Audience survey analysis: R15

How to write a good radio script: R14

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/school_report/6180944.stm

From this research task on how to write a good script for radio news, I learnt that it is important to consider the audience of the news report while writing a news script, to consider the length of the entire newscast and how long each report will be. A typical news bulletin is around 2 to 3 minutes long and each report is around 30 seconds. Secondly, if certain words are hard to say, then it would be helpful to write the word out phonetically, and there is certain rule that radio news presenters typically stick to when writing a script. This is the 3 words a seconds rule. thus if a script for a 30 second report is written, then the script of that report should contain around 90 words. When writing my script I will consider these rules and tips, to ensure a sufficient script is written for our radio newscast.

How to be an original Radio Presenter: R13

From this video I learnt that, in order to be an authentic presenter I should present in a way that shows who I am and not who I am meant to be. For example, I could present to the viewers things I like and enjoy instead of things that I should like, for example if I am presenting a pop music radio show, I should recommend and play music that I like, although it may not be pop. Lastly, in order to carry this out should follow the idea “being personal is the key to creating connection” mentioned by Kate Cocker (the speaker of the video). 

How to write a good News Headline: R12

From this video I understand that the headlines that we will be presenting in our radio newscast are extremely significant, as it has the power to invite listeners, but also deter listeners. Thus, from the headline types listed in the video, I may choose the numbered headline, because this implies that there is “valuable, to the point content”(as mentioned by Jesse Forest, the speaker in the video) in the story that will be covered, which I think will increase the value of the story and therefore garner more attention.

Bias in News: R11

Bias in News

Example of biases in news

http://umich.edu/~newsbias/index.html

http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/types-of-media-bias/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_bias

News bias refers to the bias approach news journalists and producers within news in, how news events and stories are selected to be reported and how these chosen stories/events are covered in news.

News may be biased because of government influence, such as overt and covert censorship. Overt censorship refers to open and recognizable censorship, such as military appearance to carry out censorship, while covert censorship refers to censorship that is concealed and not easily recognizable, such as censorship of the internet.  Countries that practice censorship would be North Korea and Burma. News may also be biased due to market forces, for example pressure from companies, such as, if a news company is owned by the company Disney, then news covered will most likely present positive news about Disney. Another example of a market force would be, the preferences of the audience being targeted, for example if an audience consists of mainly females, the news covered will most likely support news on perhaps female empowerment. However, to ensure that such bias does not occur there are several national and international watchdog companies that regulate institutions, such as news institutions and an example of a watchdog group in England would be OFCOM. 

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/covert

Planning images for R15

The first image is of how we planned to edit the videos we took for R15 on IMovie and the last two images are the scripts for the videos we took for R15.

Research on OFCOM R10

ofcom - Kizoa Video Maker

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