Task 3

Bulletin – A broadcast summary of news.

Headline – A heading that give a brief idea of what a story is about.

Copy only – No audio, public service information and local events.

Copy with audio – Clip from interview, lets the audio tell the story.

Wrap – A wrapped package which slots in to the bulletin, another reporter and audio clip.

Vox pops – Snippets of opinion on things from the public.

Two way – Conversation between news reader and reporter.

Live cross – Reporter live on the scene.

Voicers – Short report by another reporter.

BBC Newcastle news stories.

In the news on the 12^th march 2014 at 10 o’clock there was 8 stories all together.

1 – The malayisan plane is still missing, however they spotted a burning object in the sky near Vitenam.  They also interviewed a vitenam transporter on what he thinks of the incident.

-        Copy and audio story. They used this format so that they could give an insight into what peoples opinions are on the case. It is an international story so it shows the type of people who live over and are from the overseas country. I would  also of included plane sound effects in the background to show the effect of what they were focusing on.

2 -  A solider has been charged with murder of another coperal. They also found the body in a army barracks.

- Voicer. They used this format as they cut to another reporter where she included information on the story. This is good as it shows an expert on the story so they know what their talking about. It also has emotion in it as someone has been killed so it shows sadness towards the listener. The detail is explained a lot due to try and show the emotion within the story. I would include an soundbite with another solider who worked with the victim to show about how people are annoyed at the fact hes gone.

3 – Michael Suchmaker health after his skiing accident that left him in a coma.

-Copy Only. They used this format as they wanted to focus on the main facts and how he is doing because that’s what people are most turned too. This is due to him being a big global icon that people look up too and are intrested in. It brings emotion into the story due to him fighting for his life which comes across as hard news as he is popular in the public eye and death is not a nice thing. This is Negativity. I would of maybe added a soundbite of a doctor on cases such as skiing accidents.

4-  Newcastle United Youth Football team and also the headbutt by Alan Pardew on Hull City’s David Meyler.

-Copy and Audio. They used this format as they wanted to bring in the big story of Pardews attack. They wanted then to add the clip of the psychologist on what effects the behaviour off the manager to give another point of view of him to show the audience the other sides of the story. It also lets the audio tell the story which creates an impact on what the audience think.

5 – Ed Milband and the EU , Wethear or not Britian wants to be a part of it anymore.

-Copy only. This format was used as the story is self explanatory and has been in the news for a few weeks which is a currency news value. It is also a sized story as it effects everyone. It intrests more people that are into politics so they would of kept the story short as it is not as intresting.

6- Coal miners strike 30 years ago.

-Copy and Audio. This format is used as they want to include a soundbite of an interview with a Ex-Minor who striked on that day. This is too bring back memories to the older audience as it is can come across as a remberance. This will bring emotion as it will bring back memories too the minors and also people who remember the time it happened.

7 – National Smoking Day

-Copy. This is used because it is easy to explain as it says in the title. It is more to make people aware of the day and also that they should do it which promotes it. It could bring emotion as people could of lost family members etc due to things such as lung cancer which could be due to smoking. I maybe would of included a clip of someone talking about how they lost someone as is would bring more people to stop for the day and also may scare people so they stop smoking.

8- Backside challenge with Robbie Savage and Alan Shearer.

-Copy and Audio. This format is used as they want to give a clip of the famous Shearer to show the locality of the radio station. It also is put last as it is more of a happy story and comes across more as showbiz. It also then links it back to the presenters so that they can go into introducing songs etc.

Metro Radio news stories

1 – Labour Budgets and interview with White Dee from Benefits Street.

-Copy and Audio. This format was used as they used an example of what the parliament spend their money on for Britian. It also shows a point of view on what they think the labour should spend their money on. This is a size story as it effects the majority of Britian. The interview also shows a point of view on money due to her not being very wealthy and having to live of a certain amount of money to be able to provide  for herself and her family.

