Unit 37: task 1 Understand Presentation Roles and Techniques Part 1

From 1920 - now, presentation techniques have changed significantly, now we have chat shows like the Jonathan Ross show on the BBC or ITV, and Ant and Dec making celebrities eating kangaroo testicles live on Television where as before and on several other programs such as the news they tend to be more serious.


Pathe News:
Pathe News started in 1910 and operated for sixty years discontinuing in 1970. They primarily produced documentaries and newsreels. the newsreels were shown in cinema and were silent until 1928. Originally they were a duration of 4 minutes and were released biweekly. These clips were filmed from a single angle/position and they would show the audience the full clip where as now there would be commentary and cutaways to the studios. In-between the clips
Notable news reels that Pathe had captured include The fatal parachute jump from the top of the Eiffel tower by Franz Reichelt.

As you can see from the clip Pathe had slowly started to including more panning shots and more cutaways in their newsreels 

During the first World War the cinema released newsreels were known as Pathe Animated Gazettes and this was the first time that the newspapers had received major competition. after the war had concluded Pathe released longer and more comprehensive newsreels called cinemazines.
In 1927 Pathe sold the British branch to the now dissolved company First National. By 1930 Pathe' started to include a wide range of coverage for example sports, women's issues and entertainment in programmes such as 'The Pathetone Weekly', and 'Pathe' Pictorial'. Three years later Pathe' gained another new owner The Associated British Picture Corporation, 25 years after this Warner Bros acquired the company and it became known as Warner-Pathe'. Pathe' stopped producing newsreels in 1970 due it not being able to compete with Television but it took another ten years for the French Pathe'  to cease producing newsreels. During the newsreels run notable narrators were Bob Danvers-Walker, Andre Baruch, and Clem McCarthy.
Pathe was then sold to several more owner including The Cannon Film Group who spilt the company into the newsreels division from the it's Feature Film division. Pathe's feature Film Division is currently under the ownership of Studio Canal. in 2009 Pathe re-launched in it's own right and now it's entire archive is on YouTube for the whole world to see once more.








BBC News:
The BBC was first formed in 1922 however in order to avoid competition several newspapers publishers were able to persuade the Government to ban the BBC from broadcasting News until after 7PM. 12 years later the BBC was able to gain the rights to broadcast on it's own however it could not broadcast before 6pm until World War 2

When BBC News began televising they maintained the serious professionalism that came from it's Radio days. and they still remain professional however the morning news on BBC 1 have a sense of rapport for example the presenters have developed sense of camaraderie, they are able to joke about on occasion without loosing that professionalism however mistakes still happen.

No matter the mistakes the News readers still carry on like nothing has happened.

Notable news readers include:

• Angela Rippon-The first female news reader in 1975.
• Kenneth Kendall - The first visible BBC News Reader in 1955

In 1958 a report proposed how it would be better that the televised News were to get it's own newsroom along with an editor of the day

On April 20th, 1964 along with the start of BBC 2's transmissions was a new news programme called Newsroom which four years later became the BBC's first news programme to be broadcast in colour. In 1969, BBC News moved from Alexandria palace to BBC Television Centre where the BBC still operates out of today once the refurbishments are complete in September 2017.
The evening of September 14th, 1970 saw the first broadcast of the Nine O'clock news  

In the mid 1970's the BBC 2 news programme was renamed to News night it soon reverted to being called Newsday when the programme moved to an early evening slot
BBC Radio 1 launched a new news service on September tenth, 1973.
January 28th, was the launch of Newsnight on BBC2 unlike the one from the 1970's which was a simple news bulletin this was a 45 minute long programme.
By 1982 technology had became sufficiently advanced enough for reporter Bernard Hesketh to report coverage of the Falkland War this was the first time that the BBC filmed a conflict digitally instead of by film.
In the following January of 1983 the BBC launched it's first breakfast news Programme "Breakfast Time" the style of presenting was quite relaxed in comparison to the BBC's other news programmes of the time.
By 1987 the BBC decided to go under a slight rebranding for it's news programmes, so that each different programme had it's own unique opening sequence and accompanying music.


10 years after this 1997 the BBC Launched BBC News 24 to provide continuous and live coverage of news from across the UK and the Globe. the following year BBC Radio News after 66 years of operating out of broadcasting house. 1999 saw the biggest relaunch with all of the BBC News channels and programmes adopting a single common format.


With the start of the new millennium came with even more changes to the BBC, to start the 9 O'clock news was moved to 10pm at night, the region based news programs lost five minute at the end of the programme. December 2003 BBC world and BBC News 24 introduced a new style of presentation which was slightly altered for the 50th anniversary of BBC television news
May 2006 bulletins received titles and set allowing breakfast to move back into the main studio for the first time since 1997.


from august 2012 to March 2013 all of the BBC operations moved from BBC Television centre to New Broadcasting house.


Newsround:

Newsround was a short news programme aimed towards children and early teens, Originally called John Craven's Newsround before his departure in 1989. The programme has run continuously since 1972, it was initially conceived as a short series mandated by the BBC's children department. over time the programme gradually developed it's own development team.

 

As you can see the presentation of the video is slightly more mature then what it is now like the news programmes for the older audiences. By covering slightly more political topics or other topics that the programme's target demographic would find interesting.

Where as if you look at the example above of how modern Newsround is filmed the set is much larger then how it was during the 70's and more colourful, the news reader talks about more appropriate topics for the age demographic.

Modern Newsround also has had several spin-off's for example Sportsround and Newsround Review of the Year.

The BBC had a similar style show for teens to young adults called sixty seconds which is how long the programme lasts. The programme was launched in 2001 on BBC Choice a predecessor of the now online channel BBC3. the programme ceased broadcasting when BBC3 moved to BBC Iplayer

As you can see the presentation style is like Newsround but it only has time to give brief details of about three news stories per programme.