Book assignment #1

ASSIGNMENT FOR FRIDAY:
Regarding the book by Bob Dotson, Make It Memorable: Please read the introduction and Section One (pages 3-41). Then, answer the following questions and be sure to exceed the requested word counts:
o What do you notice about the way he writes? Use specific examples, please.
With how Bob Dotson writes, He writes with a personal standpoint. He relates with the reader by telling of his own experiences with the topic he is writing about. Right the beginning, he describes a moment in the beginning of his career involving his grandmother, which he relates to the topic.

o What did you learn from reading pages 9 to 27?
I learned of the rule of Threes, the way people almost always answer questions. The first third is the immediate, expected answer, the second is the explanation of the answer, and the last is filling the silence the reporter wants to leave open.

o With the scripts: What do suppose is described in each column? Why would it be split like that? What else is interesting about the scripts?
The column is describing the story and how it'll be laid out in editing the sound and film.  The split keeps the "title" of each sequence and the details of each separated to make it easier to understand.

o On Page 34 (and to the end of the section), Dotson writes about a long-form feature. Find one of these (a story at least 4 minutes long) on a TV news magazine such as Rock Center, 20/20 or 60 Minutes. Then, give and explain examples of how the storyteller uses the five bulleted traits Dotson gives on Page 34.

1. Dotson sets the scene of the "Ruby Bridges" story by placing the subject that named the story in the very room that she is interviewed about.
2. The same room foreshadows the story.
3. Conflict is the story told of how Ruby was the only colored child in her school, and was faced by fear from the anger of the parents of other children who did not want school integration.
4. Character growth becomes evident in how her present day self answers each question given to her.  She has lived to see how far the world has come.
5. That in turn is the resolution, the complete integration of white and colored students into schools.