Learning Outcomes "Back to Reality"

Outcomes:
Grading Criteria (Pass)
Evidence
7.1
Describe technologies, ownership and funding in the television and film industries
Research ownership of news media. Produce PowerPoint describing ownership, consumption and funding of the main news paper and news channels in the UK and overseas
(This will be used for your key skills comms)
7.2
Describe the characteristics, duties and responsibilities of management, creative and technical jobs in the television industries
In your production team produce a magazine article which is a guide to working in the media industry. Your target audience is 14-18 year olds and your article must include information about at least four roles and include pictures/illustrations
(This will also be used for key skills comms)
7.3
Describe ethical obligations in the television industries with
appropriate use of subject terminology
Class discussion, notes research on Hutton enquiry
film which evidences your understanding of the Hutton enquiry and
impact on public service broadcasting
7.4
Prepare personal career development material using basic formal language
Produce an electronic portfolio on i-web showcasing your skills and work experience for potential employers
23.1
Describe job roles and the writers role within the commissioning process
Magazine article guide /annotated research
Documentary news script with details of stories covered
23.2
Collect and prepare suitable background material for an intended script
Script planning of presenter, interviews, vox pops. Planning of live script with ACCURATE timings

23.3
Be able to produce script proposals. Including title of script, overview of genre, USP, initial scenarios etc
Research a pitch proposal which will include an overview of your production, details of research and target audience for your documentary.
23.4
Pitch the prepared proposal expressing ideas with sufficient clarity
Produce your pitch to an audience on PowerPoint, this must include
research, handouts and a Q&A session
23.5
Produce a script for an identified purpose working within appropriate conventions
Documentary film which evidences working script which includes information on public service broadcasting. Completed live script, completed scripts for interviews and presenter
35.1
Demonstrate and understand techniques used by professional interviewers or journalists, expressing ideas withsufficient clarity
Essay exploring the purpose and style of three different interviews on three program formats, analysing codes and conventions of interviews techniques used
35.2
Conduct research for preparation and interview planning with some assistance
Interview planning/production file, script
35.3
Design interviews for identified purposes with some assistance
Documentary planning and production journals
35.4
Conduct and record interviews for identified purposes with some assistance
A range of documentary interviews with news-team. Some formal/informal/serious content/
Evaluation

Interview planning

Unit 35 Interview Planning

Outcomes
• 35.1 Demonstrate and understand techniques used by professional interviewers or journalists, expressing ideas with sufficient clarity
•35.2 Conduct research for preparation and interview planning with some assistance
•35.3 Design interviews for identified purposes with some assistance
•35.4 Conduct and record interviews for identified purposes with some assistance

Interview planning tasks

1.Write a brief description of your interviewee and the subject. Include the possible length of the interview
2.Who are you interviewing? Give us some background information
about the interviewee and the subject. Will your interviewer introduce the interviewee. How will they introduce them – background info greeting
3.What will be in shot for the interview? Eg if you want to create a homely setting you could include a picture frame, if you want it to look like a behind the scenes interview you would include some technical equipment.
4.Where are you going to conduct the interview? What will be the background shot for your interview? Eg plain white wall, moving background from street, green screen, studio with cameras in background. Explain why you will use this background. 5.How many cameras are you going to use for your interview? How are you going to record sound? Are you going to include noddies?

6.Type of shot for interview. Will it be a medium close-up, close-up? Will you change the type of shot as the interview goes on? You could mimic other interview styles for this. (Parkinson uses a medium close up and then zooms in on a subject when they are revealing emotion/something personal.)
7.Are you going to include the interview questions in the final cut? If not why not? (clue: you can manipulate a interviewee if you don’t know the questions they were asked, think Michael Moore)
7. List all the interview questions you will ask
8. Make a diagram of the interview set up

Please include all this information in your production file under the heading interview planning as well as any other relevant interview preperation/planning you have conducted

"Back to Reality" Practical Brief

Course: BTEC NATIONAL DIPLOMA Year: 2
Film & Television Production

Brief: Back to Reality No: 1

On Good Friday 1930 radio listeners
in the evening were told, “There is no news”.
Piano music was broadcast instead.
Recent polls show that the majority of people in this country still use television as their main source of news. Far from being real, Factual news production is a process which presents the word to us with particular sets of ideological messages. At the beginning of the 21st century, with increased choice available from digital, satellite and cable services, it is also a very important commodity with an uncertain future.

You have been commissioned to work in production groups to produce a documentary on the BBC. In it you will explore the history of the public service broadcasting, you will look at the BBC’s relationship with the Government and in particular the Hutton enquiry.
You will also explore technology and funding in the BBC and look at job roles within an area of the BBC. Your documentary will contain a mixture of archive footage, interviews (Formal, informal and vox pops), presenter/voice over links and conclude with where you see the future of the BBC.

Before you make your documentary you will explore the genre of factual program making and discuss the characteristics and restraints of this type of film making. You will analyse a range of factual news program styles and formats. You will then use this research to inform your own documentary film. As part of this brief you will look at range of reporting and interview techniques in all areas of television, and apply as many of those techniques as is appropriate to your documentary.

It is essential that you attend all sessions, since failure to attend will affect your final grades due to the immediate nature of the tasks.