2- Unemployment fallen in the North East

-Copy. This story is big due to the locality of the story and also how it can affect many peoples lives. It can show emotion as many people listening could be one of them who are unemployed which could make them keen to work. It also can come across as a motivatior for people to contact in so they can try and get a career.

3- Anumission and shotgun found in a bush near Ashington.

-Copy. This format is used as they want to be able to get the point across as they want people to come forward as someone could of got hurt. This could be related to hard news as the police are involved with this due to it may being a suspisous encounter.

4- Seaham beach – environmental problems

-Copy. This story is about how the beach is being destroyed due to humans such as litter and eroding the paths etc. This story is to inform the public about the beaches environmenmtal problems and so they can realise how it could affect their lives.

5- changing the £1 coin/new EU laws

-Copy + audio. This format is used as they include voxpops in this story as they want to show opinions on the new coins and how it can affect things such as supermarket trollies. They also discuss the new EU laws so people are aware of what is happening.

Evaluation

Evaluation

We were asked to create two news broadcasts one for a local radio such as Metro radio and a National station such as Radio 1.

Before we could record anything we had to research and decide on the stories we were going to input into each bulletin. The local news bulletin we decided we wanted to include some local stories and also some big stories that people will be concerned or interested in such as the Malaysian plane going missing. We included stories for the Local bulletin like Abbie Kears from county Durham being attacked by a glass bottle; this was because it is in very close proximity to Newcastle and is a local story. Another local story was about a 5 year old girl who had just returned home to Benton in North Tyneside after a life changing operation is America. Along with this we also had a sport story about a Newcastle vs. Aston Villa match. We included sport as we wanted are target audience to appeal to both men and women. However we also included big stories such as are main headline being about the Malaysian airline. We thought this would be best to include as many people were curious of what was going on at the time and was very big in the public eye. This is seen as hard news so we made the bulletin more upbeat once we added a story about celebrities where we included the story about Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry kissing at her concert. We included puns here by including relative words like Twerking and Tongues.

For the BBC bulletin we decided on more nationwide and international stories rather than focussing on one particular place. Again we included big headlines like the Malaysian Airliner, a story on the ‘jobs guarantee’ if Labour wins the general election and Kelly Gallagher becoming Britain’s first ever Winter Paralympic gold. These are more national stories because the BBC Radio One is broadcast across the whole country. We also had a music story and a movie story. I felt that the stories we included in both stories were appropriate for both the target audience and the style of broadcast. This is because they were very new and fresh stories and also were big in the public eye.

During the recording and technical production we came across a few problems such as me not being able to pronounce some words like the overseas countries. However this made charlotte laugh which means we had to redo the bulletin to make sure it sounded as professional as possible. Also at the time we recorded one microphone didn’t work so we had to share a microphone which meant we had to try and position ourselves the same place to make sure that the sound levels were the same. This mean we could have improved are bulletin by including another microphone.

When evaluated by the rest of the class are results came out as average. However I wasn’t bothered due to knowing I could improve due to the microphone situation. I think we could have made it more professionally by putting better beds underneath such as a Miley Cyrus song underneath her segment. I think we could have sounded broader English when it came to the national news.

We made the news bulletins easy to tell apart as we include a jingle of BBC newsbeat at that start of the national news. The also fitness of the purpose was made better in the local bulletin as we found a lot of stories related to up north at the time. This would have also been the language and tone of voice we used matched the station.

7 - Radio One style bulletin

  my Radio one newsbeat with charlotte
https://soundcloud.com/bethany-kidd-1/bbc-newsbeat

Pre production task 5

This is the plan of the stories we would include within the bbc news bulletin.

BBC news bulletin

BBC News Bulletin Script

BBC Newsbeat with Charlotte and Beth

(JINGLE)

The Malaysian plane holding 239 people including the crew still remains a mystery as to where it is after the plane vanished from the radar almost 3 days ago.

The plane was en route to Bejing from Kuala Lumpur and last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a military source told Reuters.

