- News
- Quiz show/ Game Show
- Documentary/ Mockumentary
- Live Sports/ Sports show
- Discussion Shows
- Reality Shows
- Lifestyle
- Cooking Shows
- Educational
- Television News Item
- Radio News Item
- Newspaper Article
- Magazine Article
- Newspaper
- Website Article
- Television Documentary
- Film Documentary
- Radio Documentary
- Video Diary
- Fact-based Website
- Blog
- Wiki
- Podcast
- Tweet
TV News Show
Structure of a news report:
C/A I/V C/A PTC C/A with the odd Vox Pop(voice of the people)
C/A- Cut Away I/V- Interviews PTC- Piece To Camera
What the reporters/presenters on a news show do?
- conduct in depth research to develop news stories that have an interest to people.
- edit copy from agencies or other reporters.
- write news bulletins, links and assist with the production of scripts.
- research and conduct interviews in the studio or on location.
News TV shows e.g. ITV News has a set time to broadcast. The news will come on at about 6pm and after they have told the main storys they will show the weather at about 10 minutes later. In the sudios they have a multi camera set up so they can get a lot of different angles. They also have a studio set up; this is how the studio is set up and where everything is placed such as the desk and the lights. Next is the report structue this is how the story is sturctured out and which storys are told first and how they are told. Back ground mucic is the music they play in the back ground while the presenter is talking. When the presenter is sitting at the desk this gives the presenter and sence of importants and to the public the presenter is an important such as the person in charge because they are the people that inform you about the news. Next is the news that is about the world, national and local. The world news tells you the most important things that are happening around the world. The national news tells you the main subjects that is most important in the country. Finally the local news is just all the main news that is happening around the local area or region of where you live. Feild Reporters are the people that report the story to the public but in the place that it is happening in, they also interview experts and also eye witnesses. There is a lot of video and photo images throughout a TV news report they usually show clips or images that are related to the report headlines this way the audience know what to expect. The captions/ titles they use are to tell you the location or town they're reporting from and also informs you of the name who's speaking.
Documentaries
Documentaries have a narrative voice over this leads the audience into a preferred reading. Hand held cameras are used for realism and truth following their day to day activities depending on what the documentary is about. Natural sound and lighting is used when filming because the sun is the best light source, it is extremely bright the clouds can be used as a light softener so it defuses the light. It is also free and end up with better results.
Vox Pops and Interviews are held with experts and someone that is taking part in the documentary to get their views and opinions. Text is used to label items or locations and dates that are used or filmed in the documentary. They use archive footage so that they can support filmed scenes. The use of real footage of the surroundings are used in Super-size Me and other documentaries like Frozen Planet. This is so that the audience is aware of the real surroundings as this could link in with the documentary of what its about. e.g. Like when they filmed how many fast food restaurants were around this one spot and also inside MacDonald to show where they were. Reconstructions are used when they want to recreate a scene where somethings happened for example; crime watch reconstruct the crimes that are committed to make the audience aware.
Newspapers
The masthead is the title block that contains the name of the newspaper, this is on the front-page of every newspaper. There's always a dramatic headline in each paper this usually is used with the splash; the splash is the main story on the front of every newspaper. The purpose of the images that are used in the newspapers are so that the readers don't get bored from reading and also it grabs their attention, or to go with the stories and headlines. The price of the newspaper is usually located in the pugs, these are the areas at the top left and top right hand side of the pages, these grab the readers eyesight and are used to show the date and price.
The difference between a local newspaper and a national newspapers is that in the local newspapers include local advertisements of items that are for sale or wanted, local schools details, jobs within the area, local company advertisements, classified adverts and local stores in the area, house sections showing the local houses that are up for sale also they base their stories locally. Newspapers come in two sizes Broadsheet and Tabloids. Broadsheets have a more in depth coverage of the news stories. Broadsheets are mainly about Business and news in the politics e.g, The Independent The Times and The Guardian and are read by more authoritative people. Tabloids are smaller with shorter articles and are more about celebrities and local new stories such like The Sun, Evening Gazette and the Daily mirror.
