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Television Graphics
Television Graphics
EyeCandy – And MoreAnd MoreEyeCandy – And MoreAnd More
Types of GraphicsTypes of Graphics
•Full Screen Graphics (FSG)
•Bullets
•Quotes
•Charts & graphs
•WX
•Full Screen Graphics (FSG)
•Bullets
•Quotes
•Charts & graphs
•WX
FSG ConsiderationsFSG Considerations
•Is the font large enough?
•Is there too much information?
•Use bullets and reveals
•Charts are better than numbers
•Is the font large enough?
•Is there too much information?
•Use bullets and reveals
•Charts are better than numbers
Types of GraphicsTypes of Graphics
•Over the shoulder (OTS)
•Locators
•Story captions
•Bugs
•Branding
•Over the shoulder (OTS)
•Locators
•Story captions
•Bugs
•Branding
Bugs & IDsBugs & IDs
•Bugs introduced by CNN in 1980s to prevent theft
•Bugs now used for branding
•Bugs effective for station recall, but not necessarily more effective than IDs.
Research presented at Broadcast Educators Association Conference, April 2002 by Mark J. Pescatore, University of North Carolina. Posted at http://www.newslab.org/research/bugs.htm
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•Sports
•First down markers
•Commercial placements
•Chromakey standups
•Ethic problems
•CBS News millenium
•CBS Early Show logo
•Sports
•First down markers
•Commercial placements
•Chromakey standups
•Ethic problems
•CBS News millenium
•CBS Early Show logo
Captions & Crawls = Overload?
• Kansas State University & Newslab
• Two groups: one with crawls, one without
• Group without recalled moreLori Bergen, Tom Grimes, and Deborah Potter, “How Attention Partitions Itself During Simultaneous Message Presentations,” Human Communication Research, Vol. 31, No. 3, July 2005, 311-336.
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Who Makes This Stuff?
Who Makes This Stuff?
•In house graphic artists
•Off-site production houses
•VDO
•GFX
•AP Graphics Bank
•Digital Juice (“Jumpbacks”)
•In house graphic artists
•Off-site production houses
•VDO
•GFX
•AP Graphics Bank
•Digital Juice (“Jumpbacks”)
News in Motion
•Knight-Ridder company provides ready-made animations
•Available by subscription
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Research:AnimationResearch:Animation
•Indiana University and Newslab study
•VO alone: high attention, low retention
•Static FSG: low attention
•Animated FSG: high attention, higher retention
•Indiana University and Newslab study
•VO alone: high attention, low retention
•Static FSG: low attention
•Animated FSG: high attention, higher retention
http://www.newslab.org/research/animate.htm
Sets: Hard or Soft?Sets: Hard or Soft?Hard sets are physically constructed
Soft or virtual sets are computer-
generated
Soft or virtual sets are computer-
generated
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