Showing posts with label Josh Woolhouse. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Radio news trailer, Audience feedback
As part of our task we had to create a radio trailer for our news programme to advertise to people when they can view our news channel and give an idea of the genre of the channel.
I sent a message to five people on facebook with the link and only three posted back there thoughts on the trailer. here is what they said:
Adam Walshaw: It is very good, i liked the sense of humour it portrays. my only improvement would be to make it more understandable for people from different parts of the country.
Thomas lodge: The trailer was cleverly structured as it gave good information, yet made you want to listen, i mostly liked the joke at the end with the beep overlapping the dialect. to make it better you could use more dialect and punch lines.
Jack kilner: The trailers sense of humour was very easy to pick up and suits the local area very well and certainly makes most poeople want to carry on listening as it is very different. I rekon you could cut out the news music as it is too long in areas.
Audience feedback
We posted our final news program via facebook and asked five individuals each to message us back, commenting on what there thpoughs were on our work. such as how we could improve it, and good points that stood out. here is the feedback:
Thomas lodge: wow that was very good! i loved the variation of effects used, it really does capture the audience. You turned a local news story into such a gripping report! well done guys
Adam walshaw: I really enjoyed the news programme, the continuity of it made it easier to view as it flowed easier. also the mise en scene of props in the studio, logos and clothing was really to detail. i think you could improve by using better music.
Jacob Lawton: The news programme was very clever. i liked the opening title sequence as it clearly shows you what is coming on and sets the scene as it uses photos from the local area. i also did not like the music, maybe using traks from a new album would attract a younger audience.
Jack Kilner: The good things about the show was the shots overlapping dialogue, like on the golf shots, rugby shots and band shots. I think you could have taken more time in interviews and asked a wider variety of questions.
Claire wroe: The news channel is very good at appealing to all audiences as there were different news genres such as, recession, music and sport. You could possibly think about making the peice longer if possible and having more diverse shots in the title seqauence. also i think the studio location could be improved. but i would like to watch it again, as its an excellent effort.
Thomas lodge: wow that was very good! i loved the variation of effects used, it really does capture the audience. You turned a local news story into such a gripping report! well done guys
Adam walshaw: I really enjoyed the news programme, the continuity of it made it easier to view as it flowed easier. also the mise en scene of props in the studio, logos and clothing was really to detail. i think you could improve by using better music.
Jacob Lawton: The news programme was very clever. i liked the opening title sequence as it clearly shows you what is coming on and sets the scene as it uses photos from the local area. i also did not like the music, maybe using traks from a new album would attract a younger audience.
Jack Kilner: The good things about the show was the shots overlapping dialogue, like on the golf shots, rugby shots and band shots. I think you could have taken more time in interviews and asked a wider variety of questions.
Claire wroe: The news channel is very good at appealing to all audiences as there were different news genres such as, recession, music and sport. You could possibly think about making the peice longer if possible and having more diverse shots in the title seqauence. also i think the studio location could be improved. but i would like to watch it again, as its an excellent effort.
Tom bridges sports coach, interview questions
1. coach of the barnsley sports academy, youve had alot of sucess winning the colleges north east cup and qualifying for the nationals. were you pleased with your teams performances through the stages? (10 seconds)
2. what were your original targets and did you supress these?
(4 seconds)
3. so weve come into a second season with this sucesful rugby team, what do you want to achieve this season? ( 6 seconds)
4. how are you going to bring new talent into the sports college in the following seasons? and has this helped by turning into a sports academy?
(10 seconds)
These were the original questions asked un edited. The seconds were time so we could fit the right dialog to the recording.
2. what were your original targets and did you supress these?
(4 seconds)
3. so weve come into a second season with this sucesful rugby team, what do you want to achieve this season? ( 6 seconds)
4. how are you going to bring new talent into the sports college in the following seasons? and has this helped by turning into a sports academy?
(10 seconds)
These were the original questions asked un edited. The seconds were time so we could fit the right dialog to the recording.
Evaluation question 2
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts
our main objective was to achieve a news broadcast that would relate to the local community whilst expressing worldwide news and linking the two. we feel this was achieved through the use of our main topic the recession as it is easy to express worldwide facts about the economy whilst linking this to local trades people in the local community, thus attracting local audiences interest in the news channel.
