Tuesday 5 May 2015

Case study 3: news stories covering start of General Election campaign 2015


1) What is the angle of a news story? Give an example to explain your answer.
    a news angle in the perspective that the news provider takes on a certain event.
2) What is the difference between tabloid and broadsheet news coverage?
    the difference between the two type are the tabloid dont take news as serious and they are mainly talking       about celebrates. where as broadsheet talk about politics and more important and formal news.
3) What would be an example of a tabloid-style TV news programme?
    sky news4) What would be an example of a broadsheet-style TV news programme?
    bbc news5) What is the difference between international, national, regional and local news coverage?
    international news is world news.
    national news for us is in the UK.
    regional news is London/Yorkshire and Scotland.
    local news would be around London,Leeds and Edinburgh
Answer the questions on the election coverage clips...
BBC News election story - via YouTube
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
    this would be national news
2) What angle does the report take on the story?
    the story takes a UK angle (David Cameron or Ed Miliband)
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
    this is more broadcast style.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
    people that are more likely to vote Labour or Conservatives 
Sky News election story not available online - use your notes
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
    national
2) What angle does the report take on the story?
    the angle for this is slightly more David Cameron (no Labour votes)
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
    This is a tabloid style.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
    mainly people that are with the Conservatives would want to watch this because theyre voting for him      v       because they want to see what he has to say.

STV (Scottish) coverage of the election story
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
    national because its to do with Scotland who are apart of the UK 
2) What angle does the report take on the story?
    the angle for this one is more to do with Scotland 
3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
    this would be a 50 50 because its formal and its also not at times.
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
people that are living in Scotland because they're going to be voting for their area so they want to here about the election. 
Channel 4 News coverage of the election story.
1) Is this international, national, regional or local news? How can you tell?
    regional2) What angle does the report take on the story?
    they talk mainly about labour,conservatives and ukip but i think it was more towards David Cameron                 because they also talked about him saying bad things about Ed Millaband 3) Is this more tabloid or broadsheet-style coverage?
    boradsheet
4) What kind of audience would you expect to watch this type of TV news programme? Why?
    people that are going to be ether voting for Labour or conservatives 

   

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