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Webster Insider
Journalism students write and produce Webster Insider, a show focused on news and events around campus and the St. Louis area. Students in the Film, Television and Video Production program also work behind the scenes.
Transcript
[Instrumental String Chant-like Music Throughout]
Artwork for WEBSTER INSIDER SPRING EDITION EPISODE 1 with microphone graphics appears.
Two students peek out from behind a pillar in a hallway on campus.
Two students spin around interview-style chairs and face camera smiling and posing toward the camera with glass hallway behind them and campus and cars in parking lot in background off in distance.
A student comes out of men’s bathroom rubbing hands together with eyes cast downward.
Then wipes hands across chest onto shirt.
A student sits on stairs and holds a microphone up to the camera while smiling.
Two students hold one microphone and smile at the camera.
Coffee table display of Webster Insider Spring Edition Episode 1 paper copies and multiple hands come and grab them off.
Some hands operate a sound board in a music or news station studio.
Student film crew operate cameras, lighting and direction cues and materials. One student drinking out of a cup through straw.
One student stands in front of a green screen and student adjusts camera and slides back.
A student adjusts tie around neck and grins at camera.
One student holds clip board for start of a video take. Clip board reads:
Webster Insider Roll 1 Ep. 1 Take 6
Director Cami Lindauer
Camera
Date: March 6, 2023
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Day
Nite
A student operates a camera next to two other students also operating camera, lighting and sound equipment. In background shadows, there are other students sitting in chairs like an audience watching from behind the set. Someone is holding a drink.
A student in front of green screen flexing bicep for the camera and puckering lips.
Students operating a laptop with the script words: “EXPECT A DECISION TO COME DOWN FROM THE HIGH COURT UNTIL JUNE, STUDENT LOANS AND THE INCREASINGLY HIGH COST OF HIGHER EDUCATION CONTINUE TO BE TOP OF MIND FOR”
Two student newscasters sit at news desk smiling with imagery of Webster Insider with microphone logo behind them.
Two students in production room watching filming on multiple screens and through a window.
One student gives peace sign and coyly smiles.
One student holds some papers, gives rock music hand sign and smiles.
Hands appear on a sound board moving the buttons.
One student in video camera in front of green screen talking.
Then camera moves out from behind the video screen of student talking and shows angle
beside the video machine.
Three students work on media equipment and unloading components and flip through some paperwork.
The student news casters at the news desk again talking on screen. On the side in background are some off-screen students workers in the shadows.
Camera rolls across room to news casters and some film crew shooting them. There are lights and other equipment also in the room.
Ten students walk out of Leif J. Sverdrup Business/Technology Complex. Then they stop and all fold their arms across their chests with serious facial expressions.
Blue screen with logo of Webster Insider moves right to left across the screen.
Words appear saying: NEW EPISODES EVERY SEMESTER
Words appear saying: WEBSTER INSIDER
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