(example of local news story, 1 minute 48 - 1 minute 55)
likewise throughout the production we have tried to make viewing as easy as possible for a wider selection of people, to do this voice overs have been added along with writing added on top of the screen on interviews to give the viewer as much information as we can. A large focus of our was to keep the audiences attention as long progressive topics can often cause the audience to lose interest and skip channels. combating this theory we used a wide variation of different images combined with special effects, yet again to provide information for the viewer whilst giving them a visual focus. The special effects and images combine to give a modern relaxed feel allowing the viewer to take in collective bites of information.
(example of visual effects)
overloading the viewer with imformation can often be a mistake as this will not allow them to focus entirly on the important facts and could encourage them to view other news channels. for example tabloids such as the sun are easier for a higher percentage of the population to digest in comparison to the daily times. so as a team we decided the best idea would be to include local stories for the viewer to watch, keeping the lenght fairly short in comparison to the lenghty version of the recession clips. This would in part take on two important roles. one providing the viewer with local headlines, thus giving the audience a sense of community and pride, as we are a regional, local station, aswell as allowing the audience to take small bites of stories and allowing them to feel comfortable and not overwhelmed.
(example of local stories)
Our aim was to identify our target audience and connect with them straight away, we achieved this through the use of local radio advertiseing. As we would be broadcasting to a local population with traditions, history and a distinct dialect we created a radio broadcast to appeal to the local community adding a touch of humour, yet again making people comfortable with our news station. To do this we used the working class background of a building yard, and used characters with common dialect to advertise the programme in the use of a normal everyday conversation, with the hope the audience would pick up on key bits of humour, whilst taking in the key information and most importantly standing out from other more formal advertising.
(example of radio advertisement, listen for, local dialect,key information made clear and establishment of scene)
In comparison with real media products such as bbc news and sky news, we found in our innitial research that the advertisements are formal as they are connecting with a larger nationwide audience so people need to be able to undertstand the key facts. Which in comparison with our 6 news is very different as we try our best to relate to a regional, local audience, thus making us different and standing out. Also the nationwide news broadcasts and global news do not pick specific locall stories they tend to focus on main stream stories in the public eye and interview only mainstream celebritys.
(example of radio news advertising)
As we see in comparison with ours, the radio 2 news get straight to the facts and concentrate less on advertising and attracting audiences.
our main objective was to achieve a news broadcast that would relate to the local community whilst expressing worldwide news and linking the two. we feel this was achieved through the use of our main topic the recession as it is easy to express worldwide facts about the economy whilst linking this to local trades people in the local community, thus attracting local audiences interest in the news channel.
(example of local news story, 1 minute 48 - 1 minute 55)
likewise throughout the production we have tried to make viewing as easy as possible for a wider selection of people, to do this voice overs have been added along with writing added on top of the screen on interviews to give the viewer as much information as we can. A large focus of our was to keep the audiences attention as long progressive topics can often cause the audience to lose interest and skip channels. combating this theory we used a wide variation of different images combined with special effects, yet again to provide information for the viewer whilst giving them a visual focus. The special effects and images combine to give a modern relaxed feel allowing the viewer to take in collective bites of information.
(example of visual effects)
overloading the viewer with imformation can often be a mistake as this will not allow them to focus entirly on the important facts and could encourage them to view other news channels. for example tabloids such as the sun are easier for a higher percentage of the population to digest in comparison to the daily times. so as a team we decided the best idea would be to include local stories for the viewer to watch, keeping the lenght fairly short in comparison to the lenghty version of the recession clips. This would in part take on two important roles. one providing the viewer with local headlines, thus giving the audience a sense of community and pride, as we are a regional, local station, aswell as allowing the audience to take small bites of stories and allowing them to feel comfortable and not overwhelmed.
(example of local stories)
Our aim was to identify our target audience and connect with them straight away, we achieved this through the use of local radio advertiseing. As we would be broadcasting to a local population with traditions, history and a distinct dialect we created a radio broadcast to appeal to the local community adding a touch of humour, yet again making people comfortable with our news station. To do this we used the working class background of a building yard, and used characters with common dialect to advertise the programme in the use of a normal everyday conversation, with the hope the audience would pick up on key bits of humour, whilst taking in the key information and most importantly standing out from other more formal advertising.
