BN - Unraveling the Components of Broadcast News (Lesson)

Unraveling the Components of Broadcast News

Introduction:

Every day we are inundated with a variety of news shows, some for entertainment and some truly enlightening and factual. These shows could share celebrity gossip, late-breaking news, feel good morning shows, or specialty shows such as sports or weather. Let’s break down some of the different types of news stories, and how they are created regardless of the genre of the news show.

Unraveling the Components of Broadcast News

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Types of News Stories

Regardless of whether you are a sports caster, news reporter, or anchor, these different types of reports apply. When broadcasting you need to make sure that you use the proper camera and camera shots. Editing will also play a huge part in some of the segments such as the sports highlights.

Which News Story Review

Accessible Answer Key: Types of News Stories (Part 1)
  1. Reader – An anchor is standing in front of the camera with no graphic showing for about 20–25 seconds.
  2. Voice Over – You are an anchor who is introducing a story that transitions to the footage at around 5 seconds in, and then natural sound plays under the anchor’s voice as he or she tells the 20–45 second story.
  3. As-if-Live – You were unable to get to the location to broadcast the story live, but you edit the wrap-arounds to create the full story as if live.
  4. Sound-on-Tape – The anchor introduces the soundbite that includes key information and a graphic about the person speaking. This includes a 10–15 second soundbite of the full 25–45 second story.
Accessible Answer Key: Types of News Stories (Part 2)
  1. Package Report – This is a story that includes audio and video that the news reporter narrates. This could be like a humanitarian story or full interview.
  2. In Studio Report – You are a news reporter who comes into the studio to tell your story. The anchor introduces you, and then after both anchor and reporter are on screen, it transitions to full screen reporter. The anchor tags the story.
  3. Voice Over/Sound-on-Tape – Starts with the anchor on camera again. After a few seconds we cut away to the video (voice-over). At the right moment the anchor stops talking and the soundbite comes up with a lower third graphic. There may or may not be video after the SOT. The anchor tags the story on camera.

Five Ways to Identify Fake News

One factor that must be considered is the idea of fake news, and how to avoid it when creating your news show. How many times have you been on your social media apps, and you have been saturated with some fake news that was so ridiculous but everyone was in a media craze spreading it around? Watch the video, Five Ways to Identify Fake News, to learn ways to ensure news is real and not fake. 


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