Individual Blog Post 3

I watched the ten o’clock news on channel 2, KTVU. Most news packages wrote to the video, especially a story that was about gas prices. This one included action shots, people were moving on screen, pumping gas, doing things. Action shots provide better footage than static ones, and they are more interesting. This package had lots of different shots, which furthered the story. It also had different angles of shots. There was one of a freeway from high above so the viewer could see down on the freeway. This angle of looking down provided more variety.

KTVU also mentioned to look on their website for information about traffic updates and other things that viewers would be interested to know. I thought it was a clever way to get viewers to visit their site.

All of the anchor introductions to stories were well written. One news story an anchor read, however, should have had footage. He read the teleprompter for too long. A “talking head,” is not good in news and it is always better for action. I thought this piece could have been improved if he spoke for a couple sentences and then pictures showed of what he was talking about.

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