In what ways does your media product use,
develop or change forms and conventions on real
media products?
Forms Vox Pops
Outside broadcasts Interviews
InteractivityConventions
Hard news to soft news Tone of voice
Language
How does the media product represent
particular social groups?
A radio newscast has many different representations via the stories that are
carried. Many groups are presented such as sexuality, gender, disability, age, ethnicity
and social class or gender.
Representation
The tuition fees for university increase from £3000 to a vast amount of £9000
Represents the age group that we are targeting of 16-25
The newscast refers to both genders Affects the working class
Tuition fees
The recent installment of Harry Potter will be reviewed .
It is suitable for all genders Suitable for people of all social status
Doesn’t limit to a certain representational group
Film Review
The Wanted Tickets: 16-20 yr old girls, no social status
Glee in O2 Teenagers, all genders, no social status
barriersParalympics, Tom Agar trains for gold in
2012 Olympics Suitable for all social classes Represents disabled people
Suitable for all ages
Entertainment and Sport
Blab FM is a radio station that targets young people. It is suitable for all genders and
ethnic races. A suitable media institution that may
distribute Blab FM is Radio 1.
What media institutions might distribute your
media product and why?
Name of Radio: Blab FM Gender: Unisex
Age: 16-25 Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
All social classes
Who will be the audience for your media production?
An online survey was made using Monkey Survey. Which was then answered by the age group that Blab FM wants to attract. Based on the results we have concluded what would be
most appropriate for listeners aged between 16-25.
Audience
Audience
The survey shows that most people like to listen to entertainment news.
Audience
The audience survey shows that most people listen to the radio at the evening.
Audience
The survey shows that most people use their phones to listen to the radio.
Time: 4pm-6pm Technology: Mobile phones, manual radio
Engaging with the radio: Text, tweets, Face book, email, blog
Music Atmosphere: Tone of voice and language
How is audience attracted to the media product?
What have you learnt about technology from the process of
constructing of product?
Technology used and learnt:
Garage Band Audacity Voice recording
equipment DAB
Advantages of DAB
Disadvantages of DAB
Better reception Expensive
Viewing screen High energy consumption
Easy tuning through the press of a button
Unpopular amongst the older generation
More radio stations
Can be confusing
Control time: pause, rewind or record live radio
Analogue and Digital Radio
Advantages of analogue radio
Disadvantages of analogue radio
Cheap Fiddle with dial to access frequency
Popular amongst older generation
Interferences: fading, crackling and overlapping stations
Limited Radio stations
Mobile phones Game stations: PS3, XBOX
Television Laptops Internet
Convergence
What have you learnt in the progression from the
preliminary task to the main task?
Importance of research and planning Organisational skills
How long is the newscast? The structure of hard news to soft news
Standard English
What have you learnt in the progression from the preliminary task to the
main task?
What is approved? A journalist must uphold and defend the code of media freedom and the
right of the public to be informed To ensure that information being broadcasted is honest, accurate and fair
Do the best to correct any harmful inaccuracies What to avoid?
Do not produce material that is likely to lead to hate or discrimination based on gender, age, sexuality, race and etc.
Avoid Plagiarism Do not combine fact and opinion together
Journalism Ethics
Threshold/Impact/Amplitude: Negativity
Timelessness Prominence Ear conflict Familiarity Currency
Oddity Human interest
News Values
Microphones: Garage band:
Audacity: DAB
Internet:
Technology
Microphones Omnidirectional: It is small therefore it can
record all sounds from different directions. Directional: It is sensitive to sound from one
direction. Pop filters: Protection filter for microphones
Working with equipment
Knowing the legalities when obtaining and broadcasting news, through the journalism
ethics Suitable equipment that is used for different
situations The structure of a newscast
Organisational skills
Developing as a practitioner