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It's only an interview
See whether the following script seems familiar. The formula is regularly employed on any subject from an outbreak of bubonic plague to a report about tap dancing seagulls and is the trademark of all and any of the dozens of nearly identical topical news and current affairs magazine programmes that go out daily.
| Newsreader in vision. Adopting grim or quizzical tone as appropriate. | Feelings ran high at Cardiff Docks… |
| Newsreader out of vision. Random cutaway shots illustrating story. Plague victims, ambulances, musical wildfowl. | |
| Newsreader in vision. | From Cardiff Joe Hack reports. |
| Hack in vision. Standing next to sign saying Cardiff Docks. Wipe in name caption with programme logo Joe Hack Reporting. | In Cardiff ... |
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