BBC News at 6 case study

Basic details

1. British Broadcasting Corporation 
2. BBC is funded by tax payers money
3. Inform, educate and entertain
4. There remit is to be BBC's most popular mixed-genre TV service 
5. They present a variety of stories from around the world

Presenters

1. It's presented by Fiona Bruce, Sophie Raworth, George Algiah.
2. The presenters are dressed formally and this implies that the news is serious
3. They do this to engage other ethnicitys to watch the news rather than white British males/females.
4. The news is presented in a formal way to the audience.
5. There is a balance between the presenters and ethnicity of them. This communicates to that audience that all ethnicity's are expected and can watch the news.

Opening sequence
Analyse the opening 2 minutes of the programme.

1. The very first shot is the presenter
2. The graphics, videos, pictures ect are used to grab the audiences attention so they see the news stories presented in a unique and more appealing way
3. Dramatic music is played during the opening sequence.
4. The stories cover sports and serious topics. They present a small clip of each story before its shown.

Studio mise-en-scene

1. The audience can see the establishing shot of the studio and where the presenters sit
2. The presenters are standing up and this is to present the stories in a formal way
3. The technology is viewed by the audience.
4. BBC News used the colour red in the studio.

How news stories are presented

1. The BBC News presents stories in a serious way. They don't have personal opinions so they aren't bias
2. The programme uses presenter to camera, reporter on location, interviews, graphics and videos.
3. BBC cover news about sports stories such as football and tennis, politics with the upcoming election and stories from around the world are about isis. 
4. The use of graphics and the use of reporters on the actual location.

Running order

1. Watch the first 15 minutes of the programme – as recent as you can find.
2. The top story is Nepal Earthquake.
3. 8 minutes 
4. A male nurse sentenced to 18 years in prison for filming himself abusing and spying conscious  unconscious female patients, enquiry  2 children died in Yorkshire from carbon monoxide poisoning (8years ago), legal HIV self test on sale, labour stamp duty pledge for first time buyers, election 2015.
5. less than 5 minutes
6. to understand each point and view offered about the story.

Audience

1. 16-35 white British people
2. 4 million average
3. Is not as bias as news channels such as sky and fox and is presented in a more formal way.
4. through twitter and the website

Institution

1. BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, CBBC, Cbeebies, BBC News Channel, BBC Parliament, BBC ALBA, BBC World News
2. Ofcom regulates the content of the news to make sure that the stories are not from one point of view and that there aren't any personal opinions or comments.

TV News and New/Digital Media

1. YES 
2. stories they've missed out on and a chance for them to share their ideas.
3. yes
4. The audience can interact with the live programme and also give their own opinions and comments about the stories.
5. through the website and twitter.

TV News: representation and bias

1) Sky News present bias views on their stories

2) The police are presented has being heroic

3) Young people are presented as being dangerous and causing disruption to the peace in society.

4) They use video footage on the incidents and interviewed the police.

5) ''hidden and masked'' was used to describe the young people and this paints a negative view of them in society.

6) The most important part of the story was the police's point of view. This is to present the younger people in society to be wild and the police offers to be the hero.

7) The story starts off with clips of the riots and then moves on to a police officers point of view. It continues to show footage about what happened and from there shows the damage that's been caused after the riots.

8) The equilibrium was fine and nothing was disrupting the peace. The disequilibrium is when the rioters attacked the city. The new equilibrium is when the city and to be fixed and replaced.

9) In the story, the villains are the rioters as we can see that the presenters are showing violent clips of them and not of the police. The heroes are police as they are represented as helping everyone and making the world better and safer.

10) Citizen Journalism was used to display the burning building along side the police man showing that the rioters are bad.

BBC 60 second news case study

BBC3 60 Second News

1) Watch these YouTube clips of the BBC3 60 Second News:

 
 
2) They use the key conventions by having someone who presents the news, graphics and videos to present the news and a bar at the bottom to show news stories.

3) The presenters are Sam Naz, Ben Mundy, ChiChi Izundu, Tina Daheley. They are younger presenters and are dressed less formal and more casual compared to other news programmes.

4) 4 reporters are used when presenting the news.

5) The studio has a lot of graphics and shows how long the news is. The news is presented on a phone and a tablet.
6) The opening shot is the 60 Seconds logo and this fits in with the key conventions as its showing the logo of the programme.

7) The news is mainly presented by the use of video clips and this is shown by a graphic phone and tablet.

8) The target audience is between the ages of 16-25 as its shown late on TV and talks about more entertaining news than serious topics that have happened. It also presents the news in a shorty space of time.

9) People can get involved with the channel through social media and there are young people that have been shown on the channel. This is done through the news stories and through a young presenter.

10) The stories covered were about sports, school, an actor and only 1 world wide story. The first story was the one that was worldwide then about tennis, talking about schools and then about football towards the end. The sports section was shown for the longest amount of time.

Running Order

BBC News at 6

• Israel has shelled a residential area of Gaza killing around 25 civilians.
• Gunfire has been reported on the streets of Moscow although no there are no details as yet regarding who has opened fire or why.
• David Cameron’s office has announced he will be visiting Washington next week to meet President Obama.
• Two prisoners convicted of armed robbery have escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London.
• A well-known politician has been named on Twitter as being investigated by police for fraud.

Channel 4 News

• A well-known politician has been named on Twitter as being investigated by police for fraud.
• Gunfire has been reported on the streets of Moscow although no there are no details as yet regarding who has opened fire or why
• An anti-austerity march against government cuts has been held in London today and was attended by 50,000 people. The protest was calm.
• David Cameron’s office has announced he will be visiting Washington next week to meet President Obama.
• Two prisoners convicted of armed robbery have escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London.

BBC Newsround

• Lady Gaga is in London and has been spotted jogging in Hyde Park.
• Cheryl Cole has announced she is pregnant.
• A tweet by Miley Cyrus telling a fan to ‘get a life’ has started a ‘Twitter storm’.
• David Cameron’s office has announced he will be visiting Washington next week to meet President Obama.
• 20 people were killed in 15 different road accidents over the previous weekend.

BBC3 60 Second News

• A well-known politician has been named on Twitter as being investigated by police for fraud.
• A tweet by Miley Cyrus telling a fan to ‘get a life’ has started a ‘Twitter storm’.
• Cheryl Cole has announced she is pregnant.
• David Cameron’s office has announced he will be visiting Washington next week to meet President Obama.
• Lady Gaga is in London and has been spotted jogging in Hyde Park.