What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?
I believe that our radio show would be best distributed on Jack FM or Heart FM as these are both localised radio stations that cover both local and national news stories which was present in our show. I believe that these kinds of radio stations rely heavily on delivering what the audience wants to hear which is what inspired us in our work as we wanted to deliver a piece that would create almost a community between us and the listeners much like Bolton FM has with its listeners.
This is important because it will keep the listener coming back from more and even subconsciously they will listen to our show through the Social Cognitive Theory (1941 miller and Dollard) which explains how the media can change the audiences behavioural patterns for example when driving in the car our audiences that have been affected by our shows will automatically and sometime even unknowingly tune there radio to listen to our show.
I also believe that these radio stations would want to distribute our media product because of the potential advertising increase, what i mean is that with any new show there comes several chances to market the product for example with a broadcast such as ours it applies to a range of differnt niches with the main focus on the younger adult groups this could potentially give rise to an increase in advertisers such as various phone companies and clothing companies as they coud see the value in advertising during our show as many of there target audience will be listening.
Who would be the audience for your media product? And how does it represent particular social groups?
Our target audience will be teenagers to young adults, 15 to 24. Most of which I assume will be local to Oxfordshire. We represent young Oxfordians by being them ourselves. this will be important as it creates a bond between us and our isteners as they will feel they can relate to us.
A lot of our stories, such as the John Terry affair are light hearted and relevant to popular culture, This story in particular represents people of all social groups and ages and will give us the opportunity to attracrt new audience through the Arguementation Theory which is best shown in the book 'principles of arguementation' (Pierce 1895) this theory states that our radio station would get more attention because of the people hearing our show will hve there own beliefs about this story and will argue with others and through this the news will spread through the area.
This story is followed by serious stories that interest and challenge our audience’s views such as our Haiti coverage.
Despite this, as a news segment we would hope to have a large variety of audience to address
due to most people wanting the news to keep up to date with the world. This is proven by ‘The news at Ten’ being one of the most viewed programs in history and that news has spread to more niche markets such as children with ‘News Round’ and music lovers with ‘Kerrang News’. The Cultivation Theory(Gerbner 1965) tells us how the media is such an important source of information that consumers find it ultimately impossible to escape it's gradual encroachment on their everyday lives- this again will increase our viewing figures as the radio is located in several areas of everyday live such as radio alarm clocks and stereos in the car this products gradually introduce the radio into our lives.
How did you attract/address your audience?
If our radio broadcast was a daily showthen we would attract our audience through local mediated advertisement. Since we would not be able to get the massive industrial comapnies involved we would look to the local buisness and sports teams following in the footsteps of Bolton FM so since we would be broadcasting in the oxfordshire area we could get oxford united football club to invest in return for advertising there games and creating phone ins with the prizes being tickets to football matches.
Our Jingle will also attract our audiences, It has been theorised that a person can become attracted to a jingle if they hear it enough time though the mediated Syringe Theory. An example of this would be an individual recognising the theme music to Eastenders or corination street since these are two of the most sunonamous jingles to date and when the audience hear these they feel the urge to go watch.
Our jingle would work in a similar way for our audience, if they are browsing through radio stations and get a blast of our jingle, they will stop and listen. This will fundamentally raise our profile.
Furthermore I would attract audience through advertising, especially through the Syringe Theory of playing our adverts locally over and over and the Two Step Flow Theory of allowing our media consumers to discuss our show amongst themselves and hopefully attract new consumers to tune in.
finally i woud use the increasing intrest of our target audience in social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to further raise our profile by making fan groups in which we can provide updates about what is happening, what listeners can expect to hear and chances for them to get involved in competions this will raise the shows ratings through the Social Network Theory in which in our case states that the more of an online presence we have in these networks then the more people will recieve our piece through both this theory and the Two Step Flow Theory.
What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Through the construction of our radio piece we came into contact with many new technologies and media instruments. The key program we used was the computer program ‘Audacity’. Created by Dominic Mazzoni, this simple yet effective program recorded our voices through microphones and then allowed us to edit. As i already posted earlier i reviewed this technology and looked at other peoples comments although i found some limitations with this technologies the positivies easily made this the best editing choice software. The editing process consisted to cutting and lengthening voice segments and overlapping them with backing sounds such as quieter music or ‘buzzing and disjointed' effect used in our Haiti story to represent technical problems that would occur while broadcasting a piece of news from another country. Over the course of our project I have learnt to master Audacity. This was helped by before we started on our piece i looked into how to use audacity by viewing tutorial on www.youtube.com which made the editing process alot easier as i did not have to learn through trial and error however as well as audacity i learned to use other instruments such as the microphones and handheld voice recorders when filming an evaluation video.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
Me and the group have come a long way since our preliminary. In our preliminary we were still learning how to use programs such as Audacity and had technical difficulties in the editing phases. While speaking into the microphone we were too loud and didn’t do enough to stop disturbances or at differnt time we would be too quiet which would mean audacity could not pick up our voices properly. We looked to stop this in our radio broadcast through using a microphone stand which meant that we could keep the microphone in the same place which meant that it would not be a problem with use being either too close or too far away from the microphone.
I think as a learning curve the preliminary can still be seen as a success as it did teach us the basics and pushed us to achieve and do better for our final piece. Our final piece is much better flowing with many more technical skills such as an improved jingle, sound effects between headlines and our disrupting effect in our Haiti voxpop.
