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Research Into Sports Interviewee

Our sports story is about a local college Rugby team who won a competition amongst all other college rugby teams in the region. They won the final 19 - 12 in a gruelling test against their regional rivals. The prize for winning was a training session with an ex-England captain at Twickenham Rugby Stadium south just south of London.

The interview is with the team's coach Thomas Bridges who will answer a series of questions on their victory, training regime, future plans and the team's opinion towards their Twickenham training session.

Research on costume

Presenters
In our news programme we have chosen to dress our Presenters in smart clothing, like shirt and tie. We chose this because we obviously wanted the presenters to look smart but we didn't want them to look formal. Similar programmes like this morning use smartly dressed presenter rather that the like of formal John Snow or Trevor McDonald.

Reporters
We thought the reporters should have a similar appearance to the Presenters. The reporters are wearing trousers, and because they're outside and the wintery conditions they also have a coat on with a shirt underneath. Other reporters costume depends on the situation, for example, in wintery conditions the reporters clothing will change into winter clothes like coats and wooley hats and scarf. Other times the costume could be just in a shirt if its an indoor interview.

Research - News Studios

News studios differ in almost every news programme but certain fundamentals always remain. For instance in the more formal news programmes a large modern desk is positioned in the centre of the studio to give a sense of authority and professionalism. Whereas the less formal news programmes have a couch and sometimes a little desk or a coffee table. This approach gives a far more relaxed lay back feel to the programme whilst keeping a sense of professionalism and authority by still wearing formal attire such as suits, long skirts etc.

The number of presenters/anchors also differs due to the pace of the news been delivered. This is evident in sports news programmes where their can be up to five presenters covering different games. This setup is also good for debates etc on the sports being presented. More formal national or regional news programmes often contain 1-2 presenters who deliver the news at a slower pace with more detail and time for deliberation in big national stories. Often their is a male and female anchor presenting the news as this gives the programme a sense of balance and to appeal to both the male and female audience. Also regional news programmes often have presenters who speak with a regional dialect to appeal more to the regional audience as well as giving the show a more welcoming local feel.

The background of the studio also plays a vital role as it gives a sense of professionalism and authenticity, or the more friendly interesting approach often used by morning news programmes. The more formal news programmes have backgrounds that give a sense of authenticity and professionalism such as computer rooms with journalists working or global maps to express the global scale of news they are going to report. This technique is similarly used by morning breakfast news programmes but they tend to go for a more welcoming and interesting feel whilst also remaining professional such as large windows showing a working city.

Research - Analysis on similar news broadcast

i will be researching the first 5 minutes of the BBC news programme Look North. it is a local news programme which features news, sport and weather from around the area aswell as national stories, which is very simialr to ours.

Character profiles- interviewees

profiles of Thomas Bridges, The Cross fires (lead singer, Thomas lodge) and Alison Neilson.

This is the cross fires, a new eagerly anticipated band, from barnsley playing live at lacorum bar venue. The lead singer and face of the band is Thomas Lodge he is 19 unlike the other members of the band Adam Walshaw (drummer) Alex Cook (base) Jack Kilner (keyboard) Callum Lyman (techno DJ) who are all 18. they are currently in talks with 2 record labels about getting signed and have been riding back and fourth to London for two weeks. The crossfires yet to play live have stunned scouts all over the UK as downloads of there new album ( what you do is what you do) has reached 3,000 downloads. there first gig is anticipated to be a sell out.

our second interview is of barnsley college rugby sports academy, over there recent success as they were crowned regional champions 2010 and made it to the national quarters. the manager is Thomas bridges, who currently works at the college as well as organising the team and recently pushed through the rugby team to become an academy and compete on a higher level.

our main topic is about the current economical crisis we face in the UK! this will include an interview with a local nhs nurse who has recently been made redundant, this is the main feature story in our news broadcast.

Character Profiles - Presenters

Male Presenter : Jake William

Jake William joined the 6 news team in 2006 and started out has a reporter, he got promoted in 2008 and has been the co-anchor/presenter ever since. Jake has won awards for his presenting and interview skills. He studied media and broadcasting at leeds trinity university.

Co presenter : Oliver Neilson

Co-anchor Oiliver Neilson has joined the team from another branch of the 6 news company from north yorkshire 1 year ago. he is the youngest presenter of the 6 news team. Oliver has also won awards for her presenting at his previous branch. Oliver studied Jouranalism at manchester University.

Character profiles - Reporters

John Selby
John Selby has been a member of the news at 6 team since 2006, his first challenging news story was Crufts in 2007, he made a name for his self and from then on has done nothing less than excel in reporting top news stories. John Selby originally wanted to report sporting news as he was a big tennis player himself but later found his passion for mainstream stories, and is successfully reporting them to date.

Josh Woolhouse
Josh is the newest member of the news team but has always had a passion for reporting news. He studied journalism at Leeds university and after his three years of study he got straight into the field of reporting news.

Oliver Neilson
Oliver is one of the top reporters, he started out behind the camera but soon showed potential to report news himself, he studied journalism at Manchester university and went straight into a news team, he started at BBC before moving to the news at 6 team to report news in front of the camera.

Character Profile Research

Character profiles from other news channel websites seem to just give a brief background into the reporter's and presenter's career at that particular news channel with very little other information. A brief career overview is always given showing positions the reporter/presenter have held, promotions gain, famous stories covered and sometimes awards won. A common occurence in the profiles is also previous jobs as journalist and news articles they may also write for news papers. In some cases such as Channel 4 news, a blog is given to each reporter/presenter to further expand on their backgorund and history if they wish to do so.
Most news channels give profiles on their reporters/presenters, especially the local news programmes such as "Look North" and "Calendar". Channel 4 news also have profiles on their reporters in high positions such as cheif correspondant etc. In the cases were profiles are not given I've had to research unnoficial reporter profiles which seem to follow a similar pattern from the official Channel 4 profiles aswell as giving accurate information when compared to the official profiles.

Profile examples;
Channel 4 - Jon Snow
Channel 4 - Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Channel 4 - Faisal Islam
ITV Calendar's 'Meet The Team' Profiles
BBC Look North's Profiles (Bottom of page)
TV Newsroom - BBC
TV Newsroom - ITV
TV Newsroom - Channel 4
TV Newsroom - Five
TV Newsroom - Sky

Costume Photos

Photo's of the costumes that the main presenters will be wearing in the video


Jakes Costume

Olivers Costume

Story Board