"It changed course after Kota Bharu and took a lower altitude. It made it into the Malacca Strait," the military official, who has been briefed on investigations, told Reuters.

Police had earlier said they were investigating whether any passengers or crew on the plane had personal or psychological problems that might explain its disappearance, along with the possibility of a hijack, sabotage or mechanical failure.

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Labour commits to fund a "jobs guarantee" for the long-term unemployed for the whole of the next parliament, if it wins the election.

Labours General Election manifesto includes the jobs guarantee that they want to provide for 18 to 24 year olds. The scheme will offer jobs lasting six months paid by the tax payers.

If Labour come in to power after the election the jobs guarantee will last for the whole of next parliament from 2015 – 2020.

The initiative will also apply to adults aged 25 or over claiming Jobseeker's Allowance for two years or more.

 

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Kelly Gallagher is ‘delighted to be Britain’s first ever Winter Paralympic gold.

County Down skier Kelly Gallagher has said she was "delighted" to win Britain's first ever Winter Paralympic gold with victory in the visually impaired super-G in Sochi.

Kelly and her guide Charlotte Evans, clocked one minute 28.72 seconds on the Rosa Khutor course.

She said she was worried after a poor practice run a few days earlier.

We spoke to her about the event.

GOTO AUDIO NAME: Kelly Gallagher

OUT WORDS: Without her help

DURATION: approx. 20 seconds

"We really worked hard to get ourselves motivated again and excited and to try and have some fun today," she said.

"It was pretty bumpy and then coming down in the middle of it, Charlotte was telling me to get in attack and I wasn't listening to her.

"It definitely shows how much I need to rely on Charlotte and how amazing that she's been to guide me to gold because I wouldn't have been able to do it without her help."

She started skiing for the first time when she was 17 and began working with Charlotte Evans in late 2010.

After her win, the young athlete has little time to enjoy her win, with three more events to come at the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games, her attention is already focused on her next race.

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Hottest Day so far

Yesterday parts of Britain enjoyed high temperatures of 20.8 degrees in places such as Kent. Brighton beach was the destination of choice for most people and enjoyed the day in the sun.

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300 Sequel slays competition

The sequel to 2006 hit 300 has thrashed competitors at the box office this weekend.

$45.1m (£27m) was made in the US and Canada at the weekend and $87.8m (£52.6m) worldwide.

The film has not made as much as the first film but it has done significantly better than expected.

Set in Ancient Greece, it depicts a bloody sea battle between Greeks and Persians.

Outside North America the film was also top in Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Italy and the UK.

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Route 94 at Number 1

London based DJ gets to number 1 with party track ‘My Love’ this week on The UK top 40 biggest hits. For this being his first number 1 we asked him about how he celebrated.

GOTO AUDIO NAME: Route 94 Celebration

OUT WORDS:

DURATION: approx. 10 seconds

 

Pharrell Williams lost his top spot with Happy to the newcomer.

 

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We’ll be back again in an hour with more

 

(JINGLE)

Local news broadcast - task 4

this is the local news bulletin that me and charlotte recorded due to are research on local news
https://soundcloud.com/bethany-kidd-1/local-news-broadcast-beth-and

News Value

News Values

News values are a scoring system that media producers use. Galtung and Ruge 1965 analysed international news stories to find out what things they had in common, this then helped them rate the stories to see which story would rate higher and would make the lead or front page story. Every media organisation has its own news values based on what their target audience expect. There are many types of news values which are different in many ways from one another.

Negativity

Negativity is an example of a news value. This value is based around bad news such as things involving death, violence, damage or even natural disaster etc. they are always rated above positive stories due to the fact people feel emotion when something bad has happened and also shows the shock factor within the story. Bad stories sell better than positive ones due to it seeming more interesting and people can get more information out of it on what is happening. Examples of negativity stories that are in the news lately are the Amanda Knox story about the killing of the young girl in Italy. Another is the well-known actor Phillip Hoffman sadly passing away after his addiction to drugs, also the floods in the South of England is negative due to many homes being damaged.