My presenting skills are also much improved, through watching various news shows to give myself an idea of what my voice shoud sound like for my speaking sections. My time management excelled from the preliminary, as we all met up frequently in own free time to record and edit. I think the progress we made can be put down to our excelled effort and understanding of preparation as we shared ideas, researched stories and scripted; our recording as we were more experienced and progressed through trial and error and finally our postproduction, spending a lot of time editing on Audacity to achieve our final piece.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Monday, 22 February 2010
planning and research stages
research and Planning
Due to lots of recording and helping ruhul with the technical side i have neglected my blog so i thought i would write a review summing up our research and planning.
As a group our task was produce a 5-8 minute News piece for radio, we had previously used the radio equipment during our preliminary task and so were used to the equipment such as the mike and knew the computer program: Audacity we were also lucky enough to have Audacity on ruhul's laptop which meant we could work from home aswell
For our initial research we listened too and analysed some established radio stations se we could see how they did it. we decided to do our analysis a little different to other groups as we chose a more diverse group of radio stations instead of all local and london stations. the radio stations we chose were Heart FM, Radio 1 and Bolton FM in this research we focused on the language used to influence our piece for example we didnt use slang in our news piece as during the news segments on these stations we used formal and direct language
some up of radio stations(check blog for more detail)
Heart is the local station for London but also goes national, this made it very interesting. It played popular music and has a memorable jingle ‘This is Heart’ which is a very recognisable jingle. The news segment was sharp and included all the top headlines, but also featured a section of local news to the capital. As a listener I enjoyed Heart and found it easy to listen too although locally I thought it could have been more in depth.
BBC Radio 1 is a national station and one I had listened too before. They play chart music and have celebrity presenters such as Chris Moyles, Veron Kay and Fearne Cotton. Although many of the presenters on Radio 1 are very good it became apparent that being a television celebrity does not make you natural at radio, and many would trail off with uninteresting tales of their own lives. The news section covered the main stories but the shows were generally centred around music and light hearted ‘banter’.
96.5 Bolton FM is the local station for Bolton in Lancashire. The initial sound sounded less professional then the previous two sections but understandably they’d have a cheaper recording system. This station was very local and the news consisted of information about the local market and what the people of Bolton were up too. We needed to learn from this for when we presented our local news section.
From this point on me alex and ruhul had a brain storm about our radio news segment. We targeted it to be around 4 – 6 minutes long and include both local and nation stories, also including weather and sports, possibly ending with a light hearted story. In our preliminary piece we had branded ourselves as a light hearted team; this was backed up by our name ‘The Coconut Lounge’, and through our presenting we joked around and gave each other silly nicknames. All though there was nothing wrong with this in the right context, we felt as news presenters our final piece needed to be more serious and constructive. We ditched the nicknames and decided upon our 1st basic timeline which was as followed:
Jingle -30 seconds
Headlines – 1 minute
Main Story – 2 minutes
Vox-Pop (weather) – 30 seconds
Sports – 1 minute
Light Story to end on (interview) – 1 minute
This basic plan gave us bones to work on so that we could build our piece. The idea behind this that we wanted to include as much as possible such as vox-pops and a jingle without overdoing it and rushing our show. We were definitely in the planning stage of our final piece.
We began to choose the news stories we wished to present.
Headlines were to be up to date and researched on the day as we didn’t need to practise talking about them, this was also to be true of weather, we would report on how it was at the time.
Our Main Story was to be the earthquake in Haiti and the aftermath of that.
Sports would include the John Terry affair and up to date scores.
The light hearted story would be a man with a large crocodile collection.
We chose real life stories because we wanted to relate to our audience and allow them to feel emotion for the news. We also chose the stories we did because they interested us and so any excitement or sorrow in our voices would be real and there for better. We began to script sections:
Alex: A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
The extent of the devastation is still unclear but there are fears thousands of people may have died.
Haiti's worst quake in two centuries hit south of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, wrecking the presidential palace, UN HQ and other buildings.
Liam: A "large number" of UN personnel were reported missing by the organisation. Many people have spent the night outside amid fears of more aftershocks
Once we had planned and scripted it all our Time Line changed and looked more like this:
Jingle 20-30 seconds
News headlines 20-30 seconds
Main story in depth 1 minute
Vox pop 30 seconds to be carried out on location
Funny news stories 20-30 seconds
Football news 20-30 seconds
Weather 20-30 seconds
Local weather
Vox pop 30 seconds on location
Jingle 20-30 seconds
This change showed our piece was progressing all the time and we knew we were moving forwards.
Due to lots of recording and helping ruhul with the technical side i have neglected my blog so i thought i would write a review summing up our research and planning.
As a group our task was produce a 5-8 minute News piece for radio, we had previously used the radio equipment during our preliminary task and so were used to the equipment such as the mike and knew the computer program: Audacity we were also lucky enough to have Audacity on ruhul's laptop which meant we could work from home aswell
For our initial research we listened too and analysed some established radio stations se we could see how they did it. we decided to do our analysis a little different to other groups as we chose a more diverse group of radio stations instead of all local and london stations. the radio stations we chose were Heart FM, Radio 1 and Bolton FM in this research we focused on the language used to influence our piece for example we didnt use slang in our news piece as during the news segments on these stations we used formal and direct language
some up of radio stations(check blog for more detail)
Heart is the local station for London but also goes national, this made it very interesting. It played popular music and has a memorable jingle ‘This is Heart’ which is a very recognisable jingle. The news segment was sharp and included all the top headlines, but also featured a section of local news to the capital. As a listener I enjoyed Heart and found it easy to listen too although locally I thought it could have been more in depth.
BBC Radio 1 is a national station and one I had listened too before. They play chart music and have celebrity presenters such as Chris Moyles, Veron Kay and Fearne Cotton. Although many of the presenters on Radio 1 are very good it became apparent that being a television celebrity does not make you natural at radio, and many would trail off with uninteresting tales of their own lives. The news section covered the main stories but the shows were generally centred around music and light hearted ‘banter’.
