Our Evaluation

This is our finished Report.

These are some photo's which we took during the making of our radio show. They feature various people who were involved including our main presenter, sport presenter, reporter, two experts and the people we used for the voxpops.

This is the script for our radio show:

(Parts of our radio show were improvised at the time of recording and are thus not in the script.)

MAIN STORY

Louis: Hello, the time is 11:00 am and this is your Radio Now news update. Police have launched an inquiry into a brutal attack on a 15 year old boy by a group of youths. The attack, which happened on Friday, left the victim in hospital with severe head injuries.

And in the studio we have Michelle O'Brian who is the Super Intendent of the Grater Manchester police and we're going to get her view on the events.

How much of a concern is teenage violence to the Grater Manchester police?

Michelle: It's a huge concern. Teenage involved crime has risen by 9% since last year so tackling it is a big issue for us.

Louis: How do you plan to solve these issues?

Michelle: Well an increased police presence on the streets is a solution to not only tackling the problem but also to make people feel more secure,

Louis: Are there any plans to target teenagers in the learning environment?

Michelle: Yes, we are going to continue with the Police in Schools initiative which we hope will continue giving teenagers the information they need to stay out of trouble.

Louis: Thank you for your time Super Intendent. And after this recent spate of reports on violent teenage crime we sent our reporter out into the field to answer some questions.

Grace: I’m here in Wigan town centre to ask your opinion on whether teenagers are becoming more violent or if the media is just giving teen’s bad press.

Grace: Well thats what they thought, And if you have any comments please email in at

COMIC BOOK STORY

Louis: A more light-hearted story now, a copy of the first comic to feature the caped hero Superman has been sold on the internet for 1 million dollars. The 1938 edition of Action Comic’s Number One, which originally sold for ten cents, was sold to a New York resident, Mr Chris P Bacon. We caught up with him and he had this to say.

Grace: Mr Bacon, how happy are you with your new comic book?

Voice: I love it man!

MOVIE STORY

Louis: And last week you may remember us reporting on this.

“And the cinema chain Odeon has decided against showing Tim burtons new film Alice in wonderland over disagreements on DVD release date times.”

We can now reveal that Odeon have reversed this decision and are going ahead with the screening. We spoke about the deal to cinema expert, Beverly Breary earlier on.

Bev: It’s all come good for Odeon in the end they’ve made friends with Disney and rumour has it there was money involved, they get to show the film it’s going to be a massive hit so well done Odeon, you stood your ground.

SPORT

Louis: That’s it for our main news headlines, now its over to Danny with the sport

Danny: Hello, I’m Danny with the latest sport headlines. David Beckham’s dream of playing in the world cup are officially over, the 34 year old was carried out on a stretcher in his game for AC milan against a rival Italian team. He is believed to be being flown to Finland on the hope of seeing a specialist to try and get the ligament on the mend.

And we’ve another story about Tiger Woods.

Well I think you should ask the listeners about it, if you have any views about this then you can email us on Studio@radionow.com

Louis: And that's it for the sport, now its over to Grace in Wigan Town Center for the weather.

Weather

Grace: It's been a wet start to the day today especially here in Wigan but it will brighten up later on and we may even see some sunshine. Tonight the rain will be back with heavy showers predicted overnight in the North West. And thats your weather update, now its back to the studio.

Ending

Louis: That’s all the texts and messages for now, we’ll try and read the rest out in our next bulletin when myself, Danny and Grace are back. The time is now 11:06.

After we made the initial changes we held another focus session with different people. This time they suggested:-

• That we cut down the time our Vox Pops take on our report.
• That we cut down the ammount of time on our report about Tiger Woods.
• Make the sports report slightly more formal / less gossipy.
• Make weather report less formal by sounding more chatty and less like a national weather report.

We took these suggestions into account when re-recording our report.

After consulting with a focus group, we took there views into consideration. Our focus group said that a less formal approach was required in our show and that maybe a co-host should be brought in alongside Louis. After this focus session we held auditions for our co-host and decided on a suitable person. We then decided that this person would be filling the role of co-host and sports reporter.

Because of time restraints we have decided to drop our 4th story out of our recording.
Our News Stories are now:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/8544322.stm -Teenager Story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8529504.stm -Comic Book Story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8528820.stm -Movie Story (Changed context because story is no longer relevant)

Sport Story (Football / Golf)

Weather

We have decided to change one of our news stories as we feel that the original one does not fit for the tone of a casual radio broadcast. The new story we have selected will still fit with everything the old one did but while serious, is not as severe as the original story

Old Story -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8530035.stm

New Story-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/8544322.stm

The News report will begin by having a very brief headline section showing our main and secondary stories will little detail and mention other important headlines.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8530035.stm

We could use this story as a stepping stone to link with the question: Are teenagers becoming more violent or is the media biased? Get views of people.

