It’s my second day at the Greene Team!
Former Greene student Kate Nalepinski, an editor at the Long Island Herald, started the day off with tips about journalism that she wished she knew going into the field. Professional Newsday photographer John Williams then shared tips about taking photos using an iPhone, mainly focusing on lighting and background. Professor Rick Ricioppo followed with basic rules for shooting video, starting off with the mantra of wide, medium, tight, super tight, action, reaction, and capture the moment, all of these different types of shots used in video stories. He went into the dos and don’ts of shooting video and shared a tip to use string to keep phone cameras steady when without a tripod. I can’t wait to try it out later!
We had a break for lunch before Professor Ricioppo continued with tips for interviewing and writing broadcast scripts, it boiling down to keeping things simple enough to be understood but still able to capture the listener’s attention. My favorite part of the day was during the press conference with Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn. She shared her life experiences and her motivations for solving the opioid crisis as well as her other motivations for running for Congress. I really look up to her and I’m excited to work on the story about her with my team.
At the end of the day, my team met to discuss our assignment and decided to do a piece on Kara Hahn battling the Opioid crisis with LICADD and a piece on Kara Hahn and Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming both running for the Democratic nomination for Congress. I can’t wait!