So far this August, we have researched the three topics for our first episode that will be released at the end of the month. We plan to discuss the current and past state of the conflict between Israel and Palestine for our international story. For the national story we researched the Inflation Reduction Act and how that affects other aspects of the U.S. such as climate policies and healthcare. Finally, for the local story we are going to talk about the Maryland primary elections and a bit about the general elections that will take place in November. After finishing our research we have written a draft of the script for our first episode that we plan to film this coming weekend. Before we film, we are planning to meet with our out of school mentor. We are super excited to start the official production process of our show!
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Since our last post, we completed trial runs with our equipment and were able to record and upload our brief introduction video. The first part of this process was to write up a script and find a teleprompter software to use, which was quite simple as we quickly found a free website that works well for us. Once we had the script, our next step was to solve our tech problems. We ran into an issue when the chord to connect the microphone to the camera was not the right size, but this was a simple fix, as all we had to do was order an adapter. Next, we crafted our backdrop, which allowed us bring our sketches and visions from our last post to life. Once we had completed all of these technical pieces, we were able to film the episode. After we completed filming, we edited the footage and uploaded it to Youtube (linked on "News Program Progress" page). We think starting with such a short video was definitely a good move for us since it allowed us to figure out how we were going to set up our filming space without the stakes of a full episode. Another part of the news show process that we worked on over the past two weeks was writing a practice story script. We worked on how to research a topic (we chose to do the Maryland Primary Elections) and what areas of the topic we wanted to focus on. It is going to be helpful having practiced this when we compose stories for our episodes as we were able to see how long the research might take. For the guide portion of our project, we began work on the draft that we hope to have completed by the end of this month. Over the next few weeks we are going to start collecting stories for our first episode that we plan to upload at the end of August. Also, we have been in touch with our out of school mentor and have a call planned during which we will be able to ask questions about how to present ourselves and not look awkward on camera when filming our first episode.
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