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Today's headlines were:
Floods again, featuring an interview of a moist looking David Cameron
Norovirus
Nadine Dorries
Corrie funeral
Sports Personality of the Year.
What I think worked:
The Corrie funeral was good to cover - 5 News is clearly aimed at an older audience and older audiences tend to watch more soaps.
A graphic during a flood update OB was great, it included information about the story but also rail and road closure news which are things people need to know.
The same package ends with footage that was clearly shot from a boat chugging along on the floodwater. That was really good and ended the VT with some natsot.
The interview with the PM by the river.
The interview with the man stranded in his house - reporter was pointing the mic at him as he was leaning out of the top window. I really liked that and it gave the viewer a sense of scale of the destruction that the flood had caused. The crew also filmed a great cut away of the man's wheelie bin floating away in the flood water.
I also loved the shot of the couple in the dinghy with the dog - the scripting went along with this quite well as the reporter said 'and people saved the things that were most important to them..'
Vox pops for the Sports story worked well, as the opinion of your average person is relevant for the story.
What I think didn't work:
The Sports Personality of the Year leaves you with a cliff hanger - the headline clip freeze-frames, then zooms in to a corner of the guy's face. I personally didn't like that but maybe it appeals to a soap-watching target audience.
Emma Crosby is great, but from both watching her and from reading the comments viewers have left on her profile page on the 5 News website, I've got to agree that she is far too smiley when reading about serious stuff. The death of the old woman in St Asaph wasn't treated seriously enough.
As before, I'm really not sure about including the reporters in shot with interviewees unnecessarily. If it is to patch a cut, then fine, but not as a matter of course. The only package that didn't have the back of someone's head in it was the Yasser Arafat one because it was made up of archive footage.
The norovirus package started and ended with the exact same shots. These shots also had some sinister music underneath them which I didn't like - the norovirus isn't really a killer but it almost implied that it was.
The crane OOV - footage taken from ABC News. Why was this reported on?
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