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.