The News Package

• Television Journalism
• Higher Education (degree)

What's your understanding of a news PACKAGE?

What do you already know about making a NEWS PACKAGE?

Unit 32 Interview & Presentation Skills 

Session: Putting together your NEWS PACKAGE

Lecturer: Lynda Bryans

The News Package

A pre-recorded, produced piece of news content (usually by a reporter) that tells a story and usually contains voiceover, interviews, actuality, cutaways/GV's (often referred to as 'B' roll), a reporter PTC (piece to camera). A package is normally preceded by a 'link' - an introduction by the news anchor/presenter in studio and often ends with the reporter's "sign off".

Components of a news package

You're about to watch a typical news package. 

Identify as many components or elements of the package as you can: eg: 

PTC (piece to camera), 

V/O (voice-over) 

Which of the following were in the news piece you just watched?

PTC

Interviews

Vox Pops

Live two-way

GVs

Actuality

Archive or library footage

Music

Name idents or straplines

Graphics

Making a news package - where do we start?

What's the story? Can you explain it in a paragraph?

Pick 5 main points that people MUST know

Who can tell us more about it (who can we interview?)

What shots can help explain the story?

Let's plan and script a news package together...

The story: 

The main points we want to get across: 

Who could we interview? 

STRUCTURING - How I do it...

1.  Write a studio LINK for the story first.  Then...

VISION

AUDIO