Tag Archives: ABC World news

Blog Post #4

@JaredAbrahamWSU

 

In the two examples of ABC World News and the Oprah Winfrey CNN clips there were many differences. To me the biggest, and most obvious, difference was the picture quality. In the ABC clip the video appeared to be shot on some kind of low resolution film. In the Oprah Winfrey clip it looked like CNN was using digital Hi-definition cameras. Another large difference between the two was the narration. In the Peter Jennings ABC World News clip the narration was more monotone than the reporting. At one point reminding me of the old Walt Disney clips that would be showing off the plans for Disneyland. The ABC World News clip also seemed less biased, they were just telling you what was happening, instead of giving their opinion on the subject. In the CNN Oprah Winfrey clip, it seemed like there was a lot of confrontation between the news contributors,  which ABC didn’t even have in their clip. Both channels had some B-roll clips they played while the narration and debating were going on, the only difference was the Oprah Winfrey clip didn’t really have a story in the video. Whereas the ABC World News Clip relied heavily on the video to convey the story they were trying to tell. As far as New Media being “offered as an improvement” (Bolton and Grusin, pg. 79), I think the argument could go both ways. The technology is better by far in the newer clip, but I much prefer the unbiased story telling in the older clip.

blog 4

@samai 14

I noticed many differences between ABC world news and Oprah.  Some of the most obvious differences between them were the colors .They were too boring and not as bright as Oprah. Other obvious differences are the music, commercials, appearance, and speech. The way Peter Jennings spoke to the audience was different. His way of speech, his tone it was just different than the Oprah. The ways the commercials are presented are different. For example talking on the phone while driving is not okay anymore and in one of the ABC commercials they were advertising at&t using card and we don’t see that anymore. We also don’t see those cars or huge phones/cellphones.  Moving on to the technology part on Oprah there’s a lot of screen changing, 3 different people from different places fit in one screen and they’re live and they ask for the public’s opinion by sending an email. I don’t see any of this on the ABC world news. I just feel like news is more realistic now than before. Bolter and Grusin say “in order to create a sense of presence, virtual reality should come as close as possible to our daily visual experience. Its graphic space should be continuous and full of objects and should fill the viewer’s field of vision without rupture.” (p. 67) one last thing I noticed that has nothing to do with technology or new media is that they both talk about a certain race. I feel like ABC sees and treats “blacks” as they refer to them as minorities but on Oprah they have power and are wealthy.