(example of radio advertisement, listen for, local dialect,key information made clear and establishment of scene)
In comparison with real media products such as bbc news and sky news, we found in our innitial research that the advertisements are formal as they are connecting with a larger nationwide audience so people need to be able to undertstand the key facts. Which in comparison with our 6 news is very different as we try our best to relate to a regional, local audience, thus making us different and standing out. Also the nationwide news broadcasts and global news do not pick specific locall stories they tend to focus on main stream stories in the public eye and interview only mainstream celebritys.
(example of radio news advertising)
As we see in comparison with ours, the radio 2 news get straight to the facts and concentrate less on advertising and attracting audiences.
Evaluation question 1
In what ways does the media product use, develop or challenege forms and conventions of real media products?
One of our main priority's consisted of a smooth continuous finished piece that would allow the audience to view our broadcast and take in pieces of information with mild effort. Throughout the planning stages we researched other news channels such as channel four news, calender, sky sports news and BBC news. we tried to create a title sequence that would compare with channel four news title sequence. opening images of the local area flowing into each other one after the other. The local images were used as we were sticking to the conventions of a regional news show, as we wanted local viewers to relate to there local areas and monuments. after discussions with the team over our research we decided that in comparison with channel four news and sky news, special effects should be used in between scenes to create a smoother continuity that would give the feel of a modern attractive news show, hopefully adhering to our younger viewing audience. The news 6 logo is continuously shown between scenes using special effects flashing it up on screen. observations from other news channels gave us some very good ideas surrounding continuity and how we should present our stories and images. Matching dialogue to audio was one of our biggest challenges as the theme music had to match the special effects.
(example of, news title sequence, special effects, use of logo)
(first 24 seconds, example of our title sequence in comparison)
Throughout the production of the news programme we used a variation of different shots to achieve a well rounded broadcast. when recording establishing shots many different technical shots were used such as zoom, tilt and pan. the new variation of shots were discussed in the planning stages and quite often on set as we experimented with different shots. The approach came from our research, news channels such as channel four and BBC news both use these shots, to give a live realistic view of the surrounding area they are filming, to make the audience feel comfortable as if they were there. we did this both in our title sequence to give a wider view of the local area's buildings and monuments, and also in the interviews to establish where the interview was taking place.
(example of the shots in 1st video^^^ seconds 1-1 minute 16 seconds)
(example of the shots, seconds 1 - 25)
Our news shows contents slightly differs from the stereotypical news programme, as you would normally associate a news broadcast to be national, whereas ours is local regional news, with the presenters expressing the same accents and dialects as a high percentage of the audience. we also chose to cover a national story that does effect everyone in the economic downturn we are experiencing in the current climate as this is a main everyday topic of interest for allot of people. What makes us stand out from other national and regional programmes is our modern and younger approach, as you can see we use different formality's of dress for the presenters as on average they are younger than the stereotypical middle aged presenter. Our modern outlook allows a new audience to feel comfortable and take a keen interest which we believe is even better for the future generations. We also had a one to one interview with an up and coming band member which you would only see on the likes of NME and music channels, as main national and regional channels can only afford to interview mainstream celebrity's. I believe we have opened the possibility's of attracting a new audience, socially and younger whilst maintaining a level of formality to attract existing middle aged viewers from all backgrounds.
(example of younger viewing audience)
From the start we have taken full regard to our biggest assessor been our main market, the audience as all ways. So making there viewing a pleasure has to be the first on the list to gain high viewing figures and good feedback. I believe we achieved this through the use of mixed formal and informal presenters and story lines, as some feedback we had from our early research stated that people dressed too formal look boring and make the viewing experience less comfortable. Also graphics and special effects were used to entice the audience t o keep watching and the feedback we had from this was very good and looked " professional". As well as audio visual writing was placed on the screen to make sure the audience understand certain images on screen and also different people we are interviewing, thus creating a relaxed viewing atmosphere. our news show focus's on local news dealing with local issues mostly but also incorporating stories such as the recession allows the audience to gain a bigger incite into the subject and helps them to understand there personal situation better. Making people feel comfortable and giving them a pleasurable experience i believe has been created.
