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How does your LOCAL NEWS BULLETIN use, develop or challenge the
forms and conventions of real local news bulletins?
Using Codes and Conventions to construct our News Bulletin
Click on the icon above to hear our link into the news bulletin.
Radio is a continuous medium in which the presenters have to
provide continuity too much dead air is not permissible otherwise
the radio station would lose their audience.
Although the completed bulletin is a continuous FIVE minutes of
audio it is constructed from different episodes with the total
piece. In this example Latoya to handing back to me in the studio.
By speaking in this way we are making this clear to the listening
audience
Meeting the Brief with a Vox pop
Vox Pops are recordings that are taken from a group of people so
we can hear and highlight their thoughts of the question, that we
have asked them. While doing our research on the codes and
conventions on our show, we established that none of the local
radio shows we've looked at didnt have any Vox Pops. This meant
that there was an opportunity for us to use this code and
convention as it could challenge the other local radio news
bulletins into the audience being engaged with a code and
convention they have never heard before.
Here is the Vox Pop we created following from the news item of
me asking questions to our local area on Sadiq Khan becoming London
Mayor
InterviewsWhen reporting a story, we found out that interviews
are generally used when it comes to serious news or when it has
some influence on the local area. An example of this, is when we
decided to use an interview with John Barry, who is the Local
Councilor for St Johns Wood Ward about how our local area would
benefit for children to attend schools there. We felt that using an
interview about a serious issue like childrens future with
education would make the news item more appealing towards parents.
This is because it will effect their children, which will make them
eager to listen to what we have to say. Furthermore, it will
reassure them that the quality of their childs education will be
the best if they attend one of the schools in St Johns Wood.
Here is our first news item, which talks about our first news
item about the value of Education.
Music We used Garage Band (music creation software) and
www.freesound.org to create title music as an intro into our five
minute radio news bulletin. Additionally we used music to introduce
new topics within our radio news bulletin as well as notifying the
reader on the tone of the news item.
Examples of music within our bulletin:
EntertainmentHealthThese two examples show how we have used
music within our bulletin.
Challenge Codes and ConventionsWhen researching other local
radio shows, none of them had sound effects and transitions. To
challenge other local news bulletins we thought we should go from
one news item to another news item without any breaks. An example
of a transition is our second news item (Employment) jumping
straight into the third news item (Entertainment):
I believe that transitions in our news bulletin and sound
effects is effective as I can show my creativeness and ability
towards using audacity.
Transition from news item to news 3
Start of show In the start of the show we used a transition from
continuity announcer to our presenter. This matters as there is a
radio identification being used. This includes saying the name of
the show, name of presenter, time, jingle and jumping into our
first news item which was Education. Here is an example of our
radio identification:
Continuity announcerPresenter (Me)JingleI believe this is
effective because we were able to quote the presenter using radio
identification as we are supposed to give the public of our local
area a reliable and accurate news.
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