Car breathalyzers, known as Ignition Interlock Devices, are now required in all registered vehicles for second time DUI offenders. The Ignition Interlock Devices are expected to reduce drunk driving for repeated offenders.
Safer business practices help keep Missouri banks in the black.
Without the proper propagation methods, the Missouri Department of Conservation reports the endangered Hellbender will be gone by 2020.
Around-the-clock tweet, blog and video coverage from from the MU Graduate Theatre Organization’s play writing festival.
From 1992 – 2003, the number of Missourians diagnosed with autism increased 693 percent. It is possible that as many as one in 100 children are born with some form of Autism.
Chuck DeCourley, an experienced emu egg-carver from Hallsville, Mo., has carved intricate scenes, ranging from roses to the John Deere logo, on more than 30 emu eggs.
In 2007, Columbia had just one Myanmar refugee. That number rose to 62 in 2008. Now, there are 218.
A proposed budget cut of 13.5 million dollars for childcare subsidies would reduce the number of children eligible for the program by up to 9 percent.
State lawmakers are working to pass a bill that could make children across the state feel like they’re on “Dancing With the Stars.”
Citizens of Moberly, Mo., are using an online poll to both reward and help properties in the area.
Across the country, book sellers and libraries are trying to sort out how to make their inventories compatible with new, controversial regulations on the amount of lead allowable in products.
If Columbia earned the highly competitive bid for Google Fiber, it would put the city on the map as a technology hub, attracting tech savvy minds to join in on the Internet experiment.
The state of Missouri, home to an estimated six million people, lies atop the New Madrid earthquake zone.
Reaching first base by getting hit by a pitch is part of MU's offensive strategy.
The U.S. Attorney General recently announced new federal guidelines deeming it an unnecessary use of time and money to federally prosecute medical marijuana users who abide by state laws.
When Columbia’s City Council approved a plan to implement back-in angle parking, it put into place a parking setup that GetAboutColumbia hoped would make the city safer for bicyclists.
As the auto industry continues to erode, three of Columbia’s four auto parts manufacturers have been forced to cut costs.
Tourists traveling along Route 66 seldom had reason to stop in Cuba, Missouri until 2007, when a project created 12 new murals along the way. Click on the picture for the full report.
First zebra mussels threatened the Lake of the Ozarks and now Chinese mystery snails? Click the pictures to go to the full report.
Columbia has increased police patrols downtown and proposed surveillance cameras, while businesses and residential areas outside The District have seen a 37 percent increase in aggravated assaults since 2008.
Three businesses in Columbia are serving alcohol, but they’re not in the restaurant, bar or convenience store categories.
You’ve heard of the gift that keeps on giving. MU’s College of Engineering may have received the gift that keeps on taking.
President Obama declared the H1N1 flu pandemic a national emergency, yet availability of H1N1 vaccine remains locally limited to high-risk priority groups.
by Matthew Busch and Eva Dou
Audio: When it comes to the Missouri River, there’s not always enough
by Garrett Bergquist & Eva Dou
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Social security numbers in online county records could raise identity theft risks
by Eva Dou, Chris Spurlock and Joey Soto
Audio: Brine Shrimp key element in MU Professor’s Biofuel Research
Section A – Bea Wallace
Section B – Rick Agran
Section C – Stepnanie Veto
Section E – Stepnanie Veto
Section D – Rick Agran
Section F – Bea Wallace
Television News-Style Video Assignment
You will learn about writing for the ear and have learned about referencing video. Now it’s time to produce your first video in a television news-style package.
For this assignment your finished video will be between 1:30-2:00, have a script you have written and voiced, interviews with at least two people, natural sound and b-roll. You do may not need to appear on camera for this assignment, you can just add your voice to the video if that’s all your instructor requires.
An important part of this video is your …
Short Video Assignment
For the video assignment, take what you learned in your three pictures, audio assignment and audio slide show and apply those lessons to creating a short video that uses a 5-shot sequence and a 15-second interview.
In the three pictures you learned to set the scene, take a portrait (the portrait becomes the interview in your video) and a detail, and in the audio assignment you learned to record an interview and gather ambient sound. The audio slideshow taught you to use audio and to sync your audio with …
