For this assignment I have decided to look at the USA today page.
Finding the videos on the website was pretty simple and easy. Articles and
videos weren't separated or put into different sections, but videos had a play
press feature, making it easy to distinguish between the two types of news
format, although I still wish the site had different sections for its articles
and videos, I didn't mind this approach at all.
I watched a few of the clips on the site,
and the videos feel very much like that of a television news report, with a
reporter narrating and footage and interviews being shown. The average length
of the videos were also around the same as that of a television news report,
between 1 to 2 minutes.
There were some minor differences as well
with the videos, some simply consisted of images rather than video footage.
Some of the videos also tended to end more abruptly compared to that of a
regular TV news report.
Overall I think USA today's videos are
very professional well done. However the videos should really be put into a
different section from that of the news articles altogether and the videos
themselves are very much short on content, making them not as engrossing as
they might be, had they been more detailed about what ever subject or story
they may be talking about.
USA Today is a very much a professional
website, but when compared to the ireport I find it to be inferior because the
ireport's articles and videos tend to fascinate and engross me more. That being
said USA Today videos are not badly done, they just wouldn't be my first source
of info when it came to doing a report or something.
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