"Nole Talk News" is a 60-second news show hosted and produced by FSU students. The project was developed to be a multi-platform and social media friendly production. With its content derived largely from official university news, it is delivered in a format that is aimed at being intriguing and applicable to Gen Z and millennial demographics. The show is recorded on locations around the FSU campus in Tallahassee. The student host narrates 3-4 news segments that include original video and b-roll shot by the students and staff, and is supplemented by original b-roll video, music, photography and motion graphics. Students are responsible for writing the script, production and completing videography, creating graphics, attaining b-roll and editing. They work closely with the social media coordinator and members of the FSU Office of University Communications team during all aspects of the production. The goal of the production is to convey official Florida State University news to a student audience.
From the Judges
Judges like the idea of a bite-sized news program that the students would be able to run themselves and produce on a regular basis to bring information to the other students. This is run by social media coordinator, but hosted, written, filmed, mixed, edited by student interns, and the budget is $0, which is AWESOME. The one-minute length is perfect to get the information to the viewer without boring them, and it even has subtitles for each story so the viewer doesn’t have to turn sound on (and also works well for accessibility by hearing-impaired viewers). They received feedback saying that some students didn’t really know what was happening around the university, which I think is a problem with a lot of schools, and this fixes that issue nicely.