Proximity

Proximity is stories that are about the closeness to the audience’s home. Audiences relate more to stories that are geographically close or someone from their own country. This is because it feels more locally known to the audience. For example the Olympics made Brits felt proud of the place they lived in. Another for the North East is the Tyneside Derby with Sunderland beating Newcastle 3 nil.

Recency

Recency is about trying to break the news first. This is too show that they are keeping the public updated with anything that is new that is happening. Newspapers are very competitive about breaking news first. For example Phillip Hoffman dying, this story made it straight into the news and was reported every time something new was found out. Another example is when the TV programmes were stopped on ITV to broadcast live to David Cameron becoming Primeminster.

Currency

Currency is the opposite of Recency. This is where stories have been in the public eye for a long time and come across as valuable. An example for this is the Madeline McCann story as new things keep showing up about sightings and also more appeals appear to find her.

Uniqueness

This is stories that come across unusual or unique. Its stories that are very rare, these stories don’t appear in the news a lot but when they do they are big stories. For example in the papers today (1/3/14) a man has had his leg sown on to his arm to keep the blood supply flowing well enough. Another example is the paper weekly world news where they included fake stories about big celebrities.

Simplicity

These are stories that are easy to explain and get the message straight across, such as a cat stuck up a tree. These stories are preferred over stories that are not such as conflicts or debates. An example of this is the the Oscars. The Oscars are well known and people know it’s for celebrities to collect awards for their talent.

Personality

Personality is stories that are centred on a particular person due to humans enjoying reading about them and what they have been up to. For example Miley Cyrus is in the human eye a lot due to the crazy things she does, a story of this is her video of wreaking ball being very different due to her having no clothes on. However some people say that this news value is bad and newspapers overate celebrities for what they are and what they do, however I think it is entertainment for the public eyes.

Expectedness

This is how expected a story is due to people knowing what these types of things are like due to hearing or experiencing them before. For example the Newcastle V Sunderland Derby, people expected trouble and that is what it exactly happened.

Elite Nations or people

These are stories that are based from other parts of the world. It is about nations that are classed as important in the British eye, for example the Russia invading Ukraine is a big story in the British eye due to it may having an effect on us.

Exclusivity

Exclusivity is a big factor for news organisations e.g. Newspapers and websites. If a news organisation is the first to break on a story they will rate that very highly due to the public like knowing things as soon as they happen.  For example when the photos of Prince Harry were posted the other newspapers that then got them from that newspaper had to quote in the story about that organisation publishing them which would come across as advertising that organisation.

Size

The bigger the story the more impact it has as it will affect more people and also the more money or resources it affects the higher the value it is. For example the Russia and Ukraine fight is a big story due to the amount of people it will affect due to it may going to a war. This is why size matters.

Task 4 local radio preproduction

This is mine and charlottes work to plan are news bulletin. We included a variety of stories such as hard news and entertainment, and also a few soundbites. we also included news values.

Local news broadcast script

Local news broadcast

(Jingles)

Savile victims ignored

An NSPCC report has found that many of Jimmy Savile’s Victims were ignored, laughed at or dismissed when first confiding in others shortly after being abused.

Some even told victims that they should feel ‘lucky’ that the late DJ has showed interest and be grateful for the attention.

A number of victims who were in hospital when they were abused told staff at the time but were not taken seriously.

GOTO AUDIO NAME:

OUT WORDS:

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The report found that Savile’s abuse caused massive repercussions throughout victim’s lives such as mental health problems, substance abuse and suicidal thoughts.

Nine year old recalls beer bottle attack

Nine year old Abbie recalls the beer bottle attack. Abbie Keers from East Stanley in County Durham was sitting in the front passenger seat of her grandmother’s car when a beer bottle was thrown through the window. She had to have emergency surgery to remove the glass from her face.

