Wildfires in Greece
Establishing and Framing
Establishing shots are used to set where the wildfires happened, as locations and open spaces damaged are shown. By showing different settings, how the fire progresses is evidenced, which establishes transitions from the least to the most damaged locations. Long shot is used when shooting a Greek woman trapped in her house. This shot is uses to illustrate how vulnerable and exposed to fire she is. Besides, as she is shot behind her house's fence, her vulnerability increases, because there is an additional physical obstacle that avoids her from being set free. Long shot is used too when people is shot using whatever comes to hand to help without achieving much. Nuns are full-bodied shot fighting fire with branches. Mid shot is also used throughout the report for considering the events into their context. That is why when witnesses declare how personally affected they were by the fires, mid shot is used. Testimonies as well as personal experiences add credibility to the report. Bill Smith is one of the citizens affected by the wildfires, then his testimony is a key point for understanding how this difficult situation was dealt with. Audience can embody this situation throughout Smith's account. Moving on the report, Nikolas Mikatos, a fire preventer expert, is interviewed and mid shot, as his testimony is crucial for understanding what caused the wildfires and for preventing future ones. Extreme Close Up is detected as Rebecca Penapolis' arm is shot while she points the wildfire consequences out. This shot becomes a Close Up shot as Rebecca's face is shot while expressing concern and distress. This shot covers more than 80% of the frame.
Camera Angles
Eye level is used because the report is mainly based on peoples testimonies', so there is a feeling of sympathy aimed towards the audience for the wildfires victims' experience. In any community like Athens, wildfires are a natural possibility, so then, as the most natural angle, the audience fully comprehends how the population involved in their consequences should feel.
Camera Movements
The camera moves along with the actions reported throughout the piece of news. It's presented Pan in a very first beginning when the bomber water aircraft flies over the locations damaged. By using this technique, the long distances the aircraft has to cover are illustrated, while it fights the flames. The camera pans as Bill and Rebecca show the reporter the damages produced by fire while moving across their back garden, for showing how close to their house the events took place. Zoom is used as the reporter interviwes the citizens, for the audience to feel more attached to their reality. However zoom is oppositely used when the reporter interviews the fire preventer expert, who critizices Government for not taking proper measures against wildfires, in order to isolate him.
Lighting
Lighting is presented mainly throughout the whole report by High Key, due to all the events being reported outdoors, though some of the interviewees are front lighted for the audience to feel sorry about them. High Key maintains the events as natural and, then, veridical as possible, while Front Lighting victimizes witnesses.
Editing Techniques
Cut is the most common technique used in the news item, especially when showing the effects produced by the wildfires in the different locations and spaces affected. Shot-Reverse-Shot appears only in the interview with Bill Smith, one of wildfires victimes.
Sound
The sound used is diegetic, there is no background music nor special effects that cannot be listened by the protagonists of the story. This is in order ro inform facts truthfully, just reporting what really happened. There is no intention of moving the audience with any external resource but what ocurred to the greek citizens due to the fires. There aren't feelings transmitted towards the audience.
Bias
In BBC at 6, Personalization is the most common news informational bias presented. Personalization focuses on individuals rather than institutions, which is evidenced on the heavy rely on in the interview to Bill Smith, the eye-witness testimony of the woman trapped in her house, and the fire preventer expert, Nikolas Mikatos, opinions. All these elements are presented in order to make stories feel more personal, closer to the viewers. Audience feels directly and inmidiatly addressed, due to the use of pathos that appeal to their emotions, exhorting it to be empathetic. Even though this Personalization is often used for transmitting political perspectives, this report is excent of this kind of manipulation.
Another technique used by the broadcast is Fragmentation, which tends to isolate the story, circumscribing it to an especific area and not connecting it to a larger national context. The community affected by the wildfires is fighting against them by its own, not recieving help by any govenmental institution, which is evidenced on the scenes in which settlers use whatever comes in hand in order to extinguish the flames. What is achieved by using this technique is presenting Greece as chaotic, which is more than comprehensible taking on account the economical crisis the state is going through.
Camera Angles
Eye level is used because the report is mainly based on peoples testimonies', so there is a feeling of sympathy aimed towards the audience for the wildfires victims' experience. In any community like Athens, wildfires are a natural possibility, so then, as the most natural angle, the audience fully comprehends how the population involved in their consequences should feel.
Camera Movements
The camera moves along with the actions reported throughout the piece of news. It's presented Pan in a very first beginning when the bomber water aircraft flies over the locations damaged. By using this technique, the long distances the aircraft has to cover are illustrated, while it fights the flames. The camera pans as Bill and Rebecca show the reporter the damages produced by fire while moving across their back garden, for showing how close to their house the events took place. Zoom is used as the reporter interviwes the citizens, for the audience to feel more attached to their reality. However zoom is oppositely used when the reporter interviews the fire preventer expert, who critizices Government for not taking proper measures against wildfires, in order to isolate him.
Lighting
Lighting is presented mainly throughout the whole report by High Key, due to all the events being reported outdoors, though some of the interviewees are front lighted for the audience to feel sorry about them. High Key maintains the events as natural and, then, veridical as possible, while Front Lighting victimizes witnesses.
Editing Techniques
Cut is the most common technique used in the news item, especially when showing the effects produced by the wildfires in the different locations and spaces affected. Shot-Reverse-Shot appears only in the interview with Bill Smith, one of wildfires victimes.
Sound
The sound used is diegetic, there is no background music nor special effects that cannot be listened by the protagonists of the story. This is in order ro inform facts truthfully, just reporting what really happened. There is no intention of moving the audience with any external resource but what ocurred to the greek citizens due to the fires. There aren't feelings transmitted towards the audience.
Bias
In BBC at 6, Personalization is the most common news informational bias presented. Personalization focuses on individuals rather than institutions, which is evidenced on the heavy rely on in the interview to Bill Smith, the eye-witness testimony of the woman trapped in her house, and the fire preventer expert, Nikolas Mikatos, opinions. All these elements are presented in order to make stories feel more personal, closer to the viewers. Audience feels directly and inmidiatly addressed, due to the use of pathos that appeal to their emotions, exhorting it to be empathetic. Even though this Personalization is often used for transmitting political perspectives, this report is excent of this kind of manipulation.
Another technique used by the broadcast is Fragmentation, which tends to isolate the story, circumscribing it to an especific area and not connecting it to a larger national context. The community affected by the wildfires is fighting against them by its own, not recieving help by any govenmental institution, which is evidenced on the scenes in which settlers use whatever comes in hand in order to extinguish the flames. What is achieved by using this technique is presenting Greece as chaotic, which is more than comprehensible taking on account the economical crisis the state is going through.
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