TV News case study 1: Channel 4 News
TV News case study 2: BBC News at Six
TV News case study 4: independent case studies (BBC3 60 Second News and Newsround)
News Values blog task
 TV News audience - creating a running order
tV News representation - analysing Sky News coverage of the 2011 riots

Newsround

BBC Newsround

2) How does Newsround use the key conventions of TV news?

Newsround uses the key convention of a typical graphically starting introduction.

3) Who are the presenters for BBC Newsround? Why do Newsround have a variety of presenters?

The presenter Jenny Lawrence, Ayshah Tul, Martin Douga, Hayley Hassall, Ricky Boleto

4) Are any other presenters or reporters used?

NO.

5) What does the studio look like? How is technology used in programme?

The studio has a modern design and technology.

6) What is the opening sequence to Newsround? Does it fit the key conventions of TV news?

7) How does Newsround typically present a news story? (E.g. presenter to camera, reporter on location, interviews, graphics, images, video etc.)

8) Who is the target audience for Newsround? You may want to research this online.

Newsround has a target audience of 6 to 12-year-olds and the stories and language used in our bulletins reflects that. We try to pick stories that will appeal to our viewers - and we try to bring a child's view into our reports. Our team is a mix of child experts, journalists and teachers.

9) Is there an opportunity for the audience to get involved in the programme? Do young people feature in the news programme at all?

10) What news stories are covered in the broadcasts you have watched? List ALL the stories that are covered AND the order that they appear in. How long does each story appear for?

 

 

TV News: representation and bias

1) Whose perspective have Sky News used to present the story? (Clue: it’s in the opening line)
The perspective  that Sky News have used is that it has supported the police officers and not the young people.

 2) How are the police represented in this coverage?
The police are represented in favour for the action they have done and unrepresentative to the innocent man who had been killed. The shows that news presented was given in biased perspective being in favour for the police. Also the whole video was shown about the police.

3) How are young people represented in this coverage?
In the news programme young people are shown to be a disrespect and they are shown to be a minority group which are not helping society.

 4) What images and videos are selected by Sky News to accompany the story?
Sky news uses footage of the actual riots of a birds eye view showing the riots to accompany the story. Furthermore they use citizen journalism to report the riot at the beginning.

 5) What choice of words is used to present this news event?
The words that are used to presents are biased towards the young people by the choice of language which was used cleverly.

 6) What aspect of the story is chosen as the most important detail and included at the very beginning of the report?
The amount of loot that happened was the most important detail that happened which was mention at the start of the programme.

 7) How is narrative used to engage the audience with this news story?
The narrative was able to engage the story through the way of the programme.

 8) How can we apply Todorov’s equilibrium theory to this coverage?
We can show the Todorovs theory of equilibrium to the story through this. Tottenham fans start riot. Then police officers come to save the day and everything goes back to normal. 

 9) What examplesing, police of Propp’s character types can we find in this coverage? Are there heroes and villains?

10) How might citizen journalism have been used to provide a different angle on this story?

It has been given from different angles such as its shown from the police officers views and the young people views and the political view as well.

BBC news at Six

BBC NEWS A SIX
 
Basic Details
 

1. BBC stands for British Broadcasting Cooperation

2.It is public funded news programme.

3. To enrich people's lives with programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain.

4. BBCs remit was not view impartially content and that the it is fair to all viewers from the U.K

5. It fits the remit because BBC news presents news which is applicable to all the public and that is viewed in a equal manor.

Presenter

1. The presenters for news at 6 are George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth

2. The presenters normally will be wearing formal and classical clothes so that it promotes a professional attitude towards the student.

3. TV news usually uses a variety of presenters so that the views don’t get bored of the same presenters because the audience may dislike a certain presenter.

4. Normally other presenters or reporters are used in the news for an interview mostly.

5. There is a balance for news at six there are equal amount of presenters however they're mainly white presenters so that the impact the news has on the audience is different

  Opening Sequence

1. The first shot of the presenter is siting at a desk looking at his paper and is about to explain the stories.

2. The special effects are used to dumb down the audience to make the news stories easier to understand.

3. There is dramatic music used in the starting of the opening sequence.

4, The stories coming up are briefly mentioned at the start of the bulletin.

