1. Find a Topic

- Relates to school
- Prominence 
- Heartwarming story

2. Find an Angle.

- Narrow down your story
- One part of the topic
- Football > Training

3. Collect Data.

- How
- What
- When/Where

4. Conduct the Interview.

- Interview 3 experts
- Ask 3 questions
- Questions based on angle

5. Shoot your reporter Stand Up.

- Appears in middle of story
- Gives a transition piece
- Stand up should be relevant to the story

6. Organize you Sound Bytes.

- Piece of audio that can stand by itself
- Ask open ended questions
- How/Why questions

7. Write The Transitions in your story.

- Your own Voice Overs
- Record your Voice overs first
- Write the story around your Voice overs

8. Write the beginning and end of your story.

- "Write" the middle of your story first
- Absolutely necessary
- Save best sound byte for last
- Tagline at end

9. Write the anchor in's and out's (if necessary).

- Communicate with anchor
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10. Collect B-Roll to add to your story (throughout steps 4-9)

- Video clips
- Matches voice over
- Interviews first

*Steps 4-8 in your story are called the A-Roll