This document summarizes common television news conventions used to make information more believable and engaging for viewers. These conventions include using archival footage and eyewitness interviews to provide evidence, L-cuts between the anchor and visuals to convey information quickly, displaying names and titles to personalize sources, incorporating music and identifiers to set the tone and familiarize viewers with the program, showing the anchor and newsroom to establish authority and activity, and slowly zooming photos to provide reassurance and evidence. The anchor presents information in a serious, formal manner through suits and demeanor to appear trustworthy.

1. Television News ConventionsArchival Footage
Archival footage is used to give evidence of what’s going on; makes it more believable to the public.
Interviews
This helps make it more believable to the public because it gives evidence that there at the scene of whatever happened and if they’re
eyewitnesses then it will reassure the viewers that the information is reliable.
L cuts of over visuals
They use L cuts because it gives the viewer some footage as the anchor speaks about it to give lots of information very fast.
Titles to tell us names
Showing us their name and professions shows the viewers personal information which will subconsciously make the viewers comfortable with
the person.
Music at the beginning
This will make the audience get into a serious mood which gets the audiences full attention. This also gives a sense of Recognition and
individuality.
Ident
A TV news programme can be familiarised just by the intro, it normally consists of a shot of the world to jog your memory that its world news
time.
Mid shots of anchor behind the desk
This shows that the anchor is in charge, they hold all the information and they are ready to share it to the world.
Seeing the newsroom behind
This shows the audience that the news team is constantly working to the get the right information for you.
Photos – Slow zooms
Using photos gives the audience reassurance and evidence of the information they are giving out.
Rack focus
Representation of anchor – Serious, Formal
The anchor is wearing a suit which makes them look smart, important and Serious; This makes the audience feel safe receiving information from
these people.
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