Final Bulletin

Evaluation Question 7

Evaluation Question 7 from oliviagarnerasmedia

Evaluation Question 6

Here is  my Pinterest board that I have created for my question 6:



https://uk.pinterest.com/garnero08/evaluation-question-6-media-studies/

Evaluation Question 5

Here is my Evaluation Question 5:

Evaluation Question 4

Here is my Evaluation Question 4 in an audio format:

Evaluation Question 3 - What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

Below I have recorded my response to evaluation question three. I believe that I have learnt great audio recording skills and thought this would be an innovate but also appropriate (to our product) format of presenting my response.

It is 14 minutes 20 seconds in length and includes an analysis of why my chosen institution would distribute our product, but also offers alternatives and justification as to why other institutions wouldn't distribute it too:

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Evaluation Question 1 from oliviagarnerasmedia

Finished Editing

Today, during my editing of the bulletin, I learned how to change the decibels of the audio within the product, ensuring that it is all at the same volume so the listener doesn’t have to turn up or turn down the volume when listening to the product. 

The decibel changing function at the top of the waveform screen being increased
to make the clip louder

I learned also how to overlap audio effectively as I explained in my editing posts, which I used for creating my jingle and also when editing the stabs into my bulletin, slowly overlapping and fading in our bed underneath the end of the stab slightly before the next audio clip started to ensure a fluid transition between the two pieces of audio rather than having sudden jump cuts in audio and abrupt silences which would appear unprofessional. 

Finally, I learned how to edit audio clips together in the applications multitrack format, learning how to clip all the pieces of audio together, learning to layer in particular, which was useful when I needed to keep  the bed underneath the audio at the correct times whilst there still was a speaker within the audio. This editing format was also vital for ensuring the timing of all the clips in the broadcast was smooth and that the transitions between all the audio clips in my bulletin was as smooth as possible. I also learned how to add reverb and echo to certain parts of audio that required extra depth, such as the rebel in our jingle, and also the voice overs in our stabs.  

The Multitrack format, showing the overlapping and editing together of
the first clips in my bulletin including my jingle, bed , stab and first news reader story.

I learned how much dampening and diffusion to use to make these clips sound more professional and also how to edit the dryness and wetness of the audio to the correct degree, I also learned how to use the spectral frequency display of audio during editing which made it easier to remove unwanted and distracting background noises or recurring sounds from the audio within the bulletin, particularly those recorded in loud locations, such as at the ice rink or our vox pops in the street. This ensured that our news being delivered was always of great clarity. 

I learned how to use the paintbrush and lasso tool to isolate the unwanted audio clearly and use the sound remover (under the noise reduction/restoration effect), learn sound model function to learn the noise that I wished to remove, then, once learned, I used the sound remover function to remove this piece of audio,m without impacting upon the rest of the clip, meaning there were no sudden silences in background noise etc. 

Using the learn sound model function to remove the
background sounds highlighted in white.

Start of Editing

The main program I have learned to use during the construction of this product is Adobe Audition CC 2014.


Prior to constructing my bulletin, I had no previous experience in editing at all, let alone audio editing to the high quality we required for our bulletin. Therefore, I learned how to use the program through trial and error myself, but also through Youtube videos as previously mentioned. Firstly, I learned how to use the clipping tool to remove unwanted pieces of audio, for example, the beginning and end of clips where there was silence before myself or Max began speaking. Also, this skill was vital when condensing the interviews that we recorded for our vox pops and our two-way. I learned how to zoom in and clip the audio to such detail and fluidity clipping using the waveform representation of audio on the screen that it seemed as though the audio had never been taken out in the first place.  Also, I learned how to make the studio recorded audio from the presenters sound more professional as previously explained in my editing posts on my blog, such as adding certain effects (primarily the ‘radio announcer voice effect’) to make this audio seem more professional. Furthermore, I learned how to make the audio sound much clearer, through learning to use the parametric equalizer function on most clips of audio, as it gives you total control over frequency, Q, and gain settings through the graph function within it.  

The clipping tool in one of my clips

The Parametric Equalizer that which I changed to this same setting for
each audio clip for tone consistency.

The graph shows frequency along the horizontal ruler (x‑axis) and amplitude along the (y‑axis) enabling myself to set the audio tone of the presenters to the same frequency and amplitude for each recorded audio piece, even though they were recorded at different times, so the voices would’ve sounded slightly different in tone without myself learning to implement this function via Youtube tutorials. 

Social Media

Recording!

Today we recorded the news reader 'links' to our clips that we have already recorded to form the whole stories in our bulletins.
These include the introduction and standard out cue in our bulletin, in addition to the cue's for our:

Max's iPhone 5S (our recording device)

• cue and clip
• cue and vox pop
• cue and two way stories.

