Survey Results impact & Structure.

 This is a prime example of the standard our surveys were filled out to. We made tewenty surveys and got responses from all of them. The majority of people stated that weather news was important to them. 80% of people said that this is impoortant. This gave us the impression that we should include weather news in our bulletin. This showed us that it was more important in the listeners eyes than sport. We've decided to omit sport news because of this. 16/25 stated that entertainment news is important for our bulletin. This is more people than expected from our target audience so we will dedicate a considerable amount of time to it. Many people didn't care about the gender of the newsreader, or the accent that the newsreader has. Suprisingly many people wanted to include political affairs in the bulletin. This is an usual result but we will include a couple of political cover stories. The want for music news varied throughout responses. We found that this varies based on personal taste. We have decided not to delagate specific music news slots but to include it in the entertainment section. This is becuase we think that our target audience will be intrested both types of story.

Here is our timetable for running the bulletin:

News- 2;30 mins
Entertainment (including music)- 1:30 mins
Weather- 30 seconds
Polotics- 30 seconds

Class Presentation on Radio

Planning Stage Phase 1

We have decided to stick with the name Rebel Radio from our preliminary task, This is because it carries good illiteration and sounds modern and trendy. We decided that this is the best name from the others as for the other suggestions we used a random name generator. They were pretty whacky and I remeber us debating on whether or not to use the name 'Lemons FM'. We decided that our target audience will be people from 14-18 years of age. Mostly females as we will be playing hit chart music. 

This is the generator we used: Radio Name Generator. We found the suggestions it gave us were inaproppriate for our target audience as they would find the names too complex. They were also Americanised which does not fit well for a British radio station. Some of the names that the generator were so funny! Here are just a few of my favourites: 

• Wise FM
• Smooth Groove FM 
• Route 81 Radio 

As you can see. The third one sounds obsure to a British audience as we don't name our roads 'routes'. Wise FM sounds too old for the audience as they could be insulted by the name and sounds like it is aimed at a wider target auidence. FM would also only label us to one streaming option. Smooth Groove is just too cheesy and sounds slow and boring. We are aiming to create a strong upbeat radio. Rebel Radio came around when we were thinking of names and it just was brought up in conversation. 

Conventions of radio news bulletins

Conventions of radio news bulletins

 Key Terms:

·        Convention- features/things we expect to hear/see- extened bulletin.

·        Jingle- short piece of music that introduces the bulletin.

·        Intro-Newsreader’s introduction. Involves a greeting, time check and newsreader’s name.

·        Copy story- most basic type of news story. Three of four simple sentences. Read by newsreader. No audio played.

·        Cue- introduction to a story, will hear additional audio to further explain story. Two simple sentences. One ‘in-line’ to introduce the audio…

·        …and clip- sometimes called ‘cut’. V15-20 second piece of audio taken from an interview.

·        … and voicer- sometimes called and Voicepiece (VP) 30-40 seconds long. Recorded by another journalist; provides more detail- often used for more complicated stories. E.g. court reporting. 

·        …and vox pop- Short for ‘Vox populi’- Latin for ‘voice of the people’ 15-20 second piece of audio featuring approx. 4 or 5 different voices. Gives opinion of ‘people on the street’

·        …and two-way. Used in longer bulletins, often used for live stories. Sometimes done in studio or ‘on location’

·        … and wrap. Combination of clip and voicer; Reporter reads a voicer but embedded within is a clip of someone related to the story. Can be several clips embedded within. Usually lasts 40-50 seconds.

·        O.B. Stands for ‘outside broadcast’ Some radios have an OB truck- satellite link which allows them to bradcast live from an event/scene. Is usually live, mobile phone technology is making it easier to record O.B. and emailing it back to studio. Great for setting the scene.

·        Back-anno, short for ‘back announcement’ Used after a longer piece of audio.

·        Stab (sting) Very short version of the jingle. Used to separate parts of the bulletin. Some stations have different Stabs.

·        Bed- Music no lyrics plays under the newsreader talking. Often used for sports news. Tends to be used on radio stations with a younger target audience.

