TV News - Analysis of News Package

For my analysis, I decided to look at a BBC news package as that was the style of presentation we were going for with our piece.

On my first watch, I noticed that the first thing that appears on screen is a presenter lead intro before switching over to an on-location reporter speaking directly to the audience. This boosts audience engagement as you feel as though you are being directly spoken to and informed of the story by the reporter.

It then switches to a pre-recorded piece that focuses heavily on recorded sequences being intercut with interview footage as well as graphics that link directly to the story.

This image is from 'BBC News - UK Election: The View From Leeds' - 7th November 2019
Screenshot by me

As I know our piece was going to be similar to how the above package was presented, I wanted to focus on analyzing three key aspects, voice-overs, presenting to camera and GV shots (General views).

Presenting to the camera:
For this, we knew straight away that one of our pieces would be a piece-to-camera, so I decided to do more depth research into this. I found an article that gives more depth to why PTC's are important, a quote from this article explains why "Pieces to camera (PTC) are a way of adding impact and context, and to help to bring immediacy and authority to a report".

Voice-overs:
For voice-overs, this wasn't too much of a focus for us as our two pieces were more presenter lead, however, I still looked into VO's as we did have to use them at some point. For this, I looked into articles and I found one that spoke about the importance of voice-overs, saying about how they "provoke thought and emotion". This is something that interested me as I never thought about VO's like that and, while VO's weren't a big part of our piece, they still could be used to draw attention to important pieces of information.

General view shots:
GV's shots were extremely important to us as they would help us provide content to the piece as well as allowing us to edit in and out of interviews more smoothly. Once again, I looked into their important as they were a critical part of our piece. One article that I found explained that GV's were important due to enabling to make the sequence "visually interesting and dynamic" and "more interesting".

Research:
BBC News (2019). UK Election: The View From Leeds. [video] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4s7jDlqoY0 [Accessed 11 Nov. 2019].
BBC Academy. (2017). Pieces to camera: David Shukman - BBC Academy. [online] Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art20130702112133474 [Accessed 11 Nov. 2019].
CMD. (2019). Effectiveness of Voice Overs — CMD. [online] Available at: https://www.cmdnyc.com/blog/2016/1/20/effectiveness-of-voice-overs [Accessed 13 Nov. 2019].
BBC Academy. (2019). Self shooting actuality - BBC Academy. [online] Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/articles/art20130702112136087 [Accessed 13 Nov. 2019].

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