BBC World News
Male tea drinkers may be at great risk of prostate cancer
Shots and Framing
Midshot is the main shot used throughout the report, in order to contextualize it from a very first beginning. Then, the report is introduced by mentioning its core topic: keep on driniking tea while knowing it may increase the risk of prostate cancer. Midshot is presented by first time when Chris Garner is shot while preparing some tea, whose consume is inmediatly questioned by the reporter based on a study carried out by the University of Glasgow. Reporter's appereance during the news item is frequent and she is constantly midshot as she interviews Garner while enjoying the discredited drink. Chris is midshot when being interviewed as he states his perspective of the matter as a frequent male tea drinker. He grounds the story as he is at great risk of prostate cancer but he chooses personally what to believe about his diet customes, not being influenced by the study. Dr. Kashif Shafique, one of the study's author, is midshot while the interview is carried out. Shafique is crucial for contextualizing the investigation, as he's an expert on the matter. He sums up the core points of the study, while using his main arguments to back up his conclusions. Long shot is another shot used though momentarily. Chris is longshot while gardening in order to show him vulnerable against the great risk of prostate cancer he is exposed to. Extreme Close Up is presented once, as the reporter stirs her tea while her hand is shot. This shoot is used to present drinking tea as an action voluntarily carried out, though it can produce a severe disease.
Camera Angles
By using Eye Level, the great risk of prostate cancer is understood as a problem inherent to every single male tea drinker, which is illustrated as the shoot taken from a normal height. Cancer is related by the audience automatically to drinking tea.
Camera Movements
At first Pan is used as Garner prepares a cup of tea, in order not to lose any of his actions. This produces the effect of a process whose importance remains hidden, so it can be explained throughout the report, stablishing why it is important.
Lighting
High Key is used as the events are reported mainly outdoors. Everything is easily ditinguished, with the purpose of fathoming the real effects tea may produce.
Editing Techniques
When Garner gardens it is used Wipe to switch from the shot of a rose into Garner himself. By using this technique, the audience focuses on the protagonist once again, though it was slightly distracted by the different shoots of his garden, which is not related at all which the story being reported. Despite of the momentary use of wiping, Cut is the main etchnique used, so then the different testimonies that back up the story are sharply distinguished. There is not council between both sides of the story: Garner will keep on drinking tea whatever the arguments used to discard this practice.
Sound
Completely diegetic. There are no sounds but which are heard by the characters involved. This is to report the events veridically.
Bias
In BBC World News, Personalization seems to be the most common informational bias technique used. The report is people-centered, as it relies heavily upon the interview with an actual male tea drinker, Chris Garner, and upon Kashif Shafique's opinions, whose is an expert on the matter. This technique is used for creating an approach between the interviewee and the audience that feels touched by the report, as they might drink tea too. Another bias technique used, is Dramatization, as the report leads the audience to focus on the overwhelming aspects exposed on the report, which are mainly statistics that show how damaging drinking tea can be. Tea is drunk world wide, then this study, which backs up on solid, empirical information, perplexes the audience. It is clearly identified the biginning of the story that is pictioralized while Garner prepares a cup of tea, introducing the topic to be discussed; the middle, suported by both sides: a male tea drinker who is not like stop drinking tea and an expert opinion on the matter; and an ending, which does not conclude much, as the reporter states that the study needs further research, so tea drinkers may "still enjoy a cup".
Camera Angles
By using Eye Level, the great risk of prostate cancer is understood as a problem inherent to every single male tea drinker, which is illustrated as the shoot taken from a normal height. Cancer is related by the audience automatically to drinking tea.
Camera Movements
At first Pan is used as Garner prepares a cup of tea, in order not to lose any of his actions. This produces the effect of a process whose importance remains hidden, so it can be explained throughout the report, stablishing why it is important.
Lighting
High Key is used as the events are reported mainly outdoors. Everything is easily ditinguished, with the purpose of fathoming the real effects tea may produce.
Editing Techniques
When Garner gardens it is used Wipe to switch from the shot of a rose into Garner himself. By using this technique, the audience focuses on the protagonist once again, though it was slightly distracted by the different shoots of his garden, which is not related at all which the story being reported. Despite of the momentary use of wiping, Cut is the main etchnique used, so then the different testimonies that back up the story are sharply distinguished. There is not council between both sides of the story: Garner will keep on drinking tea whatever the arguments used to discard this practice.
Sound
Completely diegetic. There are no sounds but which are heard by the characters involved. This is to report the events veridically.
Bias
In BBC World News, Personalization seems to be the most common informational bias technique used. The report is people-centered, as it relies heavily upon the interview with an actual male tea drinker, Chris Garner, and upon Kashif Shafique's opinions, whose is an expert on the matter. This technique is used for creating an approach between the interviewee and the audience that feels touched by the report, as they might drink tea too. Another bias technique used, is Dramatization, as the report leads the audience to focus on the overwhelming aspects exposed on the report, which are mainly statistics that show how damaging drinking tea can be. Tea is drunk world wide, then this study, which backs up on solid, empirical information, perplexes the audience. It is clearly identified the biginning of the story that is pictioralized while Garner prepares a cup of tea, introducing the topic to be discussed; the middle, suported by both sides: a male tea drinker who is not like stop drinking tea and an expert opinion on the matter; and an ending, which does not conclude much, as the reporter states that the study needs further research, so tea drinkers may "still enjoy a cup".
Thank you, Vincent. I'll print and check your work.
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