Applying Selection and Construction
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To make news and current affairs programming more entertaining for viewers, broadcasters should consider using exciting visuals and graphics, familiar character archetypes, keeping segments short and snappy, dramatizing or reenacting parts of stories, utilizing expert commentary, employing sensational language, and simplifying complex topics. Producers should also carefully select the angle and issues to focus on, choose appropriate interview subjects and questions, and craft compelling headlines while still adhering to news values of what makes a story newsworthy. However, dramatizing news for entertainment risks changing the real meaning of stories and undermining the veracity of the news.
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Applying Selection and Construction
- 1. How might a broadcaster make the news / current affairs more entertaining? Exciting visuals / sets / graphics etc Familiar stereotypical characters ie hero / villain Make it short and snappy Dramatise / Re-enact parts Use experts Make it sound sensational / extreme Make easier to understand - dumbing down How many of these did you get? Write down those you didn’t and LEARN THEM.
- 2. Think about the following things; - What angle / issue of the story will you focus on? - Who will you interview? - What questions will you ask? - What images will you show? - What words / voice over will accompany your story? (This needs to be written and read out) - What will your headline be? - Remember the NEWS VALUES we discussed about what makes a story “newsworthy.” You have 15 Mins to do this before you have to feedback your ideas to the rest of the class.
- 3. Things to think about How easy is it to change the real meaning of a story when making it “infotaining? How does it affect how “real” the news is?