100 points
Assigned: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Email me by Monday, October 29th @ 11:59pm with your story idea/time/locations
Due: Tuesday, November 6, 2018
You will need a public Instagram and Twitter account. You may not delete the posts or accounts. If you don’t wish to use your personal accounts, then please create new ones for this assignment.
Goal:Â To cover a live event, on deadline, using the skills you’ve learned in class
Election Day is always exciting. This year especially so. Both houses of the U.S. Congress could change leadership and elections in Pennsylvania will be an important part of the results. It is a day full of excitement, celebration, loss, drudgery. As journalists, we can share the experience with our readers. We can connect the process to the importance of the day.
PART ONE: Â SOCIAL MEDIAÂ Â hashtag #COMMvote2018 + Time
You must use a public account. You may not delete the posts. If you don’t want to use your own account (or it’s private) create one for the assignment.
Start every post with the time it happened and the hashtag . 9:33am #COMMvote2018
Live tweet or use Instagram from an election-related location. Don’t give us your opinions.  Tell us what is happening, quote people, take photos. DON’T just say it’s crowded or not. Don’t guess about what people are thinking. Report. Talk to people, get names, get their thoughts, describe what you see, take photos/videos.
You need 5 (Five) posts all using the hashtag #COMMvote2018 (no hashtag no grade because we won’t see it)
Only appropriate, fact-based posts will count. Spelling and grammar matter. No typos.
Your posts must be made real-time :: Don’t wait until later in the day. What would be the point?
Start every post with the time of day. We will publish all the social media on a timeline for the day.
PART TWO: VIDEO
You will produce a short, 30-60 second maximum, video on the events of Election Day.
You MUST include interviews, natural sound, and b-roll in the video.
You may cover anything Election Day related including, but not limited to:
People voting
Setting up, running polling stations
Candidates and/or supporters campaigning on Election Day
Candidates and/or supporters gathered as results are announced
Man on the Street style report on the mood (regarding the election, elections in general, the state of our government, the state of democracy, etc.)
Links:
DEADLINE: The goal is to turn in your work as quickly as possible. We will post the work live on a running blog on Commedia.psu.edu
| NAME | ON ASSIGNMENT | SHOOTING TIME | EDITING TIME |
| 002 | |||
| Kayla Irvin | Borough Building | 10:30am | |
| Sophia Romano | The HUB | 11:30am | |
| Shannon O’brien | St. Pauls | 6:30am | |
| Chad Bargerstock | Mike’s Appliance | noon | |
| Austin Perkins | Canvasser or HUB | 7am | |
| Abigail Roe | Our Lady of Victory | 7am | |
| 004 | |||
| Tina Locurto | Mike’s Appliance | 3:30-5:30 | 3:30-5:30 |
| Â Tyler Losier | Polling Place tba | tba | |
| Miley Konsiri | St. Paul’s United Methodist | 8:30am-11:30am | |
| Kyleigh Beaver | Holy Trinity Church | tba | |
| Yifan Xu | Hetzel Union Building | 6am | |
You need to turn in THREE (3) pieces with your video:
Make sure your video has lower thirds for all interviews, as well as your credit.
- Your exported Premiere project as  a high-res .mov file (Hi Res preset)
- Your text story
- a still image suitable as a video thumbnail
Use the presets in Premiere for exporting (explained in the Premiere tutorial on the handout page)
Name all your files the same thing:
Name your project folder:
First_Last_ElectionDay_subjectname_Project
Name the outputted video:
First_Last_ElectionDay_subjectname.mov
First_Last_ElectionDay_subjectname.mpr
Name your .txt document:
First_Last_ElectionDay_subjectname.txt
Name your still image:
First_Last_ElectionDay_subjectname.jpg
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