Evaluation
We were asked to create two news broadcasts one for a local
radio such as Metro radio and a National station such as Radio 1.
Before we could record anything we had to research and
decide on the stories we were going to input into each bulletin. The local news
bulletin we decided we wanted to include some local stories and also some big stories
that people will be concerned or interested in such as the Malaysian plane
going missing. We included stories for the Local bulletin like Abbie Kears from
county Durham being attacked by a glass bottle; this was because it is in very
close proximity to Newcastle and is a local story. Another local story was
about a 5 year old girl who had just returned home to Benton in North Tyneside
after a life changing operation is America. Along with this we also had a sport
story about a Newcastle vs. Aston Villa match. We included sport as we wanted
are target audience to appeal to both men and women. However we also included
big stories such as are main headline being about the Malaysian airline. We
thought this would be best to include as many people were curious of what was
going on at the time and was very big in the public eye. This is seen as hard
news so we made the bulletin more upbeat once we added a story about
celebrities where we included the story about Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry
kissing at her concert. We included puns here by including relative words like
Twerking and Tongues.
For the BBC bulletin we decided on more nationwide and
international stories rather than focussing on one particular place. Again we
included big headlines like the Malaysian Airliner, a story on the ‘jobs
guarantee’ if Labour wins the general election and Kelly Gallagher becoming Britain’s
first ever Winter Paralympic gold. These are more national stories because the
BBC Radio One is broadcast across the whole country. We also had a music story
and a movie story. I felt that the stories we included in both stories were
appropriate for both the target audience and the style of broadcast. This is
because they were very new and fresh stories and also were big in the public
eye.
During the recording and technical production we came across a few
problems such as me not being able to pronounce some words like the overseas countries.
However this made charlotte laugh which means we had to redo the bulletin to
make sure it sounded as professional as possible. Also at the time we recorded
one microphone didn’t work so we had to share a microphone which meant we had
to try and position ourselves the same place to make sure that the sound levels
were the same. This mean we could have improved are bulletin by including
another microphone.
When evaluated by the rest of the class are results came out as
average. However I wasn’t bothered due to knowing I could improve due to the
microphone situation. I think we could have made it more professionally by
putting better beds underneath such as a Miley Cyrus song underneath her segment.
I think we could have sounded broader English when it came to the national
news.
We made the news bulletins easy to tell apart as we include a
jingle of BBC newsbeat at that start of the national news. The also fitness of
the purpose was made better in the local bulletin as we found a lot of stories
related to up north at the time. This would have also been the language and
tone of voice we used matched the station.
