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.