Just as a reminder really that the pre-lim material is asking you to get in role as someone who is thinking of creating an idea for a new early evening TV news show called 'News burst' on the TNN channel. The brief asks for: How are you going to appeal to 16-24 year olds with engaging news, that is of award winning quality. That is also the first to break new stories and uses a youthful style approach. They want your ideas for an opening sequence and social / web media.
So from this your questions will probably be :
Q1: A knowledge based essay question in which you are asked to respond to two or three bullet points (+any other things you can think of in your conclusion) about a question such as...
What makes broadcast news successfull?
or
How does Broadcast news currently try to appeal to its audience?
You need to focus first on the bullet points and write detailed paragraphs using examples from real news shows.
Use terminology and theory: e.g: Uses and Gratifications theory, Narrative theory (e.g; todorov and propp), Infotainment, Galtung and Ruges News values, Impartiality and bias, Mise en scene; (to create authority and trust), Representation theory such as institutional gate keeping and stereotyping. Regulation from OFCOM.
Q2: A pitch where you explain your ideas for the NEWSBURST show.
Its early evening on TNN channel.
You come up with the rest. Make sure you mention, presenters, studio, colour scheme and style. Style of reporting, types of stories. Mode of address, Special effects and graphics, interviews, logo and fonts, music etc.. and justify all your choices with good reference to the target audience.
You will need to explain which 3 stories you picked from the 6 they gave you and why
Use audience research data from your class book to help back up your ideas.
Q3: A storyboard for an opening sequence, that is 30 seconds long
Try and practice this before hand, time yourself doing it in 23 minutes, only use splashes of colour. Make sure you have a good range of shot types, lots of news iconography. Show the main stories and finish in the studio with the anchor.
Q4: The hardest one to predict but it will probably be something about your ideas and how they relate to the brief so it will have some overlap with Q2. It will probably also ask you for your ideas in social media and the web so come up with 5 or 6 really specific and detailed ideas for a range of social media, e,g twitter, instagram, etc
Ok year 11 good luck, you need to be practicing these questions at home and showing me them for feedback, you could even post them here as comments for feedback or leave a link to a photo of your handwritten efforts somehow !
So to help you revise here is another school revision website to help you. Have a look at the list fo topics on the right hand side of the page and it should help you.
So over the last week or so we have been trying to improve our exam technique and erformance by looking at the questions individually and seeing what needs to be done to reach A* standard.
These are 3 things that TV news does to help it become more successful. You can talk about these things in question 1 of your exam. Here are the lesson notes and resources.
So a numebr of you have tracked me down this week and asked how to revise for Friday's mock exam. Well here are some tips.
Firstly here is the preliminary material for the mock:
So what you need to do is go through it and highlight what you think they will ask you to do in an exam.
You will have to prepare a pitch for a product that meets the demands of the brief.
In an exam:
1 question will be around KNOWLEDGE OF EXISTING TV NEWS PROGRAMMES.. So an essay type answer explaining what makes real tv news show successful is what you need to prepare.
1 question will definitely ask you to PITCH YOUR NEW IDEAS for a new TV News show. You might be asked to comment on any of the following : Title, studio layout, Presenters, Colour scheme, House style, Types of Stories, Social Media usage etc etc ..
1 question will be a PRACTICAL DESIGN TASK : Storyboard for a credits sequence or a Design for a Website for your show, So you need to practice doing this at home in 20 minutes max
1 question could also be about how your ideas and design work MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE BRIEF AND TARGET AUDIENCE ( look at the prelim material above) So you need to justify your ideas in relation to Audience theory we have learnt in class.
Remember in any exam you need to try and use MEDIA TERMINOLOGY throughout and try and work it into your work at all times.
Ok 1 last thing is that apart from your books you can use the websites listed on this site especially :
Great work today in lesson year 11. Here are some of the news studios you created. I didn't receive all of them but hopefully these will get you thinking about creating your own brand.
So this week we sat a mock exam for just over 1hr 30 minutes . Having our first attempt at what a real exam might be like. Although we didn't have the preliminary material / brief to work with.
The mock exam is below:
As I explained in class the preliminary material is released 4 weeks before the exam, and usually sets it up as a creative brief for us to work on.
Below is the one from a couple of years ago, about Music Press:
Using the resources below can you try and find out the answers to the following questions:
A power point from Reuters News Agency:
1. What are the key findings of the reuters investigation ?
2. What percentage of people in the UK are interested in the news and how many are less interested?
3. Which country seems to be the most interested in the news?
4.What is the split in the UK between the 4 different platforms in terms of how people access news?
5. What are the three most popular types of news for people in the UK?
5. By how much has smartphone and tablet use of news grown in the UK in 2014?
6. Which age ranges generally use smartphones to access the news?
7. At what two times during the day does interest in news peak ?
8. Where are the top two places to access news (for uk consumers)?
9. What share of the market do new news companies like huffington post and buzzed have in the UK?
10. What are the top 3 social networks for news?
A selection of slides from OFCOM
Questions:
Which group in society consumes the most news across the 4 major platforms?
What is the single most important news source for adults in the UK?
What percentage of adults watch news?
What percentage of people use the internet as their primary source of news? what about TV?
What percentage of people only use BBCone for their news?
What percentage use three or fewer providers?
(fig.39) What percentage of 16-24s watch video news clips ? and make their own video news clips?
FINAL TASK:
(Answer in the comments section on this post)
What do you think news broadcasting companies can do to increase their share of the 16-24 market?
(300 words)