Wednesday, 22 October 2014
For potential ways in which to cover our troll story package, i've been looking at various videos to try and get inspiration and ideas on how we could produce our package.
The research/breakdown i done of the Facebook story (click for example1) covered by fox news was one of the examples that i liked.
What i like about this package is how it is presenter led, and how the presenter doesn't do a PTC. The package consists solely of VOSOT and the occasional VOX pop which will then lead into a small case study, which what i particularly like.
These specific parts that i've spoke about i'd like incorporate into our package, although, the way in which they've told the story we'd not use! As our piece is going be more serious because we're talking about a new sentencing legislation, and this piece is more of a comedic piece as you can tell by the ironic/sarcastic way in which the news anchors and the presenters talks and laughs, which with our piece, it's not really a laughing piece; it's a serious matter!
What i like about this story again, is the VOSOT the presenter uses throughout the package, aided by the graphics popping up on the scree to assist what the presenter is saying. Whilst the presenter is talking about the abusive comments via twitter, he shows a few on screen scrolling at a medium-slow pace via screen capture record so that the viewer can read the comments for themselves.
The tone in which the reporter presents the story too is good as it lets you as the viewer/listener know that it is a serious story, unlike the previous Troll story shown on Fox news.
The pictures used alongside the graphics to aid the story is also good, as they help to drive the story i.e. as the reporter is talking about the abusive messages the McCanns are receiving, he has footage of the McCanss with graphics overlaid over the footage, spontaneously popping up to help visually illustrate that they constantly receive a barrage of abuse.
Another thing that i like is the fact that the reporter then done a piece to camera momentarily, so that the audience could establish visually who it was that was reporting the story, but also to show the so called "dossier" to the audience so that the audience gets an idea of how many pages or rather how think the page's of abuse is that is being set to Scotland yard.
The things that i do not like about this package however is
- When the reporter is referring to Twitter posts, the package is showing Facebook posts!
- The reuse of the dossiers being on screen twice, first as an establishing pan shot, and a second time during a PTC by the reporter
The tone of voice in which this story is reported is way more serious which is good, as it illustrates the severity of the trolling instance's, especially since the package is kick started off with an aggressive doorstep interview, however, the tone of voice i think is a bit too serious for how i'd like our package to be presented, as i would like to find a happy medium between fox's sarcastic/ironic tone of voice and Sky's serious tone of voice
