<aside> 💥 Impact is a long-form documentary program that launched at USC Annenberg in 2001. Impact is a regular feature on uscannenbergmedia.com. In 2018, the series was picked-up by Spectrum News 1, L.A.’s 24-hour news channel. The channel provides a regular time slot on Sundays, giving student documentaries an even greater reach. Impact has an estimated viewership of 30 million nationwide.
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<aside> âť“ What is Impact?
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Impact is USC Annenberg’s award winning long-form documentary program. Students produce their own stories through Professor Dan Birman’s class. The stories will subsequently be polished by the Impact production team to be aired on Spectrum News 1, L.A.’s 24-hour news channel, with a wide weekly viewership of 40 million nationwide.
<aside> đź“ą I want to produce my own documentary for Impact, how can I go about doing so?
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The production team at Impact does not produce their own stories to be aired. If you have a story that you would like to produce as a documentary, you may take the following classes by Prof Dan Birman depending on your status as an undergraduate or graduate student:
<aside> 🎇 What is the day-to-day experience as a producer on Impact?
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Our main task as a producer on Impact is to edit stories from the documentary class. We typically focus on the online edits, meaning we are focus on pacing, cuts and ensuring the structure of the story makes sense visually and aurally. Typically we will be editing for the stories to be more concise, to be snappier and to have greater clarity. Subsequently, we are also responsible for publishing and promoting each episode (Follow us on @uscimpact on Instagram, Facebook and TikTok). All in all, the expected time commitment is 10 hours a week or less.
We are guided by our wonderful faculty members (who are also members of the Television Academy…) who will provide us guidance on what to edit and look out for. We typically have our weekly meetings at 8am on Tuesday.
<aside> 🔥 I want to be a part of Team Impact!
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As of Spring 2024, applications are now open!
<aside> 🧾 Do you need prior experience in editing and broadcast production to join Impact?
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While it editing experience is not necessary, it is recommended as it will make the learning curve less steep. We mainly look out for a strong interest in documentary production!