Behind TV News

The presenters are usually around the age of 30 to 50 and mostly try to have one female and one male presenter that are normally presenting together.  

A presenter is the person who introduces and then appears in a television or radio programme, one example being the news.  A television presenter will be typically specialised in one area, whether it would be; the weather, sports, politics or any others who will then broadcast the latest news in to the audience about these topics.

The role of the presenters is to present any news that the directors and others have chosen that will suit that day. They are briefed and are then given sheets of paper of topic they are to bring up.  When on live television they are counted in until they are on the air, and throughout the time of them being on the air they are constantly being talked to about when to say good bye or how long they should keep talking to the viewers for. They are also then directed on which camera to be looking at for each different story they are telling the viewers at home.

The way the presenters have linked each of the stories is by introducing then with the camera on them to then cut to an opening sequence (i.e. the opening sequence of the weather). Once that has been shown they then show the closing sequence and are now back in the studio with the presenters ready to do the same thing when going on to the next new topic.

The presenters are advised on what they should usually wear on a morning showing, evening showing, or a winter showing. The reason they have to be advised on what to wear is because of the different backgrounds that the studio uses for the different times of the day or even season. The tone of dressing for the morning showings for the presenters, are advised to wear lighter and slightly informal dress, however on the evening and winter showing they are then advised to wear more darker and formal wear. 

The term ordering is meant to make a TV or radio news bulletin or a series text based report. However the term that is given to the list of stories that will be appears on the broadcast is a running order.  The lead story will be shown first and the way that it is selected is that each story is ranked in the interest of the audience but not only that, it is usually the most lengthy report as it is carrying the most information. The other stories appear in a news roundup where the other stories are grouped together as they are similar to one another. The ability to think and act quickly for the news is important because, the news is always changing and some stories become more important than what the original one where.  The term ‘slow news day’ is meant when the time of the media news organisations broadcast smaller and not so interesting news stories due to the lack of more bigger and substantial stories. Usually the final news story is introduced ‘and finally’ with either a lighter hearted story or the weather. The term ‘news values’ are the general guidelines that are used by the media outlets, such as newspapers or broadcast media. This is done to determine how much important the story is. And Galtung and Ruge were the ones to have written the news values. The Jeremy Clarkson case from March 2015 fits well with these values. The values that they have identified fall down into three categories;

• Impact – This is where the bigger the impact a story will have on people, the better chance it will have hitting the news stand.
• Audience identification – Most people nowadays are interested in people, these types of news that are centred on a particular person, and then presented from a human interest angle and highly likely to be making the front page, especially when they are involving with a well-known famous person.
• Pragmatics of media coverage - Stories that match the media's expectations will end out receiving more coverage than those which counter them

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31828184

This story was about a small family that brought a one bedroom house worth fifty seven thousand pounds, while the father Pierre was working. About a year later he is out of the job and is now no longer able to work and provide for his family. The result of this now means that the Chowles family now owe over six thousand pounds. With the family having another baby on the way they hope that the council could help. The father then had a meeting with a member from the council where they had found out that the only place that they would be able to stay was at a bed and breakfast that was over 16miles away from the town. The people that were involved were the three family members, the council lady and the narrator of the documentary. The family in this story where represented as normal working class people that are now finding it hard to live the way they wanted to. I feel that the news story makes the audience feel sorry for this family as most of the family shots are with all three family members together, showing how close they are, also while Christina was talking; it looked as if she was finding it hard not to cry. This story does have a narration, however without it the audience would not have known the facts and figures that where behind the story, therefore making it harder to understand without all of this information. 

Selection and omission is when an editor is able to express a bias choosing to use or even not to use a new item. This can be shown in the story about Madeleine McCann internet toll that was then found dead after she had been exposed for sending hate messages to the parents of the missing child. Stories are able to have details ignored, and other parts included, and this is to give the readers and even the viewers a different opinion about the stories being used.

Placement/ order of news stories are in which the stories as seen by the audience. All of it is placed in the order of the longest to the shortest of stories and the more appealing to the audience to the least appealing. An example of this would be how the editors of the BBC news at ten are able to choose the important stories, without boring their viewers with too much information.

Headlines are the headings that are used at the top of articles, magazines, newspapers or television news. An example of this would be from nearly all of newspapers, with the big massive captions on the front page, which are there in order to capture the reader’s attention and want to know more.

Shot selection and camera angles are just as important as choosing the correct words to say and then the correct order and punctuation that they should be said in. An example of this would again be the Madeline McCann toll case, when it is shown with the sky news broad casting the incorrect video clips to make their news story, and with the results of this there where consequences.

Names and captions in news reports normally appear at the bottom of the screen, and these will include the speakers name and profession. The reason for these is to help the viewer understand who the people are, what they do, and why they are important to the story. An example of this would be the names of the reporters who do the weather. 

Use of language is the way that the news stories have been presented in different ways towards different classes of people, to the amount that they will actually understand. An example of this would be the shorts story about how ‘The world according to China’ is.