1. Task Two
Jack Tanner

2.  A field report is a member of the news team which visits on
site locations to bring the news from certain areas for
example you might have a correspondent in Afghanistan
reporting on the war effort there but you could equally get a
field reporter standing at a student protest rally in london.
They often carry out Vox pops and interviews with the public
and officials.

3.  A studio news reader is also known as an
‘Anchor’ and is the person we see sitting at
the desk reading us our top stories and is
usually the face of the news show. For
example Sir Trevor MacDonald

4.  This is when someone outside the studio
(Usually a field reporter) references the main
studio or newsreader, the most steriotypical
saying we can all recognise as a good example of
this would be “Back to you in the studio”
 This means that they can discuss the
information they have gathered and have shown
to the audience, then come to a conclusion on
the outcome of the story, a field reporter usually
reports the main bulk of a story and the news
reader usually introduces it and concludes it as if
to offer the audience a certain form of closure.

5.  Often when news companies are discussing political matters, they will get an
expert politician involved in order to get a professional opinion on any bills that
might be passed or other political matters.
 Its important that news broadcasters get interviews with experts and witnesses
in order to gain information from members of the public or other officials with a
well rounded amount of primary knowledge on a topic to deliver a good
, accurate story.
 Vox pops are very useful sources of information, this is when a field reporter
randomly asks a member of the public or someone that happens to be near about
their opinions on the event taking place. An excellent example of this would be
during the student riots, the news broadcasters were speaking to witnesses that
had seen the damage first hand – primary information.

6.  News broadcasters try and keep their viewers
interested in the news for as long as then
can, to do this they report the most
important news first and work they way down
the stories in order of importance, this is
called the pyramid structure.
 Here is an example of news report structure
– www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPh7ECq9sc0

7.  Actuality footage is footage with relevance to
the story being reported. For example if there
is a story on NATO troops in Iraq the news
broadcaster may show NATO troops at one of
their camps somewhere in Iraq.

8.  This is the image that a news broadcaster chooses to show
themselves and how they present their news for example
political agenda’s or any bias of any kind.
 Broadcaster’s often create a routine in order for viewers to
learn what comes when which may give them a sense of
belonging but also they know what to expect and when.
 1.For example a news broadcaster will often have the
same sort of bong sound at the start of their program.
 2.Have a short break down of the news stories to come
through the program.
 3.Tell you the important news.
 4.Then the local news.
 5.And finally they will move on to the weather.

10.  An observational documentary is a
programme in which the film makers don’t
get involved with the documentary, the
simply observe what ever topic the
documentary focuses on. An example of a
purely observational documentary would be
‘Lift’ which is a documentary that just films
the different types of people that take the lift
in a block of London flats.

11.  Reflexive documentaries are representations
of what happens in real life (realist) and
contain re-enactments of events to try to
accurately show the audience what happened
in a certain situation although they can often
be exaggerated because usually these
dramatizations are taken from the point of
view of those involved, for example the
recreations of crimes in the show ‘Crime
Watch’

12.  Expository documentaries often have a
narrator throughout the film in a “voice of
god” style which gives the narrator a sense of
power or reason. In Nick Broomfields ‘Selling
of a Serial Killer’ he narrates the whole thing
and summarises what the viewer is seeing on
the screen

13.  A peformative documentary is similar to an
interactive documentary in that the film makers
are involved in the documentary and also
narrate the film however the difference is that
the producer will talk about the documentaries
production and whether or not they would be
successful, for example in Nick Broomfields
‘Selling of a Serial Killer’ Nick talks about how he
doesn’t want Aileen to receive the death
sentence but she still does.

14.  An interactive documentary is when the film
makers intervene with the action , for
example if a film maker changes the course
that some people might take by putting
across their opinion like in Supersize Me, This
is an interactive documentary because the
producer gets involved by eating McDonalds
for a month.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOvrkkj_
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