TV News - Entire Channel Analysis

This Morning:

This show is a breakfast TV show broadcasted on ITV.
Image: This Morning logo. (2019). [image] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Morning_(TV_programme)#/media/File:This_Morning_TV_Logo.png [Accessed 13 Nov. 2019].

Typical structure features:
  • Live and features news
  • Topical items
  • Showbiz
  • Style and beauty
  • Home and garden
  • Food
  • Health
  • Real-life ...and more

Focuses: - Presenter:

A lot of the show is presenter-lead, with shows mostly being presented by two duos: Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, and Ruth Langsford, Eamonn Holmes. For this show, all of the presenting is done within the ITV studio, for Holly and Phill, much of their presenting is done through either having live-guests through small pieces or through interviews with special guests on couches. Because of this, the audience feels drawn in and the presenters are friendly and have good chemistry together, this is because the show isn't as formal and 'scripted' as BBC News, this is noticeable through any episodes of the show, which shows the presenters as far-cries from BBC styled.

Graphics:

In the show, a graphic at the bottom middle of the screen, the title of the piece going on is always on-screen, making sure the audience doesn't forget what is currently being spoken about. This is good, not only to keep the audience focused, visually on the story but also to any new viewers who may come in halfway through a story, so they are clear on the context of what is happening.

Branding:

The show's color scheme is always bright colors and bold writing. This is important for the brand as it draws the audience in due to the bright and attractive colors. This is better than just using a bland scheme as it would turn viewers away and they wouldn't be anything visually pleasing.

Conclusion:

For our piece, all of these aspects are extremely important as even though our brand is aimed at 18 - 35-year-olds it needs to have an attractive presentation, we also need to focus on a lively studio piece to draw in our viewers.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dungeness - location project

Image
On Thursday, our class went to Dungeness for a day location project. For our pre-production phase on Monday, we went into groups of three (I was with Alyssa and Katie) and were instructed to write a 2/3 page script which we could film at Dungeness (Thursday) and then edit today (Friday) for screening on Monday in front of the class. After looking up Dungeness on Google Maps for location inspiration, we found two key areas we wanted to use.  The abandoned shed (left) and the beach front (right). These two areas gave us the inspiration for our script, which was about two friends who has returned to the beach where their friend had died. The beach front represents where the friend died and the shed represents where they used to hang out as a trio. Myself and Alyssa chose to be the two character on-screen, while Katie was our narrator and third character in the occasional shot. As there is no dialogue in our script (instead we have a voice-over from the narrator), we relied on
Read more

Year 3, pre-production - Camera workshop

In our first workshop of the year, we were given the chance to work with the new Sony A7 cameras and test them out, as well as see how to work them. Unfortunately the file size is too big, possible because I my have been recording for too long, but in this  recording test I did which had the focus adjusted so Sam and Logan where the focus (sharpest) images, while the tables and background were slightly blurred to given more attention to the two of them. It was a lot of fun to test these cameras out, as well seeing the quality they have compared to the other cameras we have previously used, as well as tis, we also learn't that they have capabilities for slow motion and low light, which can look incredible when done right.
Read more

Richard Grannon interview and transcript

Image
For the first interview of our documentary, we interviewed Rochard Grannon who runs 'Spartan Life Coach', Richard is an 'NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) master practitioner, is passionate about helping people defend themselves, get back on their feet and finally free themselves from narcissistic abuse'. He also focuses on social media and aspects of it alongside social media. We choose Richard for this interview as we felt we could get two elements of both mental health and social media in one. We interviewed him on the 5th of May for roughly twenty minutes exploring how social media can affect mental health and how it has affected our society as a whole. Below is the interview video from that day. For transcribing his interview, I played through his interview many many times in order to write down his answers to every question Aodhan asked. Below is the link to the interview transcript:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ciFq6nMqdTa_qTRSy0uY4tUjOYzylh8mn2AD8
Read more