96.5 Bolton FM is the local station for Bolton in Lancashire. The initial sound sounded less professional then the previous two sections but understandably they’d have a cheaper recording system. This station was very local and the news consisted of information about the local market and what the people of Bolton were up too. We needed to learn from this for when we presented our local news section.
From this point on me alex and ruhul had a brain storm about our radio news segment. We targeted it to be around 4 – 6 minutes long and include both local and nation stories, also including weather and sports, possibly ending with a light hearted story. In our preliminary piece we had branded ourselves as a light hearted team; this was backed up by our name ‘The Coconut Lounge’, and through our presenting we joked around and gave each other silly nicknames. All though there was nothing wrong with this in the right context, we felt as news presenters our final piece needed to be more serious and constructive. We ditched the nicknames and decided upon our 1st basic timeline which was as followed:
Jingle -30 seconds
Headlines – 1 minute
Main Story – 2 minutes
Vox-Pop (weather) – 30 seconds
Sports – 1 minute
Light Story to end on (interview) – 1 minute
This basic plan gave us bones to work on so that we could build our piece. The idea behind this that we wanted to include as much as possible such as vox-pops and a jingle without overdoing it and rushing our show. We were definitely in the planning stage of our final piece.
We began to choose the news stories we wished to present.
Headlines were to be up to date and researched on the day as we didn’t need to practise talking about them, this was also to be true of weather, we would report on how it was at the time.
Our Main Story was to be the earthquake in Haiti and the aftermath of that.
Sports would include the John Terry affair and up to date scores.
The light hearted story would be a man with a large crocodile collection.
We chose real life stories because we wanted to relate to our audience and allow them to feel emotion for the news. We also chose the stories we did because they interested us and so any excitement or sorrow in our voices would be real and there for better. We began to script sections:
Alex: A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
The extent of the devastation is still unclear but there are fears thousands of people may have died.
Haiti's worst quake in two centuries hit south of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, wrecking the presidential palace, UN HQ and other buildings.
Liam: A "large number" of UN personnel were reported missing by the organisation. Many people have spent the night outside amid fears of more aftershocks
Once we had planned and scripted it all our Time Line changed and looked more like this:
Jingle 20-30 seconds
News headlines 20-30 seconds
Main story in depth 1 minute
Vox pop 30 seconds to be carried out on location
Funny news stories 20-30 seconds
Football news 20-30 seconds
Weather 20-30 seconds
Local weather
Vox pop 30 seconds on location
Jingle 20-30 seconds
This change showed our piece was progressing all the time and we knew we were moving forwards.
news stories
Main News Story:
Earthquake in Hati
‘A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
The extent of the devastation is still unclear but there are fears thousands of people may have died.
Haiti's worst quake in two centuries hit south of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, wrecking the presidential palace, UN HQ and other buildings.
A "large number" of UN personnel were reported missing by the organisation. Many people have spent the night outside amid fears of more aftershocks.
The Red Cross says up to three million people have been affected.
Describing the earthquake as a "catastrophe", Haiti's envoy to the US said the cost of the damage could run into billions.
A number of nations, including the US, UK and Venezuela, are gearing up to send aid.’
Sports Story:
John Terry Affair + Football Scores
England boss Fabio Capello will name defenders Wayne Bridge and John Terry in the squad for the friendly against Egypt on 3 March. Terry is alleged to have had an affair with Bridge's former partner but Capello has warned both defenders not to bring any personal tensions with them.
Up to date scores at the time if recording
Weather:
Up to date at the time of recording
Light-Hearted Story:
Man tries to make Britain’s largest crocodile collection
-possible interview
Earthquake in Hati
‘A massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake has struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti.
The extent of the devastation is still unclear but there are fears thousands of people may have died.
Haiti's worst quake in two centuries hit south of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, wrecking the presidential palace, UN HQ and other buildings.
A "large number" of UN personnel were reported missing by the organisation. Many people have spent the night outside amid fears of more aftershocks.
The Red Cross says up to three million people have been affected.
Describing the earthquake as a "catastrophe", Haiti's envoy to the US said the cost of the damage could run into billions.
A number of nations, including the US, UK and Venezuela, are gearing up to send aid.’
Sports Story:
John Terry Affair + Football Scores
England boss Fabio Capello will name defenders Wayne Bridge and John Terry in the squad for the friendly against Egypt on 3 March. Terry is alleged to have had an affair with Bridge's former partner but Capello has warned both defenders not to bring any personal tensions with them.
Up to date scores at the time if recording
Weather:
Up to date at the time of recording
Light-Hearted Story:
Man tries to make Britain’s largest crocodile collection
-possible interview
Monday, 8 February 2010
problems faced this past week
we faced 3 main problems when recording this week
the first was the lack of recording time we had as we share the room with the other 2groups.
the second was illness as ruhul came down with tonsilitious which meant we couldnt record his vox pops or his various other segments.
the final problem was conflicting schedules as when one of us had a free others would be in lesson vise versa which has caused a few problems.
the first was the lack of recording time we had as we share the room with the other 2groups.
the second was illness as ruhul came down with tonsilitious which meant we couldnt record his vox pops or his various other segments.
the final problem was conflicting schedules as when one of us had a free others would be in lesson vise versa which has caused a few problems.
update 2
updated time plan 5 mins estimate time recored 2 minutes 12 seconds so far.
