News VS Documentary
News
- Tell you brief explanation
- Give facts and figures
- Switch topics quickly
- Answer only main questions
Documentary
- Always about one topic/subject
- Go into depth with stories and reenactments
- Give facts and figures
- Give different sides to the topic in hand
- Answer lots of different questions not just the main ones
- It is an, ‘Investigation’

Just to show how
quick news programs go through different topics, I’ve got print screens of the
start and end of a news story. They start covering the story at 8.00 and it
finishes at 10.00, so they only cover the story for 2 minutes. A documentary
would cover a topic for over 30 minuets usually up to 1
hour.

Another example of the difference between news reports and documentaries. The 'Classic albums' series with a resent documentary about the popular rapper Jay-Z with his first album, claiming it as a masterpiece and a 'classic album' in terms of hip hop music. The difference between this documentary an a news report about him is that the documentary is a lot more in-depth about his life and his music getting into the 'nitty-gritty' details, where there are many scenes showing Jay-Z himself in the record studio listening to his songs and explaining their meanings to the viewers. This is very different in a news report as it wouldn't get into these details they would just give factual information on his album and when it is possibly getting released with maybe one quick professional opinion on it.

Grade: Merit
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