Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Journalistic context

There are many different types of interviews these days and also many different places that you can view them. The context of the interview relates solely to where that certain interview is being broadcasted from and for what purpose. Also it could change the mood of the interview depending on which sort of interview you are talking part in and for what reason.  
There are four different places that journalistic context can be broadcasted from Radio, print, online and television. Based on where the interview is being broadcasted or published  how it is pretended and the structure change to fit the suitable place.
These are some of the many other types there are:
  •  Print (Newspapers and magazines)
  • Television
  • Radio
  • Online
  • News
  • Sport
  • Feature-Writers
  • Editorial writers
A feature writer is a main writer and reporter for a magazine and writes anything from hard news to human interest. They also have strict deadline that they have to stick to. Whereas an editorial writer is the managing editor and only write opinion or themed pieces a few times a month.
Radio
In the media industry the radio have to put in a lot more work to ensure that the audience know everything about the interview such as who is being interviewed, why they are being interviewed and also where the interview is being broadcasted from. Due to the fact that the audience can't see what is going on they have to be able to create a good image in the audiences mind so they can imagine that they are part of it. They accomplish this goal by using things such as vox pops(voice of the people), relevant theme tunes and sound effects. The interview of the certain person related to the topic will either be interviewed in the studio or at a place relevant to the interview and the story. Also due to the interview being recorded this is where they will obtain their sound bites which they may use later in in the show. Depending on the type of interview that is taking place the way the questions are asked could change, such as if its an entertainment interview it will most likely be with a well-known celebrity that the majority of people will know and will be doing that interview for one of two reasons either to promote themselves or their product such as a film or an album. Whereas if the interview  is being used for a documentary the interview will be more formal than it was for the entertainment interview and the interviewer will be interviewing the main people to do with the topic such as experts or the people who were involved and experienced it.
Online
Nowadays you are able to access the news and other types of interviews wherever you are through using the internet. Through using the internet  you can catch up on news that you have missed as most newspaper and magazine companies along with radio station have access to their own website where they post the latest stories as they break. They can also go into a lot more detail online as they have the capabilities to post links and videos about the story. 
Television
Through the use of television all types of news are able to be broadcasted but the main ones that we see broadcasted mostly are entertainment, hard news, human interest and promotional. Hard news, human interest and investigative shows are broadcasted throughout the day on a daily bases for example the news at six, where as the promotional and entertainment side of things are usually shown at the weekend on a Friday or Saturday night some good examples of this are shows such as Alan Carr's Chatty Man, Graham Norton and The Jonathan Ross show. These chat shows include celebrity guests being interviewed to promote something they have coming up.   
Print
Broadcasting the story through the use of print allows for the writer to become more creative depending on the story and also allows for them to go into more detail. In the article that is produced you always see the use of the 5 W's and H (who, what, where, when, why and how), through the use of these it makes sure that the main points are always in the story. The interviews you see published in newspapers and magazine will always be set out differently and this is to show the difference between the type of news stories they are writing about, as magazines are set out in a more informal way as they are usually stories on gossip columns and entertainment whereas newspapers are set out in a more formal way using bold dark headlines and sub headings as the stories they report on are more hard news stories so the magazine has to look serious in order to catch the audiences attention as a hard news story.



Sport 
These revolve around anything that happens to do with sport. Interviewers usually try to get interviews with team captains, sports stars and fans that have been or are present at the game that is to do with the story. 
They also show the highlights of the game and replays of the game usually on shows such as Match of the Day at a later time in the day where they also inform the audience of the scores.
News
News shows such as the BBC News at Six or the ITV News mainly focus on hard news stories and investigative stories with the odd human interest story. This types of show is a good way of finding out peoples opinions and feeling on the event that has happened as the interviewer would usually try and interview witnesses who saw it happen so that they could investigate more for their story and if possible the victims. The news packages that are shown on the news are usually pre-recorded unless it is happening there and then.

1 comment:

  1. Some examples or screen shots would help to improve this and serve as good examples to refer to.

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