jingle 20-30 seconds RECORDED
news headlines 20-30 RECORDED seconds to be read by me and alex
main story in depth RECORDED 1 minute to be read by alex
vox pop 30 seconds to be carried out on location by ruhul
funny news stories 20-30 seconds to be read by me
football news RECORDED 20-30 seconds to be read by me
weather 20-30 RECORDED read by alex
local weather read by ruhul
vox pop 30 seconds RECORDED on location read by ruhul
jingle 20-30 seconds RECORDED
jingle 20-30 seconds RECORDED
news headlines 20-30 RECORDED seconds to be read by me and alex
main story in depth RECORDED 1 minute to be read by alex
vox pop 30 seconds to be carried out on location by ruhul
funny news stories 20-30 seconds to be read by me
football news RECORDED 20-30 seconds to be read by me
weather 20-30 RECORDED read by alex
local weather read by ruhul
vox pop 30 seconds RECORDED on location read by ruhul
jingle 20-30 seconds RECORDED
Radio update and audacity
I thought this would be a good time to give an update and abit of an analysis of the software we are using. Firstly in our last couple of lessons we have managed to record our national headlines,the main story(minus vox pop due to illness) and the sports section and all together we have roughly 2 minutes of our broadcast done still left to do is vox pops, weather and local headlines. i am confident we can get all these aspects of the show recorded and edited by our deadline.
Audacity:
Audacity is a free software, cross-platform digital audio editor and recording application. It is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and BSD.
Audacity was created by Dominic Mazzoni while he was a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University.
Mazzoni now works at Google, but is still the main developer and maintainer of Audacity, with help from many others around the world.
The latest release of Audacity is 1.3.12, a beta, released on 1 April 2010.[8] As of 29 October 2010, it was the 10th most popular download from SourceForge.net, with 72 million downloads. Audacity won the SourceForge.net 2007 Community Choice Award for Best Project for Multimedia.
features of audacity:
- Importing and exporting WAV, AIFF, MP3 (via the LAME encoder, downloaded separately), Ogg Vorbis, all file formats supported by libsndfile library
- Versions 1.2.5 and 1.3.2 and later also support Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)[11]
- Version 1.3.6 and later also support additional formats such as WMA, AAC, AMR and AC3 via the optional FFmpeg library
- Recording and playing sounds
- Editing via Cut, Copy and Paste (with unlimited Undo)
- Multitrack mixing
- A large array of digital effects and plug-ins. Additional effects can be written with Nyquist
- Amplitude envelope editing
- Noise removal
- Audio spectrum analysis using the Fourier transformation algorithm
- The ability to make precise adjustments to the audio's speed while maintaining pitch (Audacity calls it changing tempo), in order to synchronize it with video, run for the right length of time, etc
- The ability to change the audio's pitch without changing the speed
- Contains major features of modern multi-track audio software[12] including navigation controls, zoom and single track edit, project pane and XY project navigation, non-destructive and destructive effect processing, audio file manipulation (cut, copy, paste)
- Converting cassette tapes or records into digital tracks by automatically splitting one track into multiple tracks based on silences in the track and the export multiple option
- Multi-platform: works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Unix-like systems (including Linux and BSD), among others
- The latest stable version supports Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista, but Windows 95 and NT are not supported. Windows 7 support is still provisional. For Windows 7, the developers recommend the latest 1.3.x Beta[13]
- Audacity uses the wxWidgets software library to provide a similar graphical user interface on several different operating systems.
- Audacity can also be used for post-processing of all types of audio, including podcasts. It can be used for finishing podcasts by adding effects such as normalization, trimming, and fading in and out.
It is currently used in the OCR National Level 2 ICT course for the sound creation unit.
Despite its positives i have discovered 3 weeknesses:
- Audacity lacks dynamic equalizer controls, real time effects and support for scrubbing
- A plug-in is required for VST plug-ins in Audacity 1.2.x
- MIDI files can only be displayed
Here are some reviews from users these were found on http://www.snapfiles.com/
Interface: 5 Features: 5 Ease of use: 5 Value: 5 Overall: 5 out of 5
Amazingly powerful audio file editor. ... Supports input/output of WAV, Ogg, FLAC, MP3, MP2, AC3 and about a dozen others, plus allows writing audio tags with each file. ... Excellent list of plug-ins and filters. Very powerful, easy-to-use, supports virtually unlimited number of tracks. The best audio editor I've seen, not that I've seen every single piece of software in existence, but this is awfully hard to beat !
Interface: 1 Features: 3 Ease of use: 1 Value: 5 Overall: 2 out of 5
I know by far this is a good program, but lacks too much on help and guidance. Sound issues are not easy, and the programs doesn't helps too mucho. I.E.: after installing, no sound recording device were detected. No info on website, confusing info in forums, confusing screen captures (using same version!) menus just disappear (apart from the old looking GUI) It would be nice to have some contextual help and recommendations, i.e. frequency rate? how do I know which settings are good for the job I'm doing? (some hours googling it...)Some other issues, wav files does not behave like normal wav files. A lot of good intentions, there's a lot of people enjoying this program, but any time I use it, I have a lot of troubles. You may need a PhD in Audacity... I do not get the point.
Interface: 3 Features: 4 Ease of use: 3 Value: 5 Overall: 4 out 5
Although it's not listed as working under Vista, it has performed very well on my Compaq while editing very large mp3 files. I tried other editing software, some were shareware with free trial time, and their asking prices were from $29 to $99 and they did not perform as well as Audacity! Thank you for such a great program!
