Channel 4 News covers international news and good background reports on the current affairs.The channel is edited by Jim Gray; previous Deputy Editor of Newsnight. It is anchored by Jon Snow and is on air Monday to Friday from 19:00-19:55.
Channel 4 News has most recently won a record five Royal Television Society Television Awards in February 2006. One was TV Journalist of the Year for Jon Snow, another was the International News Award for Congo's Tin Soldiers. The channel also won News Coverage British Academy Television Award in 2004. Jon Snow also won the Richard Dimbleby British Academy Television Award in 2005 for outstanding contribution to the news world and current affairs.
The news channel also has a website which covers the stories addressed by the channel. I have not used the website before but I have watched the channel before. I will look at the website further on in the project when I begin to produce our website.
'Theme Tune'
Like Sky News and BBC News the 'theme tune' channel 4 uses is very distinctive. It captures the urgency of the topics which are about to be discussed. The tune is dramatic using high symbolic tones of a trumpet.
Here is the theme tune Channel 4 News uses
After looking at the clip I did not like the way that we could hear the presenter talking but did not have a visual image of him. The cut away and voice over was effective but I think that there should have been a quick shot of the presenter to show his reaction and emotion to the story being addressed. Also I did not like the way how he was stood up in the studio, I feel he should have been sat down at a desk. I felt that it looked unprofessional and where he was standing awkwardly it took the focus away from the story. I did like how the camera gradually zoomed in as the story being addressed begins to unfold, however in the shot he is swaying which again looks unprofessional. From this clip I will adapt the use of cut aways to our design and the use of the paper for props as they create a professional look.
That's quite a detailed analysis but which of those details would you use in a similar way in your version? Which wouldn't you? Why? Why do you think C4 uses them? Think about audience, context, technology and purpose.
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