Studio Mise-En-Scene

1. The audience can see some the presenters and the audience can see the background of the studio and the workers and the desk of the studio.

2. Only one of the presenter is sat behind a desk and the rest are in different areas.

3. In the opening of the scene the cameras are shown in the start of the news programme.

4, The studios primary colour that was used is red and most of the other colours used were with black.

How news stories are presented

1.  Many of the news stories are presented in a monotone voice.

2, The presenters introduce themselves before they begin with a bulletin.

3. They cover financial, crime, country, academic and sports news.

4. Special effects are blended into the real life footage.

Running Order

1. The main story of the news programme is about Tesco lost of £6.4 Billion

2. It lasts around about 6 minutes.

3.  Order of stories: Tesco, Child Abise, Immigrants, School Children and Cricket

4. Shown for this time to spread out the timing of the news to make it much longer and more appealing to the audience.

Audience

1. The main target audience for the news programme was mainly British people around 71% in the Nation.

2. The average of amount of people who view the content is around 4 million views.

3. This would be chosen over any other news programme due to the news stories covered and the timing in which the show is presented is flexible with many viewers.

4. The viewers are mainly told to be aware of criminals or special functions that may occur.

5. The audience have the ability to find what's happening in their local area.

Institution

1. Many other TV news programmes such as the BBC world news which offers a range of news which happens outside the nation.

2. The role of Ofcom is to monitor whether there is a equal balanced news programme.

3. Dumbing down is making the audience as if they have no knowledge.

 

Planning A TV news

Channel 4 news

Top Story- Israel has shelled a residential area of Gaza killing around 25 civilians.

Second Story- A woman has been convicted of murdering her husband. He was a wealthy banker and she a stay-at-home mum.

Third Story- Two prisoners convicted of armed robbery have escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London

Fourth Story- An anti-austerity march against government cuts has been held in London today and was attended by 50,000 people. The protest was calm.

Fifth Story- A well-known politician has been named on Twitter as being investigated by police for fraud.

BBC NEWS at six- 

Top Story- Israel has shelled a residential area of Gaza killing around 25 civilians.

Second Story-  Two prisoners convicted of armed robbery have escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London.

Third Story- 20 people were killed in 15 different road accidents over the previous weekend.

Fourth Story- Gunfire has been reported on the streets of Moscow although no there are no details as yet regarding who has opened fire or why.

Fifth Story- A woman has been convicted of murdering her husband. He was a wealthy banker and she a stay-at-home mum.

BBC 60 second News

Top Story- Israel has shelled a residential area of Gaza killing around 25 civilians.

Second Story-

Third Story-

Fourth Story-

Fifth Story- 

Channel 4 news

Channel 4 News

Basic Details

1. Channel 4 news is on from 7pm Monday to Friday about 55 minutes.
2. The first programme was presented in 1982
3. The show has won numerous amounts of awards through the years: International Emmy Award for News in 2014, 13 and 12; they have won British Academy Television Award for Best News Coveragem in 2012, 2004 and 1996; British Academy Television Award for Best News and Current Affairs Journalism in 1994 and 1993.
4. The media institution that produces Channel 4 News  is Channel Four television corporation so this means it is self-funded company.

 Presenters

1. The presenters of the show are Krishnan Guru Marth, Cathy Newman and Matt frei and John snowman
2. All of the presenters normally wear suits and formal and professional clothes to reach out to their target audience. This communicates an audience that they are serious about the news. 
3. The TV news a variety of news reporters so that it is culturally diverse.
4. Other reporters are used by telling the news story from different locations to present the news
5. There isn’t a balance between the male and female presenters because there are 3 Males and 1 Female which makes it unbalanced. With the race and ethnicity there is one British Asian and 3 British presenters which makes it unstable.  These aspects make the target audience mainly white British viewers due to this mentioned above.

   Opening Sequence

1. The shot was about a serious topic on immigration.
2. The opening scene uses graphics and images to attract the audience by making the opening news more modern and more appealing for the viewer.
3. At the start of the news there was typical dramatic music that was used.
4. In the start of the news they should the news stories that were going come up in the show for the following hour.

