An introduction to the news.

An introduction to the news.

What is meant by the term news ordering? This is meant by the order of which news is showed or told it shows what order the new will be showed/told.

What is the term given to the list of stories that will likely appear on the broadcast? This would be called the running order. The editor will make the final decision on this.

Which story is likely to be shown first and how / why is it selected? The stories that are likely to be shown first are the ones that are the most important to people like a massive flood or massive road accidents.

How do the other stories appear? The other stories are shown but not told about the can be found on the new website or maybe mentioned in newspapers.

Why is the ability to think and act quickly important in news? They need to be able to think quickly because they may be told some breaking news updates as they are speaking and have to re-act quickly. This may be different to what is on auto-cue or script. Also, if sending news from a war zone or disaster scene such as a flood, they may have to move quickly to be in a safe place.

What is meant by the term 'slow news day'? The term slow news day means that there is a day with very little news to report or no news at all to be reported.

What is the final story often called and what is its function? It is called an “and finally” story and its function is to round up the programme with some light-hearted news story to cheer you up.

What is meant by the term 'news values' and which G & R wrote about them? News values, sometimes called news criteria, determine how much prominence a news story is given by a media outlet, and the attention it is given by the audience. It was Galtung and Ruge's

Find a topical example for each of G & R's news values.

Currently the Grenville fire in the London flats is the main story on the news due to the great damage caused and loss of life caused by the fire and the follow-up enquiry. The audience are interested because it was shocking how quickly the cladding burnt and the concern for other people living in similar flats. People have opinions about it and so are still talking about it and this keeps it predominant in the news. 

Documentary mini - task.

Documentary mini - task.

The different types of documentaries are,

Expository Documentaries: it is emphasises verbal commentary- often using a narrator it also addresses the spectator directly, with titles or voices that propose a perspective, advance an argument or recount history. This is most associated with television news programming.  In the example of ‘City of Gold’ it has a voice over of the film maker talking about his town where he and his dad lived. In the documentary it has some historical event and describes the life of the goldmines. In the town where the filmmaker lived it shows the day to day lives of people. This documentary is quite interesting because it was filmed during the 1950s-1960s when Gold was priceless.

Observational Documentaries: these typically have no voice-over commentary, no supplementary music or sounds, no intertitles, no historical reenactments, no behavior repeated for the camera and no interviews. Social actors behave as if no filmmakers were there.  In the example of In the Room with JFK, some of these points are contradicted as you can hear footsteps and the door opening abut also the voice over. The film maker is narrating the documentary and is observing the President’s talk during a meeting. The narrator is telling the story of JFK’s daily life.

Participatory Documentaries: Involves an interview between the film maker and subject. This addresses the audience through voice-over commentary. It also involves input from the film maker and social actors.

Reflexive Documentaries The viewer is the focus of the attention and speaks about more issues than the historical world. The documentary sets out to be persuasive while giving two sides to the story.  It makes you question your own morals, you know what’s right and wrong but sometimes you want to follow the social media.

Poetic documentaries: stresses the lyrical, rhythmic and emotional aspect of the historical world also sacrifices films conventions. For example continuity editing and a situated time and space, to explore association between images, objects and patterns. .In the example of Jonis Iven’s Regen (1929) film it starts off all dark and gloomy and with use of music reflecting the imagery and then picks up and becomes lighter at the shimmering water scene. My mood changes at this point and picks me up. Next it goes to boats and workplaces and the music livens up which matches the industrial scenes. Towards the end of the film it goes dark and gloomy and then livens up again. Listening to the music works better than listening to words because it is more meaningful.

Performative Documentaries. Is showing emotional scenes to get people to feel sensitivity and hurt. For example the London Terror Attacks, where dozens of people died, making me feel devastated and sorry for all of those who lost family and friends. People question things like the police said they knew the terrorist, and were watching him for a while, but they didn’t do anything to stop him. If this news item was to be made into a documentary it would have someone interviewing people and talking directly to the camera.  

I think documentaries are about showing the audience things and making it clearer and easier to understand things. but also i think documentaries are very useful because it can also help people or things like charities they make a little documentaries to get people to help. 

(https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/6-types-of-documentary-film/) 

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My interview questions

My interview questions 

1.      What is your name?

2.      How old are you?

3.      Do you have a reason for being homeless?

4.      Why do you think you are homeless?

5.      How long have you been homeless for?

6.      Do you have any family members?

7.      Did you have a family of your own?

8.      Has something happened in your life to make you homeless?

9.      Where do you stay at night?

10.  Do you ever get scared being homeless?

11.  Have you ever been attacked from being homeless?

12.   Have you tried to get a place to live?

13.  Do you ever think you will have a safe place to stay?

14.  Have you tried to get a job?

15.  Have you ever had a job?

16.  Do you get any help from anyone?

17.  Do you do drugs?

18.  Do you drink?

19.  It must be difficult to find somewhere to wash. How do you manage things like this?

20.  Did you ever have money?

21.  How do you sleep, do you have a tent or a sleeping bag?

22.  How do you stay warm at night?

23.  Do you have some kind of a roof or shelter at night?

24.  Why do you think people do not give you money, food or drink?

25.  Would you like people to help you?

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My Documentary for 3MW

CATCH OF THE DAY | DepicT! Highlights | Watershed

Catch of the Day

I find this video funny because I am a fisherman and know how
easy it is to get tangled up. I also like it because you have the split screen
where the man pulls the woman from underneath him. This links to the olden days
when people used to think that the world was flat and if you travelled too far
you would reach the end of the earth and you would fall off the edge. It has a
woman fishing and this is a surprise but challenges sexism because people
assume fishing is for men and you don’t see many women fishing.

This is ironic because the title is also a pun. ‘Catch of the
Day’: the man catches the woman which is more than he bargained for. At the
very end, it leaves the viewer wondering about the dog but we get a happy
ending when we see the dog is safely in the boat.

Mind-Map ideas for my 3MW

Unilever - The company

TV advert re-branding

Magic Unicorn

The main character tries to sell a stolen bike to a stranger. Another character walks past with a unicorn which can shoot rainbows out of its horn. The first seller then tries to big his bike up by saying, for example, it has twin engines. The boy with the unicorn increases his selling pitch claiming his unicorn can fly. He ends up walking away with the unicorn and the potential buyer also walks away without buying the unicorn or the bike.

This was really funny because it reminded of myself because when I try to sell a bike I exaggerate so much to get a lot of money for it. Although it has a unicorn in it is true to life. None of the characters show amazement at seeing a unicorn. They keep very straight, almost bored, faces.

It only has 3 characters, is set in an alleyway, off an ordinary street. The unicorn is just a white horse with a horn stuck on so it would be quite easy to make.

What made this short successful was the original but believable idea. It worked being short because it was all about the conversation – there was no plot needed as to what had happened before or afterwards.