Jake's e-Comm experience

What is a Feature Story?      A feature story can be about anyone or anything. It can be about one woman wearing 26 throughout the duration of a marathon, a couple purchasing and renovating a historic old post office, or even about a high school student and her aspirations of becoming a professional golfer. These feature stories differ from news because they take time to go in depth about the subject instead of rushing through the facts as news stories do. They are written at a more leisurely pace than news stories. The feature story focuses more on the human element than news stories do, going in depth about about the people rather than the events.      When making a good feature story, you want to have plenty of B-roll footage, a good crisp voice over with a leading narrative, as well as the interview footage and audio. As shown above Lina has created a feature story that has a great majority of B-roll with a narrative layered over. The actual fe...

What is a Feature Story?      A feature story can be about anyone or anything. It can be about one woman wearing 26 throughout the duration of a marathon, a couple purchasing and renovating a historic old post office, or even about a high school student and her aspirations of becoming a professional golfer. These feature stories differ from news because they take time to go in depth about the subject instead of rushing through the facts as news stories do. They are written at a more leisurely pace than news stories. The feature story focuses more on the human element than news stories do, going in depth about about the people rather than the events. The Plot      The plot of a feature story  When making a good feature story, you want to have plenty of B-roll footage, a good crisp voice over with a leading narrative, as well as the interview footage and audio. Working in a layering fashion you can go from interview footag...

    When I first started the first ONW Feature Story I was slated to be on schedule and even get my video done early. As I had just finished up my interviews I quickly ran into problems. My first interview had no sound causing me to have to catch Nick on a day he was at school and could sit down with me to complete an interview. Once I had completed the interview for the second time, this time with sound, I had to get B-roll footage but when one thing goes wrong all of the sudden everything decides to stop working. I had to film the B-roll footage on my phone, this of course didn't end up working as my footage wasn't there on my phone when I went to import the B-roll. My voiceovers were muddled, so I had to re-record them, which wasn't a big deal but just another problem to my seemingly endless list of problems.     I eventually finished the ONW Feature Story video and so I was ready to move onto the written portion of the Feature Story. Overall, I thought my writt...