Case study 3: news stories covering start of General Election campaign 2015

Case study 3: news stories covering start of General Election campaign 2015

Testing what you've learned...

1) What is the angle of a news story? Give an example to explain your answer.
A news angle is the perspective that the news provider takes on a certain event. For example with the Nepalese earthquakes British news programme have mainly reported on survivors or climbers that were British.
2) What is the difference between tabloid and broadsheet news coverage?
Tabloid is has less serious content,focusing instead on celebrities, sports and crime stories e.g The Sun. Broadsheet is serious news like politics, economics and international news.
3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV news programme?
Channel 5 news
4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme?
Channel 4 news
5) What is the difference between international, national, regional and local news coverage?
International news is news that all countries would be interested or effected by, national news is news that only interests or effect that nation and regional news is around the county and local is in your local area all news that will interests the people in that region or local area
Answer the questions on the election coverage clips...

BBC News election story - via YouTube

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
We can see that this national news as the angle and the interviews only revolve around UK residents
2) What angle does the report take on the story?
The angle taken is very conservative making David Cameron look stronger
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
Very Broadsheet
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
Maybe middle class voters looking to see who is taking the lead in the election
Sky News election story not available online - use your notes

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
National
2) What angle does the report take on the story?
More conservative due to their private company.
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
Broadsheet
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
I would expect
STV (Scottish) coverage of the election story

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
National
2) What angle does the report take on the story?
Making SNP look strong and labour look behind their Scottish opposition
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
Broadsheet
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
Definitely supporters of the SNP and Scottish citizens mainly so that they can find out who is leading and has a a larger chance of winning.
Channel 4 News coverage of the election story.

1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
National2) What angle does the report take on the story?
A Investigative angle but quite negative as well.3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
Tabloid4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
 18-45 year olds - as you can vote at that age 
UK citizens

 TV NEWS INDEX

1) Channel 4 news case study

2)BBC News case study

3)Coverage of General Election (to do)

4)Newsround and BBC affiliates

5)News Values (to do)
6)Creating a Running Order (to do)
7)Representation (to do)

CASE STUDY 4: NEWSROUND AND BBC AFFILIATES

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

Newsround uses text-on-screen to give information to the viewers that is not shown in the report, as well as this they use piece-to-camera to give extra information and introduce a new segment of the report, video packages and graphics to keep their young audience engaged.
2) Who are the presenters for BBC Newsround? Why do Newsround have a variety of presenters?
The presenters of Newsround are Martin Dougan, Leah Bolleto, Jenny Lawrence, Ayshah Tull, Hayley Halsall, Ricky Boleto
3) Are any other presenters or reporters used?
Yes, but they do not mention them on the website and some are Citzen Journalist or One off4) What does the studio look like? How is technology used in programme?
Studio colour scheme is quite colourful, and the technology is quite advanced they use things like their website and USG.5) What is the opening sequence to Newsround? Does it fit the key conventions of TV news?
The opening sequence of Newsround includes their logo and other graphics to compliment it all in the same colour scheme. They use key conventions such as, Graphics, Music and their logo. It could have fitted the theme of Newsround even more if they added small sized video packages.6) How does Newsround typically present a news story? (E.g. presenter to camera, reporter on location, interviews, graphics, images, video etc.)
A typical Newsround story is  relevant, has a local angle and engaging. There is usually a short PTC as it may bore the audience, so reports mainly contain video packages with voiceovers and sometimes short interviews but it is quite untypical news thing that they do is they lay music in the back of their videos.  They also use a platform for them to interact and advertise it at the end of every report7) 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 probably in ABC1 class students with a 2 working parents8) Is there an opportunity for the audience to get involved in the programme? Do young people feature in the news programme at all?
Yes, there is in specialised reports or reports mainly focused or going to affect the audience, for example changes in school tution fees or general election. They also are used to better the bulletins and create stories