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Week 4 (9/18) Update:

             Over the past week, I have made a huge update with my story on Stock and Grain Assembly food hall. Like I said last week, I was offered a press pass to the huge High Point Music Festival, by the general manager, that was hosted at Stock and Grain this past Friday and Saturday. It was a very successful event, and provided me with an incredible amount of content to make my story the best it could be. I am very glad that I decided to go with the broadcast news story route with this, because I was fortunate enough to get a lot of quality b-roll footage for my package this past weekend. Luckily, I didn't run into any struggles while gathering my content this weekend either. Every person and community member that I spoke with was very accommodating and willing to talk and share their thoughts and opinions.


With our rough drafts due on Monday, I was able to edit a first version of my story together with the footage I recorded from the event. I was able to put together a new script voice over and edit it to the b-roll I gathered. I was able to record a variety of aspects of the food hall. I took some new techniques I learned over my summer internship with ABC, and I believe I am going to put together my best package yet. I tried to get as much content as I could, because I have learned from the past that you can never record too much b-roll footage. I made sure to add in a large array of content, to cover every aspect of my story. I still need to revise it over and edit some more small things, but I will be working with that next week.

For this upcoming week, I am going to sit down and talk to the community manager and events coordinator, Elizabeth Yocum, to add a few soundbites from her interview into my package, along with another food stand worker. After I gather my information and interview footage from her and work it into the open parts of my package, I believe I will be almost complete with my story. Because of the visual importance of this story, this week, I will also put together an additional slideshow of photos I took from the event as an extra piece of visual content for my story. Overall, I am at a very comfortable place and on the right track for my first beat story.

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  1. Nahed EltantawySeptember 18, 2023 at 6:41 AM

    Cas, glad you had a productive weekend for your story and am looking forward to watching the draft you put together. I would encourage you to start thinking about your next story. What is happening in the news that relates to your beat and how can you turn that into a newsworthy and timely story?

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