News Analysis

24 hour news channel


Shots and Framing:
They use mostly long and medium shots to show space shuttle on the back of the aircraft as it passes over the city. This also allows the viewer to see famous places over which it passes or places they may know allowing the person to feel a part of the story.

Camera Angles:

It uses mostly low camera angles not to create an effect but just because of the logistics of trying to film it from the air.

Camera Movements:

The camera moves with the shuttle as it passes over the city, using panning and tilting, to keep the audience with the action.

Lighting:
The light was just the natural light at the time which slight is slightly gloomy possibly adding to sadness of the end of the shuttle era.

Editing Techniques:
The only technique is cutting between cameras to keep the shuttle always in view and not a to far a distance.

Sound:
There is background noise of the area where the camera is allowing the viewer to feel closer to the action. Also the presenter gives a voice over with some interesting facts of the shuttle and the era.

Bias:
In this report it is difficult to have bias because there is only footage of the event that is live and the can only be a bias in the mood of the event which is made to be slightly sad because its the end of the shuttle era but this will allow the way for a new age of space flight.



Normal news program


Shots and Framing:
The story starts with the reporter introducing the biggest stories of the day, it uses a medium shot to show the reporters face and area around this give the audience the feeling that they are talking directly to them. Next they cut to clips from the main stories. After this is the first story in detail where the reporter starts by giving the important information with the same shot mentioned above to give the same effect. As the story advances they go over to their correspondent who voices over some footage of the event that uses different shots to show the scale of what happened and the destruction caused. Also they have interviews that use the medium shot to make the audience feel as though they are there in the conversation.

Camera Angles:
In the report they use eye level for anything where they want the audience to fell as though they are in the action or viewing it themselves. Also used are high and low shots to show the scale of the destruction and the area as a whole.

Camera Movements:
The camera pans and tilts to look around at the area when the show the damage or footage from the incident but is always fixed on the person if they are talking to the camera.

Lighting:
The light in the studio is quite high to give the feeling of space but during the other shots from the area and event it is ambient or dark like in the case of footage of the rioting.

Editing Techniques:
They cut between the different parts in a way that takes you from the beginning to the end of the story giving you the context of the story and lots of other information.

Sound:
the sound is of the reporter or one other person. in some place the audio contains background noise like the footage from the night.

Bias:
In this report it puts heavy emphasis on the bad and destruction but does give lots of content and information the back this up. The low and high camera angles make the destruction possibly look bigger as it was confined to one street. This is the use of Dramatisation making things look big but if we think that this is very rare in a modern developed country.