·        S.O.C. Standard Out Cue. The bit at the end of the bulletin! Might ‘signpost’ to audience to check your website or to tell them when the next bulletin is.  

Rules of Writing Radio

Hello all, Last week in my AS Media leeson we discussed the basic rules of writing for radio. This was throughly intresting as I never knew it could be so simple! Here are the notes I took down.

Basic rules of writing for radio

 1. Write as if you are talking to a friend- use contractions like don’t can’t and shouldn’t.

2. Who- is involved? What- has happened/is happening? Where- did it happen/ is happening. Where- is it happening. Why- has it happened (How) has it happened/ happening?

 3. KISS Keep It Simple Stupid! Simple sentences- one idea. Avoid commas! keep it simple for the audience.

 4. Two or three sentences for a cue. Four for a copy story.

 5. Write numbers as words. This helps for reading news live. E.g. 2010 as two thousand at ten.

 6. Joe Bloggs, 17 from Newport. This doesn’t make sense when read aloud so it is changed to Joe Bloggs- who’s seventeen from Newport.

 7. When writing a cue, make sure you don’t repeat what is said in the clip! Paraphrase the first line of audio or sum up what is going to be said.

 8. Write names of people or places phonetically (if they aren’t said how they are spelt)

 9. Round up statistics and put them in context. E.g. 260,00 hectares= the size of three football fields. It’s easier for the audience to understand.

 10. Don’t use ‘today’ in the top line of the story! The audience should assume events are taking place ‘today’ - otherwise why are you telling them about it today. You can use ‘this morning’ or ‘this afternoon’ though to be more specific if necessary.

 11. Don’t use quotations from people in the news reader’s script. The only quotes we should hear are from the person themselves. An exception to this might be using one or two words in the top line of a cue- if we’re then going to hear from that person themselves as a clip.

 12. Avoid abbreviations unless they’re very commonly known amongst the public. E.g. NATO would be acceptable but CTKC wouldn’t be.

 13. READ IT ALOUD to ensure it reads correctly! Sometimes words look fine written down but read aloud, they don’t make sense or might be an awkward tongue twister or an unintentional rhyme!

Preliminary Task

Hello everybody!

This is my media studies group preliminary task!

This was a ton of fun to make and awesome to work on. This made me feel like a real radio presenter and had a blast! This was made with myslef Olivia and Frankie. It was so awesome to do and it's made me look forward to the real deal.

Enjoy!

Approaching Preliminary task

Hello all.

In class we were asked to produce a preliminary task radio bulletin. My group for this task and myself thought that this would be really fun and we keenly approached this. We decieded to make a modern radio station called Rebel Radio and  We made a script for the presenter to read and the celebrities below:

Script

Max: Welcome back to Rebel Radio. I’m your host Max and joining me in the studio this morning are Olivia and Frankie from Rogue, who have just won the award for best upcoming band at the Sony Music awards! So how are you both?

Max: Did you think you stood a chance?

Frankie: blah blah blah black honey were very good contenders as well as the spring kings- their latest album had a massive fan base on twitter but really, they didn’t stand a chance

Max: Let’s have a listen to your reactions when you won the award.

( plays sound clip) Frankie&Olivia: (Laughter/Awkward comments) We’d have to thank Columbia Records for taking a risk with us. Thank you to all our fans who have supported us from day one. The rest of band for being so great to create music with, it’s a joy to perform with them. Thank you and here’s to the future!

Max: Thank you very much for your time, it’s been a pleasure having you on the show this morning. Good luck for the future.Stay Rogue

Olivia: Such a cheap joke!

Frankie: (Laughter) Cheers Max.  

End

This was very fun to write as it required a modern tone of writing to make it appeal to a younger audience. We enjoyed ourselves very much with this task and I will post the preliminary task soon!

RAJAR Notes

RAJAR Notes 

Hello all, 

Here are some photos of some rather rough notes about RAJAR. 

Hope you all enjoy, 

Max

OFCOM

OFCOM

Hello all, 

Here are some notes I made about OFCOM during a Media Studies class.

Hope you all enjoy,

Max. 

