Common Conventions of TV news

• Footage

part of a cinema or television film recording a particular event.

• Audio (From Reporter)

sound, especially when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced.

• Subtitles

Although same-language subtitles and captions are produced primarily with the deaf and hard of hearing in mind, many hearing film and television viewers choose to use them. This is often done because the presence of closed captioning and subtitles ensures that not one word of dialogue will be missed.

• Graphics (Maps & Logos)

Graphics are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage it includes: a pictorial representation of data, as in computer-aided design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational software. Images that are generated by a computer are called computer graphics.

• Interview Opinions

An opinion interview is likely to include standard interview questions about your background, education and work experience as well. The interviewer might also include some behavioral interview questions, such as how you behaved in a past work situation and why.

• Vox Pops

Popular opinion as represented by informal comments from members of the public, especially when broadcast or published.

• Still images

A Still frame is a single static image taken from a film or video, which are kinetic (moving) Images. Still frames are also called freeze frame, video prompt, preview or misleadingly thumbnail, keyframe, poster frame, or screen shot/grab/capture/dump.

New Genres

News Genres

Revising Camera Work

Close up:



Extreme Close up:



Medium Shot:

Medium close up:

BBC School Report

BBC School Report
What is News?

In 1973 Blumer and Katz came developed 'the uses of gratification theory', arguing audiences consume media text for one or more of the four reasons:

• Information
• Entertainment 
• Socialisation (replacing human relationships)
• Surveillance

What is news?
News = Facts/Information
               BUT
because the 'news' you see on TV, online and in newspapers is also a product that has to sell to a target audience it can also be entertaining and this may distract for the facts.

Fake News:
false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke.

First the most famous example of an indisputably (or so you would think) fake news story that has had real-world consequences For example:

• On 4 December, a North Carolina man opened fire at the Washington pizzeria Comet Ping Pong, which an online conspiracy theory purports to be the headquarters of a child sex ring run by Hillary Clinton.
• Black Lives Matter thug protests President Trump with selfie... accidentally shoots himself in the face.

Bias:

-inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair