Tv News Reported That The Screen Frame Analysis

Most of the researches on TV news and reports target oral communication without lucubrating their pictures. Pictures are the most obscure tool of TV news and reports which exerts influence on the audience almost at any moment. TV pictures are analogous, fragmentary and sensational. These characteristics enable cameramen to select and represent objective realities with pictorial framing.Cameramen represent different media realities by selecting different pictures. What the audience see on the screen are carefully-selected and organized media realities in stead of objective realities. This thesis illustrates how cameramen reconstruct objective realities by selecting pictures according to such frames as conflict, value, ideology, interest, symbol and propaganda. Journalists tend to select pictures under the conflict frame. Accordingly, TV screen is flooded with conflictory events like wars, riots, crimes and calamities. Chinese journalists down play conflict while selecting pictures of home news, but still stress clashes when choosing pictures of world news. Reporters with different values select disparate pictures when reporting the same news. Meanwhile, news pictures help reconstruct the mainstream ideology of the power institutions of the society. Besides, interest, symbol and propaganda are important factors which affect cameramen. The selected pictures induct the audience to understanding and interpreting news from particular perspectives.Various kinds of frames are mutually conditioned and affected. The article is expected to improve the visual literacy of the audience so that TV viewers will learn how to interpret pictures.