The radio play I have decided to analyse ‘The Broadcaster’.As part of my analyses I have to look at what effects and connotations the use of speech, sound effects, music and editing. The Broadcaster.Firstly the use of speech in this play is pretty simple to understand and follow. The storyline in my opinion is quite unusual, but it is a play so it is only imagination. It is also a very strange storyline. It’s about a radio presenter at the top of his game who works in a normal radio station. He becomes very isolated in the studio and because he striving to keep the ratings us but in the end he works himself to much and eventually become disillusioned. It’s quite a wacky story because it’s hard to understand but I think the story is trying to get across that no matter what you do not all things like working so hard is not worth much in the end because sometime nobody listens. The accents of the actors are American, the narrator as well. The narrator in the play explains what is happening quite well, I found it easy to understand what was going on but I think that the narrating needed more explanations towards the beginning as to what the story is about. Personally I didn’t like or enjoy this play because it’s such a random, wacky story.
For the music some of the music in this I thought was quite listenable but most of the songs were old but the play sounded like it was set in the early 60s. Although there isn’t a lot of music that is played throughout the play, but for the main part of the play is speech talking about the broadcaster and him talking to his employers. The music fitted the play well. For the sound effects that are used in the play in my opinion sets the scene. It is used to suggest movement, it suggests activity and it suggests that there is space. I don’t know a lot about editing but the editing is an important part of creating a play, if you have a time slot of say, 30 minutes, then it is good to delete or add scenes. For this play, it could have been much longer, maybe up to 50 – 60 minutes which isn’t any good if you want it to last for 30 minutes, which is what the running time for this play is. So it is good to edit the play and get rid of the material that you think wouldn't be any good.The Broadcaster, it was hard to tell whether there was any editing which is a good thing if you are the producer, you want a play to run smoothly without any problems. So I think that the use of editing has been used to its full effective.
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
BBC Hereford and Worcester Breakdown
http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/whatson/search/daylist.cgi?service_id=50483&DAY=Today
Summarise the weekly programme schedule – who are the main presenters? - what are the dominant genres of programming? Give examples.
This is the schedule is as follows:
05:00 Mike Wyer – Music and Chat
06:00 Howard Bentham – Best start to the day news, sport traffic and travel.
09:00 Tony Fisher – Your show, your life! (Chat)
12:00 Andrew Easton – News, Sport, Traffic and Travel.
15:00 Keith Gooden – News, Sport, Traffic and Travel
18:00 Mike George’s Music – Including Soul Hour
21:00 Rob Underwood – With the late show
00:00 BBC Radio 5 Live takes over.
Till it starts up again, this is an usual weekday schedule.
Summarise music policy – what are the dominant genres of music? Give examples.
There’s a mix of different music from modern hits and old 70’s 80’s 90’s classics. For example through whole of the shows, there is more modern music than I expected. For example, Mike Wyer show is a mix of the old hits and modern hits but with a mix of entertainment chat, lifestyle, leisure and more.
What is the balance of speech to music?
Within each show there is a mix of music and chat, however in some certain shows the balance is more focused on speech than music. The speech my not always be interacting chat with the public it might just be informing public of the news and sport etc. For example Andrew Easton is more focused on current affairs and news and sport latest traffic travel news.
What is the balance of live to pre-recorded material?
From what I’ve notices the mix is more focused on live recordings however, this is not always clear to the listener. But also the main parts of the pre-recorded clips are usually in the news and sport built tins.
How does the station promote itself?
The station dose have it’s own identity within the show so when you listing to the station it will tell you what you listing to and what’s on. Also BBC Radio Hereford and Worcester have a user friendly website which list the latest news, sport, live traffic and travel and lists of the schedules.
On the basis of what you’ve heard, what sort of audience is listening?
In my opinion BBC Hereford and Worcester audience would be of the older generation this is think is because of the mix of old and new music but also because of the domination of other more young and popular stations e.g. like Radio 1. Also having older music attracts older audiences, but also to me it just seems like an older person’s station because one reason is the presenters seem to be older and talk about older more serious topics.
How does the station serve the BBC’s “Public Service” mission – refer to website as well as programmes.
Analyse balance and coverage of news via listening & website – what is the ratio of local to national news?
The balance is quite good and informative because there is news, sport and weather on the hour, every hour with traffic and travel news according every twenty minutes. The balance of the local and national news is usually focuses on the local Hereford and Worcester news. However, for example the US presidential election has got quite a good bit of coverage. Also the website is quite an up-to-date website, regularly updated with the latest news and sport, also with live traffic and travel news.
It is very hard to compare Wyvem FM with BBC Hereford and Worcester because the target audience and format of the two radio stations are completely different. This is because Wyvem FM is a commercial radio station which means that it has advertisements which create breaks in between the songs, also Wyvem FM has an audience that are mostly interested in modern music, with showbiz, light entertainment news, also focusing on a younger audience. In addition; Wyvem FM doesn’t always have presenters just music playing with just the station jingle in between the adverts and the songs, this usually happens during the evening schedule normally after 1:00am.
Jingle All The Way
I have posted for a few weeks now so I've missed out posting about my jingle for my radio station project. I'm still currently working on my jingle but it's coming along okish.
Friday, 10 October 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