One of our main priority's consisted of a smooth continuous finished piece that would allow the audience to view our broadcast and take in pieces of information with mild effort. Throughout the planning stages we researched other news channels such as channel four news, calender, sky sports news and BBC news. we tried to create a title sequence that would compare with channel four news title sequence. opening images of the local area flowing into each other one after the other. The local images were used as we were sticking to the conventions of a regional news show, as we wanted local viewers to relate to there local areas and monuments. after discussions with the team over our research we decided that in comparison with channel four news and sky news, special effects should be used in between scenes to create a smoother continuity that would give the feel of a modern attractive news show, hopefully adhering to our younger viewing audience. The news 6 logo is continuously shown between scenes using special effects flashing it up on screen. observations from other news channels gave us some very good ideas surrounding continuity and how we should present our stories and images. Matching dialogue to audio was one of our biggest challenges as the theme music had to match the special effects.
(example of, news title sequence, special effects, use of logo)
(first 24 seconds, example of our title sequence in comparison)
Throughout the production of the news programme we used a variation of different shots to achieve a well rounded broadcast. when recording establishing shots many different technical shots were used such as zoom, tilt and pan. the new variation of shots were discussed in the planning stages and quite often on set as we experimented with different shots. The approach came from our research, news channels such as channel four and BBC news both use these shots, to give a live realistic view of the surrounding area they are filming, to make the audience feel comfortable as if they were there. we did this both in our title sequence to give a wider view of the local area's buildings and monuments, and also in the interviews to establish where the interview was taking place.
(example of the shots in 1st video^^^ seconds 1-1 minute 16 seconds)
(example of the shots, seconds 1 - 25)
Our news shows contents slightly differs from the stereotypical news programme, as you would normally associate a news broadcast to be national, whereas ours is local regional news, with the presenters expressing the same accents and dialects as a high percentage of the audience. we also chose to cover a national story that does effect everyone in the economic downturn we are experiencing in the current climate as this is a main everyday topic of interest for allot of people. What makes us stand out from other national and regional programmes is our modern and younger approach, as you can see we use different formality's of dress for the presenters as on average they are younger than the stereotypical middle aged presenter. Our modern outlook allows a new audience to feel comfortable and take a keen interest which we believe is even better for the future generations. We also had a one to one interview with an up and coming band member which you would only see on the likes of NME and music channels, as main national and regional channels can only afford to interview mainstream celebrity's. I believe we have opened the possibility's of attracting a new audience, socially and younger whilst maintaining a level of formality to attract existing middle aged viewers from all backgrounds.
(example of younger viewing audience)
From the start we have taken full regard to our biggest assessor been our main market, the audience as all ways. So making there viewing a pleasure has to be the first on the list to gain high viewing figures and good feedback. I believe we achieved this through the use of mixed formal and informal presenters and story lines, as some feedback we had from our early research stated that people dressed too formal look boring and make the viewing experience less comfortable. Also graphics and special effects were used to entice the audience t o keep watching and the feedback we had from this was very good and looked " professional". As well as audio visual writing was placed on the screen to make sure the audience understand certain images on screen and also different people we are interviewing, thus creating a relaxed viewing atmosphere. our news show focus's on local news dealing with local issues mostly but also incorporating stories such as the recession allows the audience to gain a bigger incite into the subject and helps them to understand there personal situation better. Making people feel comfortable and giving them a pleasurable experience i believe has been created.
Evaluation question 3
what have you learned from your audience feedback?
(example of action shot)
Throughout the planning stage we made it out sole aim to attract a wider spread audience, also attracting a young fresher viewing audience. To do this different research had to be carried out, firstly we had to anylises the genre of news people allready viewed and find out the most popular viewing times. A short but detailed questionaire was given to 20 members of the public who ranged from an age of 15 to 62. We gained alot of useful information that was used and considered to develop our news show, for example most people preffered to watch the news around six o'clock, as this is the average time most of the public get home from work. Also what genre and formality of news they would feel comfortable viewing. The audience feedback was very useful as we wanted to make a channel with appeal to a younger audience, encorporating social backgrounds and to maintain a wide range of ages. We had to take into consideration, the genre of stories to be broadcast, mise on scene, the way we edited using special effects and the music. Different techniques were used to research the audiences opinion aswell as a paper questionaire, we used a GZMG 330 HDD camcorder to record the opinions of people form different sex, age and social backgrounds. The feedback was very mixed as we found people over 60 are less bothered how there news in shown, whereas the younger audience prefer a more vibrant modern feel to a news show as we see on camera. The main criteria we found for a news channel differed towards the younger theme, people feel more comfortable with a relaxed studio set, yet still prefer the presenters to look smart. Also the genre of news that is broadcast on the news either attracts or ditracts people from watching it, a younger audience prefer the lates sport and music whereas an older audience prefer national economy news, such as job losses and banks. This influenced us in the planning and production to create a channel that suited both needs as we used two sports stories, one music and one economy story, i feel we fully catered for a wide range of people.
