Wednesday, 10 June 2015

LO2: Launch Date

The local community radio station in Sheffield which is Sheffield Live have said that we are able to broadcast our own show from the 31st of May to July 1st. Every week we will be planning and gathering content for our show which will be on Friday. We would like our show to be presented around the 12th of June as thats when exams are over and young people and young adults will have time on their hands instead of worrying and revising for exams.

Monday, 23 March 2015

LO2 - Task 3: Analaysing a radio show

Intended radio station / broadcaster

The intended radio station for our radio show is Sheffield live

Target audience 



The target audience for our podcast is aimed for more males than females but it does contains some content for girls as well. The target audience is aimed at teenagers to young adults ( 15 – 25 ). The podcast is informal, which means we can use jokes and make it funny which is more appealing and will keep the audience entertained throughout the podcast.

Content plan

My podcast is about discussions and reviews on consoles like Xbox, PlayStation  and games but also talking about relevant products which help you play that particular game or console. Instead of making it formal and almost might sound boring to some people if we are just constantly talking about the game we have added some funny hosts into the show to talk about funny things happening in the game industry and funny events which have happened to different players. The hosts also play a lot of games themselves so they're able to contribute to different topics which they have knowledge about. We will also be asking questions to some of the local people in Sheffield so that they can get involved and have a say about a specific topic which they want to talk about, we will also be asking questions or asking their opinions on certain subjects which we will bring up in the podcast. As part of our podcast we will be doing a giveaway every three episodes which gives the audience a chance to win games and accessories which we have shown on the show, the audience can have a chance to win by texting or emailing in with a winner chosen at random. 

Running order

Jingle - 30 seconds

Advertisement - 2 minutes

Introduction - 1 minute

Talking about our first game - 6 minute

Interviews with the public about their opinions on the game which has just been talked about - 1 minute

News about up coming games, consoles, accessories, controllers and more - 1 minute

Talking about our second game - 6 minutes

Interviews with the public about their opinion on the second game which has just been discussed - 1 minute

Signing off - 1 minute

Jingle - 30 seconds 

Advertisements - 2 minutes

Script

Script

Advertisement Script

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Intro Jingle

(GTA Soundtrack) G-G-G-AME2FUNNYYPEOPLE

Show Script

<Advertisement>

<Intro Jingle>

Script

Advertisement Script

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With loads of features including upgraded weapons, vehicles, drones, gadgets and deadly enemies with the game designed for iPhone, iPod & iPad.

Find out more today and visit www.gamesfaction.com/stormthetrain.html
Or download the game from the apps store.

Intro Jingle

(GTA Soundtrack) G-G-G-AME2FUNNYYPEOPLE  

Show Script

<Advertisement>

<Intro Jingle>

Dom: Welcome to games2funnypeople my name is Dominic and im here with my hosts Finley and Bailey

Finley: Yo! We’re going to be talking about some sick games, Need For Speed Most Wanted, Farcry 4 and call of duty go check them out on all concoles!

Bailey: What’s up everyone, its Bailey were going to be talking about accessories to help play CoD and upcoming games

Dom: Go check out Most wanted,
(SFX sound of a car from most wanted)
can get this on android, PS3, xbox 360, Pc and wii

Bailey: Check out the new set of rims on these fresh cars like the Bugatti Veyron, pagani zonda and koenigsegg

Finley: Man! Check out all the upgrades you can get from winning races and even losing!

Dom: you wanna know whats bad guys? Cant change cars when you’re in a chase so you could be stuck in a 1 litre and cant get into a fast whip so you can hardly get away

Bailey: Cant wait for the new need for speed!

Dom: Completed it

Finley: It only came out yesterday?

Dom: Err! Moving on!

Bailey: Anyone been on GTA on the new consoles with first person?

Finley:  Yeah but it’s only out for new consoles and they cost a bomb

Dom: Who plays Xbox 360 anymore though?

Finley: You’re joking right? Loads of people! People who don’t want to pay a fortune!

Dom: Moving onto accessories for CoD where we’ve been testing out the new modded controller from rapidmodz

Finley: The controller we’ve received allows you to do a multiple of things whilst in the game, like dropshot, quick reload,

Bailey: quickscope and rapid-fire with the controller lighting up with bullet buttons

Dom: Now, talking about the new Farcry4! We’ve got jack one of our listeners who have called in to talk about his experience of the game soon!

Bailey: The new valley of the Yetis DLC is out now for Playstation and Xbox!

Finley: What’s the story behind it? Is it worth the money?

Dom: It offers a supernatural twist with a threat of massive Yetis with the enemy after a secret in the valley.
Bailey: And it’s only £12 with it offering more storyline and more things to do so it’s worth the money in my opinion.

Finley: Anyone heard of the keys to kyrat for playstation? 

Dom: What’s that?

Finley: it’s where you can give a friend who doesn’t own the game a chance to play co-op for 2 hours.

Dom: There have been loads of patches to the game though for all consoles and pc.

Finley: We have our first caller on the line! Jack! Are you there?

Jack: I’m here! Am I really on?!

Bailey: Jack! What’s your opinion on farcry 4?

Jack: It has a good storyline and better gameplay to the one before, but there’s loads of problems like the stupid hand glider and grappling hook which is bad to use and hard to control. You cant even drive the cars cause the handling is that bad and the shooting accuracy is terrible

Bailey: Driving is easy on the game?

Jack: It’s not! I crash every time!

Bailey: I don’t, use the manual

Finley: Okay hahah! Time to leave it there thanks for calling in jack!