We will start by reading the headline of this story and give a brief overview of what happened and who was involved etc. We will then ask the question: Are teenagers becoming more violent or is it just bad press? Then we’ll say “ took to the streets to get your reactions” we will then insert the report with interview clips with students and then cut back to studio, Mention radio contact details and move on to next story.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8529504.stm

We could use this as a light-hearted story – maybe link to economic downturn

Outline facts of story and ask for opinions again from listeners. Link with the fact that we are in a recession and money is short but things like this happen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8528820.stm

Short news story headline / maybe short sound clip

Talk about the impact it’s going to have on the film’s success. Have a cinema representative or cinema expert giving their views. (Bev)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8527009.stm

Light-hearted / Random Funny story / improvise as we go

Start with the sound clip and then talk about the story.

We need a sports story too but it would be better to get one nearer the time of recording to make sure it’s up to date.

Weather - we can look at a weather report on the day of recording and adapt it.

Deciding on a news story

We will need to look at relevant news stories that have happened recently and from these we will choose a story which is relevant and important to our target audience to be our main story and we will choose shorter stories for our secondary stories.

Based on our research, we have decided that we are going to use elements of all three radio station examples. We will have the main radio DJ introduce us and our news report will be approximately 5 minutes long we will have 5 news stories as the other stations have this number. We will be using background music during our report to fill silent space in our recording. In relation to the depth of our stories we will go in to one main story in as much detail as newsbeat does and other stories will be XFM / Key 103’s length. We will use pre-recorded clips and interviews in our radio broadcast as we think it adds to the authenticity of the report. We will also use an introductory and exit jingle to signal when the news broadcast is beginning and ending.

In the Newsbeat example, it starts with an introduction from the radio presenter who hands it over to the news reporter. The main reporter then goes straight into the main headline giving a brief overview with a sound clip relating to the story after talking about the main headline she gives a brief bit of information about other stories and then returns to them later on in the broadcast. Newsbeat looks at all the headlines in detail but focuses heavily on the main story. The stories are separated by a mini jingle saying the name of the programme showing listeners when a news story is changing. There is constant low background music throughout the entire clip to fill any sound gaps in the clip. The lengths of each news story are varied and most contain pre-recorded sound clips. There is also a short link back to the main radio programme during the Newsbeat broadcast to show what’s still to come on the main radio show.

The Key 103 extract has a different approach to presenting the news and is more of a full news report opposed to XFM’s bulletin. There is no introduction to the news report and it contains reports that last about 25 – 50 seconds and feature pre recorded sound bites relating to the stories and more extensive information on each issue there are also 5 news stories in this extract.

One radio station we looked at was XFM Manchester.

In the XFM extract the main radio presenter uses a very short introduction to bring in the news bulletin. The News reporter then gives a brief overview of each subject lasting no more then 10-15 seconds there are 5 news stories and then a brief weather update. Finally the news update ends with an outro linking smoothly back in to the main radio show. Throughout the report there is low background music to cover up any gaps in speech this is done to avoid silence.

We have decided that we are going to do a radio broadcast for our media project. We made this decision because we enjoyed the radio prelim more than the video or print prelims and editing for radio is also similar to the video editing but it is simpler and easier to manage then working with video and audio at the same time. Another reason is that Winstanley has excellent radio equipment and our radio recording will be of high quality because of this.

It will be a news insert at lunchtime from a music radio station, a real world example of this kind of show is Radio 1’s Newsbeat. The show will have a main host, a reporter in the field, specialised reporters for things such as sport and weather and an interview with “regular people” on the streets. The show will focus on one topic in detail and 4 minor stories not looked at in as much detail. We have chosen this because we have looked in to both local and national radio stations and how they work there news programs and we have decided that this is the most common outline and thus must be the most successful.

The target audience for our radio broadcast will be people in their late teens and early twenties the stories will be targeted at this audience to maximise interest on the news stories, we will do this by selecting stories that we think will appeal to this audiences interests and deal with them in a simple and effective way.

In our radio prelim we worked with another group and we did a mock interview with a movie star about his new film. The Broadcast lasted approximately 1 minute and was made up of a:-

A Jingle

The main interview

Pre-recorded sound clips

And a sound extract from a film

We created a short script for our prelim and tried different group members as various characters in the script and after comparing all recordings we decided on the roles of Louis as the host and Tom as the interviewee. After recording we edited the clip on adobe premiere, we added effects such as fades and we inserted the jingle and pre-recorded sound effects in to the main interview.

For our video prelims we worked in separate groups. In my (Louis) Prelim I was in a group that decided to create an advert for a chocolate bar I was mainly an editor in the project and used adobe premiere to add effects and edit the film.

In my video prelim, I (Grace) worked in a group to create a film of an interview in a police station. I was featured in the film as the police officer who was interviewing a suspect. I was mainly in the film and was not fully involved with the editing side of the project.

Because of both of our experiences in front of and behind the camera, we felt that video was not for us. We came to this conclusion because the process while enjoyable seemed to complex and we did not have any unique ideas for a film that were not being used or had been used previously.

Before deciding on a project we worked on both print and video preliminaries. In the print preliminary we had to create a Front cover and a contents page for a magazine aimed at a college audience, Here are the images from our prelims.

We had to take photos and then edit them using Photoshop CS4 and then use them and a layout design to create a magazine cover. We decided against this because we felt that the process was too monotonous and did not challenge us.

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AS Group 19

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