Reportage is called that journalistic, cinematographic work, or belonging to any other genre and that presents an eminent informative character.
The other use that the term also presents is that of the set of photographs that will appear in a newspaper or magazine about a certain event.
Although the most popular and usual use is that which refers to a journalistic account of a story starring various actors and related to a specific context. Basically, the report consists of a testimony which will explain through the words of those involved or witnesses, images or sounds, depending on the medium in question, a fact that has aroused public interest.
It is also common for the word to be used as a synonym for interview, for example, when a journalist, communicator, or other professional of the mass media, interviews a personality or the protagonist of some notable event, it is spoken in terms of a report. . "In the report she gave to the magazine, Madonna confessed her separation."
Characteristics
The report reached its peak in the sixties, which is when it became a mass attraction. It is differentiated from the current news because they tend to delve into the issues in a more profound and analytical way and also do not play with the immediacy and instantaneity like the news, that is, for the report to exist, the fact that it addresses must not necessarily have occurred. day, it may very well have happened a long time ago and have been news in a timely manner, meanwhile, what the report on the subject does is bring the subject back into account, expand it and perhaps provide new enriching data, in addition to the eyes of experts and protagonists , for instance.
How is built?
Almost always, in addition to the aforementioned, the report will be accompanied by personal and direct observations of the intervening journalist, who must also select the topic in order to attract the maximum amount of public, impacting, from the approach or the significance that it holds.
It should be noted that the production of the report will involve a planned work, obtaining information from reliable sources. They are usually extensive, because in addition to the information, interviews, photos, videos, among other materials, are included.
The topics that reports usually address are very varied, politics, economy, tourism, art, science, autobiographical, among others.
The way in which the report is presented will depend on the medium in which it is published or broadcast, but they usually follow a common structure such as: an attractive title that engages the topic, an index in which the topics to be addressed are succinctly marked, the introduction , the development, conclusion and some have a space for the public so that they can reflect on the subject.
The report can present different structures, since it allows integrating different narrative alternatives as long as the veracity of the text is not altered in any way. Surveys like interviews turn out to be auxiliary tools that can help explain events.
Types of report
There are different types of reports, including: scientific (deals with the scientific advances and discoveries of the moment), explanatory (deals with those transcendent events among public opinion), investigative (focuses on discovering those unknown details about a particular event), human interest report (focuses on a person or a community) and free report (It has a structure of your choice and is characterized by its brevity).
And finally, to clarify even more what is reportage and what is not, it is worth highlighting the differences between this and documentaries and reports, the two works with which it is often confused. The documentary film is timeless and is detached from the present and for its part the report announces events, serves to expand certain news.
