The first BBC news broadcasts attempted to be completely impartial and unbiased way - not showing the presenter meant that they were unable to express their opinions through facial expressions. So many people had been used to radio beforehand, and were also worried that showing moving images as the news was read would distract the viewers from the audio, and so instead decided to show a newsreel footage at the end of the news. There was also background music as the stories were being read, which is something that is not used in modern news broadcasts. Interviews and graphics were still used in early broadcasts, however, although have developed over the years.
Overseas news reports still had to be sent back to England on an aircraft to be broadcast the next day, however. As news progressed, news broadcasts were displayed on camera instead of it simply being their voice. Reporters on the scene have always given a direct address, looking straight at the camera and talking to the viewers to make them feel closer to the news, and give them the feeling of interacting with the reports. Reporters always seem to wear clothes that match the location that they're in - for example, in the studio, they wear professional, smart clothes, however reporters on the scene in places such as war zones often wear more casual clothes.
As technology developed and improved, news reporters were able to broadcast live news reports from other countries, and show shocking news stories in which people had not been able to see in the full scale before. Events were able to unfold live on television in peoples' living rooms, putting them even closer to the action and events than ever before. However, in the modern days, the more extreme footage of deaths and killings seem to have been phased out slightly after people having somewhat of an outcry over the upsetting nature of the footage.
In the 1990s, 24 hour news channels became available, with more and more news available around the world to report on. The same kinds of stories such as disasters, wars, traditional events, sporting achievements and political news have always been broadcast on the news, even since it was first started. A mixture of graphics, a news reporter talking about the stories in the studio and reports from the scenes themselves became common. It became more and more common to have a montage of clips based on the news story with a voice over layered across the top, with the occasional cut away to a reporter speaking about the news to break it up.
To sum it up, the main conventions of news broadcasts can be summed up in the following list:
-A specific order/format. (Title sequence(s), a summary of the news stories, then a top story going down to sports, weather and finally a happy and light-hearted news story.)
-Graphics/text.
-Presenters, with the way they address the viewers and the clothes they wear.
-Voice overs with montages of news footage and cut aways to an on the scene presenter.
-Interviews relating to the news stories.
-The types of stories broadcast.
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