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