Digital News Production: Introduction

Digital News Production is everything we hear about going on in the world summed up into a short news story often shown on TV at 6pm or 10pm, it can presented on the internet and in newspapers as well and is made to tell people what is happening in the world, TV normally shows the big stories like war and politics whereas the more local news which is normally online tells the local people what is happening in their area like festivals, kidnappings and coming ups.

Digital News Production is in groups of 3 or 4, my group is a 4 and made up of me, Sophie Marriott, Lex Wilkinson and Michael Hoad.

This unit is made up of 2 parts: the video projects and and essay/ case study.

The video project is the groups part but graded individually.
We have to design our own news channel on youtube using:

•  title sequence designed by us
• a promotional package with a presenter
• a banner that is distinguished as our own channel
• the 2 minute news report 

The news package is to be made up of 2 -2.30 minutes including title sequence.

The "live" OB (outside broadcast) would use a presenter on location for up to 2 minutes and can have pre shot footage (archive).

The critical case study / essay will be made up of 1500 words and will compare 2 news programmes that was aired on the same day from either BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 or Sky news.

The main objective will be to compare the similarities and differences including the following questions:

why was theses stories chosen on this day??

why was they presented in that way??

who they used and why these experts??

the way in which the show was presented using presenters in the studio the intro and package.

the impact these stories have on the public??

The deadline for this is the 8th of December and this includes both the essay and the video.