How you tell a video news
story depends on the medium you are using.
The concept of news
and what makes the news also depends on the audience and type of institutional
culture the medium has. For example, SBS, ABC and Channel 9 run very different
news programs.
News is also very
ephemeral. A car crash could lead to a piece in the afternoon bulletin while
traffic is jammed, but the story might disappear by the next bulletin.
So time is an important
aspect of the news day and what makes news in broadcast.
So what is news and how you
produce it in broadcast depends on:
- the nature of the medium itself;
- the nature of the organisation you’re working for
- the timing of the news
In this class you will be
learning how to make content for news—both shorter and longer news pieces. The
decisions you will make will be about what sounds, image and content will most
effectively tell a news story in the time that you have.
We will be thinking
about story telling; we will think about the components of a broadcast news
story and where you find them; we will be thinking about the story telling
constraints you will be faced with.
We also want you to think
critically about the role that you have as a professional journalist.
You may have been exposed
to media law or journalism ethics in previous classes –and my opinion is that a
journalist needs to be completely transparent about the decisions that you made
to come to the story that you are telling.
In this class we
don’t talk about being entirely objective—that’s impossible.
The things that you report
will be coloured by your own perspective. But it is important to obey
regulations and law, and to be transparent about the way you got your story,
especially in the digital age where audiences can follow your story online.
The first thing you
need to think about in that process is how you tell stories ethically.
Why?
Because the
distribution of news comes with obligations and responsibilities about how that
information was provided.
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