1. Conventions of Television News
In this presentation I will be explaining the conventions of
television news.
2. • Archival footage
• Interviews
• L cuts over visuals
• Titles to tell us names
• Music at the beginning – serious, strident, forceful, official
• Ident – world, colour coding of BBC, names of cities,
• Mid shots of anchor behind newsdesk
• Seeing the newsroom behind
• Photos – slow zooms
• Rack focus
• Representation of anchor – serious, formal
• Anonymising faces etc
• Additional information provided visually
3. • Form: TV news bulletin
• · Structure: Headlines, news
reports, sport, weather
• · Content: Current affairs
• · Technical conventions: Codes and
conventions
• · Mode of address:
Formal, serious, informative (Commercial tv
news a bit less formal) Tries to be objective