How to Create Outtro for TV News Report

"BILL ALBIN: Hello, I'm Bill Albin. And on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to teach you what you need to know to be a local news reporter. In this clip, we're going to talk about some basic types of stand-ups. A stand-up is when the reporter is standing up or sitting down or even doing something in a story. There are three basic types of stand-ups for any package or any story: there's intros, there's outros and there's bridges. Now in this case, we're going to talk about outros, and outro is the end of a story. How did the story end? What's happening next? Let's say, for example, you're speaking about a big event that happened at the Capitol of Michigan. Well, your intro is, of course, how it started. The body of your story is what happened there, and the outro ties up the whole story and brings it to a close. So the outro, really, is an opportunity for you to give one last crack at your audience and say: This is what happened. This is what's going to happen next, and this is why you should keep watching the rest of the show to get even more information about it. An example of an outro would be--let's say, for example, you did a story about kittens. Kittens at the humane society that had to be put down or you didn't want them to be put down. Or there was an event or an opportunity for kids to come in and pick out a kitten and take that kitten home. Well, how do you end that story? Well, you would end it lighthearted. You would end it--the importance of staying with the theme of the story. This little girl, she took the kitten home where it will live a happy, happy life. Or maybe it was a story where the kittens had to be put down 'cause they're overcrowded, or you could say: Thirteen kittens died today. It's an unfortunate and it's a sad story, but the end of the story has to really bring closure to that event."