On Thursday 30th September, we were assigned into groups. I was put in a group with Chris Joynes, Cara Carter and Zac Bishop. We were then told what genre of radio we are making. For our first show we have to do student radio. We made a brainstorm of ideas in the lesson of what we are doing for the show. We came up with the idea that Zac willl be presenting the show, Chris does the news and sport, Cara does the interviews and I do the techniqual aspects such as arraging the music, jingles and mixes. We all came up with our running clock and running order.
On Tuesday 5th, i came in on my day off and helped Chris with the news research, i also chose some songs for our show and downloaded them. Because i had my hospital appointment i came in late.
On Wedensday 6th, we decided to go first so we can get all our recording done. We did the intro of our show and placed on our show. Zac was doing the editing and putting everything on the time line. Me and Cara wrote a script for people we asked to read off, this is for our feature 'What happened to me today'.
We then got our volunteer's to the radio studio, i booked a zoom and they said their lines into the zoom. I then put it on the computer. We then recorded Chris's news and sport in the radio studio.
We eventually got the radio peacied together.
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Aberdeen Student Radio
Aberdeen Student Radio
For my first radio show i am analyising Aberdeen student radio, they havent come up with a name for it which is unsual seeing as every other station has come up with their own name and branding. I analysed this radio station on Thursday 7th October at 10:15am. The target audience is 18-22.When i first started listening to it i was instantly hit with Salt And Pepper-Push it. From that i can tell that they choose music that is easy listening, high tempo and from all era's of music not just recent music thats been released. When you click listen live on thier website your met with a box that says chat to the presenter. The radio show is trying to get the listeners involved in the show which in every station works well. While listening i noticed that there is some techniqual problems because every time just push it finishes and the next song starts it cuts and goes back to the last 1 minute of the song. This Happened 5 times which i thought was a major flaw in their radio show. I had to close the window and do another analysis and go back to the station. There are no jingles inbetween the songs which made it sound like you just put your ipod on shuffle. There hasnt been a presenter talk at all. You can listen live on the campus, on the radio as its a commuinity radio and listen on their website. Even when i listened to the radio station at a later time the music is still from all types of decades such as classical. When the two presenters started there bit, the male presenter instantly asked about requests and included the stations email. They have lots of homour and fade out the back round music when thier talking. Even had features such as how posh the female presenter is. I felt that i could laugh along to their games. The Back round music is from 'The A Team', with their target audience they would recongnise it especially when the film came out a few months ago. When i analysised it again later on, the music was working again. This time there was two presenters, both female. On thier website it has three main colours, neon pink, vibrant blue and pinewood. The font is in white and pink which works well with the colours. there is a huge picture which takes up the page in this picture there is a picture of the presenters shot in sepia, i dont like the effect because for a new listner tuning in you dont see their faces and its not clear that its the presenters. The ratio of speech to music is 80% which is surprising because the conventional student radio at this time of day they usualy just play and mix music. I think these presenters tone of voice isnt sutible because of the tome of voice used. They aren't exciting enough and their personalites dont come out enough when presenting but they are conversational. The music switches between the show, before was easy listening, after its today new music this works well for the target audience. When playing a song such as 'Pink' has a new song and it had "shit" in. When the song finished there was an apoligy but she talked that there was any copyright??The roles for the two presenters doesnt come across clear. The language they use is simple, no use of long words and use slang words such as 'Lez'. There is no awkward silences between both of the presenters they certainly flow. The phrase structure is layed out so that the audience can understand. The bredth of vocabulary is simple with no long words. The sentance structure isnt really impressive as it sounds like their just improvising, there is alot of banter netween the presenters but as a listener we dont understand because they havent gone in depth of the subject. There isnt any catch phrases but they do use alot of qoutes of such as 'Slip Of The Tounge' and 'Back in the day'. The pace of converstation is very slow which is a let down because it sounds like they have colds or just couldnt be bothered which cant help with the ratings. The topics they go one about such as University work and the parties that are going on.
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Listening And Evaluating 3 Different Radio Stations (Music Programming)
A good presenter is ment to entertain the target audience of a radio station and have a wide selection taste in music, they must be passionate in radio and have the experience to work with a mixing desk. They must speak clearly so the audience can understand what they are saying and have a positive tone.
I have listened to three different types of radio shows; Music show, Adult Contemporary and Student radio, these all have the same basic structure of a radio show. There is presenting on the show, the days top headlines, weather, travel and competitions but this depends on the target audience and genre.
For my student radio i analyised the radio station 'Demon fm', this is a student radio station abd this is broadcasted at De Montfort University's Leicester City Campus. I listened to Demon Fm, Thursday 23rd September at 11:01. This radio station is running as a community radio station. This radio station is commercial because its all independant. The type of music they play is the latest music from any genre, they dont tell the listeners what their playing so its like an assumption that their listeners would already know what is being played. Demon fm is like the other two radio stations that i analised, you can listen to it on radio but only in Leicester, they do have a website where you can listen to it live. They also have a podcast on Itunes where you can download it and it contains the best bits of their shows. I one of the songs they played the sound quality wasnt as good as the other stations, this may be due to the equipment they are using. The ratio of speech to music is 80:20 this is proberly because during the day the students are in lessons or they only have proper shows at night as this when they tune into the station. The target audience for this station is 16+ because of the genres of music being played and how recent its been released.
I have listened to three different types of radio shows; Music show, Adult Contemporary and Student radio, these all have the same basic structure of a radio show. There is presenting on the show, the days top headlines, weather, travel and competitions but this depends on the target audience and genre.
For this genre of radio show i analysed a radio Station called Gold, I listened to it on their internet website. i listened on Wedensday 22nd September at 21:49. The show that i listened to is "Dean Martin's Gold Requests", the type of music that is being played is old 60's hits this ties in with the target audience of the show which is 30+ because the music is easy listening like back round music. On this particular show there is audience interaction because of the show is a 60's request show so listeners ring up and ask to put certain music on from that era. Every show plays songs from all different types of decades so it isnt just from one decade give the listener more range of music from the past. This is commerical radio and has a lot of advertiments such as the link that plays the show has a tenor lady pads advert this relates to the older audience and these adverts are played in the breaks of songs. They broadcast the news every hour with the weather and sport this is informative. The presenters tone of voice was very smooth and has a 60:40 ratio, music being the biggest. The branding for Gold is they have their own jingles that the listener can recognise that its gold radio station their listening to when they tune in. The vocal delivery of the presenter is informative like the presenter is speaking formally.
Student radio
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