OFCOM:

• OFCOM is the communications regulator in the UK.
• They regulate the TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobiles postal services plus the airwaves over which mobile devices operate. (BT)
• Ofcom are responsible for ensuring that:

• the UK has a wide range of electronic communications services, including high-speed services such as broadband;
• a wide range of high-quality television and radio programmes are provided, appealing to a range of tastes and interests;
• television and radio services are provided by a range of different organisations;
• people who watch television and listen to the radio are protected from harmful or offensive material;
• people are protected from being treated unfairly in television and radio programmes, and from having their privacy invaded;
• a universal postal service is provided in the UK - this means a six days a week, (Royal mail.) universally priced delivery and collection service across the country; and
• the radio spectrum (the airwaves used by everyone from taxi firms and boat owners, to mobile-phone companies and broadcasters) is used in the most effective way.

However, OFCOM are not responsible for the following:

• disputes between you and your telecoms provider;
• premium-rate services, including mobile-phone text services and ringtones;
• the content of television and radio adverts;
• complaints about accuracy in BBC programmes;
• the BBC TV licence fee;
• post offices; or
• newspapers and magazines.

OFCOM has like many other corporations a governing board of directors that makes decisions for the company. it has a non executive chairman executive directors and non executive directors. The executives run the company and answer to the board. The board meets once a month bar August to discuss the company’s and sort out business agendas.  The results from the meeting are published on OFCOM’s website. They must act within the powers and duties set by parliament.

Violation of OFCOM.
OFCOM has a very strict set of rules that TV and Radio stations have to abide by. A full list of these rules can be found here: OFCOM code of conduct.If media outlets come within violation of these rules, servere sanctions may be implied. For example OFCOM fined EE Limited £1,000,000 as they were not compling properly with section 14- general compliance, rule 14.4.


My views on OFCOM.

Personally I think that an organisation like OFCOM is essential to have as they create a sane set of regulations that everyone abides by. If OFCOM did not exist, the media would be chaos with many inappropriate things being broadcast.

Prefferered Radio Stations Survey

Prefferered Radio Stations Survey 

Hello all, 

Here is a spreadsheet detailing the results of my family and some friends preffered radio stations to listen to. Hope you all enjoy. 

Max. 

http://www.slideshare.net/Trimdog/radio-listening-survey

Ownership Of Radio

Ownership Of Radio

Hello all,

Here is a short powerpoint presentation on the ownership of radio. 

Enjoy!

Max.

http://www.slideshare.net/Trimdog/ownership-of-radio

BBC Personalised Radio

BBC Personalised Radio 

Hello all, 

When I was eating breakfast and looking through my Flipboard app, I came across the new radio revoloution; BBC Personalised Radio. This radio service is still being developed but I found an interesting article on it that was a very good read and decided to share it with you all. 

Hope you find it as interesting as I did.

Max.  

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/414a928e-a9a9-494e-bacb-8f2f12ac12bb

First Blog Post

Blogger task 1

I’ve never really listened to radio by choice as I prefer to read the news. In this, my first lesson of media studies ever. I was told that I would be running a blog. I know the basic principles of blogging and how it works, however I have never tried it. I’m sure this will prove to be an exciting new experience for me and will further my ICT skills. I have no previous experience of studying media other than viewing it during my leisure time.

I have no experience of recording or editing media. I hope that this task teaches me more on media and how it influences society and hope that this current format of blogging furthers my computing skills.  I am slightly apprehensive about approaching this task as I don’t know what this will hold for me.

I think that the skills I learn through this task will benefit me in later life. I hope to go into PR and marketing and I feel that this task will make my entry into these fields of work smoother.  

Target Audience

Target Audience 

Hello all, 

These are my notes on Target audience that I made during one of my AS Media Studies classes. Hope they are a pleasent read.

http://www.slideshare.net/Trimdog/media-22-sept

Max.

History of the Radio presentation.

Blog post 13/9/15

Hello all, Within this blog is my presentation, I hope you all enjoy it!

Max.

http://www.slideshare.net/Trimdog/the-history-of-uk-radio-52810503