In addition, we recorded the audio for our copy stories also. Once again we decided as a group upon using Max's iPhone as our recording device we realised this would produce the greatest quality of sound.

We used the in built voice recorder app as it lets you easily rectify and record over mistakes. As shown below, you simply press the red button to instantly start and stop recording, which was incredibly easy to use and meant we recorded our audio incredibly quickly and efficiently. Even when we made mistakes in our audio, we simply dragged the blue bar (as shown in the image) back to the area in which we made the mistake and pressed the red button again to re-record over it.

We recorded our news readers audio (myself and Max) in the same place that we recorded our preliminary task audio - in a room within the school that has good acoustics and no background noises such as alarms or bells or people walking through which could interrupt our audio.

Then, we recorded our OB's in various places. We recorded our vox-pops around Newport High Street, on a Saturday around lunchtime, as this was, we established, when the majority of our target audience would be around the location. asking young members of the public what their views were on the Festival Line-up latest announcements as we believed we would get the most authentic responses and also be interesting to have background noise to vary our news broadcasts audio type.

We recorded two of our vox pops from young people in this area of the High Street, Newport Square, as we found the acoustics in this area were very good. It was quieter than the main shopping area of the High Street which ensured that our audio was of a high quality and the person speaking in vox pop would be clearly heard and understood in our final broadcast.

Newport Squaure one of our vox pop locations

We also recorded private interviews, upon request, with Sarah from White Jewels for our Ryde Arena Story and also Alex Chakley, Random Rooms founder for the Random Rooms story.

Once we had recorded these clips, we sent them via the internet on Max's phone, to a collective folder in Google Drive, that myself, Max and Frankie all had access to. We decided to organise and collect our audio in this way, so that we all had access to every piece of audio, so we could edit specific parts and put certain clips on our blogs, as we wished. It meant we weren't restricted and could also listen to the same clips and compare our thoughts on them such as whether the words within them flowed and sounded professional enough for our bulletin. Another reason this was useful, was when editing down our 5 minute interview with Alex Chalkley. We all went through the clip individually at the same time, noting the times of audio we thought should be included in the two way in our bulletin. We all then compared our notes and found specific areas we all agreed to include, but also, for example, Frankie identified an ending clip that would be perfect to finish the two-way clip, that neither me or Max had identified. This technique ensured that our work on our bulletin was incredibly collective and ensured all our group was involved in this key stage of our task! 

Our shared Google Drive Folder entitled 'Radio Clips'

Final Script

This is our finalised bulletin script that which we will be using to record our audio with. In order to make it easy to read, to prevent long pauses within our audio, we have coloured all text that which is read out black, all background sounds or external audio clips in red, and the specific component or features of the report such as the type of each story, is in green.

We made lots of changes, such as shortening specific stories. 

Stabs: Our main change within the final scripting in comparison to the second is that we have decided to include news and entertainment stabs between stories.

Story 1: We have removed the back anno from this story as it was asking anyone with information to phone a relevent number which we believe won't apply much to our taregt audience, as they're aged 14-19, so would normally be inside, at home etc, at this time of night. Additionally, Frankie's Voicer is quite long and detailed, so we removed the back anno to ensure the fast pace of the news bulletin was maintained and that listeners didn't become bored through only hearing one long, in depth story.


We took the line Robert Swan out of the fourth news story, as we decided it was irrelevant knowledge and dragged on the copy story too much which could disinterest our audience and contradict the conventions of a copy story also. Furthermore,

Final News Bulletin Script from oliviagarnerasmedia

Second Drafting of Script

We have tweaked the script again now, removing the errors that which didn't conform to the rules of writing radio. Also, we have added an extra story in (Robin Hill Treehouses) as when practising reading the script to see its length, we realsied we were 30 seconds too short of the 5 minute requirement, so we added in this extra story to meet the quota. We have also changed the Cue for the Random Rooms Story and will probably have to again, after recording our interview with Alex Chalkley. Here us the second Draft, featuring the type of each story and more:

Second Drafted Script from oliviagarnerasmedia

Recording Outside Broadcasts and Vox Pops

Today, we recorded our interview with Sarah, from Wight Jewels ice skating team for our Third Story, on Ryde Arena Repairs. We wanted to get an opinion from a young person affected by this story, as we understood that this would resonate with our target audience of younger people more and would thus let them be able to engage and understand the story more from another young persons perspective. Plus, it's more interesting than hearing a dreary Councillor or adult involved with the repairs.

We used Max's iPhone 5S once again to record and used the Voice recorder in built app, as we learnt, after our interview with Alex Chalkley last week, that the audio quality the app recorded was fantastic, very clear, and of better quality than that of the Zoo Audio Recorders we could've used instead.

In order to make the recording sound more interesting, we recorded the interview clip at the ice rink to have background sounds from the rink, such as people talking and moving around, to provide variety to the audio within our bulletin, making it more interesting for the listeners. It also shows audibly that the story wasn't recorded in the same studio as the main news reporting is, and clearly can be identified as an outside broadcast.

Random Rooms interview with Alex Chalkley

Today we were delighted to interview Alex Chalkley, the founder of Random Rooms, which features in one of the stories within our broadcast. We wanted to interview Alex so that we could insert audio for a cue and two way,within our broadcast to make it more interesting and appealing to young people rather than simply hearing us speak basic facts, we wanted Alex's enthusiasm for the project to be conveyed in the audio to make the story far more exciting and interesting to listen to!

We asked him the following questions:





Which we will edit the most relevant and appropriate clips from into our final new bulletin. The full, unedited interview is available below, or on our website : 






Our group loved taking this responsibility to invite and interview an external guest to further the uniqueness of our final bulletin! It was very interesting listening to Alex's project and made me feel as though our news report actually had purpose and made our group feel empowered to ensure it was of the greatest quality, as Alex could go on to use this interview for advertising in the future.

It helped us develop our interviewing skills and technique as we adapted and changed our questions to suit Alex and what he wanted to convey about the new project. Also it helped develop our audio recording skills and consequently too, our editing skills, as we had to ensure Alex could be heard clearly so that our audio sounds as high quality and professional as professional radio station bulletin clips do. Furthermore, it made me realise how important location when recording is, including how much impact background noise has and the acoustics of the room itself in relation to our recording device of Max's phone.

Max's iPhone 5S has the inbuilt app, created by Apple, called Voice Memos. We tested the quality of this recording programme on the device by recording the opening line of our script in 3 different locations. In a sound proof music room, in a quiet hallway room and then outside too, to see whether the device could retain the audio quality when recording outside as we would need to do this for our Voicer from Frankie, Clip from Sarah at the Ice Rink, Vox Pops on busy, loud streets of Newport. After listening back to the recordings, we were satisfied that the quality of vocal recording was still fantastic, regardless of there being loud background noises such as cars, loud chatting etc. So, we were happy to record the interview with Alex, with the device after testing it effectively. 

Changing our Station's Slogan

After a group meeting at lunch today, we realised that our previous slogan of 'The UK's first station for music hits' that featured in our jingle for our preliminary task that we wished to use also in our final task wasn't appropriate anymore. Our news radio programme is targeted at local people therefore it would be very confusing and silly using the slogan The UK's first station for music hits' which suggests the station and consequrnly the news programme will contain national news when it won't - the news programme will be localised. Therefore, we decided to change the slogan of our station to 'The Island's best station for music hits' as this is far more relevant to our target audience of local people, yet still retains the aspect of music hits being played upon the station, which is what we knew made it appropriate and attractable to young people.

In order to do this, I edited the original jingle mp3 file in the editing software, Adobe Audition CC 2014. I removed the voice over of the slogan 'The UK's first station for music hits' and initially replaced it with blank music, so that we could add the new voice over of our new slogan in later on.




Then, once we recorded the new slogan voice over, I edited it into the jingle mp3 file that contained music (the bed of the jingle) so that it took the place of the original jingle whilst retaining the same audio quality and effects that existed in our previous, preliminary jingle mp3. Now that we have changed the jingle, it means we will be able to focus again back on gathering and formulating our local news into scripts, rather than worrying whether our branding of our station and the audio itself was appropriate to our target audience of young people within our local area (the Isle of Wight.)

Ordering Our News Stories

In order to decide the ordering of our News Stories within our final bulletin, I have analysed them in accordance to Galtung and Ruge's News Values, too see  which ones fulfil the most and so, will be placed first etc:

We collated our opinions together on a Google Docs document that created this final running order:

Writing Our News Scripts

Here is our initial Bulletin Script Draft. I have analysed each story myself, highlighting areas which contradict the rules of writing for radio and so, will be changed or removed for the next drafting and final script. Additionally, I asked another group completing the same project, to read the script aloud to see which areas didn't sound fluid enough or too boring, when read aloud. Then, I also asked another group, to read it again, however this time, I asked them to look for points that contradicted the rules of writing for radio. They picked up numerous errors that neither myself or my group noticed, as written in my annotations of the script below. This is the final script, with the highlighted areas in red, being annotated on the right hand side of the page in the red boxes. If you need to see these notes in a larger font, simply press the magnifying glass with a plus in it on the top right corner of the scroll-able window. I hope by embedding this script in this format rather than plainly as text, allows easier reading...