These range of reviews led me to decide to write my own review on the website:
Interface: 4 Features: 4 Ease of use: 4 Value: 5 Overall:4.5 out of 5
Have been using this for a while without too many problems. It does have limitations when playing back edited portions of music in that it plays such a small section of your changes you don't get a feel for how the changes will come out. Thank goodness for the undo function. I still use this as a main tool for editing wav files, In particular the editing of wave files taken from records. I have found it useful for this due to the click removal tool which is quite effective. For a free program this is a nice piece of software. I would highly recommend this to anyone who needs to do some wave editing and converting.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
what i have done for the radio show so far
as it stands at the moment i have done 5 main things these are:
1)researched differnt radio stations indepth.
2)helped script the weather piece.
3)helped edit and put together the jingle for our broadcast.
4) written out time plans and worked out roughly how long the broadcast will take at the moment it stands at 6:00 minutes.
5)researched for local news storys and countrywide stories.
in the next couple of lessons i will be hoping to
1) script and preform headlines
2) script and preform footballing headlines
3) search the web for clip that we could your to edit our weather pieces e.g rain falling, heavy winds etc
1)researched differnt radio stations indepth.
2)helped script the weather piece.
3)helped edit and put together the jingle for our broadcast.
4) written out time plans and worked out roughly how long the broadcast will take at the moment it stands at 6:00 minutes.
5)researched for local news storys and countrywide stories.
in the next couple of lessons i will be hoping to
1) script and preform headlines
2) script and preform footballing headlines
3) search the web for clip that we could your to edit our weather pieces e.g rain falling, heavy winds etc
aims for our next lesson and script
for our next lesson we aim to script out out headlines and main headline and record them
for this we will have me and alex reading the headlines and then have alex go into an indepth report followed by ruhul having an interview to get the publics reactions.
I have now edited this post to include the first draft of our script.
This is a scripted version of our radio show as a group we sat down and wrote up. This gives us something to read as we record so we get the stories right.
Jingle
Alex: Our headlines today:
Liam: A nineteen year old part time shop assistant has been found murdered in Reading
A: Relatives of Vincent Van Gough has launched a major exhibition of the artists work in London
L: Children’s Sectary, Ed Balls has caused for the urgent upheaval of a loop hole that allows corporal punishment in part-time schools
A: Finally, ‘all you can drink’ offers in pubs may be banned, and ID checks made compulsory under a planned code in England and Wales – Our main story today:
L: Thousands are feared dead after a massive earthquake that struck Haiti
A: The seven magnitude quake which hit the Haiti capital of Port-au-Prince on the 12th of January is the worst earthquake to have hit the country in two-hundred years.
We now go to our correspondent Hooli who is in Haiti getting local reaction:
Hooli: (Voxpop) Hooli will talk to local villagers who are shook up after the disaster, and then he will discuss way to help with a disaster coordinator.
L: Thank you Hooli. Listeners you may have experienced some audio disruption
Sports Jingle
A: Now the sports news
L: In transfer news, Wigan has secured the signature of Victor Moses from Crystal Palace who have gone into administration
A: Egypt beat Ghana 1 – 0 in the African Cup of Nations Final
L: SPL league champions, Celtic, have acquired Robbie Keane on a yearlong loan from Tottenham Hotspur. Now to our main story:
A: John Terry’s captaincy is now is question after his alleged affair with the wife of Wayne Bridge. And now some local news:
L: There has been a rise in ethnic minority students
A: Just over one in ten students at Oxford University were from an ethnic minority background
L: Oxford United back health scheme:
A: The scheme that allows fans to get a health check at the Kassam Stadium has been backed by the squad
L: The world’s largest private crocodile collection has been found in Whitney
A: Shaun Bogart from Whitney keeps crocodiles in his back garden and now wants to create the countries first ever crocodile conservation
L: We had a chance to catch up with Shaun today, and here’s what happened:
Insert interview with ‘Shaun Bogart’. I will play Shaun while Liam will conduct the interview.
A: To Hooli with the weather
H: Thanks guys, and now today’s weather. On the local side we have temperatures as high as 11 degrees in Oxford with slight winds at up to 14mph. With the national weather, we have rain in parts of Scotland, temperatures as low as 3 degrees. As we move south of Scotland to the north of England, we have rain in the Newcastle area, low winds and temperatures as low as 2 degrees. In the midlands area with Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield we have patches of cloud but were not expecting any rain. Still temperatures are low at 2 to 3 degrees. Down with Birmingham, Leicester, Northampton and Coventry they’re luckier with some sunshine but it’s still quite cold. Lows of 5 degrees, highs of 10, throughout the day cloud will move in. Towards London we’re going to have a few showers today and tomorrow but will clear up for the weekend. And that’s the weather.
Thank you for listening to the news, we will be back with more headlines today.
for this we will have me and alex reading the headlines and then have alex go into an indepth report followed by ruhul having an interview to get the publics reactions.
I have now edited this post to include the first draft of our script.
This is a scripted version of our radio show as a group we sat down and wrote up. This gives us something to read as we record so we get the stories right.
Jingle
Alex: Our headlines today:
Liam: A nineteen year old part time shop assistant has been found murdered in Reading
A: Relatives of Vincent Van Gough has launched a major exhibition of the artists work in London
L: Children’s Sectary, Ed Balls has caused for the urgent upheaval of a loop hole that allows corporal punishment in part-time schools
A: Finally, ‘all you can drink’ offers in pubs may be banned, and ID checks made compulsory under a planned code in England and Wales – Our main story today:
L: Thousands are feared dead after a massive earthquake that struck Haiti
A: The seven magnitude quake which hit the Haiti capital of Port-au-Prince on the 12th of January is the worst earthquake to have hit the country in two-hundred years.
