Making A Good Feature Story

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 footage to B-roll and use the narrative voice over to layer in while watching the B-roll of your subject. The biggest emphasis on a good feature story is to have lots of B-roll footage so that you never have repeats and keep the viewers entertained by your video.

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