Units covered in this brief:
Understanding the TV and Film Industries 07
Writing for Television and Video 23
Interview Techniques for Media Production 35

Start Date: 14/09/09
Finish Date: 22/10/09

Week 2 Homework "Back to Reality"

Wk 2. Homework task
Analysing Professional Interviewers.
Hand in date 29/09/09

Use either the interviewers we viewed in class or use three professional interviewers of your own make typed notes on:

Name of presenter/interviewer
Background on Presenter

Background on show
Type of show, entertainment/factual etc. Target audience

Analyse title sequence.
Use of colour scheme, graphics, editing style, pacing, music used, cutaway shots. How would this relate to the target audience

Purpose of interview
Comedic, promotional, informational, personal or professional. To dictate or enforce the show/interviewers views? To humiliate? To judge

Presenter style, dress, age, tone, use of humour?
Relate this to target audience

Interview set up
In studio?, Video interview, camera set up, where does guest sit or stand? Use of lighting, sound, use of video footage, graphics, text

Style of questions
Open, closed, how much time is interviewee given to respond? Do we always hear the questions? ,use of background information, graphics.
Does the interviewer adapt his interview style according to the guest they are interviewing? Why?
How does the interviewer manipulate his interview subject?

PowerPoint on Understanding Media News

Understanding the Media News

Produce and present a PowerPoint presentation, which explains ownership, history and technology of news consumption in the U.K. This will be assessed as part of Unit 7 Understanding the T.V and Film Industries and as part of your Key Skills Communication

Your PowerPoint has to be at least 12 slides. The first slides should focus on the beginning of news in the U.K and the last slides should focus on the future of news broadcasting look at:

Technologies

Research and present information about the history of T.V news when was the first news broadcast? Which channel broadcast this? Try to get a copy of the original news broadcast.

Now describe the progression of news consumption, find out some figures from BARB on popular news programmes. Conduct your own primary research find out how people gain their news is it from the TV, newspapers, internet? Summarise this research relate this to age, gender, educational background. What are the implications of this to the future of UK news?

Find out more information on how people gain their news. Look at new media, areas like citizen journalism and compare that to traditional news and describe it’s influence on how people get their news. Include information on internet news, mobile phone updates, radio, TV and newspapers

Ownership

Find out information on at least three news programs. One of these must be the BBC and another must be a non-U.K news broadcaster. Include information on their audience, demographics, content, style, time of broadcast and political allegiances.

Research key figures in news broadcasting, including Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond and the Scott Trust

Find out about the monopolies and mergers rules on TV companies and research the rules regarding ownership of media (1990 British Broadcasting Act)

Funding

Focus on the BBC and it’s news programmes. List as many news programmes that you can find that the BBC make. Include satellite, radio and TV news. Discuss how the BBC is funded. Give information about the BBC charter in particular its remit to be impartial. Discuss advertising rules, product placement rules, funding and censorship. Discuss the BBC links with the government

Now find information about FOX news, again list all the news programmes it makes. Discuss how Fox is funded. Give information about Fox’s political alliances. Discuss implications of this

Your conclusion should focus on the information you have discovered and the possible implications of ownership on content and style of the news as well as what you feel is the future of news in this country. Will it all be owned by one man? Will people access their news digitally in the future? Will their still be a role for the BBC in news production?

You will present this powerpoint on Wednesday the 23rd of September

Brief Outcome : 7.1 Describe technologies ownership and funding in the television industry

Key Skills Outcome: C2.1a Take part in a group discussion

C2.1b Make a formal presentation of at least eight minutes using an image or other

support material

Hand in Date: Tuesday the 22nd September

The Hutton Report - Class task

Unit 7 Understanding the Television Industry

The Hutton Enquiry and “One of the worst days in BBC television History”

The Hutton Enquiry was a British judicial inquiry into the events before and surrounding the death of David Kelly in July 2003 an employee of the ministry of defence.David Kelly had been named by the BBC as the source of a story they had ran on the BBC 4 Today program which claimed that the Labour Government had knowingly misled the population into a report about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.The enquiry largely discredited the BBC and many key figures from the BBC including Gavyn Davis, the Chairman of the BBC, Andrew Gilligan, the radio 4 reporter and Greg Dyke ,the director general of the BBC, resigned after the report was published.

Summarise the events surrounding the The Today Program and the Hutton enquiry. Briefly explain the findings of the Hutton report

Describe the key figures surrounding the Hutton report: David Kelly, Andrew Gilligan, Greg Dyke, Tony Blair and Gavyn Davies and their role in the events

Do you think that the events surrounding the Hutton report have compromised the BBC’s impartiality charter? Do you feel that it is an example of the Government trying to control the news stories coming from the BBC? Do you agree with the findings of the report?

Back To Reality - Homework week 1

Outcome: Unit 7.1 Understanding the Television Industry – Describe technologies/ownership inthe Television Industries

We have discussed in class the various ways which news stories are communicated to people. This week you need to be news junkies. Watch, read and listen to as many news stories as you can. List the type of story, where you accessed that story and whether it was from traditional (newspaper/T.V) or non-traditional sources (new media/internet etc). Write a table using the following headings; description of news item, where item was found, type of media (traditional/electronic), reliable or non reliable source

Hand in date: Monday 21st September