Studio mise-en-scene

1. In the news programme you can see the desk and the TV screen.
2. The presenters at the start of the programme are standing up and then after the presenter are sitting down on a chair.
3. The technology is visible in the show to give a impression that they have modern technology.
4. The colour that the studio used was mainly purple and the secondary colour was white.

How news stories are presented

1. The new programme typically give a brief statement of what the new is about and then show a short footage of the incident with a depth explanation of the situation.
2. The programme uses camera to record the programme, they use many reporter In the area, moreover use of graphics to give a modern effect to the studio, has many interviews.
3. Channel 4 news normally covers: World News, Sports, Politics,  
4. News stories on the election at the moment keep people interested by having interviews with many political leaders. Another new story was on migrants trying to get into the EU and the news programme shows live footage to keep the watcher entertained.    

Running Order

1. The top story was about the election.
2. The top story was on for about for about ¼ of the shows timing.
3. Each story is spilt into equal intervals and one story is about 5 minutes
4. This was because so that the audience don’t get bored on one story only.

 Audience

1. The main target audience is young adults aged between18-30 years old.
2. People are mainly likely to watch this is because of the characters which are shown on the channel. The uses of the presenters attracts the audience and the way is presented to the audience.
3. The audience have the ability to go on the website of Channel 4 news and there they can comment on the news that they have watched or comment on YouTube.
4. The audience pleasures from escapism and surveillance.

Institution

1. The media institution that produces Channel 4 News is Channel Four Television Corporation so this means it is self-funded company.
2. It has its own institution.
3. It fits because it meets the audience requirement that the channel has.
4. OFCOM have certain rules and regulation so that the news is presented it accurate and impartially so that it affects everyone

TV News and New/Digital Media

1. Yes, they have a dedicated website
2. The website offers the world to view the latest new programmes and read the news
3. It does have a Twitter feed
4. It allows the audience to tweet there opinions and views on the news.
5. The audience can get involved by writing comments.

Trailer Analysis

Trailer 1: Avengers Age of Ultron

Genre

Comic/Action 

Narrative 

The story line of the story is that a group of hero's try to a kill a villain who tries to take over the earth and the hero's try  The narrative story line meets well with the comic/action trailer.

Character
The characters are a group of hero's trying to save the world from these bad villain who is trying to take over or destroy it. Which is a typical American movies for this particular genre.

Iconography
In the trailer there is a lot of iconography throughout the trailer. Such as: Fighting, a villain, scientific technology, killing, magical powers, explosions, aliens, city area. This shows a typical comic film genre.

Setting
The setting of the film is many various parts but we can clearly see that it is in New York America, and there is action scene going in a city area with sky-scrapping buildings. There are some scene which may be taken on a plane.

Trailer 2: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay

   

Genre

Adventure/SC-FI

Narrative 

The story is of 'Katniss Everdeen' shattered the games forever, Katniss must fight against all odds and save a nation moved by her courage. This is a typical adventure which fits with genre.

Character
The character is a female heroine who tries to save the nation. The actress who portrays this role is Jennifer Lawrence who is typical American actress to star in this film due to her acting.

Iconography
In the trailer we could see loads of iconography: technology, explosions, guns, fighting, woods, bow and arrows, planes. All of these iconography relate
 to the genre of the movie that it is.

Setting
The setting for this film varies in different aspects. Firstly, there were in the woods, then in a house, after a destroyed city. This concludes from the trailer you could tell where the film was based on.



Trailer 2: The Hobbit: The Battle of the  Five Armies

   

Genre

Adventure/Fantasy

Narrative 

The story line of The Hobbit is a good side of people are embraced in a war against villains and there is treasure which the good side want.

Character
There are many characters in the story.  This story fluctuates with the characters so there isn't specific characters.
 
Iconography
In the story we can see the iconography is that there is: War, mountains, goblins, dwarfs, explosions, swords, dragons. These iconography relate to the genre of the plot.


Setting
This film is mainly set in the country side with mountains.