The use of documentation in non-daily news program: Informe Semanal

Abstract

The article analyzes how audiovisual documentation has been used in the oldest non-daily TVE news program, still on screen nowadays, Informe Semanal. Due to achieve this aim, a sample of broadcasting (four months) has been selected and the materials used on the production of the program has been divided into different categories, taking into account the original date of its filming. Beside this quantitative study, other aspects have been studied: The reuse in different programs of the same shooting, the use of materials from other news program (both daily and non daily), and the use of “special documents” (amateur shooting, photographs and films and documentary scenes). Specifically in this latter point, I have emphasized an original new use I have called “fictitious filming”, referring to the use of fiction films due to enlighten real facts.