What to Keep In, What to Leave Out
A new reporter faced for the first time with extracting anything between one minute and four minutes of newsworthy material from a pile of raw rushes will find it a daunting task. What to keep in? What to take out? This is part of the reporter’s authorship–no two reporters might construct the story in the same way. In some newsrooms the reporter may not have a picture editor at all. Desktop digital editing would be done by the journalists/reporters themselves. But however the story is finally constructed, that deadline remains the same.
Viewing the rushes
Ensure that your rushes boxes, sometimes called the ‘road tapes’, are accurately and precisely labelled. It is easy to misplace them or to mix them up with ...
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