factual programming doctumentary task 2

FACTUAL PROGRAMMING: LEARNING OUTCOME 1Task 2: Codes and Conventions.

STUDIO NEWSREADERSWeb definitions: someone who reads out broadcast news bulletin.

How does a studio newsreader impact the Audience? Their facial expression always looks very serious this makes

audience feel like the stories are very serious and may worry them more then needed.

The news readers are dressed formal and this impacts the audience because if they were wearing jogging bottoms and a hoodie you may not be as interested and not take it seriously

Studio newsreaders use serious faces but still slightly smile. Their eyes don’t look around all that much either.

They dress smartly and formal.

News readers don’t just read the text they scan the wording.

FIELD REPORTERS Yahoo answers: Field Reporter is as an analyst or a side line reporter. They just provide additional coverage.

How does a Field reporter impact the Audience? Although field reporters don’t dress as formal as studio newsreaders

they still need to dress formal to a curtain level so they don’t give the wrong impression.

They don’t usually dress as formal as studio newsreaders but they still dress formal.

Depending on how heart breaking the story is field reporters are usually very smiley.

LINKS TO STUDIOWeb definitions: They send a radio station's or television station's audio and video from the broadcast studio to a transmitter in another location.

How does links to studio impact the audience? As you get it from the people who are there, so you may get a

different prospective from the people who are nearing to home.

INTERVIEWINGWeb definitions: A conversation between a journalist or radio or television presenter and a person of public interest, used as the basis of a broadcast or publication.

How do interviews impact the audience? Interviews usually ask the public their opinion on an issue or problem

so this would give the viewers a different side of the story and not only the media’s side.

Interviews also can be with a victim or perpetrator so this would give the viewers different prospective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hzh1jZPOkU Youtube Example

EXPERTS AND WITNESSESWitness – Someone who observes what happened or occurred.

Expert – An expert knows the probable causation of what occurred.

How do experts and witnesses impact the audience? Witnesses have actually seen what happened and as they’re real

people they are more believable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmAbHSxnus Witness YouTube example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q8tA2iqaXo Experts YouTube example

REPORT STRUCTUREWeb definitions: Report structure is a structure containing a reporting clause and a reported clause or a quote.

How does report structure impact the audience? As soon as they start watching they can see the most dramatic news

which would keep them watching.

EXPOSITORYWeb definition: Intended to explain or describe something: "expository prose". How does this impact the audience?

They know more detail – this could effect their emotion towards the story.

OBSERVATIONALWeb definition: Experimental: relying on observation or experiment; "experimental results that supported the hypothesis". How does this impact the audience?

They have seen proof this again would effect there emotions.

INTERACTIVEWeb definition: Synergistic: used especially of drugs or muscles that work together so the total effect is greater than the sum of the two (or more).

REFLEXIVEWeb definition: Denoting a pronoun that refers back to the subject of the clause in which it is used, e.g., myself, themselves. How does this impact the audience?

They don’t loose track of what they are listening/watching to – this would mean they wouldn’t get bored and loose track of thought.

PERFORMATIVEWeb definitions: Relating to or denoting an utterance by means of which the speaker performs a particular act (e.g., I bet, I apologize, I promise).

REALISMWeb definition: An inclination toward literal truth and

pragmatism.

How does realism impact the audience? Because it’s real and believable.

DRAMATISATIONWeb definition: A prose or verse composition, especially one telling a serious story, that is intended for representation by actors impersonating the characters and performing the dialogue and action.

How does dramatisation impact the audience? As it’s a serious story the audience would listen and understand, but

as it’s represented by actors this would make it more interesting for them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKIA30mny9U Youtube example

NARRATIVISATIONWeb definitions: To make into a narrated account or story; to make into the form of a narrative.

How does narrativisation impact the audience? This would again make it more interesting for the viewer as they can

imagine it themselves and make their own characters instead of the actors in dramatisation.