We now go to our correspondent Hooli who is in Haiti getting local reaction:
Hooli: (Voxpop) Hooli will talk to local villagers who are shook up after the disaster, and then he will discuss way to help with a disaster coordinator.
L: Thank you Hooli. Listeners you may have experienced some audio disruption
Sports Jingle
A: Now the sports news
L: In transfer news, Wigan has secured the signature of Victor Moses from Crystal Palace who have gone into administration
A: Egypt beat Ghana 1 – 0 in the African Cup of Nations Final
L: SPL league champions, Celtic, have acquired Robbie Keane on a yearlong loan from Tottenham Hotspur. Now to our main story:
A: John Terry’s captaincy is now is question after his alleged affair with the wife of Wayne Bridge. And now some local news:
L: There has been a rise in ethnic minority students
A: Just over one in ten students at Oxford University were from an ethnic minority background
L: Oxford United back health scheme:
A: The scheme that allows fans to get a health check at the Kassam Stadium has been backed by the squad
L: The world’s largest private crocodile collection has been found in Whitney
A: Shaun Bogart from Whitney keeps crocodiles in his back garden and now wants to create the countries first ever crocodile conservation
L: We had a chance to catch up with Shaun today, and here’s what happened:
Insert interview with ‘Shaun Bogart’. I will play Shaun while Liam will conduct the interview.
A: To Hooli with the weather
H: Thanks guys, and now today’s weather. On the local side we have temperatures as high as 11 degrees in Oxford with slight winds at up to 14mph. With the national weather, we have rain in parts of Scotland, temperatures as low as 3 degrees. As we move south of Scotland to the north of England, we have rain in the Newcastle area, low winds and temperatures as low as 2 degrees. In the midlands area with Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield we have patches of cloud but were not expecting any rain. Still temperatures are low at 2 to 3 degrees. Down with Birmingham, Leicester, Northampton and Coventry they’re luckier with some sunshine but it’s still quite cold. Lows of 5 degrees, highs of 10, throughout the day cloud will move in. Towards London we’re going to have a few showers today and tomorrow but will clear up for the weekend. And that’s the weather.
Thank you for listening to the news, we will be back with more headlines today.
convention of Radio
Conventions of Radio:
This is what I learned from my research into other radio stations, specifically Heart FM, Bolton FM and BBC Radio 1.
Pauses/slang/catch phrase:
Slang and pauses are more common on Local radio such as Bolton FM due to smaller audiences who feel more like a community or even a family. Nation radio such as Kerrang or Heart FM use better English as they speak to a more unknown audience as they are reaching people from all over the UK instead of a smaller area, despite this one of the main catch phrases of 1Xtra, a London based radio station, is ‘get funky’. This is because both national and local stations use catch phrases to attract audiences’ and appear ‘down to earth’. The more informal the station the more informal the catch phrase.
DJ talks about him/herself:
Usually DJ’s will talk about stories or music, but on occasions they will discuss their own lives. This will usually happen on a Monday morning while the presenters discuss their weekends. I researched and analysed this as I listened to Kerrang Radio where the presenter reported on a music festival he’d visited at the weekend. One thing i did pick up on from listening to both national and local radio station was that the audince are more intrested in hearing about someone like Chris Moyles than hearing about an alomst unknown presenter this is because of the influence the media has on our everyday lives through the Medium theory McLuhan (1964) the main idea of this is that the media has affected our preseption of what is intresting and what is not so through Chris Moyles new found stardom the audience now want to learn more about who he is and what he gets up to this has allowed the station to give a larger subject of the topics discussed on his show to be based around him.
DJ talks about the record:
The discussion of records and music comprises mostly of phattic utterances (small talk) which is pleasant to listen too. They will normally talk about the artist and how well the track is doing in the charts. As our course work will be a news show we won’t be focusing too strongly on this, but can use some of these skills while discussing news stories by giving our own opinions in short sentances as with a news show you are meant to stay impartial.
DJ talks about or to the listener:
On most radio stations, local and national, listeners can phone in to give opinions, such as sport opinions on Radio 5 Live, or answers quizzes on BBC Radio 1. This gives the listener an opportunity to be part of the radio experience and hopefully keep audiences’ listening and phoning in (often there are chances to win prizes). Obviously listeners are more likely to get through to the station on local radio as there are less people ringing in, yet less people will hear what they have to say in this instance. however a more intresting way to look at this is using the Dependancy Theory Ball-Rokeach and DeFleur (1976) in which its discussed that the media depends on the social context and through using interviews and phone ins the broadcaster get valuble knowledge about what people in the audience are thinking on a whole and can then shape there shows to appeal to the modern day audience
DJ digresses to another subject:
Topic shift is frequent during radio shows as it keeps stories fresh and listeners interested and listening. Within our news piece we will discuss different news stories to meet the large variety of interests.
DJ promotes another show:
Usually DJs will promote other shows on the same station, for example Chris Moyles from Radio 1 may promote Reggie Yates who does a later show. Promoting shows form the station in an obvious business technique to boost audience ratings. They will not normally promote other stations, and they are the competition This is a key example of the gatekeeper theory (Lewin 1947) in radio as the gatekeeper as it were is who decides what shall be put out on the radio so in this case a radio show such as BBC Radio 1 will not advertise for a kerrange so the gatekeeper only allows for the adverts about other shows to be BBC shows and broadcasts so to keep the audience intrested in what the BBC has to offer.
Jingles:
Jingles are used to attract audiences’, they are catchy and if a listener hears a snippet of your jingle while scrolling through radio stations they will stay and listen. Both national and local stations use this tactic, and example is Kerrangs jingle and slogan ‘Kerrang: Live Life Loud’ to a snappy tune.
