What Is a News Run Down?

Video Transcript

"In this segment we're going to learn what a run down is how to read it and also how to mark it so you know what's coming up. Now this is a run down. Basically it tells you exactly what's going on in the show. It will give you each story name in this column. Who wrote it or who the reporter is that did the story. It'll give you what type of shot it is or sound byte or if it's video over them talking. Then it'll tell you in the next column who is the person that's going to be reading it. Whether it be your anchor, your weatherman, a reporter something like that, and then in the next column is going to be the camera movements or video movements I guess we could call them, and the next column after that is going to be which tape decks they're using to play the tape and or the videos, and then the next column is a SAP column which stands for sounds on tap so any sound bytes or anything like that. You put the time of them on there. And then the next column is going to be how long it is so that way you can keep your show timed out. The column after that is going to be how long the writing material is. So that times, the computer actually times that out itself and then the next column, the very last one, is called the back time column. That tells you exactly which time, like on the actual clock like we have a six o'clock news broadcast, it'll tell you, you know, at six o'clock you hit on air and then after that, you know, your next story you're supposed to be sitting at six o'clock and twenty five seconds. So it does really give you a good time, you know, time frame, but as a floor director you usually don't have to worry about the time too much. Now basically when you highlight it you want to highlight, you know, different things that you're not, you know, going to be thinking of when you're out on the floor because obviously it's a hectic job. So you want to highlight different camera movements and when anything that's not of the norm. You usually have one set camera that's usually the good camera that you use, but anything like the first thing here is a zoom. So you want to highlight that so you know it's there. You want to highlight the important things so that you know not to forget them. Such as different shots and different locations of the shots."