(example of casual smart uniform in relaxed seated studio)
(example of audience research, planning stage)
The audience were kept in mind throughout the full planning and proiduction right through to the very end as we would like to have achieved a high rating. throughout the production ideas were experimented with as we took different shots and angles from many scenes to make sure we had a good range so we could create an interesting broadcast, such as shots from the rugby game and the golf course as we aimed to acheive high excitement shots to grip the audience to carry on viewing. Throughout the recording of several scenes the type of clothing we wore was essential to how we would like to represent our programme, so we used a mixed approach, yet again to cater for a wider audience yet keeping it light and modern.
(example of action shot)
Throughout the editing stages and final productions of our news programme we asked audience members to view our work and give us feedback, we did this also by using the GZMG 330 HDD camera. The audience members gave us some specific feedback about what they liked and how we could improve our work to suit there cultural tastes.
(example of audience feedback, final stage)
The feedback we got was very positive, the stories related to local people and the set up made us look proffesional, and the music made people feel comfortable. whilst in the late editing stage we were told by other pupils that more shots would be better for different topics to give a more diverse viewing aspect. After discussion with members off the group we edited parts of our draft work and overcame any forseeable problems with good team work and communication.Also we had to research the audiences cultural background as we are a local news station so we had to be specific to the local area, local stories also the presenters would have to relate to the audience by using the same expressions and obviously dialect.
Evaluation question 4
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
New media technologies have enhanced the capabilities of equipment to create more continuous, better quality finishes adding the bonus of more diverse shots, editing and research. To create a good quality news broadcast research is key; you have to know how to put it together, and how the public will react to your news channel, researching what they would like. The internet has developed now over the last ten years with the likes of Google, apple, Microsoft leading the way we used the internet to research many different news channels and key features of news, such as, the cast, mise en scene and genres of stories. I mainly used the search engine Google, which lead me to many various sites giving me lots of solid information.
Other software such as garageband enabled us to create a radio tralier for our news programme. The trailer would consist of to average joe males haveing a conversation on a construction site. In order to re create the background noise we used a zoom hand held sound recorder to record seperate noises such as a hammer banging and drilling etc... Garageband enabled us to put the sounds together overlapping with the conversation and news theme music. This was very succesfull and without the new software and recording technoligy would have been possible.
(example of radio trailer, seconds 1-20)
New media technologies have enhanced the capabilities of equipment to create more continuous, better quality finishes adding the bonus of more diverse shots, editing and research. To create a good quality news broadcast research is key; you have to know how to put it together, and how the public will react to your news channel, researching what they would like. The internet has developed now over the last ten years with the likes of Google, apple, Microsoft leading the way we used the internet to research many different news channels and key features of news, such as, the cast, mise en scene and genres of stories. I mainly used the search engine Google, which lead me to many various sites giving me lots of solid information.
To show our research, planning and evaluation we have subscribed to a blog to post all of our information and evidence. Uploading photos has been a key way of showing our methods and proving our media research. Likewise uploading videos to the website YouTube to show our public analysis, after uploading to YouTube I put the link on the blog. This is an obvious advance in media technology; it enables you to share your ideas and research with millions of people whilst showing an advance viewing and link to follow on your blog. Once constructing our news program together there were various technologies that helped us along and lack of some technologies that hindered our quick production. To capture our shots we used a Sony hdv100 camera which enabled us to zoom in and out recording in high definition. Another one of the cameras many features was to white balance all of our clips to make sure we had natural looking consistent light throughout the whole five minute broadcast. For one of our live interview shots a microphone feed had to be fed to the camera, thus enabling us to get a clear sound and block out other social and environmental interferences that cannot be controlled. New camera technology enables shots to be recorded and viewed in better quality, including sound quality.
