Identity Theft Week
In what’s becoming an at-least-once-a-year pheomenon, we once again spent an entire week on the topic of identity theft and how to prevent it, with four nightly stories (Tuesday through Friday) covering different facets of it, and another of our popular “free public document shredding days” on Saturday. Reporter Mike McCormick was on the case again, digging through dumpsters and coming up for air long enough to give me footage at a very early stage, allowing me to write and edit everything all at once. Graphics-wise, I conjured up a “strip of shredded paper” lower-third graphic at home in Paint Shop Pro, which I also used to create a distressed newsprint version of the station logo; these elements carried across the entire week to give everything a unified theme.
