Basic details
- When is Channel 4 News on? Channel 4 is shown on Mondays- Fridays,
7pm duration is 55 minutes.
- When was the programme first
broadcast? 2nd of
November in 1982.
- What awards has the programme won? Channel 4 news has won a lot of awards such
as; International Emmy Awards for news, British Academy Television Award
for best news coverage and British Academy Television for best news and
current affairs journalism.
Presenters
- Who are the presenters? Jon Snow,
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Cathy Newman, Matt Frei.
- What are the presenters wearing? What
does this communicate to the audience? They are wearing smart clothes, the
male are wearing suit and the female is wearing a dress.
- Why might a TV News programme use a
variety of presenters? A TV News programme might use a variety of
presenters to prevent it from looking discriminatory, race-wise, age-wise,
sex-wise, etc. They may also do this to keep it interesting for the
reader.
- How are other reporters or presenters
used in the TV News programme? The way the reporter and presenters the new
for different type of other news so they could presenter to the target
audience so they have a knowledge of the news.
- Is there a balance between male and
female presenters? What about race/ethnicity? What effect might these
aspects have on an audience? 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
Analyse the opening 2 minutes of the programme.
- What is
the very first shot? The first shot
is channel 4 logo,
- How
does the opening sequence use graphics or images to grab the attention of
the audience. The first sequence is a moving animation that
introduces channel four news.
- How is
music used in the opening sequence? There is dramatic news music at the start of the animation
to make it look professional.
- How are
news stories introduced in the opening two minutes? Is there just one
story or are the audience told what will be coming up later? All news
stories are introduced at the beginning.
Studio mise-en-scene
- What aspects of the studio can be seen
by the audience? (Desk, cameras etc.) Desk, cameras, and the camera in the
studio.
2.
Are the
presenters standing or behind desks? Why do you think this is? The presenters are standing up to create a
casual feel and to help move away from the traditional seriousness related to
TV News
3.
Are journalists or technology visible? What might
these things suggest to the audience?
- How
does the studio use colour? The studio is purple and white and Jon snow is
known for wearing colourful ties.
How news stories are presented
- How does the news
programme typically present a story? They don't put any interview or an introduction except the 3d graphical
shot of the graphical logo for channel 4 news. They only showed the leaders debate between Nigel farage and Leanne
then in the end they show an advertisement of their channel.
- What difference techniques does the
programme use to present the news? (E.g. presenter to camera, reporter on
location, interviews, graphics, images, video etc.) channel 4 news is
aimed at teenagers, so they will not be formal they will be informal and
they way Jon snow lead form the desk.
- What types of news does the TV News
programme typically cover? Give five examples (e.g. politics,
international, sport etc.) Channel 4 news covers
political, international, UK, celebrity news and the weather.
- Give two real examples of how news
stories presented to keep the interest of the audience.the use picture and
video to show their news.
Running order
Watch the first 15 minutes of the programme – as
recent as you can find.
- What is
the top story? Immigration crisis
- How
long does the top story last for? 5 min long
- What are the other stories
the programme does or will cover? List them in the order they are presented
in (the ‘running order’).
- How long is each story shown for? Each story
is 5 min
Audience
- What is the target audience for this TV
News programme? Research online – you should be able to find plenty of
suggestions to the target audience if not the official target audience of
the programme. The target audience for channeal4 news is 16-35.
- Why might someone choose to watch this
TV News programme over others? It is less formal then other news channel.
- Is there an opportunity for the audience
to get involved in the programme or comment? There are Hashtag for them to
get involved and they would comment.
- What audience pleasures (Uses and
Gratifications theory – Blumler and Katz) does the programme offer? Channel 4 News is used for surveillance and could also
be used for personal identity.
Institution
- Who
owns, runs or produces this TV News programme? ITV
- Does
the institution own, run or produce any other TV News programmes, channels
or newspapers? E4 and E4+1
- How
does the programme fit the TV channel it is on? It does not really have any thing that
specifically fits Channel 4.
- What
role does OFCOM have in making sure TV News is fair and accurate? OFCOM make sure that T.V channels do not
have air anything that is violent or sexual after 9 and if any of this
does happen then the T.V channel will get a fine or they even take away
the T.V channels T.V licenses.
TV News and New/Digital Media
- Does
the TV News programme have a dedicated website? Channel 4 News have a separate website.
- What
does the website offer viewers? Their twitter page and
- Does
the TV News programme have a Twitter feed? Yh, they do have a twitter site.
- How
does the Twitter feed promote the programme? It lets peopleto catch up with the news on
youtube.
- Is
there an opportunity for the audience to get involved in the programme or
submit news stories? Channel 4 news
do not have anything on their website for their audiences to get involved.
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