The print edition of the East Rock Record was only a week old when reporters began thinking about presenting news (and opinion) in video form. On February 22, Donovan Lynch and Chloe Teboe, two TV journalists from NewsCenterMaine, the NBC station in Maine, visited with reporters. They shared several of their own broadcast packages and walked through how they made them. One favorite package was one that Ms. Teboe did on a student in Maine who got classmates to dress up once a week for school. Mr. Lynch and Ms. Teboe also answered questions about how they get ideas and then report, shoot and edit their video stories. East Rock Record reporters reflected on what they heard and learned. What is “nat” sound? Anyone?

Here are their reflections:

Donovan said that video is a lot different than print. It’s interesting to see all the different types of journalism and all the different feature videos. Even though I’m not a video journalist, I think I like video journalism — Rafi Conroe

I really liked how people were able to wear suits. Another thing I liked was that other people started to wear suits. I also liked that their clothes made them confident. The last thing I liked was that they all wore different colors. —Ryann Phelps

I liked the video about the dress code because the boys were wearing suits and the girls started wearing dresses. And everyone started getting satisfied with the outfits they started wearing. So, people started wearing the outfits that other people wore. And I liked how people wore fancy clothes because no one likes to wear suits in my school. The girls wear dresses, but not so fancy because there’s a school uniform. —Dima Ali

Today we heard from our guest Chloe and Donovan from NewsCenterMaine. They are multimedia-journalists and they talked to us about the difference between print and TV journalism. Something I learned from them was that they usually only have one day to make a track or any other type of news package. Today my favorite story that they showed was the one where the workers were making a union against their own companies such as Starbucks and Chipotle. One thing I learned from them that I want to incorporate into my multimedia-project is that it’s important to make the listeners feel like they are with you interviewing people to catch their attention by using vivid sounds. Overall, I think that their presentation was educational and informative to future generations of journalists. — Leia Vázquez

They showed us four different news clips based in Maine and they talked about sound and video and how they showed things that were deep news and stuff that was light news. The news they showed was very interesting and cool. They called the sound “nat sound” and that meant natural sound. Some jobs they were doing: the first one was about a strike in northern Maine. The second one they showed us was about this kid who convinced everybody to wear something fancy every Wednesday. The third one was about a snow sculpting team of just girls entering a national tournament. The fourth one was about climate change hurting a business because ice would not cover the ice. —Aarav Lemar

I liked what they said, especially the ice thing. They are awesome because they are reporters. I liked that the kid convinced other kids to dress up. The kid made the other kids feel good!!!!!!!—Ouji Dubee

The reporters who came to talk to us were multimedia journalists and mentioned how they would follow a person without their tripod so the people who are watching can feel like they are actually there and not just watching a staged video where everything is planned or pre-recorded. They also mentioned how they take small parts from 10-minute interviews that they found important so that the news story isn’t too long. Another interesting thing that was that they finish the stories in one day and they mostly worked by themselves when recording and editing the stories. —Cadi Ali

What I enjoyed most about the reporters was that they were very cool people. Also, what I learned about was the ways they reported. They had to put mics on people to have more effect and sound. And the difference between TV  journalism and newspaper journalism: In TV you can see people’s emotion but not in newspapers.—Eliseo Plascencia

I am Alya Mikkelson of the East Rock Record. I had the opportunity to have TV news reporters, Donovan and Chloe give us information about their jobs. In their videos, the speakers were dramatic and there were natural sounds that were really captivating, such as sirens, the ruffling of a collared shirt, and lots of others!!! Hearing about the different ways they make the video captivating=TOTALLY AWESOME!!! I love equations that end in words!— Alya Mikkelson

Today I learned about TV reporting from reporters Chloe and Donovan. I found it really useful that they were really having fun talking about the videos that they filmed. It was super cool to figure out that reporters will actually film and edit the videos themselves. Especially when they showed us the finished videos. It was super cool because they actually went to the places and filmed with the camera and interviewed people. It is cool that they use photos that are related to the story they are talking about. I liked how they used nat sounds (this is short for natural sounds).— Divera Simon

Hello everyone! I am Joshwini. Today I met reporters Donovan and Chloe. The East Rock Record all watched four videos made by them. My favorite were the second and third. I liked the second video because the boy was so cute with the suit and tie. The teacher in the story knew that some children will not have money to buy the fancy clothes so he bought clothes for them. I liked the natural sounds included in the editing. The video was more interesting because of the interviews. In the video about snow sculptures, their idea to carve snow was unique. I liked the natural snow scraping sounds. The video clips were really short but still good. — Joshwini Parthiban

I liked the video of the little boy dressed up as a grown man that the reporters that Chloe Teboe and Donovan Lynch showed us. I liked it because it shows how kids like and appreciate fun activities like dressing up to go to school. Another video that we watched was of the Chickadees, an ice sculpting group. In the video I liked the sound of the snow carving. I liked the news videos because it’s not just staring at boring, colorless paper and reading it. It has lots of color and explains what happens by pictures too, not just words. I understand reading a newspaper better, but a video gives me a visual of what happens while telling me with sound instead of just reading the newspaper. —Serelle Barsalou

Chloe and Donovan work in TV and we interviewed them for the East Rock Record. They showed us some amazing videos which would really grab people’s attention and which have important and funny content in them. My favorite video was the one about letting children wear fancy clothes. So, that video included more natural sounds and it drives everyone’s attention. It was more colorful and interesting to listen to the little boy’s ideas. He was very dramatic and enthusiastic. The video was very short, so it didn’t drive me to be bored. Dressing up as we wish is a cool thing to do. —Jashwini Parthiban