigenous has been exploited for many, many years," Vargas said, "and I'm happy for the Zapatista movement to gain attention in all the countries that have indigenous (people)."
The play was brought to SJSU from Portland, Ore., where the theater is based, through the efforts of the Mosaic Cross Cultural Center, Cesar E. Chavez Community Action Center and the Student Advocates for Higher Education.
The Chavez Center also helped by sponsoring the event in paying half of its expenses.
"I think that the Zapatista struggle is a great example about communities coming together and advocating for their rights," said Maribel Martinez, program coordinator from the Chavez Center. "We have similar struggles happening right now with students advocating for no fee increases, students working on rebuilding (Educational Opportunity Program)."
Rodrigo Jimenez, a junior sociology major, said, "There are oppressed people all over the world. This play wasn't just relevant to Mexico in 1994. It's relevant to today - unfortunately, it hasn't gotten better."
Ezequiel Deniz, a senior Spanish and liberal studies major, said seeing the play was a great opportunity because it addressed issues he thinks should be in the news but aren't.
"I think art is one of the best ways to learn about social problems," he said, "and I think that theater is one of the big ones. All you have to do is listen carefully because the message is there and very clear."
SHOOTER ON CAMPUS DRILL
University Police Officers, armed with real weapons and fake ammunition, ran up the stairs in MacQuarrie Hall Friday morning in search of the "shooter."
The exercise was held to prepare the UPD in case of a Virginia Tech-style school shooting.
Sgt. Michael Santos said that the active shooter response exercise was the first of its kind ever held at SJSU.
The exercise took place from 9 to 11 a.m. at MacQuarrie Hall - all classes held that morning were moved to Sweeney Hall. To prepare the UPD officers in case of an on-campus shooting, the UPD arranged three separate run-throughs with three groups of officers.
The gunman, as well as the victims, were roles taken on by SJSU justice studies students, who were even given fake, bloody wounds.
Santos said that the exercise was designed to train the officers and the Campus Emergency Response Team, but he said that there will be training for students, faculty and staff in the future.
"We are going to have that aspect of the training for the entire campus community. That's still in the works," Santos said. "We are going to be setting up a training team to address that situation. At some point, hopefully by this year, we'll have a training team set up so they can go to individual classes, individual departments, and conduct how to respond to an active shooter."
UPD Sgt. John Laws said every officer in the department, except one who called in sick, took part in the exercise.
Michael Gehrett, a junior forensic science major, was supposed to be part of the exercise, but he arrived late and had trouble getting past the police posted around MacQuarrie Hall. He said the class was supposed to be assigned different roles in the morning before the exercise. He said he thought the exercise would be helpful.
"It's a good idea to do something like this you know, just be prepared," said Gehrett, 22.
The exercise took place on the fourth and fifth floors of MacQuarrie.
A.S. VOTING OPENED TODAY
Two white tents set up on campus and blue tape in large circles around them signaled the start of the Associated Students elections for next year's executives and board of directors.
Polls opened Tuesday, and up until now, according to Chief Election Officer Alex Antazo, all has run well.
The lack of interest has been noticeable, though, as poll workers and campaigners have noted problems getting students to vote.
Poll workers at each location have been working to get students who may not have been aware of the election in to vote. Paige Armstrong, a junior social work major and a member of Alpha Phi Omega, is one of them.
"Half the people I've had to ask," she said. "The other half just walked straight up."
Armstrong and others from the co-ed honor society volunteered to help run the polls throughout the two-day election.
Antazo said he expected about 450 students to have voted by Tuesday afternoon, and turnout has been steady throughout the day.
"The turnout is kind of slow but constant," he said. "Especially around noon, it was really, really busy."
Antazo said the first day is usually slower than the second, and a lot of students vote online over night.
Of the two polling locations, the one at the Student Union usually sees a higher turnout, said Rich Kelly, the director of Student Involvement.
Juan Luna, who was out campaigning for William Vosa Cavu-Litman near the Event Center polling location, said it's been a struggle to get students to go and vote. He said he had been out for an hour-and-a-half, and would be there for another two-and-a-half-hours, he said.
Antazo said this campaign has been clean, with no problems occurring around the polling places.
"Sometimes it gets a little sticky," he said of past elections. "That just comes with elections in general."
Federal law requires candidates and their associates campaigning for them to stay 75 feet away from each polling place, Antazo said, which is marked by a line of blue tape around each location.
Polling locations at the Student Union and the Event Center will be open again today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and students will be able to vote online at my.sjsu.edu until 8 a.m. on Thursday.