Broadcast news has been a staple of the media over the past few decades. The news broadcast field trip offered at Zeum: San Francisco's Children's Museum offers students an opportunity to learn the basic production skills that many people wish they could have access to. The newscast workshop provides an outlet for students to discuss current events and story development.
Zeum educators help students gain an understanding of the production process. Students form groups and learn to collaborate on each step such as choosing topics, creating scripts, and producing and filming the broadcast. While the students are learning the essential skills of literacy and performing arts, the basic fundamentals of journalism such as the "who, what, where, when, and why" are highlighted.
From brainstorming script ideas to storyboard development to the rehearsal stage, students learn the technical skills such as composition and chroma key techniques and the collaboration kills which are needed when you work with people in a group. At the end of the field trip, students have not only created a news broadcast, but they have learned the basic knowledge that comes with film making.
Check out this example:
A group of fourth and fifth graders from Cresmont Elementary produced a news segment that was a part of a larger news broadcast. Their newscast was about the escaped tiger from the San Francisco Zoo.
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