"No story lives unless someone want to listen"
- J K RowlingIan Anderson's Masterclass
When it comes to putting together a VT, the most important thing a reporter must do is share the story.
Impact is everything. The best pictures need to go at the beginning of the package to grab the audiences attention. The strongest and most powerful images of human interest need to be at the top to ensure the viewers will want to continue watching.
No story is complete, without a beginning, a middle and an end. The beginning is heavily relient on impact, the middle is the stories substance, and the end draws conclusions, and throws the story forward.
The story in classic TV news is all in pictures. It is important to visually assemble the story on your timeline first, and then script your voice track afterwards. The logistics of this is that you are scripting to the pictures, you should be talking about what the viewer can see.
Reporters must be filming interesting sequences and capturing the natural sound at the scene, this will help master the art of bringing the story to life. We should be heading back to the newsroom with reels and reels of rushes, allowing ourselves to be creative and have a variation of wide and close up shots.
Set up shots with interviewees are crucial to allow a lead into the interview, everything needs to follow a logical sequence, and flow smoothly. The VT shouldn't feel jumpy and abrupt. To enhance this, we should hear our interviewee before we see them.
It is so important to have a plan in advance, head out on to the field with an idea in mind of how you in-vision your VT, and stick to the plan. As a reporter we are in charge of telling the story so we must tell our interviewees what it is we want from them, not expect them to be professionals in the art of TV, that is our job.
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