Monday, 27 April 2015

TV News Case Study 1: Channel 4 News


Basic details
  1. When is Channel 4 News on? Channel 4 is shown on Mondays- Fridays, 7pm duration is 55 minutes.  
  2. When was the programme first broadcast?  2nd of November in 1982.
  3. 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
  1. Who are the presenters? Jon Snow, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Cathy Newman, Matt Frei.
  2. 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. 
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. What is the very first shot?  The first shot is channel 4 logo,
  2. 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.
  3. How is music used in the opening sequence? There is dramatic news music at the start of the animation to make it look professional.
  4. 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

  1. 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?
  1. 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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

  1. What is the top story?  Immigration crisis
  2. How long does the top story last for? 5 min long
  3. What are the other stories the programme does or will cover? List them in the order they are presented in (the ‘running order’).
  4. How long is each story shown for? Each story is 5 min



Audience

  1. 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.
  2. Why might someone choose to watch this TV News programme over others? It is less formal then other news channel.
  3. 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.
  4. 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

  1. Who owns, runs or produces this TV News programme? ITV
  2. Does the institution own, run or produce any other TV News programmes, channels or newspapers? E4 and E4+1
  3. How does the programme fit the TV channel it is on? It does not really have any thing that specifically fits Channel 4.
  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


  1. Does the TV News programme have a dedicated website? Channel 4 News have a separate website.
  2. What does the website offer viewers? Their twitter page and
  3. Does the TV News programme have a Twitter feed? Yh, they do have a twitter site.
  4. How does the Twitter feed promote the programme? It  lets peopleto catch up with the news on youtube.
  5. 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.

No comments:

Post a Comment