Thursday 28 January 2016
Monday 25 January 2016
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:
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.
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!
These include the introduction and standard out cue in our bulletin, in addition to the cue's for our:
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| Max's iPhone 5S (our recording device) |
- cue and clip
- cue and vox pop
- cue and two way stories.
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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.
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.
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Newport Squaure one of our vox pop locations
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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.
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| Our shared Google Drive Folder entitled 'Radio Clips' |
Thursday 21 January 2016
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,
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,
Tuesday 19 January 2016
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:
Sunday 17 January 2016
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.
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.
Friday 15 January 2016
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.
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.
Monday 11 January 2016
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.)
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.)
Sunday 10 January 2016
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:
We collated our opinions together on a Google Docs document that created this final running order:
Friday 8 January 2016
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...
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