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G-News, your fortnightly news bulletin
Guildford Grammar School now has its own news crew, in the form of G-News! The G-News team is the brainchild of Year 6
teacher Sam Day and is made up of Year 5 and 6 students who take on the various roles involved in producing a fortnightly
news bulletin summarising activities and events around the school.
A group of Year 5 and 6 students are
learning the ins and outs of putting together
a regular news bulletin under the leadership
of Mr Sam Day.
The team is split into six reporters and five
crew. The reporters pitch their story idea to
Mr Day and, once approved, get to work.
They must do their background homework
and learn as much as possible about their
story before writing a ‘shot list’ (a list of all
the vision and audio that will go into the
story). Once their shot list is written, they
then set out to organise interviews and
record interesting and relevant footage.
Next comes writing the voice over. The
reporters work together with the editors to
go through all the footage so that the words
that are being spoken match the vision
being shown. It all comes together in the
editing studio where the reporters record
their voice overs, edit their story together,
with the help of our editors, and render it
ready for the main bulletin. They generally
get three stories out in each episode with
the other reporters filling the spots of news
anchor and weather presenter.
The team get together each week to plan
their stories and allocate roles such as writer,
presenter, and camera person for each story,
and compile a comprehensive news bulletin
each fortnight. Some of the stories the
G-News team have covered so far include
Retro on Swan, Mother’s Day, the history of
Lady Day, the FOPS Disco and most recently
the story of Ben Carlin and the Half Safe.
As well as using the latest camera and audio
equipment, the team are also learning about
the use of a green screen, with their own
green screen set up for use by the news
anchor and the weather reporter!
The G-News Team
Year 5
Cleo Bella
Amelia Day
Isabella McAtee
Kai Toohey
Year 6
Kelsi Brennan
Brendan Gannon
Eowyn Hazle
Hunter Johns
Oscar McCallum
Megan McGuire
James Reid
You can view the archive of G-News bulletins on the School’s YouTube Channel at
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk4mt4jMpZhMuDFmaUxdx7Q?view_as=subscriber
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