Monday, 2 March 2015

RESIT - G321 Coursework Evaluation Question 7

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learn't in the progression from it to the full product?

Overall doing this preliminary and main task I have learn't many things, the main ones I have learn't are working as a team and learning how to edit using software like adobe audition and premier. Doing this has helped me with other tasks for example doing work in my IT class as now I have a better understanding on a wider range of programs.

The preliminary task definitely helped a lot before the full product because it gave us an example of what it should be like and it has given me enough experience that is required for the final product. We made sure we included everything that we did for the preliminary task for the full product but we made sure it was better and more professional. We gathered feedback when our prelim was presented to our peers and we made sure to include there feedback and insert it into our final product in order to make a successful radio podcast that can compete with existing products already available.
An example of the feedback given was that the editing was poor so we made sure we spent more time on the editing so that was the number one priority for making a successful product. I have also learn't how to use a dicta phone and microphone properly so it sounds professionally done. Also I have learn't how to work better as a group and manage time better. The experience gathered is definitely the most important factor that benefited us for our final product because it helped with time management and role delegation because we all new what we were best at.


Saturday, 28 February 2015

28. G321 Coursework Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

The target audience for our radio news bulletin was ages 30 - 69 years old so we targeted middle aged people by implementing local news and providing older music. To satisfy the audience we looked at the lincs fm psychographics as we wanted a very similar news radio to them, we had to interest them with local news and older music. The genre of our radio is factual, we provide them with information on local news by including interviews and vox pop's on local peoples opinions. We included all the essential codes and conventions for example music, jingle, voice and idents.

We had our media teacher listen to our news bulletin as she is in our target audience age, she gave us feedback on what we could improve on and we listened to her feedback and changed some stuff such as a better jingle and sound more professional. Whilst editing we made the news bulletin seem more professional by adding background music and effects on the presenters voice so it sounded more clear and suitable.

We could have improved the news bulletin by listening to other examples of radio stations not just BBC and lincs fm. The more knowledge we have of radio stations and what they do, we could have implemented that into our news bulletin. We could have better audio quality especially with vox pop's. To do this we could have used a better microphone or edited the sound quality by adding effects and removing background noise. If we had more time we could have made a better jingle for the intro and different transitions.

Here's our main task news bulletin which has an interview and vox pop included: