1. In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Chloe Read
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1. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop, or
challenge forms and conventions of real media products? Chloe
Read
2. Codes and Conventions For our genre research task, we
listened to 3 radio stations: Lincs FM, BBC Radio 1 and Radio
Humberside and compared specific aspects of them. Codes and
conventions are the common elements of a radio station such as an
ident, a jingle, a presenter, the language that presenters use.
This was useful as it gave us inspiration on what the codes and
conventions of our radio news broadcast would be, for example, what
our jingle should sound like in relation to our radio news, how we
should structure our radio broadcast, and also how the presenter
should address the audience in relation to the tone/pitch of their
voice. It was also useful to research these radio broadcasts as we
knew we needed to include the key codes and conventions of a radio
broadcast, which are a sound bed, a variety of vox pops, a sting an
outside broadcast and a specialist interview.
3. Jingle Overall, the codes and conventions of each radio
station were very similar, as they all have a jingle at the
beginning of the show. This is important to any radio broadcast as
a jingle helps to establish the genre of the radio station and what
the radio station is called, and also the frequency. When
researching Lincs FM, BBC Radio 1 and Radio Humberside, it was
clear that all jingles were similar for the purpose of introducing
the radio station and establishing the genre. They were all similar
in the sense that each radio jingle used a serious tone so it was
appropriate in relation to the seriousness of the news they were
broadcasting.
4. Comparison Our Jingle for Waves FM This is our jingle which
was created on Adobe Audition using copy right free sources. Our
jingle consists of classic and contemporary music. Local Radio 2
Jingle This jingle is slightly more upbeat than ours due to
possibly the content of the news stories that they have done are
considerably lighter stories than what weve done and therefore
there is a less serious tone National
5. Presenter Style - Comparisons Similarities Formality - Both
presenters of Waves FM (Our radio news broadcast) and Lincs FM
speak with formal language due to the seriousness of the news
stories. Tone Both presenters speak with a low pitch voice, again,
due to the seriousness of the news stories. However, when talking
about a positive, light hearted story both presenters voices
increase in pitch to make it sound more exciting and enthusiastic.
Differences Age The age of our presenter is considerably younger
than the Lincs FM presenter due to differences in the target
audiences. Our target audience is 15 28 due to the genre of music
we play (Indie/Rock) which is generally listened to by younger
people and therefore a younger presenter seemed more relevant and
appropriate whereas Lincs FM presenter is older (mid 50/60s) due to
the fact they play older music such as classical and contemporary
and therefore an older presenter is suited. Language Although both
presenters speak with relatively formal language, the language
differs slightly due to the fact that Lincs FM uses more
explanatory lexis possibly due to their older target audience. Here
is a preview of both Waves FM and Lincs FM. It is clear that both
differ due to these reasons: LINCS FM WAVES FM
6. Comparison: News Stories Waves FM and Lincs FMs top
headlining stories differ in the sense that we have used a less
serious story due to our younger audience of 15-28 than Lincs FMs
story as they have used a more serious, hard hitting story as they
have a significantly older target audience and therefore the
headlines are different due to the different audiences. For our
first story, we have spoke about a new TV programme appearing on
Channel 4 known as skint which is based in the Grimsby area,
however Lincs FM have used a story of 2 people in court who had
allegedly murdered a young woman and therefore this story is more
hard-hitting than ours. Here are both radios headlining stories.
LINCS FMWAVES FM
7. Comparison: News Stories - Both Lincs FMs and our radio news
broadcast Waves FM stories both compare in the sense that Waves FM
is based in a small, local area (Grimsby) and Lincs FM is
broadcasted regionally and therefore their stories are going to
cover a larger area scale hence they are less likely to broadcast a
headline story on the TV programme skint being based in Grimsby as
it is less relevant to the area they are based in which is the
whole of Lincolnshire.