Dom: That’s all we have time for; I hope you’ve enjoyed listening today

Finley: Make sure you tune in next week where we will be talking about more games and doing our new competition

Bailey: Feel free to comment on our podcast online today thanks for listening, goodbye!
<Advertisement>

<Intro jingle>




2nd Advertisement script


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Production schedule



Relevant legal and/or ethical issues

As our podcast is being broadcasted before the watershed we will have to make sure that our podcast doesn't have any offensive material that may be offensive to younger viewers.

Proposed scheduling time

The podcast will be available every Friday at 7:00pm where a lot of teenagers will have finished school and adults will have finished work by then.



Many of the questions which we have asked the local community will be done during the week before Thursday allowing us to decide which we will be including in the podcast on Friday.

Production Process Notes


3 stages

Pre production

Planning

Production meeting

Producers

Script > written

Budget

Equipment

Running order

Music > Permission  (PRS License)

Get their consent if it’s not through a PRS License

Interviews > Questions (Schedule)

Ofcom rules and regulations > harm and offensive > Content is appropriate for under 18s > Don’t misrepresent people > 

Legal and Ethical 

Production 

Broadcasted > Cubase > Adobe Audition

Making content > Interviews

Sound effects > Jingles

Adverts > cue up jingles on cartwall

Music > Playserver > CD’s > MP3

Friday, 20 March 2015

LO1 - Learning Cubase

In today's lesson we will be just playing around and moving different pieces to see what we can come up with so that we can learn the program. 


Monday, 16 March 2015

LO2 - Planning for a talk & radio show

a) intended radio station /broadcaster 


b) target audience 
Time of day: 7:00pm
Day: Friday 
Intended age of audience: The target audience for our podcast is aimed for more males than females but it does contains some content for girls as well. The target audience is aimed at teenagers to young adults ( 15 – 25 ). The podcast is informal, which means we can use jokes and make it funny which is more appealing and will keep the audience entertained throughout the podcast.

c) content plan 

My podcast is about discussions and reviews on consoles like Xbox, PlayStation  and games but also talking about relevant products which help you play that particular game or console. Within the podcast we will be introducing different hosts to talk about relevant content which we have brought up and sharing the knowledge which they have for the games and other things which we will be talking about. We will be asking questions to the local people which might be questions on their opinion on a certain subject which we will bring up in the podcast


d) running order 
Running  
 

e) script 


f ) production schedule 


g) relevant legal and/or ethical issues 


h) proposed scheduling time        

Monday, 9 March 2015

LO1 Task 2 - Analysing a talk and music radio show

Sheffield Live - Communities Live

Communities Live is a show which is shown on Sheffield Live an broadcasted every weekday, on friday 12 pm - 1pm which is presented by Sheffield Live DJ. The show tries to cover anything and everything in Sheffield like events, news and more. The show is produced by Kevin Resley, Dale and Kay, Calum Payne, Paul Gregory and Marshal.


A) Running order

Communities live - Marshall Smith
Friday 6th March

The show starts of like many others with a few advertisements which are used in order to help keep the show running with an introduction of the presenters swiftly following. There are discussions based upon what the audience want a discussion about which could be anything like energy companies for example. There is different music played after one or two of the discussions and other topics which have been talked about which are from local bands in Sheffield with the bands being mentioned towards the end of the podcast about themselves, there music, who they are and any events or gigs which are coming up.

12:00 - Advertisements - O2 advertising bands like Skin deep and stranglers
12:01 - Sheffield taxi advert
12:02 - Rock station advertisement
12:03 - People talking about what they love in the community
12:04 - Introduction
12:04 -  Weather forecast
12:05 - Energy deal discussion topic
12:07 - Big switch discussion topic
12:08 - Music
12:12 - Talking local news O2 academy - Bands coming to city
12:15 - Music
12:25 - Talking more about the big switch
12:26 - David Garlafsk (American actor) promoting healthy living, instillation in the atmosphere in your house.
12:43 - Music
12:47 - Talking about different programmes and his dad
12:50 - Music
12:53 -  Talking about musicians in Sheffield and performers
12:56 - Music

B) DJs / Presenters

The Sheffield live DJ is the presenter and DJ where he is in charge of keeping the audience tuned in and happy by playing music after discussions to keep the audience entertained so that they keep listening. The other producers join in with some of the discussions by giving evidence and facts from both sides of the story which would  heat up the discussion and get the listeners thinking about that topic where they can text, ring or email in where there opinion could be read out if it's a good one.


C) Content

There was a variety of content played throughout the broadcast like different advertisements which included some from o2 academy which talked about some big and upcoming bands/singers were coming to the city to play. There was an advertisement from Sheffield City Taxi's which talked about there quick and easy service and also there was a rock station advertised which also broadcasts on Sheffield Live the next day. There is a playback of what they had recorded before the show of members of the public talking about what they love about Sheffield and why. The introduction talked about the Sheffield Live DJ and what he will be playing in today's broadcast from discussions to music like " I will be presenting you with The chase, Archers, Our saving day which are up and coming bands within Sheffield". There is a weather forecast which they say what the weather was like the day before, today and over the next few days. The discussions are presented after the weather which are based on topics which the audience want walked about which can include all the producers. The music is taken from local bands in Sheffield where there name can be advertised and there music with local news from O2 academy following just after the music of bands coming to the city. They brought in a guest to talk about healthy living where he promoted it and said how it can be applied at home, towards the end after the music is played the bands who music were played are talked about and the band themselves.

The content which was presented in the podcast was mainly talking and playing music with a special guest as well, a lot of classical music being played and many discussions being brought up.

D) Target Audience 

The target audience is aimed at an older audience with the discussion topics often about much older people topics like energy companies with the presenter being formal with an almost boring voice which younger people wouldn't want to think about energy prices whilst on there break at work on a friday. There was some discussions which were aimed at all ages which was talking about eating healthy and loosing weight which is aimed at a variety of different ages with music coming from a lot of younger bands.