Vox-Pop:
A Vox-pop is an on location report made outside of the station, such as an ‘on-location’ news report. They are recorded using handheld recorders. we will try to use two Vox Pops one in a local news report and one in our global affairs section.
Although not particululary a convention of media i decided i wanted to touch on how the radio has embrassed the changes in modern day technolgies and social changes through the Modernization theory (Giddens 1991) a key example that i picked up on when listening to all of these radio shows was the idea of mentioning the latest technologies such as the blackberry and i-phones thus connecting with the audience as these technologies are sweeping the globe however more importantly was the use of the social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter as during the shows the presenters are constantly asking for peope to join Facebook groups and to add the 'follow' the presenter themselves on Twitter this shows how media have recognized the potential marketing value of these sites in what is fast becoming a social networking society with these webpages no longer being just aimed at young teenagers.
This is what I learned from my research into other radio stations, specifically Heart FM, Bolton FM and BBC Radio 1.
Pauses/slang/catch phrase:
Slang and pauses are more common on Local radio such as Bolton FM due to smaller audiences who feel more like a community or even a family. Nation radio such as Kerrang or Heart FM use better English as they speak to a more unknown audience as they are reaching people from all over the UK instead of a smaller area, despite this one of the main catch phrases of 1Xtra, a London based radio station, is ‘get funky’. This is because both national and local stations use catch phrases to attract audiences’ and appear ‘down to earth’. The more informal the station the more informal the catch phrase.
DJ talks about him/herself:
Usually DJ’s will talk about stories or music, but on occasions they will discuss their own lives. This will usually happen on a Monday morning while the presenters discuss their weekends. I researched and analysed this as I listened to Kerrang Radio where the presenter reported on a music festival he’d visited at the weekend. One thing i did pick up on from listening to both national and local radio station was that the audince are more intrested in hearing about someone like Chris Moyles than hearing about an alomst unknown presenter this is because of the influence the media has on our everyday lives through the Medium theory McLuhan (1964) the main idea of this is that the media has affected our preseption of what is intresting and what is not so through Chris Moyles new found stardom the audience now want to learn more about who he is and what he gets up to this has allowed the station to give a larger subject of the topics discussed on his show to be based around him.
DJ talks about the record:
The discussion of records and music comprises mostly of phattic utterances (small talk) which is pleasant to listen too. They will normally talk about the artist and how well the track is doing in the charts. As our course work will be a news show we won’t be focusing too strongly on this, but can use some of these skills while discussing news stories by giving our own opinions in short sentances as with a news show you are meant to stay impartial.
DJ talks about or to the listener:
On most radio stations, local and national, listeners can phone in to give opinions, such as sport opinions on Radio 5 Live, or answers quizzes on BBC Radio 1. This gives the listener an opportunity to be part of the radio experience and hopefully keep audiences’ listening and phoning in (often there are chances to win prizes). Obviously listeners are more likely to get through to the station on local radio as there are less people ringing in, yet less people will hear what they have to say in this instance. however a more intresting way to look at this is using the Dependancy Theory Ball-Rokeach and DeFleur (1976) in which its discussed that the media depends on the social context and through using interviews and phone ins the broadcaster get valuble knowledge about what people in the audience are thinking on a whole and can then shape there shows to appeal to the modern day audience
DJ digresses to another subject:
Topic shift is frequent during radio shows as it keeps stories fresh and listeners interested and listening. Within our news piece we will discuss different news stories to meet the large variety of interests.
DJ promotes another show:
Usually DJs will promote other shows on the same station, for example Chris Moyles from Radio 1 may promote Reggie Yates who does a later show. Promoting shows form the station in an obvious business technique to boost audience ratings. They will not normally promote other stations, and they are the competition This is a key example of the gatekeeper theory (Lewin 1947) in radio as the gatekeeper as it were is who decides what shall be put out on the radio so in this case a radio show such as BBC Radio 1 will not advertise for a kerrange so the gatekeeper only allows for the adverts about other shows to be BBC shows and broadcasts so to keep the audience intrested in what the BBC has to offer.
Jingles:
Jingles are used to attract audiences’, they are catchy and if a listener hears a snippet of your jingle while scrolling through radio stations they will stay and listen. Both national and local stations use this tactic, and example is Kerrangs jingle and slogan ‘Kerrang: Live Life Loud’ to a snappy tune.
Vox-Pop:
A Vox-pop is an on location report made outside of the station, such as an ‘on-location’ news report. They are recorded using handheld recorders. we will try to use two Vox Pops one in a local news report and one in our global affairs section.
Although not particululary a convention of media i decided i wanted to touch on how the radio has embrassed the changes in modern day technolgies and social changes through the Modernization theory (Giddens 1991) a key example that i picked up on when listening to all of these radio shows was the idea of mentioning the latest technologies such as the blackberry and i-phones thus connecting with the audience as these technologies are sweeping the globe however more importantly was the use of the social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter as during the shows the presenters are constantly asking for peope to join Facebook groups and to add the 'follow' the presenter themselves on Twitter this shows how media have recognized the potential marketing value of these sites in what is fast becoming a social networking society with these webpages no longer being just aimed at young teenagers.
time plan and update
time plan 5 mins estimate time
jingle 20-30 seconds RECORDED
news headlines 20-30 seconds to be read by me and alex
main story in depth 1 minute to be read by alex
vox pop 30 seconds to be carried out on location by ruhul
funny news stories 20-30 seconds to be read by me
football news 20-30 seconds to be read by me
weather 20-30 RECORDED read by alex
vox pop 30 seconds RECORDED on location read by ruhul
jingle 20-30 seconds RECORDED
plan for news headlines to be read by me and alex
1)19 year old part time shop assistant has been found murdered on a riverside footpath in reading.
