Broadcast News

PKG - Correct Answerspackage: a fully produced news story; complete with an anchor lead-in, reporter tracks, interviews, b-roll, and graphics VO - Correct Answersvoice over: a news story with b-roll covering the anchor's voice over VO/SOT - Correct Answersvoice over with sound on tape: a news story with b-roll covering the anchor's voice over, with an inserted interview soundbite, followed by more b-roll and voice over usually produced in two separate videos to help with timing of the soundbite VO/TOP - Correct Answersa series of voice overs run in succession that are all related in some way for example; stories about a particular region or area RDR - Correct Answersreader: a news story with no visual elements, just a "talking head" anchor reading information usually reserved for breaking news, which has not had time for gathering video or graphics OTS - Correct Answersover the shoulder: a graphic that is produced and placed over the shoulder of the anchor Lower Third - Correct Answersan on screen graphic placed in the lower third portion of the screen that identifies people, places, or things; especially people who are speaking on screen a.k.a. lowers, titles, CG News Director - Correct Answersthe person in charge of a news organization; the news director makes final decisions about all personnel and questionable content Executive Producer - Correct Answersthe person, working under the news director, who makes sure that there is continuity among all programs at the station; they make most day-to-day calls about what stories are covered and to what degree Producer - Correct Answersa producer is responsible for organizing a program and coordinating content between news wires, reporters, and other sources during the broadcast, they make final calls as to what to keep and what to cut in order to make the appropriate runtime Assignment Editor - Correct Answersanswers calls and coordinates who will be covering what and working with whom; communicates with producers to let them what is being covered and when it is expected to be completed Reporter - Correct Answersa journalist who gathers information - including researching and interviewing people - and writes news stories Photographer - Correct Answersthe cameraperson who works with a reporter to help tell stories visually; also responsible for capturing high quality audio during shooting, especially during interviews in smaller market stations, the photog also serves as a video editor Editor - Correct Answersthe person who follows the reporter script and uses photographer's shots to assemble a story into a video piece