Abbie spoke to us about what happened:

GOTO AUDIO NAME: Abbie Recalls

OUT WORDS: than glass breaking

DURATION:

 

Her grandmother said she is doing really well. Police are yet to make an arrest.

 

Five year old girl returns home after life changing op

 

Five year old Lily Ketteringham, from Benton, North Tyneside, was greeted at Newcastle Airport by her family after a month in America.

 

Lily, who was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy when she was nine months old, went to St Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri, America, to have life changing Pioneering surgery to help her walk.

 

Doctors are hopeful that she will be able to walk unaided in the future.

 

Queen of twerking

Miley Cyrus is back at it again, but this time with another celebrity!

Miley was caught kissing ‘California girl’ singer Katy Perry last night at Miley’s Bangerz tour in the Staples Centre, Los Angeles.

The tour started last week which includes some crazy props such as a tongue slide. Miley also quoted after kissing Katy perry “I just kissed a girl and I liked it” in front of thousands of fans.

Newcastle vs Aston Villa

In sports news, Newcastle fans are delighted with their 1 – 0 victory at home against Aston Villa. Loic Remy was back for his first game since suspension and scored an excellent goal in the 92^nd minute with only 3 minutes extra time added.

We asked dedicated fan Kristian Ross on what he thought of the win.

GOTO AUDIO NAME: Fans thoughts on game

OUT WORDS:

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And Finally the weather for today is dry and partly cloudy with a high of 10 degree’s to show that spring is on its way.

Assignment 1 - Legal and Ethical Considerations

Assignment 1 – Legal and Ethical considerations

Within news production there are many constraints on media producers. Here I am going to explain each one.

Libel/ Slander

Libel and slander are both defamations used within the media etc. to show that it is a civil offence. Libel is a deformation via written words or images such as in a newspaper or magazine whereas slander is derfermation via a spoken word such as a news broadcast or radio. It is classed as a civil offence for reasons to protect the reputation of an individual.  For example of a slander case is that former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon filed against Time Magazine. The magazine had published a story on Sharon about during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon she discussed revenge  with Christian Phalangist leaders right after the killing of their leader Bashir Gemayel. She had filed 50 million dollars against the magazine however she lost due to lack of proof, but the New York court did conclude that the times article was false and defamatory.  When in court, cases are presumed false unless they are proven to be true. An example for a libel case is when comedian Frankie Boyle sued The Daily Mirror for £55,000 after the paper branded him as a Racist comedian.  Even though he used unacceptable language he proved to the dury that the paper misunderstood the context of his joke. The court found him “a comedian who makes jokes about race” rather than “a racist comedian”. 

Court Reporting

This is laws that are designed to safeguard the accused rights to a fair trial. This is when the defendant cannot be described as a killer but as the alleged killer. Court reporting should provide a fair and accurate summary of what happened. Court reporters can only write when in a case. Also reporters are not allowed to identify under 16 years old and also victims of blackmail, rape and other sexual offences. A example of a court reporting is Peaches Geldof named two mothers who let their babies is abused by singer Ian Watkins on Twitter. Publishing details which may identify the babies is a criminal offence. However soon after the tweet was posted it was then seen deleted. Also Watkins admitted that the Tuesday after he attempted to rape a baby. He then pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted rapes and 12 other offences including sexual assault and taking and distributing images of children. Another example of court reporting is a man who tweeted images according to be James Bulger’s killer Jon Venables who then received a 14 month suspended sentence after admitting contempt of court. This is because there is a global ban on publishing anything revealing the identity of Jon Venables. Within Radio two Beacon FM presenters Mark Peters and Lisa Freame discussed Ian Huntley’s testimony where Mark Peters said “It’s almost like the most unbelievably made-up story in the world ever, really, isn’t it? Well, I personally think it is. I can’t believe any member of the jury is going to believe that story.” This pair were then immediately sacked from their jobs and the station ran the risk of being held in contempt of court.

