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Common conventions of TV news

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Common convections of TV news. Footage. Part of a cinema or television film recording a particular event. Audio (from reporter). Sound, especially when recorded, transmitted, or reproduced. Subtitles. Although same-language  subtitles  and captions are produced primarily with the deaf and hard of hearing in mind, many hearing film and television viewers choose to use them. This is often done because the presence of closed captioning and  subtitles  ensures that not one word of dialogue will be missed. Graphics (maps, logos, etc...). Graphics  are visual  images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas , screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage it includes: a pictorial representation of data, as in computer-aided design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational software. Images that are generated by a computer are cal...

News Genres

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BBC school report, what is news?

Revising camera work

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Camera work Extreme close up: Close up: Medium close up: \ Mediam shot: Long shot:

BBC school report

BBC school report, what is news? In 1973 and Katz developed the 'uses and gratification theory', arguing audiences consume media text for one or more of the four reasons: Information Entertainment  Socialisation  Surveillance  What is news? News = facts/information but because the news you see on TV online and in newspapers is also a product that has to sell to a target audience, it can also be entertaining and this may distract from the facts. Fake news Fake news  is a type of yellow journalism or propaganda  that consists of deliberate misinformation  or hoaxes  spread via traditional print and broadcast news media  or online social media.  Fake news is written and published with the intent to mislead in order to damage an agency, entity, or person, and/or gain financially or politically, often with sensationalist, exaggerated, or patently false headlines that grab attention. Examples of fake news:...