Evaluation

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.