Privacy

In the UK there are no specific laws to privacy however there is Article 8 of the Human Rights Act 1998 is designed to provide “the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence.” This means people have different values on deciding what is ethical and what is not.  This is when some celebrities etc. go to court to get injunctions on some stories in their life. An injunction is preventing the media revealing certain information on grounds for privacy. An example of this is Ryan Giggs having an injunction over his affair with Imogen Thomas who was married to Gigg’s Brother. This was posted over twitter then later on court was revealed by parliament as this Manchester United star. Lib Dem MP John Hemming named the Manchester United star during an urgent Commons question on privacy orders. Using parliamentary privilege to break the court order, he said it would not be practical to imprison the 75,000 Twitter users who had named the player. The footballer's lawyers have also obtained a High Court order asking Twitter to reveal details of users who had revealed his identity after thousands named him. Another example is BBC presenter had an injunction with him believing that he had a child to an unnamed journalist. It wasn’t till later after he paid maintenance for several years before a DNA test revealed that he believed daughter was not his. Andrew Marr was the first public figure to admit trying to cover up his affair. When he was challenged by the Daily Mail he was embarrassed by his order and didn’t want to prevent the story being published anymore.

Election Law

When there is an election there is a restriction that applies to broadcasters. This is where they have to be impartial once an election is called which applies to TV programmes and News coverage. However this does not apply to newspapers, magazines, websites etc. as they have the freedom to support who they want. Rich newspaper owners can have a big part in the election due to helping elect the government they want. For example Rupert Murdock owns The Sun newspaper and could write a lot about who they want to run parliament. This becomes bad for the opponent parties as they haven’t got as much publicity and advertising to try and win the election. Also the story that became famous on the 11^th April 1992 ‘The Sun wot won it’ which is now a famous political catch phrase. This is as they campaigned against the labour party about how not to vote with them which helped the Conservative party on win the election. This is why they thank The Sun for persuading readers to not vote for Labour.

Legal Constraints

Legal constraints are all about being equal to one another. It is offence to feature racial or religious hatred within the media. This means they have to be careful for what they print or say over the media aspect. They also have to be careful through phone-ins as if something racist is said they could be prostituted. Also they can’t even allow balancing anti-racial views as racist remarks have still been said. An example of this is the John Terry case. This is when he was heard to have said racial comments to Anton Ferdinand, another footballer. This is where Sports news such as Sky Sports and Match of the day had to pixelate his mouth and blur out the sound of what he supposedly said as they could be prosecuted for featuring it live on air which could upset some viewers. Terry was cleared for the racial attacks and was seemed to be angry and upset over these claims.

The Official Secrets act

This was brought into the UK in 1911 due to concerns against foreign spies or saboteurs trying to find out information about stories in the UK such as the Royal Family. It was then brung back up in 1989 to decide on what could be withheld from the public and what could not, it included things such as security and intelligence, defence and international relations etc. An example of a story of this is about the Phone Hacking. The Metropolitan Police demanded a court order under the Official secret act to make the Guardian newspaper reporter to come clean about the phone hacking scheme. This is due to being involved in the phone hacking of Milly Dowler, the girl that was mudurded. Another story is the Navy Submariner being locked up for breaching about the official secrets act. This is because he offered information on a nuclear submarine to MI5 agents that seemed to be Russian spies. This comes across as betrayal not only to his colleagues but his Country.

Professional codes

OFCOM

OFCOM is a regulatory body which means it is accountable to parliament. It is also funded by the government. It covers broadcasting and telecommunications which the public can complain too if they are unhappy about something they see/hear on the TV. They also cover rules on the content for children, this is to make sure it is suitable for children to watch and that won’t upset them in anyways e.g.  Scary monster on a programme. They also cover the watershed which means that no swearing or inappropriate behaviour can be shown before 9pm. However parental control can be added for programmes such as sky movies where they show movies that may not be appropriate include pins.

Also BBC has their own regulations that can be found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/