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News reports

Constructing the news

Students will be considering how media texts are constructed by analysing a BtN story. Conduct a class brainstorm to establish what students already know about news reports. In groups of 3-4, ask students to choose a story from this week’s episode and respond to the following key questions:

· What is the purpose of a news report?

· Who is the audience?

· How is the report constructed? What techniques are used to attract the viewers’ attention such as lighting, camera angles, editing and music?

· What style is used to tell the story?

· What values and viewpoints are presented?

· Whose voices are not expressed?

· Why is the message being sent?

· What changes would you make to the story? Why?

Discuss as a class whether there are any other key questions students have.

Negotiate with students ways to present their responses to the key questions. These include:

· Mind map/concept map

· PowerPoint presentation

· Poster/brochure

· An animation

Each group can present their finished product to the rest of the class.

Self assessment

What do you now know about news stories that you didn’t know before this investigation?

Further investigations

Compare the BtN news story to another television news report. What are the similarities and differences?

Create a news report (newspaper, radio, television, magazine, Internet). The report can be based on a school or community issue.