News package
Suitable for:
Larger organisations with higher financial resources.
What is it?
A-roll: Edited AV material which captures the most important interviews/scenes with narrated audio tracks. B-roll: Back-up AV material with general shots and interviews without a narrated audio track but with atmospheric sound. TV broadcasters can insert their own voice-over onto parts of the provided B-roll material. Generally, both A- and B-roll packages contain 15 minutes of semi-edited AV material showing highlights of an event, including established shots and sound bites. This provides TV broadcasters with suitable AV material to accompany a topical news report.
Benefits
- With the help of a professional you can create great material that may be used for different
Limitations
- If you want to have professional material, you have to foresee a relatively large budget.
How to develop A- and B- roll?
- You should ask a PR/communications agency to help you select the most high value events for media use. For example, press conferences. This agency will provide:
- Professional staff
- Cameramen
- Sound assistants
- Producers/TV journalists.
- The material should encourage TV broadcasters to use it for reprocessing but key to encouraging this re-use is ensuring that there is a news 'hook'.
- After the event, the PR agency should also monitor and evaluate the broadcasting of the news package.
