Preparing my story for Maine Channel

While working on one of my final projects for my CMJ 351 course I realized that this story could be used for the Maine channel. The story covers chytrid fungi in Maine and the nationally renowned research being conducted at the University of Maine.

Upon beginning my editing for the story I realized that the project would be more daunting for editing for the maine channel. I had so much good material and interviews while doing the story that instead of dreading the 3:00 minute final for my class I actually welcomed it. Now shrinking my story down and completely redoing it is actually harder.

I am shooting for about 45 seconds for the story. The story will have only one person discussing chytrid fungi as well as a stand up from me and hopefully as much B - roll as possible. It is difficult moving things around and deleting excellent sound bites that I really like.

It amazes me the story that are available in such rural areas in Maine that I am really advocating giving this story the press it deserves. I am pretty much done with editing the story down to 45 seconds, I was surprised at the amount of ours it took to get it where I wanted, I think the most difficult thing was editing a big story down to 45 seconds.