TASK 2

Factual programming

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Learning outcome 1, media regulations

Research issues facing producers of factual programming and

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Channel 89 script and location report with analysis

Channel 89 script and location report with analysis

Script

Voiceover headlines: (brief on what is coming up on the news today.) You are watching the news with Charlie and Annie. The headlines today…

Matt: (Video/picture comes up of Sainsburys) Sainsbury’s goes bankrupt. (changes to video of university) University becomes unaffordable. (video / picture of Olympic stadium in the process of being built) Will the Olympic stadium be finished in time? (video footage with an over shoulder shot of Jk Rowling signing a book) Jk Rowling’s opens up. And now to the studio…

Studio

Annie: Good evening to you all. My name is Annie.

Charlie: My name is Charlie and you are watching

Annie: Do you shop in sainsburys? Well not for much longer!

Charlie: Since June 2011 Sainsburys have secretly been rapidly losing money as a result they are selling off all of their chain stores to their competitors. We have more info on this, over to Charlotte who is in Henley-on-thames at one of the many supermarkets affected by this.

Charlotte: Thankyou Charlie, here I am with one of the many staff that have lost their jobs due to the bankruptcy

Charlotte: (turns to look at staff member) How are you going to deal with having no job at the moment? Have you been offered any other jobs?

Staff member: I’ve only just finished university and have been doing this job for 6 months hoping to pay of my debts to the university fees and start working on getting my own flat. What annoys me the most about what has happened to me and everyone else that works at Sainsbury’s is that nearly all of us have not been offered a new job or given advice on where to go looking for one.

Charlotte: thank you for your time. (the staff member walks out of the camera shot). You may want to take this next bit of news with a grain of salt because we are not 100% on it at the moment but it is believed that Tesco’s has been deliberately competing with Sainsbury’s to put them out of business and buy all of their major location chain stores of them which is exactly what has happened. Instead of Tesco’s hiring the Sainsbury’s staff to run the new chain stores they are advertising job interviews to work there which has upset a great amount of people who used to work for Sainsbury’s. Back to the studio.

Annie: More bad news for people who are intending on going to university in the future…

Annie: A large majority of universities based in the UK have heightened their attendance fees making it very difficult for the majority of people to afford it. So as well as it being difficult to get a place in universities it’s now expensive to get a place in university. A protest is going to take place in a few months’ time which I’m sure will mainly consist of students.

Annie: A lot of students have been applying to foreign universities in particular Holland because of their much smaller prices to go to university. The cost in Holland is about 1/3 of what it would cost in most UK universities. We have asked some of the Uk’s top universities for interviews on the matter but we were suspiciously declined by all. Over to you Charlie.

(Perhaps in this part of the news report we could have the narrator talking over footage that resembles the topic)

Charlie: As you should all know, The 2012 London Olympics is coming up very close, a month ago The Olympic stadium was going in the right direction for being finished on time, however a massive problem has occurred with the funding. Sainsbury’s which was the 2012 Olympics biggest sponsor and investor has gone bankrupt putting the 2012 Olympics into a debt of £300,000.0000. The government have promised to pay off the debt in the next year but said they would not be able to pay it off before the Olympics started.

However the building companies that are working on the stadium are protesting and have stopped building the stadium saying that they will only continue once their money has been paid off to them. This leaves the government in a sticky situation between paying of the debt for the Olympics or using that money to go towards Greece to help the country get its economy back up and running.

Here’s Annie with the final story of today.

Annie: Today in Trafalgar square Jk Rowling was doing a book signing for her famously known harry potter books which have been remade into films and loved by the public just as much as the books. JK Rowling is currently touring around the UK signing books for all her fans but today was different.

JK Rowling announced that she was making a new series of books based of the Harry potter novels but when asked more questions would not say anything else about the matter. And that’s it for now until next time.

Location information

Location 1: We started off by shooting some scenes outside Sainsbury’s, the noise pollution was too high for us to hear what the reporter was saying so we asked permission to film inside the Henley on Thames Sainsbury’s. We were given permission as long as we cut out bits which showed members of the public in it. The video footage we took here will be used for our main story headline which is “Sainsbury’s goes bankrupt”.

Location 2: We then moved on to a public library in Henley on Thames situated  very close to Waitrose for this location we shot the JK Rowling story or footage so we could do voice overs for it.

Location 3: The last location was for the news studio which was where the news readers were going o sit behind a desk and tell their news to the camera. The Location was situated in an empty classroom in Rotherfield site which was part of the Henley College.

Overall Analysis

When we were briefed about the news channel assignment we were then told to get into groups and choose a producer, I put myself forwards and was given the opportunity. We then sorted out what we wanted to do for our News Channel, we chose the name of “channel 89” and got some great stories to talk about for our news channel starting with Sainsbury’s going bankrupt and then University fees increasing highly and then on to the Olympics stadium not being made in time for 2012 Olympics and finally was the JK Rowling story.

After wed chosen what were called and what we wanted to talk about we then started working on the script in lesson, when time had ran out I took the script home with me where I finished it off, the following lesson I presented to the group for their opinion on it and we made a few adjustments.

It was now time to film, we decided to film our locations first  so we started off by getting shots done at Sainsbury’s and then moved on to the public library behind Waitrose. We did the studio recording a few days later in an empty room in Rotherfield site where we finished it and put the clips all together.

News Values

The bigger the story (preferably disaster story) then the bigger the impact it will have on the public and the more likely itl be shown in the news.

unexpected news is also a popular way of getting on the news.

Reference to elite nations are very intresting for the public too.

Reference to elite people (celebrities doing stupid things or dying always captivate the public when they see it on the news)

Cathederal Story:

music and SFX keep audience captivated and go well as background music

At beginning they show seperate 5 second clips of each of the news stories that are coming up in this news report. They do it in a way that the audience know whats coming up in the news report but dont know enough yet to change the channel.

When the narrator is explaing the story, video footage is shown which relates very closely to what the narrator is saying.

use of live webcam chat.

IMPACT
 

•Threshold

•Frequency

•Negativity

•Unexpectedness

•Unambiguity

Audience identification

 

•Personalisation

•Meaningfulness

•Reference to elite nations

•Reference to elite persons

Pragmatics of media coverage

 

•Consonance – readiness to report an item

•Continuity  - Story that is already in the news and gathers pace

•Composition – Stories must compete with each other to make the news

What makes a story interesting?

 

•Timeliness

•Proximity

•Conflict

•Bizarre

•Currency

•Human Interest