Friday, 14 November 2014

Digital News Production: Critical Case Study Channels

I have chosen to do my essay on the news form 2 news reports on Thursday 13th of November from Channel 4 and BBC. Here are my notes from watching the two 1 hour long programs:

4 news:
Starts with a sum up

  • London news - Mayor selling docks to Chinese company 
  • International - Ebola and the containment 
Next is the intro with images if upcoming news in the show.
A guy walks up to Boris Johnson and asks him a question, then jumps to John Snow in the studio.
  • London/international news of the selling of the docks 
  • space story - rescue of rosetta 
  • Economics with parliament story of Ed Miliban's Labour speech 
  • International - Ebola and how they are containing it 
  • Local - Women accused of terrorism 
correspondant live at the London docks.
Interview with Boris Johnson live - looks at the floor and avoids the question asking 
Interview with expert 
Interview with Chinese company over the phone 
Reporter at tower bridge 
back to the studio with John Snow 
Presenters talking about the space story of Rosetta 
Some landing footage with V/O
John interview expert from studio 
He then cuts the guy off while talking but maybe due to the delay
next story- Ed Miliband standing up talking about what Labour are going to do if they win the election
Foxpops in Essex on Milibands opinions 
Live to Rochester for interview with Nigel Farage - he wouldn't let presenter talk and was very defensive 
Ebola story live 
Interview with uni student (scientist)
Interview with bricklayer - hard to understand what he said
Interview with Royal engineer 
Interview with head teacher about the closed schools
Statistics on Ebola in the neighbouring countries 
Interview with women - strong accent so struggle to understand
Sports story- world cup bidding 
Interview with Fifa 
Reporter asks part of the bidding team questions on what happened
Interview with the accused terrorist/smuggler 
Facebook messages of threats
Shots of her music video
Tagline and shots form the program 

To me this is a long program that jumps a lot and has a lot of fast editing to fit so many stories into the hour but not sure some are necessary and feel a bit rushed and copied from other days, the big story about the docks isn't really surprising as its the local big story of the day but there was a lot of conspiracy and interviews where nothing told us what they really found out. The other conspiracy story was the Fifa bidding which England was gutted about and no one understand how Russia won they are staying it was fixed. This program has a lot going on in different orders from the studio to live to interview its a bit confusing. 

BBC: south east 

Sum up 
  • Fifa bidding war
  • Space - Comet Rosetta
  • Politics - Ed Miliband 
  • International - Sira war - Libea 
  • Local- Dad shot daughter 
  • protection for winter weather 
Intro of the studio 
Presenter standing talking about the Fifa corruption 
Fifa chairman speaker 
David Cameron + prince William talking 
Statistics 
Interview with England bidder (bribery) 
Interview with FA(Fifa Association) same as channel 4 
Interview in studios with sports editor 
Space - same footage as 4 but more of it 
Immigration - live from parliament talking about splitting form the EU 
Political - Ed Miliband same as channel 4 but more
same UKIP footage with Nigel Farage 
Paedophile story in detention centre with interview with worker and patient 
Sum up again pan of studio 
Syria's war presented in the studio (standing) 
Reporter on location - guy smoking but is a refugee, no where to go but to smoke in a park with their families 
Footage of Syria with V/O
Footage of France where they keep moving around
Children dancing and interview 
Sky sports footage of cricket (V/O in studio) 
100th year of studios production at the studios that made eastenders coronations street and many films
footage from different productions made there
interview with Steven Spielberg 
weather in studio 

Thats just the end of the first half which is the world news the next 30 minutes is the south east news so more local stuff which was mention in the sum up at the beginning, I think this should all be one program and not sure why in 2 halves unless for an advert break. 

Starts with story on the dad that killed his daughter and her mother outside there house
interview with charity
archive footage of interview with the mother 
reporter live on location but nothing happening 
protection of weather measure are being sorted after last years power cuts 
interview with a victim and archive footage
Statistics 
Copying the same piece of footage of a man cutting a tree
Interview with an electrician and a member of the british red cross 
coming up - debt classes for kids 
interview with child abuse and a surviver 
studio- drug place, murder
Live at dover talking about protests for jobs, so ferry travels will be cut 
Euro star increases its trains to 200mph 
Interview with CEO of Eurostar 
Sum up again - top story of man killed daughter 
Battle for votes in Rochester and Stood 
Interview with health secretary at muslim place and at pharmacy and bookers
Live at Rochester but nothing happening 
wed site with Facebook and twitter feeds 
presenters moved to sitting on a sofa instead of a desk
children paying money into "banks" to learn the value of money and debts 
Interview with head teacher and students plus experts 
Foxpops interviews 
weather 

I feel like much more was happening in the BBC news as there was more notes but that the Channel 4 was quicker and more confusing, the footage and stories from both channels are fairly similar even the same footage in both. The BBC has a brighter vibe to it as it used white in its back ground which gives a better feel to the program rather than the red in channel 4. There can be a lot to talk about in my essay with all these notes and why each channel picks which stories and why it leaves some out plus the way they present each story.



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