Killer Whale Hard News Story

SCENE #1 : ESTABLISHING SHOT - WHALE AND FEMALE TRAINER LAYING ON TOP OF WHALE IN MID AIR.
Reporter: She never had a chance...
Reporter: A forty year old female trainer...

SCENE #2 : DISTANT SHOT OF WHALE THROWING TRAINER INTO WATER.
Reporter: In the jaws of a 22 foot long killer whale.

SCENE #3: CLOSE UP SHOT OF MASSIVE WHALE IN A TANK.
Reporter: A massive orca weighing 12,300 pounds!

SCENE #4: CLOSE UP SHOT OF MAN TALKING ABOUT THE SCENE.
Man at Park: She apparently slipped and fell into the tank and was fairly injured by one of the whales.

SCENE #5: SHOWS THE SIGN FOR THE "SEA WOLRD" PARK ENTRANCE.
Reporter: It happened at...

SCENE #6: DISTANT SHOT SHOWING THE RIDES AND CARS PARKED OUTSIDE THE PARK.
Reporter: ... about 2:00, Wednesday afternoon...

SCENE #7: CLOSE UP OF PALM TREES.
Reporter: ... at Sea World at Orlando Florida. But exactly...

SCENE #8: CLOSE UP OF CAR DRIVING THROUGH THE PARK.
Reporter: ... what happened is still unclear.

SCENE #9: CLOSE UP OF A FEMALE TRAINER WHO WAS PULLED INTO THE TANK BY A WHALE TWO YEARS AGO.
Reporter: Sea World says that senior trainer Don Bran Chau, who was interviewed on CNN 2 years ago, slipped into the tank.

SCENE #10: CLOSE UP OF WHALE IN TANK.
Reporter: But an eye witness tells CNN,the killer whale, a bull orca named Tilacom actually grabbed the trainer and pulled her into the tank.
Voiceover (eyewitness)(Victoria Biniak): There was a trainer standing there by the window...

SCENE #11: FAR AWAY SHOT OF MANY WHALES IN THE TANK.
Victoria Biniak: ... just talking about the whale and people were asking questions just how much does he weigh, things like that, and then the whale um...

SCENE #12: ZOOMED IN SHOT OF THE SUPPOSED KILLER WHALE.
Victoria Biniak: ... went on his um, like floated upside down and the trainer downstairs said oh yeah there giving him the belly rub he really likes that...

SCENE #13: CLOSE UP OF THE WHALES FRONT AND BACK SIDE THROUGH AN AQUARIUM TYPE TANK ON THE OUTSIDE THROUGH GLASS.
Victoria Biniak: ... and I could tell it was sleacum because you could tell by the huge huge fins.
Reporter: The whale is believed to be the largest orca in captivity.His fins alone measure more than 6 feet. The eye witness says when the trainer who was not in the water gave the go ahead the whale took off.

SCENE #14: CLOSE UP SHOT OF WHALE AGAIN.
Victoria Biniak: Just took off really fast and then he came back around at the glass, jumped up, and grabbed the trainer by the waist and started shaking her violently and her shoe, I think i saw her shoe floating, and then silence immediatly started.

SCENE #15: FULL SHOT OF STADIUM WHERE SHOWS ARE PUT ON.
Reporter: The crowd that was gathered for the show was cleared out.

SCENE #16: CLOSE UP SHOT OF TRAINER AND OTHER FEMALE IN THE WATER STANDING ON THE WHALE.
Reporter: The park manager at Sea World says the trainer drowned...

Three specific observations of the news story:

1) The reporter is the main voice throughout the story, however they make sure to have other input from eye witnesses, which they wouldn't have in a commercial. The "ums" when the eye witness is talking about the whale makes the story seem more real.

2) The lead starts off with the 5 W's, which is how every news story should be just like what Hilliard stated in the book.

3) There is a lot of zooming in and zooming out of the story, which in a commercial the view of it usually stays the same. There isn't much variety in commercials, where as in news stories, especially this one, they try to get the reader involved and interested in what the reporter is saying.