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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 basic software that you use to produce and write a newscast. But there are many different
kinds of news software and they're all similar, but they have various differences but they
all have the basic same information. You have a director's side and you have the talent
side. In the talent side, you put the script information. For example, every story has
the lead sentence which is the right now. This is what's happening right now, right
now. You always start the story in present tense. Grab the viewer's attention. You say
this is going to affect you at this moment. After that, you have the body of the story
which is the meat and potatoes of any story. Here is where the important information, give
the information. This is when it happened or this is how many people where injured in
an accident. This is what time the accident occurred. This is the fire department that
responded and provided paramedics. At the end of that, you have the wrap up or the disposition
line. What that means is how did the story ends, how many--were those people who are
in that car accident, were they rescued? Were they taken to the local hospital or what happened
next? In the future, this is where they will have to go. This person was injured severely
enough. He may need physical therapy and so on. It's the end of a story, how it will happen
or how it will wrap up, what will happen next.