Channel 4- http://abdirahmanmohamed251.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/channel-4.html
2) TV News case study 2: BBC News at Six
3) TV News case study 3: coverage of the General Election across different news programmes
4) TV News case study 4: independent case studies (BBC3 60 Second News and Newsround)
5) News Values blog task
6) TV News audience - creating a running order
7) TV News representation - analysing Sky News coverage of the 2011 riots
abdi's blog
Thursday, 21 May 2015
channel 4
When is Channel 4 News on?
The channel 4 news is on at 7:00pm-7:55 pm
When was the programme first broadcast?
Channel 4 began broadcasting 2 November 1982 in the
afternoon.
What awards has the programme won?
Channel 4 news has won International Emmy Award for News
2014 2013, 2004 Also British Academy Television Award for
Best News Coverage
2012, 2004, 1996 Affairs Journalism 1994, 1993
What is the media institution that produces Channel 4 News?
Who are the presenters?
The presenters are Jon Snow Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Cathy
Newman
What are the presenters wearing? What does this communicate
to the audience?
The presenters are wearing smart cloths this tells the
audience that this is and new program and shows that there are professional.
Opening Sequence
The shot was about a serious topic on immigration.
The opening scene uses graphics and images to attract the
audience by making the opening news more modern and more appealing for the
viewer.
At the start of the news there was typical dramatic music
that was used.
In the start of the news they should the news stories that
were going come up in the show for the following hour.
Studio mise-en-scene
In the news programme you can see the desk and the TV
screen.
The presenters at the start of the programme are standing up
and then after the presenter are sitting down on a chair.
The technology is visible in the show to give a impression
that they have modern technology.
The colour that the studio used was mainly purple and the
secondary colour was white.
How news stories are presented
The new programme typically give a brief statement of what
the new is about and then show a short footage of the incident with a depth
explanation of the situation.
The programme uses camera to record the programme, they use
many reporter In the area, moreover use of graphics to give a modern effect to
the studio, has many interviews.
Channel 4 news normally covers: World News, S ports, Politics,
News stories on the election at the moment keep people
interested by having interviews with many political leaders. Another new story
was on migrants trying to get into the EU and the news programme shows live
footage to keep the watcher entertained.
Running Order
The top story was about the election.
The top story was on for about for about ¼ of the shows
timing.
Each story is spilt into equal intervals and one story is
about 5 minutes
This was because so that the audience don’t get bored on one
story only.
Audience
The main target audience is young adults aged between18-30
years old.
People are mainly likely to watch this is because of the
characters which are shown on the channel. The uses of the presenters attracts
the audience and the way is presented to the audience.
The audience have the ability to go on the website of
Channel 4 news and there they can comment on the news that they have watched or
comment on YouTube.
The audience pleasures from escapism and surveillance.
Thursday, 8 January 2015
Narrative theory
A retired CIA agent travels across Europe and relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter, who has been kidnapped while on a trip to Paris.In the movie Taken uses many narrative techniques typical of Hollywood thriller and action. Applying Propp's character theory, we have a clear protagonist in Liam Neeson character 'Bryan Millis' . He makes his mission to not rest till he he gets his hands on his daughter again. Bryan goes against the antrgonist
Todorov: equlilrium
Seventeen year-old Kim is the pride and joy of her father Bryan Mills. Bryan is a retired agent who left the Central Intelligence Agency to be near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim manages to convince her reluctant father to allow her to travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When the girls arrive in Paris they share a cab with a stranger named Peter, and Amanda lets it slip that they are alone in Paris. Using this information an Albanian gang of human traffickers kidnaps the girls. Kim barely has time to call her father and give him information. Her father gets to speak briefly to one of the kidnappers and he promises to kill the kidnappers if they do not let his daughter go free. The kidnapper wishes him "good luck," so Bryan Mills travels to Paris to search for his daughter and her friend.
Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
Newsround
Newsround is a 10 minute news programme, mainly appealing to young teenagers. Newsround is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children.
Newsround is a 10 minute news programme, mainly appealing to young teenagers. Newsround is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children.
- Time
Newsround starts at 8:15 an till 8:25
- Presenters
The presenters are the following:
Thursday, 13 November 2014
RELOAD
Movie name: Reload
Tagline: The true story
of a real fake
Log-line: Son of a framed father makes it his
mission to continue on the family name and infiltrates the NCIS for vengeance,
as he notices his faces the challenges of exposure from his uncle, who goes by
the name of Hitler Zeus
Reload is psychological action thriller movie, which follows the story-line
of a 19 year old teenager, Jack Crude, who servers the pain of the in existence
of his father. After having heard his father was murdered in United States of
America’s president elections, he decides to take action into his own hands and
attempts to avenge his long lived father. Jack insistently arrives
at the crime scene of his beloved father, where he finds him lying on the
concrete floor as the frozen rain hit his expired face, with a knife inserted into
his heart.
Reload offers an all-action
thriller element to the film Taken. The film provides appeal to late-teen
as well as adult audiences with an effective coalition of serious thriller,
and explosive action.
Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Poster Picture:
Key Convention:
-Title
-Release date
-Actors
-Central image
-Secondary Image
-Tagline
Actors-
The movie utilizes a professional as well as successful Hollywood star, Liam Neeson. This attracts many of the audience as he is well known for many action-thriller-horror movies. Liam Neeson is the main character of ' Non-Stop', which was seen to be the best action-thriller movie of Liam Neeson's selection.This is a productive way of appealing to many audience.
Central Image:
The Central image is of Liam Neeson whilst holding a M15 pistol in his right hand.
Key Convention:
-Title
-Release date
-Actors
-Central image
-Secondary Image
-Tagline
Actors-
The movie utilizes a professional as well as successful Hollywood star, Liam Neeson. This attracts many of the audience as he is well known for many action-thriller-horror movies. Liam Neeson is the main character of ' Non-Stop', which was seen to be the best action-thriller movie of Liam Neeson's selection.This is a productive way of appealing to many audience.
Central Image:
The Central image is of Liam Neeson whilst holding a M15 pistol in his right hand.
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