Weekly Response 2

Weekly Response

Week 2

 

I noticed a few things about the way Dotson writes. He makes his writing very personable. Dotson also uses a ton of detail to describe everything. He writes a lot about all the different camera shots you could do. Also he says how journalism is changing and reporters need to become better at capturing stories. I thought it was a pretty easy read and he made it easy to fallow along. It wasn’t just same text book that is impossible to read without falling asleep. Dotson did a very good and detailed job of giving us his tips on how to be a successful journalist.

Something I learned from Dotson is that you should start writing in the middle instead at the beginning. He said it is a lot easier. I think this is very interesting because I would never think to do that on my own. I also learned that you shouldn’t go into an interview with a plan. You should go into it and have a conversation with the person you are trying to learn things about, and you will find out a lot more. I think this could be challenging for some people but if you are a journalist you have to be good at holding conversations with people.

There are two columns for the scripts. On the left side of a script there is a title, location, duration time of the script, correspondent, and producer. It shows what the reader sees. All of the writing is capitalized and sticks out. On the right side, there are detail writing segments. Some of the writing is just a sentence and some of the writing is big paragraphs. This side shows what the reader hears.