Animated News Presentation
Transcript: Controversial: Interesting, entertaining, relaxing, reach more audiences, fill the gap for understanding Biased, distort the reality, without verification They all share similar perspectives on the event. Differences mainly occur in the coverage/ thoroughness and angle about the event. Overall speaking, the story-like animated news try to amuse audience out of the animation they use. Differences can also be observed among different printed news in terms of perspective and coverage. Modern journalism...justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest" - Oscar Wilde Pros & Cons CONs Not professional enough appledaily.com.hk beneficial to people in foreign countries view HK news choose what users like allow to replay the news not linear experience CONs selection criteria of the news Background information: Apple Daily Animated news: A Hong Kong newspaper founded in 1995 Second best selling newspaper in Hong Kong Celebrity scandals Sensationalist news reports Anti-political positions Online version: Animated news tone: gossip wording: oral language, not academic anchor: sometimes adds opinion Goal = to get as close to the truth as possible Death of Steve Jobs (Apple Daily VS TVB News) PROs no fixed time, no fixed news ordering Apple Daily and BBC News: Similarities: focus on the details of the incident describing the incident with opinion e.g. “outrage”, “distressing” Amelia Wang Amy Lin Brad Li Luke Tse Polly Leung Varia B. Foshan Traffic Accident (Apple Daily VS Now TV) Death of Steve Jobs (Apple Daily VS Printed News) Similarities: perspective: depicting the loss of an eminent figure of the world (cc) photo by jimmyharris on Flickr Absence of verified facts CONs: no live news/ breaking news may not mainly based on news value and editorial judgment but based on entertaining value (obscene, violence) Offers the audience a well-rounded scope of information on the issue Apple Daily and Sharp Daily Similarities: use of words with subjective thinking e.g. cold-blooded coverage: mainly on the details of the event biased and try to draw sympathy towards the victim similar perspective: treating it as a tragedy of news value CONs commercial break sometimes, the users has to view the advertisement before the news education In long term, people adapt to visual movement rather than plain text concentration span shortened coverage of news Mostly local news, entertainment less financial, features, sports news Dissimilarities: rely only on acoustic reporting without picking a particular angle coverage and thoroughness Comparison Many have attempted to pinpoint the exact definition of “journalism”: Dissimilarities: coverage and thoroughness without picking a particular angle [The goal of journalism is ]"to convey reality as accurately as possible, and as enjoyably as possible so long as accuracy isn’t sacrificed.” Source: Trueslant.com VS PROs large number of audience (cc) image by anemoneprojectors on Flickr (cc) photo by Metro Centric on Flickr PROs suitable for busy people Group members Topic Introduction Apple Daily’s animated news Good Journalism (cc) photo by Metro Centric on Flickr Dissimilarities: coverage: putting more emphasis on the moral issue perspective: putting the news as a moral concern, not merely a tragedy “The practice of investigation and reporting of events, trends, and issues to a broad audience in a timely fashion.” - Wikipedia “The collection, preparation, and distribution of news and related commentary and feature material.” - Britannica Online Encyclopedia “A search for truth on behalf of the citizen.” - Jack Fuller, author of News Values Comparison between Apple Daily’s animated news with other sources (newspapers, TV media, and online news coverage) Definition of Journalism and classification of Journalism (Good and Bad) Our point of view on animated news The reason why Apple Daily animated news can win popularity and how exactly it fills the gap for understanding news. Death of Steve Jobs (Apple Daily VS Radio News) Similarities: perspective: depicting the death of an eminent figure of the world cover nuts and bolts only no package, features the video is too short easy to access internet penetrate to different levels of people Definition On-going process of verification Animated News Presentation Agenda (cc) photo by Franco Folini on Flickr PROs: no geographical limit people with busy working schedule absorb news in timely manner Does not deceive PROs content, format combine both visual and audio elements good for the blind and the deaf video editing effect, simulation, dialog easy to understand, entertaining, appealing allow interaction viewers can share, add comments, discuss with worldwide users needs time to make animated news Dissimilarities: - use of visual elements (static) - without acoustic painting of mood CONs not comprehensive enough One thing everyone agrees on is..... Journalism = Communication of News. Bad Journalism