Running Order for Rhythm Extra

The post below is the full script at this stage of the task. It shows the news articles and who they will be read by. The full list of articles is posted below in order with an explanation to where they have been placed.

Costa Coffee teaming with the Pop Up Soup Kitchen - We felt that this was a nice story to begin with, it focused on positive points, would be interesting for our audience and instantly gains attendance from the audience when 'Costa' is heard. We felt this was a good opening story and helped to demonstrate that the news we are focusing on, is good news.

Isle Jump Opening - As a big event for Island teens, we knew this had to be near the top of the script, we felt this would be an extremely popular story at the time and we didn't want to make people have to wait too long to hear it, but we didn't want to have it right at the start, because listeners may have switched off afterwards.

Star Wars The Force Awakens - We felt this was an ideal third article, it breaks away from the extremely localised stories, although it is bought into local context, it adds variety in the news and is a topic we believe our audience would be very passionate about.

The Isle of Wight Festival - This is an exciting story for our young audience as it is the announcement of festival acts, we hyped this one up in the introduction but felt it didn't need to be near the top. Although some may see this as breaking news, we felt that given our audience, through the means of social media, it is likely they would already know and so we didn't put it right at the top.

Sport News Story Harriet Little - We wanted to group together the sports news but wanted this article to be kept in the main news section read by Chris and so we kept it just above the sports stories.

Youth Story Charlotte Morris - We felt this was ideal first sports article, as it was local and exciting at the time. We wanted to keep it near the top and end with the bigger sports results focusing on teams rather than individuals.

Under Eighteens Hockey - We felt this was the perfect article because it involved a popular local sport with local teams, it was placed in the sports news above football results as this is more local but still big team results. Note than in the script the word 'hockey' is never mentioned. We felt it was unneccesary to mention it was the Junion Raiders hockey team as we are a local station aimed at local people and we felt the whole of our target audience would know who the Junior Raiders are.

South coast Football Results - This was placed under the more-local sports news and is a good way to end the sports articles as it is interesting for listeners and comes just before the weather update.

Weather - We knew weather had to be a very brief topic and so it would not feature in the main news, this is why we chose to only put in a short update right at the end for the listeners that specifically stayed tuned to listen to it as most of our audience didn't want the weather to be a focus.

Complete Rhythm Extra Script

The text below shows the final copy of the script having been assessed by the team and checked against the thirteen rules of radio. From a previous blog post we learnt the importance of using the thirteen rules of radio, when writing the script for our own radio show, we made sure to use these rules throughout our writing process. The numbers below in the brackets with explanation refer to the rule numbers on a previous post. The colours indicate who they are being read by.

{Chris}

{Pete}

{Vince}

{Charlotte}

• Hello and welcome to this evenings news, it’s 5 o’clock, I'm Chris Case bringing you today's top stories, a local coffee shop backing a campaign to help the homeless, the new trampolining activity center Isle Jump, the latest Star Wars film and the lineup for the Isle of Wight Festival.  

• Over the past couple of weeks Costa Coffee, situated in the town center in Newport, has been helping local man Trevor Blanely by raising money for his Pop Up Soup Kitchen which aims to help the homeless on the Island (3 - Showing simplicity by saying ‘Island’ as this is the commonly known term by Islanders) by providing them with food, warmth and shelter.

• Isle Jump had its opening today,  James, an employee at Isle Jump, says it’s (1 - By saying ‘it’s’ instead of ‘it is’ the news bulletin sounds more natural as well as appealing to our target audience further ) a great place to work and is a perfect place for young people to hangout.

• In other news Star War The Force Awakens came out in cinemas today (10 - Here we have wrote ‘today which breaks rule number 10, however we feel this is justified because it is something that many of the audience would not know instead of being assumed)  on the Island, we went out to ask some of these fans whether they felt the new episode lived up to all the hype.

• The organisers of the Isle of Wight festival have announced several new acts that will perform at the annual music event starting June ninth (5 - To allow the reader to read the article word by word, it is easier to put numbers into words) and finishing on the twelve (5). The new artists that have been announced include English Pop Band Busted, British Singer Jess Glynne (PRON Jess Glin) (8 - When saying names it is important to pronounce them correctly otherwise it could cause offence and be unprofessional, here we have written a pronunciation for ‘Glynne’ as ‘Glin’ as we were concerned it could be read as ‘Gline’) and Irish Folk Band The Corrs. They will join headliners Queen with Adam Lambert, Stereophonics and Faithless.

• 16 year old Harriet Little became disabled through an illness at the age of 9. She has been given the opportunity to become a member of the British talent identification development squad to practice her sport of choice, archery in order to prepare for the 2016 Paralympic games in Rio that take place from the 7th to the 18th of September.

