Conventions of Radio News Bulletins

The clip below is me talking about the conventions of radio news bulletins. These are important to remember when producing a bulletin and will be referred to in the future when making our own news bulletin.

Preliminary Task

For the preliminary task, a team of myself and three others decided that we would create a radio show that would feature a film trailer within it aimed towards a 30-50 year old male audience. We made sure that the audio used was free to use and made sure to do as much as we could ourselves. The radio show features a jingle created by a teammate and then a chat show, featuring me as the guest, playing the role of an actor. I made the clip from the film 'Redemption' which features sounds and my voice playing two tones, I created this using the computer program 'Audacity'. It then ends with a short discussion afterwards. The initial planning, script and complete clip are found below! As a class we recently visited the local radio station 'Isle of Wight Radio'. I found the trip very enjoyable as it gave me an insight to working in a radio and helped me to understand how broadcasting works on the stations, and generally. On the trip we saw a radio presenter perform a live news bulletin which was also very interesting as this allowed us to see how the equipment is used and where the presenters are reading the information from. We hope the knowledge gained from the trip will help with the preliminary task as we can apply some of the techniques used by Isle of Wight Radio into our own. The pictures below were taken on the trip.

Overall I think that our final piece from the preliminary task was successful. It is seen to include many conventions used in radio shows including a jingle, intro and clip. The finished piece also fitted into our target audience of male 35-50.

Summary of Radio Station Research

Above is a Google Slides presentation which gives basic facts about other radio stations. These are the stations in which were presented to us by classmates and so I made notes meaning I could type up a summary. I learnt some interesting facts especially about BBC 6 Music being the first ever digital station and also how young 1Xtra's target audience is. After the success using Google Slides previously on this blog, I did so again, above.

Radio Station Research - BBC Radio Solent/BBC Radio 1

Attached below are two studies of two radio stations. The third most listened to radio station in the country, BBC Radio 1. We also did a study into the south coasts local station, BBC Radio Solent. In these studies along with a teammate, we learnt a lot more about the two stations, some of which was a big surprise while other facts would be expected. Attached below are the Prezi's from both studies as well as a video of myself presenting it to a class.

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RAJAR

The above Microsoft PowerPoint is about RAJAR and its audience figures. The presentation includes many facts about the company and also statistics in which they have released in recent times. I found research into RAJAR very interesting as I did not previously know much about it. I liked making a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint because I have used it for years and so it feels very familiar. However embedding into my blog proved difficult but I did it via LinkedIn's slideshare feature. I have not used LinkedIn before so in the end it turned out to be a good decision as it got me looking into the site which was often very interesting.