Anatomy of a Television Newscast: Structure, Content, and Presentation
E) particular formal structure of each newscast:
Every newscast has a few paragraphs:
1. Header and boot:
Identification is the presentation of the program, the greetings and the exposure of the first news. Form a fonovideotipo as in any program. Sometimes he joined in introducing variants striking images of the day, but more often they are images that have remained in the collective memory and are repeated in all the headers as an element of identity.
There are two variants of starts:
a) Amazing: the bust of the presenter directly announcing the news first and then offered the head.
b) By counting the clock back, then passed the first presenter announced the news.
In some TV news habits have been copied from the newspapers that top each number with a different phrase of a known personality as a reflection of the day, but not always linked to topics covered in the program. It always appears without comment added and is passed directly back to provide the summary.
2. Contents Index or owners:
It is a remarkable anticipation of the content of television news in a quick, attractive and spectacular. So we can make an identification of information, the aim is to seek the acceptance and interest from the audience. There are reports that are inserted and others in altering the order given above.
Types of presentation of the headlines or summaries:
– Opening news or news: a presumario and highlights the salient fact in some development.
The presenter can offer, pass to images with the voice or vice versa.
– Holders of general progress of the program or index of the program: offered by one or two voice-overs and images of each of the news. It has a great development because it has mounting images, banners or headlines. It come to constitute a block and made prior to installation: it is in a queue with all the news, it allows to enter data before starting the news. It can also mount video but it is difficult for last minute changes.
– Combined holder and development: the incumbents as a forward or a newsletter. Images are passed to the presenter’s voice-over and forward in short the main components of the news.
– Presentation of headlines before the development of some blocks: as it gives way to a new block will provide the relevant owners.
– Holders intermediate: the news are interrupted by one or more headings. Reinforce and recall information. Sometimes deleting everything of what has already been reported and only announces what will be developed later.
– Holders of closure: they own synthesis or summary of the end of the program. Fix the information to those who have seen the news or giving general information to those who have just joined.
3. Development. Peculiarities of the blocks or sections:
The news are usually grouped into blocks for the context and the location of the facts. There are reports that are accompanied by reports or chronic. Each newscast sets its own criteria for assessment of the issues, blocks or thematic areas, news. The time spent on each area characterized in the assessment of general noticias.En tend to keep all blocks in all the news, which creates an imbalance in the assessment of the news.
The protagonists are usually politicians and other celebrities and athletes. Other social actors appear only in cases of conflict.
Great regional imbalance, there is more presence of facts that occur in big cities and areas near the location of the production center of the station. Sections: national policy, regional, local and international economy and work, culture and society, events, sports, weather and services.
The organization of the blocks is a problem in qualifying for the location of each news item in a block.
The block is short, fast or brief news: they are short-term news without much significance, but interesting. There is a statement with the fact or data, and lasts 20 to 30 seconds. They are original stories and is sometimes chosen for their spectacular, high load carrying narrative. It is characterized by speed, so there are times that the viewer is not aware of its contents, so there is often abuse this formula. This block is used as a resource for news only minor and is considered to be disseminated. It is a quick assembly of images, incorporating a label and the information off. It is published together with others of the same character and is a block with your own pace. It has a double treatment:
– Installation of all short in a set in which there is a union by transitional forms
– Setting up direct jump: there is a risk that does not appreciate when a story ends and another begins.
The blocks are separated by sound bursts and sweeps of images or other effects. Within blocks is also the transitions between news: by direct jump from the end of the story to the screen presence presenter directly states the following news. You can be the case outlining national news, international and then return to the national.
4. Closing:
It has a dual function: Farewell and presentation of final holders. There closures:
– Spectacular: the dramatic story of an event, curious or aesthetic image.
Has original intent, reinforced or irony. The images have all the power for themselves.
– Peace and quiet: they usually occur in the evening news programs so people can go quietly to bed.
Also included are end with a final thought that revolves around the theme developed, is a very personal presenter with a recreamiento literary, poetic license and can give a new dimension to information with a tinge of irony. It is a brief reflection of 30 seconds. Often permeate the audience.