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
Tuesday 26 January 2010
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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