Bush Fires, Victoria, Australia.
1 - Running order.
5 seconds of a intro with graphics.
15 seconds starting off in a studio with a reporter speaking about the bush fires.
40 seconds of a montage with the same presenter speaking as a voice-over.
30 seconds of an interview with a victim of the fires.
30 seconds with more montages/voice overs.
20 seconds back to the studio with the presenter, finishing up the report.
140 seconds (2.3 minutes) total.
2 - Script.
NEWS ANCHORMAN
The Australian bush burns out of control. Emergency warnings have been issued as the fire makes its way down the Northern Grampians, but it has since been downgraded and brought under control. Incident controller Russell Manning says he fire in the Grampians could threaten Halls Gap.
RUSSELL MANNING
(Interview)
“The situation is really serious, we’ve got temperatures in the high 20s overnight tomorrow, we’ve got winds that are 40 to 60 KPH from the north before we get a gusty South Westerly change which is of the same intensity so he fire could blow a considerable distance with that change”.
LINDY ALLINSON
I’m ready to leave my home as soon as the wind change.
NEWS ANCHORMAN
Local residents in Steglitz, in the Brisbane Ranges north of Geelong, are being waned a fast moving fire front, 6 people are being treated for smoke inhalation, 24 people have died of cardiac arrests since the heatwaves rolled in, about 19,000 customers were left without power around Frankston, in Melbourne’s South-East, So far power to 3,600 customers have been restored but it could still take several hours for the faults are fixed more than 5,000 homes have been cut-off from power near Ouyen in Victoria's North-West.3 - V.T inserts.
Shots showing the extent of the fires, how large they are and the damage it's causing to homes/wildlife/towns. A mixture of ground shots and helicopter shots, edited together with simple cuts - nothing fancy - and at a medium pace; not to fast and not too slow.
4 - Graphics.
A short introduction of the news channel with the recognisable logo/tune of the station.
Text on the lower third of the screen stating what the news story is about.
The current time in the bottom left hand corner.
Perhaps scrolling text right at the bottom of the screen displaying other current stories.
5 - Presenters.
One person in the studio, continues to talk as a voice over for the montage of clips relating to the news story.
Another for one interview with a victim of the fires half way through the report.
6 - Interviews.
A brief interview with a victim of the fire who had to be evacuated from their home. Only a couple of questions asked, mainly about how they are feeling about all the fires and their own experience with being evacuated.
7 - Voice overs.
The presenter continues to read the news report as a montage of different video footage of the fires is shown.
Evaluation.
Our task was to plan for a 2-3 minute long news report on a real-life news piece. The general ideas of a news report was broken down into seven points in which we had to decide on and plan for. The story I chose was the out of control bush fires in Victoria, Australia, which is currently happening.
Whilst the others worked on the script, I decided on the other features of the news report - including the running time, graphics, VT clips and presenters. I worked out that this news story hasn't been reported on much on the main news channels, and so would probably be online, or on a 24-hour news channel instead as a smaller story. Therefore, only one presenter sitting in the studio, reading the report would work, using their voice as a voice-over as footage of the fires are shown. Another presenter on-scene could be used briefly during an interview with a victim of the fire, although this wouldn't be shown for too long as it is only a short news clip, and needs to be able to show the story within this short amount of time.
The story would mainly be a voice over with different footage of the fires to involve the audience and show them the size and the scale of the bush fires as they would probably not be able to do this first hand. It'll also give facts and figures about the events taking place, informing the viewers of what is happening.
The graphics wouldn't be over used, and would most likely be text on the lower third of the screen informing viewers of the story if they turn on the channel half way through the report, as well as perhaps the time, scrolling text to inform of other news stories and maybe even an introduction graphic to show the channel name/logo if just after an advert break, for example.
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