1st Place
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Mike Richard, KXAS, DallasFt Worth, "Better Than Recess"
Judges Comments
Nice Story, you had good pacing, good characters. I like that you had soundbites with the people other than from traditional intervies. A couple of your shots looked a little dark, which is something to keep and eye on. Overall good story.
Enjoyed the story great pacing I loved the interaction between the father and daughter
2nd Place
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Randy Schumacher WHO
Judges Comments
Nice job bringing this story to life, historical stories can be a challenge but you were able to gather enough content to make this work. You had some nice lighting on the interviews and your editing was nice. Good creative teamwork between you and your reporter. Keep up the good work!
Nice job on a story that visually doesnt have a lot going for it. I like the use of music I may have left it a little louder to help drive the story. Also the use of nat under the paintings of battles was a nice touch you should have left it to run under the second painting or found another piece of audio for that part going from sound to no sound you lose a little in the story. I would have left out the joke attempt of the school name felt very out of place. The transition from the history to the tomb needing to be resotred was rough felt like something was missing. Also watch the two shot when you pan from the history buff to the governor your lens is dirty and it shows(just nit picking with that). I like the story good work.
I enjoyed the piece I liked how all the historical content was put together. Well shot. I like history pieces so this is a piece that someone else might not like because they don't understand history if that makes sense. Well done
3rd Place
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Jared Bergerson KSTP
Judges Comments
This piece had some real nice editing, great nat sound and some good sequencing. The standups were creative and effective and you stuck with the story from beginning to end. Watch your framing on interviews; that door way didn’t make a great backdrop. Nice work!
The Story has a lot of great elemtents that help tell the story and help the viewer feel like they are on scene at the car accident. The first stand up in the house felt out of place in theme you have a story that has focused on emergency responder like EMTs and Paramedics then the reporter is in a house talking about being quiet due to fear and needing to text, I get what you were going for it just didn't work for me. And near the end when the reporter is talking about taking pictures you could have done stills of the accident scene to help drive that message home to the viewer but overall really good story.
Enjoyed the openning sequence great nats, pacing was good. Cell phone nats was great. Solid piece
Honorable Mention
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Turner Twyman KMBC
Judges Comments
Nice opening sequence, storytelling, use of natural sound and mixing of audio. This story was shot and edited very well. There were a few areas where I thought you should have been on the sticks a little more but we all have our ways of doing things. The transition from the shop to the school seemed a bit abrupt and could have been smoothed out a bit. A well though out transition here would have been nice to see. Maybe a closing shot at the store or an opening exterior shot at the school with some NAT could have set up the transition. Nice commitment to the story here from beginning to end. Keep up the good work!
You have a good story about bring a horn back to life, it would have been nice to hear the horn played before they started the restoration to understand how sad the horn was. I really like all the video and nats of the restoration it helps the viewer see just how much work is done to restore and instrument. The transition from the shop to the shop owner at the school returning the horn to its owner was abrupt could have used something to soften that transtion. Then it would have been really nice to hear her play the horn as the story ended would have helped close the story out so well. One nit picking thing clean your lens a couple of shots were ruined because of it.
Great open, liked how the horn was brought back to life great use of natural sound piece was very suttle I enjoyed it
Judges: KTVK-KPHO