Through our recording we were constantly cutting, and replacing scenes until we were happy with our final piece. New editing software on the apple mac (final cut), gave us the control to edit our news real at our own place, with features such as, cutting and adding new scenes, adding photographs, title sequences, music and over voices used in various areas. One key feature that stood out above the rest was one that enabled us to slow the pre recorded shot down and make it last longer to match the written text that was placed over it. Although technology has developed and made our media project easier to adapt to different scenarios, there are still some floors in technology or the lack of budget to gain technology that held us back. Such as, for our title sequence we would have preferred more diverse shots like Ariel skyline shots, as we have no budgets this would be very hard to achieve without the use of a Crain, helicopter etc.. Other technologies that could be improved are the sound recording, the program final cut did not allow us to layer sounds and recognise a voice to muffled background noises and separate them, possibly editing them out to create a smoother finish.
Other software such as garageband enabled us to create a radio tralier for our news programme. The trailer would consist of to average joe males haveing a conversation on a construction site. In order to re create the background noise we used a zoom hand held sound recorder to record seperate noises such as a hammer banging and drilling etc... Garageband enabled us to put the sounds together overlapping with the conversation and news theme music. This was very succesfull and without the new software and recording technoligy would have been possible.
(example of radio trailer, seconds 1-20)
Friday, 8 April 2011
Friday, 18 February 2011
Radio trailor advert idea 1
1. Atmos- int. building site. early evening.
2. F/X- building site noise
3. northern accents.
jeff - A'se bill!
bill - what gaffer?....
jeff - howd u fancy abit of overtime tonight?
bill - ooooo... dont know about that mate!
jeff - whys that? ...
bill - well, r lass likes me back to sit down and watch 6 news!
jeff - (shocked) 6 news?
bill - 'R 6 news!
jeff - 6 news... on at 6?
bill - no... half 5!
jeff - uphh (sigh) y'know back in my day
bill - oh not again! (under his breath)
advertising voice comes on
voice- 6 news, the best channel for all your local news, on week days from half 5! its not to be missed!
jeff- come on boys get a bloody move on!
2. F/X- building site noise
3. northern accents.
jeff - A'se bill!
bill - what gaffer?....
jeff - howd u fancy abit of overtime tonight?
bill - ooooo... dont know about that mate!
jeff - whys that? ...
bill - well, r lass likes me back to sit down and watch 6 news!
jeff - (shocked) 6 news?
bill - 'R 6 news!
jeff - 6 news... on at 6?
bill - no... half 5!
jeff - uphh (sigh) y'know back in my day
bill - oh not again! (under his breath)
advertising voice comes on
voice- 6 news, the best channel for all your local news, on week days from half 5! its not to be missed!
jeff- come on boys get a bloody move on!
Friday, 11 February 2011
Permission slip
To get some shots for our news programme's golf story we needed to use the facilities of Barnsley golf club in Mapplewell, Barnsley. here is the permission slip/contract we drew up and took to the manager of the club to sign giving us permission to film on the property so there are no health and safety or copy write issues. The shot took 3 different days to film as we encountered problems with the camera. here is the slip for the successful day and a picture of the golf course :
Radio News Theme music
An obvious advantage of advertising via T.V is that you have a video, colours and cartoons to attract the audiences attention to draw them into your advert or product you are trying to sell. This is a key disadvantage the radio has, so an obvious target is to stand out fromn the crowd and have somethibng that people are going to remember your news advert by compared to other channels. often this is acheived by a cheesy jingle, or a formal news background music often repeating the channel name to keep it sticking in the publics mind along with the theme tune instantly recognisable to your channel. here are some examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyVYqBqy0-I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXfkGM7QKFc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwasO3udSqQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXfkGM7QKFc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwasO3udSqQ&feature=related
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
News radio broadcasts
news programmes often target there audience via radio broadcasts, this mainly to catch people in there cars on there way to work or people using a radio at work. Some stations such as BBC radio 1 or capital FM often have a 2 minute gap for a news beat. A news beat is a gap of information that could include the latest celebrity gossip, economical news or just simply the weather. this is a short example of a news beat:
the clip is a video recording of a news beat featured on BBC i player which is one of the many ways you can catch up on radio news, including digital radio news and obviously the radio.