• And now here's (1 - By saying ‘here’s’ instead of ‘here is’ sounds more natural as well as appealing to our target audience further ) Pete (3- Shows simplicity and appeal to the target audience by saying ‘Pete’ instead of ‘Peter Barfoot’) with the latest sports news.

• And in sports news, eleven (5 - To allow the reader to read the article word by word, it is easier to put numbers into words) year old Charlotte Morris has been reached by two sponsors after her shooting skills have been shown off in competitions. She'll be further competing in her biggest competition in May.

• 7 all, that was the score between the Under eighteen (5 - To allow the reader to read the article word by word, it is easier to put numbers into words) junior raiders and Bracknell last weekend. The game was the raiders first tie of the year and was full of excitement… (Cue) (7)

• And in football, Portsmouth beat Crawley Town three-nil (5 - To allow the reader to read the article word by word, it is easier to put numbers into words) on Saturday keeping them at fourth place in League two (5), while up in the Premiership League, Bournemouth vs Leicester ended with nil-nil (5) and Southampton lost to Norwich City with a one-nil (5) defeat. that’s (1 - By saying ‘that’s’ instead of ‘that is’ sounds more natural as well as appealing to our target audience further) all in the sports news, I’m (1) Peter Barfoot. (4 - This paragraph giving us sports news is just a copy story rounding up the news, it is around four sentences giving it the feel of a conventional copy story).

• Tomorrow should be dry and bright and will stay like that for most of the day however we might see a few light showers in the evening, with highs of twelve degrees and lows of nine, tomorrow is looking to be a lovely day. I’m Charlotte and this was your weather update. (Although this is not one of the 13 rules, previously set. We have used direct address to make our audience feel as if they are being served and for us to emphasise we are doing it for the general audience instead of ourselves).

• For more of the latest news and weather visit us on our facebook and twitter pages, @RhythmExtra.

Scripting for Rhythm Extra Part 1

After having gathered the news stories, it was important to start scripting. Scripting is a vital stage to creating a radio news bulletin and so quite a time consuming one. We made sure that the stories were written in draft, and then checked by the rest of the team for corrections. The text below shows an initial script I wrote for my sports stories. Much of it is the same still but improvements have been made and will be posted above.


And in the sports news, Charlotte Morris who is 11 years old, has been reached by two sponsors after her shooting skills have been shown off in competitions. She will be further competing in her biggest competition in May 2016.

The score between the Under 18 Isle of Wight junior raiders and Bracknell last weekend was 7- all. The game was the raiders first tie of the year and was full of excitement...

And in the local football, Portsmouth beat Crawley Town 3-0 on Saturday keeping them at fourth place in League 2, while up in the Premiership League, Bournemouth and
Leicester ended with 0-0 and Southampton lost to Norwich City with a 1-0 defeat. that is the sports news, I’m Peter Barfoot. 

Main Newsgathering

The presentation below is about the other news articles included and an analysis of why we decided they were suitable for our news bulletin:

Sport Newsgathering

The next step for our team was to gather news reports, initially I focused on gathering articles for the sports news as this is what I would be presenting. From the research we realised that we would include two local sports news based around the Isle of Wight as well as as news for the professional local football teams including, Portsmouth FC, Southampton FC and AFC Bournemouth. The results for the news from these teams would be the 2nd of January league games (Portsmouth 3 Crawley Town 0, Bournemouth 0 Leicester 0, Southampton 0 Norwich City 1). The local news articles considered were:

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/sport/ice-hockey-thrilling-draw-for-juniors-93652.aspx
^ This news article is about a recent exciting game for the Isle of Wight's junior hockey team. We decided it would be ideal for our radio show as it is the under 18 games and an exciting sport for islanders to watch. We decided this would be a suitable story for a cue and cut as we could easily ask a member of the team their opinion of the game.

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/football/new-kit-deal-for-newport-football-club-93570.aspx
^ This news article is about Newport FC securing a new deal for their kit sponsorship. Initially it grabbed my attention for being local news and about the most popular sport in the UK. However, after discussing it with the rest of the group, it was suggested that this does not appeal to our target audience and so we decided not to include this within the news bulletin.

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/sport/shooting-charlotte-is-aiming-high-93589.aspx
^ This news article is about a young girl gifted with shooting. Although it may be considered a niche sport we believe this is ideal for our teen audience as it is exciting and is likely to appeal to our target audience and unique style we are creating. We decided this would make an ideal copy story as it is short and can be easily understood without a cut or voicer.

From gathering the two articles we will use, as well as the football results from the professional teams, we can begin to consider the script for the bulletin. The other news items will be gathered by team mates and we will discuss them before writing the script together to decide how the article should be presented.