Elements of News
This is when vents are more newsworthy when they involve disagreement. Political topics are an example.
What is conflict?
This is when the focal length can be modified, allowing photographers to make the subject appear closer than it really is.
What is zoom?
This is the type of story that has been in the works for some time and does not contain time-sensitive information?
What is a feature story?
This is alternative footage captured during filming of a news segment or film or television show.
What is b-roll?
This is a cinematographic technique in which the camera stays in a fixed position but rotates up/down in a vertical plane.
What is a tilt?
This is when events are more newsworthy when they involve public figures. For example, politicians.
What is prominence?
A view of an object from below. It can be used to look up to something to make an object look tall, strong, and mighty while the viewer feels childlike or powerless.
What is worm's eye view?
This is a type of story that features a viewpoint and contains bias.
What is an opinion piece?
This is the use of narration over something that is filmed.
What is voiceover?
This is a type of camera shot size in film and television that adds emotion to a scene. It tightly frames an actor's face, making their reaction the main focus in the frame.
What is a close-up shot?
This is when an event is more newsworthy the sooner it is reported. It doesn’t have to be new but it needs new information.
What is timeliness?
This is the size of the opening in the lens. Think of the lens as a window—large windows or wide angles let in more light, while small windows let in less light.
What is aperture?
What is reading the text?
This is the shot-by-shot description of something that is to be filmed.
What is a script?
This is the distance between the top of the subject's head and the top of the frame, but the term is sometimes used instead of lead room, nose room or 'looking room' to include the sense of space on both sides of the image.
This is when a feature story discusses people or pets in an emotional way. It presents people and their problems, concerns, or achievements in a way that brings about interest, sympathy or motivation in the reader or viewer.
What is human interest?
These appear in a photograph that have been framed and positioned by the photographer to draw the viewer's eye towards a specific point of interest. These lines often draw the viewer's eye in a specific direction or towards a designated portion of the photograph.
What are leading lines?
This is an opinion piece that presents the opinion of the newspaper itself.
What is an editorial?
This is the ambient noise present when something is filmed.
What is natural sound?
This is a horizontal camera movement where the camera pivots left or right while its base remains in a fixed location.
What is a pan?
This is when events are more newsworthy the more out of the ordinary they are. Think of a squirrel who can water ski.
What is oddity?
This is the part of the camera that opens and closes to let light in and take a picture. It is is how long that shutter stays open. The longer this stays open, the more light that is let in.
What is shutter speed?
This is an opinion that presents the viewpoint of someone from outside the newspaper, often times a prominent politician or public figure?
What is an op-ed?
These are the four C's of broadcast script basics.
What are correctness, clarity, conciseness, and color?
This is also called a mid-shot or waist shot, is a type of camera shot in film and television that shows an actor approximately from the waist up.
What is a medium shot?