There are various different ways you can research radio advertising such as http://www.rab.co.uk/rab2009/
This website was very good at giving me information. i have found that as well as news broadcasts, many other companies and businesses use radio advertising to reach a certain commercial audience, targeting different radio stations for what genre of audience are going to be listening. some of these could be sports channels, new films, new music, local businesses promoting offers on garden sheds or bathrooms etc, main industrial/commercial advertisers could be the likes of compare the market.com, or insurance sellers and even offers at b&q.
Thursday, 20 January 2011
on & off screen management of props, setting & equiptment
I have found that During the process of filming an important shot or scene, many different areas have to be covered to organise and manage three different sectors to succesfull filming:
such as, management of props. basically this category could come under mise en seun. when filming our news programme we had to think of different priops to steriotype us as a typical news channel. this was just as simple as using a microphone for live interviews and wearing appropriate clothing, such as smart attire. In the news studio the props we had to use was a set of modern chairs and a table that would stand out from the background. also to give a more casual intelectual feel, we used a laptop and made sure the News 6 logo was visible at all times in the shot.
When covering our newws stories we found that different genres of news has to be filmed within similar settings relevant to the story you are hoping to broadcast. We covered three stories. the recession was filmed with shots of the public and outisde a bank, this is relevant to the genre it is covering and people can relate to it whilst watching. our sports interview was covered in sports room at the local barnsley college again setting a theme, and lastly our music interview was filmed at the main place in the area where live bands gig, thusw been instantly recogniseable to local viewers. Organising the different locations took lost of time and care ful planning, photos of locations were taken, as seen in posts on the blog. When we were happy wirth a setting we had to gain permission of the owner of the property or buiklding to film there. Other areas you must cover at the setting is, health and safety on the site and the safe installation of equiptment such as cameras, cables and microphones as the public could walk past in most locations and injure themselfs or damage equiptment.
equiptment management is very important. for this i had to plan when and where we would need the equiptment, and how we would get it there. to do this we set out a time plan and schedule to stick to and borrowed the equiptment out of the college media store in advance, giving us enought time to keep to our schedule and transport them in a car to the site we would be filming on. On sight management of equiptment would involve, protecting it from changes in weather and the public by using protectors and health and safety barriers and plenty on consistant communication with the crew. The settings of the equiptment was checked regular such as lighting, and white balance to record a natural looking shot.
such as, management of props. basically this category could come under mise en seun. when filming our news programme we had to think of different priops to steriotype us as a typical news channel. this was just as simple as using a microphone for live interviews and wearing appropriate clothing, such as smart attire. In the news studio the props we had to use was a set of modern chairs and a table that would stand out from the background. also to give a more casual intelectual feel, we used a laptop and made sure the News 6 logo was visible at all times in the shot.
When covering our newws stories we found that different genres of news has to be filmed within similar settings relevant to the story you are hoping to broadcast. We covered three stories. the recession was filmed with shots of the public and outisde a bank, this is relevant to the genre it is covering and people can relate to it whilst watching. our sports interview was covered in sports room at the local barnsley college again setting a theme, and lastly our music interview was filmed at the main place in the area where live bands gig, thusw been instantly recogniseable to local viewers. Organising the different locations took lost of time and care ful planning, photos of locations were taken, as seen in posts on the blog. When we were happy wirth a setting we had to gain permission of the owner of the property or buiklding to film there. Other areas you must cover at the setting is, health and safety on the site and the safe installation of equiptment such as cameras, cables and microphones as the public could walk past in most locations and injure themselfs or damage equiptment.
equiptment management is very important. for this i had to plan when and where we would need the equiptment, and how we would get it there. to do this we set out a time plan and schedule to stick to and borrowed the equiptment out of the college media store in advance, giving us enought time to keep to our schedule and transport them in a car to the site we would be filming on. On sight management of equiptment would involve, protecting it from changes in weather and the public by using protectors and health and safety barriers and plenty on consistant communication with the crew. The settings of the equiptment was checked regular such as lighting, and white balance to record a natural looking shot.
Friday, 14 January 2011
reporter research
Over the various news channels there are lots of different reporters male and female. Each bringing there own style of interviewing to the table.
Some interviewers are experts in there chosen Fields and tend not to have a wide variation of reporting skills in different Fields such as football is in contrast with politics.
The way in which reporters sound is also different as they will be well mannered, polite and understandable speaking in good English so everybody can understand not just a certain accent.
The way in which reporters sound is also different as they will be well mannered, polite and understandable speaking in good English so everybody can understand not just a certain accent.
