Day Three

In the morning we had a great session on the voice with Marilyn Pittman. She's a professional voice artist who works with newscasters and radio announcers. She shared her tips sheet, "Talk Better Radio: Four dynamics of good vocal variety. The four dynamics are:

• Pitch
• Volume
• Tempo
• Rhythm

These are used on operative words, key words that tell the story. When abridged to the operative words, you still know the key details.

She also showed us how to mark a script, underling the operative words and adding slash marks where to take breaths.

Following the voice session we focused on the software. Photo preparation for the Web and basic image editing were presented in a crash course in using Photoshop. This was followed by a session on editing using Final Cut Pro. We covered drag and drop editing, setting audio levels and adding text and dissolves. In the evening capturing footage was covered and we began capturing footage from our first video interview.

At lunch we had a speaker from Internet Broadcasting, Phil Numrich. He spoke about online advertising for TV stations. Now I know why TV station news Website suck. Most are p;roduced by organizations like Internet Broadcasting, who hires the people to write the news around their online ads.