Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Theories in News Clips
The first news segment was international and national news. We provided this for our listeners so we could create some interest for people outside of Oxfordshire. For example the International news at the time concerned Tunisia - which effected a lot of people and had worldwide interest. With the mentioning of the Tunisian President gives the story an element of Elitism highlighting the importance of the people involved and how powerful people such as politicians and celebrities can influence the decisions of others. Also, the Tunisia story is an on-going story, as many people from the UK had been effected, so this could possibly an area we could have asked the listeners to feedback on the story and give their thoughts.
The next story is about the search for Joanna Yates's Killer, and how her family are pleading for information on the case firm anybody who thinks that they could help in any way.This news story has great elements of simplicity, in the way it is presented - we decided to do this, so we could get the information across easily to the audience without confusing them we details they did not need to know. Also this story may relate to many listeners, and creates human interest, as people may understand and have sympathy towards the people involved in the incident.
In the next news segment, we talk about a local Kidlington Pub being under new management. I think this was a fantastic story to include as it would really grab the attention of the local listeners. It was also great to get the vox-pop with the pub landlord, which was staged, however we did it to interest the listeners. It was important to have a news story linked to the village because it gets people involved in something that they can relate to.
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
How I Contributed To The Planning Process
How I Contributed To The Planning Process
When it came to the final piece of coursework, it took many hours to prepare, including background and radio research. The timeline, story research, and preliminary exercise also took a considerable amount of time. If we did not take this amount of time on planning and preparation for the final piece, I am positive that we would not have got the high quality result that we got in the end. It was essential that we took our time organising who was going to do what and how we wanted to radio show to sound. In the end, we were all happy with the end result.
I made sure that I was involved in the research of other local and national radio stations, so I was sure how they were presented, the layout and the typical traits and conventions of a local radio show. I listened closely to Oxford’s Heart FM and local radio Jack FM to identify the typical traits of local radio that came up in the show. This was really helpful, as it allowed us to use some of their techniques in our radio show to good effect.
Before we could start our final piece, we had to complete the preliminary exercise. We had to create a shorter version of the radio show. This was a really valuable exercise, as it really helped us get used to the equipment and the structure of a radio show. I was heavily involved in this task as I did the background music, organising the structure, trying to make sure we stuck to the time limit and making sure everything ran smoothly.
Once we had our final project recorded we did a timeline for it to make sure that we had enough material to cover the five minute time. This also helped us analyse our project for any mistakes that we wanted to change.
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