Gender: live reporters tend to have a variation of women and men. Although there are some areas dominated by men such as sport. Gender tends not to be important in today's society and there are as many female reporters as male, covering a wide variation of stories.
Style: many different reporters have different styles of interviewing people, some like to put pressure on the chosen interviewee hoping to get some unclear answers and make them look bad. where as some are calm and collective making the interviewee feel at ease. Often many reporters have a sense of humour and bring this into there interview giving the audience something to relate too whilst putting the interviewee at ease.
Speciality: many different reporters have a chosen Field of reporting such as, politics, middle east, or sports etc.. as this is there speciality, they have often studied in the chosen Field and are experts on the topic discussed.
sports interviews: research
post match interviews are used in a wide variation of different sports, often to get feed back from the manager or players from their recent performance. there are different styles of interviews, some can be formal. in a formal interview you would expect to find the questions refined and direct and this would be with the manager behaving in a controlled manor, wearing a suit . informal interviews would consist of players celebrating after there performance, often still in there kit or a tracksuit with the questions less refined and the player saying what they like.
interviews are very important as they can affect an individuals or the club or sponsors reputation. most players and coaches often have agents or managers behind the scenes feeding them information and giving them advice on the right and wrong things to say.
the position of the interviewer/reporter in sports interviews is often different as they are usually not on screen, as you can just see a microphone and a hand. the reporters voice is heard as he is asking the questions. the setting for the interview is often simple with background of sponsors of the club and game on the wall.
interviews are common in all sports, football, tennis, rugby etc... and even happen in athletics tournaments etc...
here are examples of two different types of interviews:
informal football interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGXY-V-YKMs
formal football interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFTs5NzRRjM
in some interviews as the manager is talking, clips from the sport often come up on the screen about the subject or topic they are commenting on.
interviews are very important as they can affect an individuals or the club or sponsors reputation. most players and coaches often have agents or managers behind the scenes feeding them information and giving them advice on the right and wrong things to say.
the position of the interviewer/reporter in sports interviews is often different as they are usually not on screen, as you can just see a microphone and a hand. the reporters voice is heard as he is asking the questions. the setting for the interview is often simple with background of sponsors of the club and game on the wall.
interviews are common in all sports, football, tennis, rugby etc... and even happen in athletics tournaments etc...
here are examples of two different types of interviews:
informal football interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGXY-V-YKMs
formal football interview:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFTs5NzRRjM
in some interviews as the manager is talking, clips from the sport often come up on the screen about the subject or topic they are commenting on.
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
behind the scenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MQ7RvtKDzI
Above is a link to a video showing behind the scenses on the set of the studio. the presenters are preparing there lines and work also lighting is being set up and sound, aswell as the studio set and props.
Above is a link to a video showing behind the scenses on the set of the studio. the presenters are preparing there lines and work also lighting is being set up and sound, aswell as the studio set and props.
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Character profiles- interviewees
profiles of Thomas Bridges, The Cross fires (lead singer, Thomas lodge) and Alison Neilson.
our second interview is of barnsley college rugby sports academy, over there recent success as they were crowned regional champions 2010 and made it to the national quarters. the manager is Thomas bridges, who currently works at the college as well as organising the team and recently pushed through the rugby team to become an academy and compete on a higher level.
This is the cross fires, a new eagerly anticipated band, from barnsley playing live at lacorum bar venue. The lead singer and face of the band is Thomas Lodge he is 19 unlike the other members of the band Adam Walshaw (drummer) Alex Cook (base) Jack Kilner (keyboard) Callum Lyman (techno DJ) who are all 18. they are currently in talks with 2 record labels about getting signed and have been riding back and fourth to London for two weeks. The crossfires yet to play live have stunned scouts all over the UK as downloads of there new album ( what you do is what you do) has reached 3,000 downloads. there first gig is anticipated to be a sell out.
our second interview is of barnsley college rugby sports academy, over there recent success as they were crowned regional champions 2010 and made it to the national quarters. the manager is Thomas bridges, who currently works at the college as well as organising the team and recently pushed through the rugby team to become an academy and compete on a higher level.
our main topic is about the current economical crisis we face in the UK! this will include an interview with a local nhs nurse who has recently been made redundant, this is the main feature story in our news broadcast.
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