2)relatives of vincent van gogh launch a major exhibition of the artists work and correspondance in london.
3) children's secretary ed balls has called for the urgent scruting of a loophole which allows corporal punishment in part time schools.
4)all you can drink bar offers could be banned and ID checks made compulsory under a planned code for England and Wales.
jingle 20-30 seconds RECORDED
news headlines 20-30 seconds to be read by me and alex
main story in depth 1 minute to be read by alex
vox pop 30 seconds to be carried out on location by ruhul
funny news stories 20-30 seconds to be read by me
football news 20-30 seconds to be read by me
weather 20-30 RECORDED read by alex
vox pop 30 seconds RECORDED on location read by ruhul
jingle 20-30 seconds RECORDED
plan for news headlines to be read by me and alex
1)19 year old part time shop assistant has been found murdered on a riverside footpath in reading.
2)relatives of vincent van gogh launch a major exhibition of the artists work and correspondance in london.
3) children's secretary ed balls has called for the urgent scruting of a loophole which allows corporal punishment in part time schools.
4)all you can drink bar offers could be banned and ID checks made compulsory under a planned code for England and Wales.
Monday, 18 January 2010
breif planning
Brief planning
Main task: A five minute news bulletin (local radio) to include title music, presenter, specialist reporters, OBs, recorded interview, a vox pop and appropriate sound fx and structure.
Jingle (to capture listeners attention)
Introduce lexo and the lamb on the coconut lounge (as picked up on radio 1 with the DJ's presenting themselves and the show)
Round up of big news headlines (as shown on tv and radio to tell the audience what will be on this means some audience members will stay tuned in just to listen to one particular piece)
Cut to ruhul with the outside broadcast ( shows a differnt technique we can use in our piece)
followed by interviews with the public ( this happens on most radio shows as the presenters go out to the streets to get the audiences view on the news topics of the time)
sports round up ( we have included this because you need to broadcast to differnt audience niches as we hope to get high listning figures)
Weather (another conventional section of an news piece is the weather as it allows us to keep the listner informed of what weather is ahead as most of the listners will be in cars driving to various locations)
Ending jingle (to symbolise the end of the show)
Main task: A five minute news bulletin (local radio) to include title music, presenter, specialist reporters, OBs, recorded interview, a vox pop and appropriate sound fx and structure.
Jingle (to capture listeners attention)
Introduce lexo and the lamb on the coconut lounge (as picked up on radio 1 with the DJ's presenting themselves and the show)
Round up of big news headlines (as shown on tv and radio to tell the audience what will be on this means some audience members will stay tuned in just to listen to one particular piece)
Cut to ruhul with the outside broadcast ( shows a differnt technique we can use in our piece)
followed by interviews with the public ( this happens on most radio shows as the presenters go out to the streets to get the audiences view on the news topics of the time)
sports round up ( we have included this because you need to broadcast to differnt audience niches as we hope to get high listning figures)
Weather (another conventional section of an news piece is the weather as it allows us to keep the listner informed of what weather is ahead as most of the listners will be in cars driving to various locations)
Ending jingle (to symbolise the end of the show)
creating the jingle and exploring vox pop
Recently during our time in the Recording-Room we worked on creating our new jingle.This change has come about as although the jingle was succesful in our preliminary task as it reached the youth radio listeners through its upbeat and comical values, We believed that for our news broadcast to be taken seriously we needed a more hard hitting jingle that would eventually signify our news show and alert the listner though the jingle. We also felt that since we were no longer just looking to focus on the youth sociolect that we need to create a jingle that would attract all differnt types of audience niches not just one in particular. To achieve this we created a powerful 'theme-tune' that mimicked the music of a news show and introduced the name of our program at the end rather than during the music; this technique was inspired by 'The News at 10' when a deep voice announces the name of the show after the famous chime of Big Ben and their music.
For our radio piece we intend to use a Vox Pop as we are trying to fit as many different radio techniques into our work as possible whilst still working effectively. A Vox Pop is an ‘on location’ report used frequently on news shows. Vox Pop comes from the latin phrase Vox Populi which translates as the voice of the people as a reporter will get the local opinions whilst on location. An example of this would be on ITV news when the report was in a local town reporting on the recent snowfall in the area and he was interviewing several of the young children and asking them what they thought of the recent snowfall.
We are yet to decide what story we will use our Vox Pop on, but have decide we may use a media-effect to give it a disrupt the sound as there are frequently audio interferences when broadcasting from far away from the studio. A key exam of this was a GMTV broadcast when they had there corrispondent in afganistan when a bomb exploded in the distance causing various technical problems as the statilite transmitter had been jolted.
For our radio piece we intend to use a Vox Pop as we are trying to fit as many different radio techniques into our work as possible whilst still working effectively. A Vox Pop is an ‘on location’ report used frequently on news shows. Vox Pop comes from the latin phrase Vox Populi which translates as the voice of the people as a reporter will get the local opinions whilst on location. An example of this would be on ITV news when the report was in a local town reporting on the recent snowfall in the area and he was interviewing several of the young children and asking them what they thought of the recent snowfall.
We are yet to decide what story we will use our Vox Pop on, but have decide we may use a media-effect to give it a disrupt the sound as there are frequently audio interferences when broadcasting from far away from the studio. A key exam of this was a GMTV broadcast when they had there corrispondent in afganistan when a bomb exploded in the distance causing various technical problems as the statilite transmitter had been jolted.
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