Week 34

It was another incredible week of exciting accomplishments in the Independent Study and Mentorship Program! The main accomplishments of the week were printing the invitations and beginning the delivery process, and continuing the planning of the story.

As far as the planning of the story goes, we now have the basic skeleton of what we will be writing about. We have a flow to the story and a plan of transitions from one main point to the next. My mentor, Investigative Reporter Jason Trahan, looked over the intro I wrote and said that he loved it. His one problem with it was the opening sentence, which is a cliche phrase. He explained that while cliches are catchy, they do not sound intelligent and often annoy the viewer. We looked at other videos of coyotes loose in New York, and have decided to pull in some of this footage in an attempt to show the universal nature of the problem.

By the time I have my next mentor visit next Friday, I will have finished writing the story. He will then look over it and we will decide on what changes need to be made. We will then film the intro to the story in the WFAA-Channel 8 studio and will begin recording the voice overs.