Cole Bartley's Blog

The way you write a news story is the stagagy called “inverted pyramid”. You put all the good stuff at the beginning so the readers will keep on reading the article. The process I took was I first chose my topic, then found facts, then created the news story. The thing I liked most about writing a news story is was I got to be creative on the topic I chose. I like the freedom of choosing whatever I wanted The thing I need to work on is starting the story off strong so readers keep on reading. I really should of spent more time on the start. The thing I would keep the same is the topic. I felt my topic was strong and I wouldn’t change it. What I need to enhance in my next project is to start strong so people keep on watching my video. My final conclusion is that I need to work on making a good start, and I need to work on writing articles a lot.

Second Feature News Story The first video I'm going to talk about is the baseball interview I did. This one took about a week and a half. The biggest challenge I faced was finding people to interview and what time to do it. Luckily, Grant Howard said he could get out of class and we did it during 3rd hour, and Drew was in our group. What I learned was what makes an interesting story, because this was an interesting story unlike my first one. We didn't review this project so I didn't get feedback. One thing I would change is maybe some background music. My overall opinion is we got good videos with the interviews, but we used footage on phone, so that footage was bad. ONW Now News Story Unfortunately, I don't have this video, because I'm doing this during Christmas and I can't get the video. But our video was about wrestling. This one took us about 2-3 weeks. The biggest challenge we faced was we all didn't know anything about the wrestling team...

ONW Now Blog We, as sophomores, got to experience doing ONW Now a little early. When we were choosing jobs, all I said is I don't want to be an anchor, and I would rather do sports instead. I ended up getting sports. Then, the other team took basketball, so we had the choice of wrestling, woman basketball, Swim and Dive, and bowling. We chose wrestling.  What Makes a Good News Story? Our story was wrestling, and all of our group members knew nothing about wrestling. It was hard to come up with an interesting news story about the wrestling team, knowing nothing about it. We had to read some articles about the wrestling team and ask wrestlers about how they were doing. You got to chose a topic that is recent, and they recently had a tournament, so we went with that. What also makes a good story is interviews, because it always gets a new perspective. We got Henry Boutwell and interviewed him, so that was a good idea. Overall for none of us not knowing anything about wrestl...

Semester Self Performance We made multiple projects, but the three I'm going to talk about is Photoshop Challenge 1, Photoshop Challenge 2, and the Infographic. If you want to see the projects I worked on throughout the semester, click here to see my behance profile. Later, I self reflect on how I did as a student of graphic design. Photoshop Challenge 1 Photoshop Challenge was the first major project we did that wasn't a tutorial. Basically, we were given a picture of a man, and we had to use photoshop to make it more nature-like. It took me about a week to a week and a half to finish this project. Some of the challenges I faced in this project was that I was not being as familiar with the tools and photoshop in general. But, I got through it. Along the way, I learned tools like the stamp tool, the quick selections, and how layers are used in general. The feedback I was given at first was not using all the tools we were supposed to do, but I fixed that. At first, all I ...

Our story we chose was the future of ONW baseball, because we felt like they had the biggest chance of winning state out of all the ONW teams. We all started the whole process by individually making 3 ideas on what we could make our story on. Then, when we got into our groups, we threw ideas off of each other till we found a decent news story. Then, once we found out of story idea, we came up with questions to ask Drew and Grant, the two people we interviewed. We then filmed both people asking the questions we came up with. Then I individually edited my video and lied it to fit how I wanted my video to look like, without the voiceover. After I sequenced the video I made a script for myself and the voiceover, and recorded it. Once the voice over was done I added it to my video and the video was complete. My role was to come up with the questions and film. The things I learned along the way was to make your voiceover a story, not just repeating the question like I did last time. I th...