The Evaluation

During the construction of our show me and my group had to make many decisions that required deep thinking. One of the decisions was to choose the right person for each role. The roles we had to present were being a presenter, an educational reporter, an entertainment reporter, an interviewer and a continuity presenter. We chose the person with the strongest and clearest voice to make the overall show strong. The strength of choosing the person with the clearest voice to be the presenter made our show have a stable consistency.I included below an example of the presenters voice: 


However, there was a little problem with this choice. This problem was that other members of the group who don't have as clear and loud voices would get a little part to present, this makes it sound like it is only one person talking the whole time when we know it's not. Eventhough the members of the group spoke less they spent more time editing, so all of us had equal amount of work to do to make it fairer and make everyone participate in the making of the magazine style radio show.

The interview I had with the worker in the DVD store in Maida Vale, which was aimed at people who like movies and listening music, sounded uninteresting and dreary. Therefore I decided to add background music as the interviewee talks. This made it sound engaging and enjoyable to listen to. This sound effect gave the interview a suitable atmosphere as the woman was talking about the DVDs.I found the background music from 'http://www.freemusicarchive.com/' the song was called "Tosca's Afternoon Party" as shown below:

In our radio show we decided as a group to add sound effects after or before a reporter or presenter speaks. For example the playground noise before our educational correspondent begun to ask. We did this to make it conform with genre of magazine style radio show, as it is supposed to be entertaining as well as educational, so by adding these sound effects we get a more interesting radio show.

To understand the genre of magazine style radio we as a group agreed on undertaking individual research into other radio programmes. At first we found it difficult to find a radio show which used all codes and conventions of a magazine style radio show as all shows I listened to were moving away from the typical codes and conventions.

However, after researching for a while I found a website which had many magazine style radio shows that helped with the making of our show as it gave ideas of what to use. This is the website we used: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/programmes/genres/factual/player/episodes 

To make a radio programme we had to know who our target audience are. So therefore we had to do some research into our target audience. As a group used two primary research techniques observations and semi-structured interviews  on the streets of Maida Vale. This helped loads because we then had an idea of what to talk about in our show and what the news and topics would be.

There were few codes and conventions we had to keep in mind while constructing our radio show, and these are:

• Including a jingle and intro music

We added a jingle and intro music to separate the different parts of the radio show as it is a magazine style radio show it contains completely different topics, so it is important to let the audience be aware of the change that occurs in the show. A presenter is like a leader.

• Presenter

A presenter is very important in a magazine style radio show because the presenter starts off the show and ends it, the presenter also introduces the different topics in the show. All magazine style radio shows have a presenter.

• Variations in topics

One of the most important code and convention of a magazine style radio show is having/presenting different topics in the show. This important because it helps to put the show together and build it up. In our radio show we had about 3 topics that we spoke about in detail with interviews, OB and Vox Pops.

In the planning of the radio show there were few weaknesses and strengthens in our group. The strengthens in our group was being able to communicate with each other and come to a decision easily. However, we were not able to produce a plan that we would stick to during the construction of the radio show, but instead we decided to take responsibilities for different jobs during the construction of the radio show, this helped us finish our radio work quicker than we expected. In our group we had few disagreements on some of the decisions made by the members of the group, but we tried our best to make the right decisions that every member of the group would agree with.

  

o   After getting the radio show done, as a group we had to collect audience feedback from the age group our show was aimed at, in this case it was aimed at adults mainly living in Maida Vale because our show explains many thing about Maida Vale. I played my radio show to two adults living in Maida vale, I recorded their responses.

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I  I think I  met the BRIEF successfully because overall we managed to produce 4 minutes of varied content.In the first 15 seconds of the radio show the continuous presenter says the time and the show up next. The intro music starts and then the presenter starts to present the 3 different topics in the show that suits the genre of the magazine style radio show. The way we organised each topic is by adding a bit more detail to each TOPIC by adding sound effects. This was appropriate and effective for my target audience because it grabs their attention while the radio show is playing. We added more 2 interviews, one interview was on Maida Vale streets and the other one in a CD store in Maida Vale . I also added OB and Vox pops in our show to make it interesting for people to listen to especially our target audience, who are adults living in Maida Vale.


l To be able to understand the concept of institution, you can do two things and one is through the radio industry's website like BBC radio and  the other is by  how creative the team worked as group. I recorded few radio shows to prove that I have listened to some and understood the codes and conventions of magazine style radio shows. This helped each member of the group to think in a creative way and be able to produce a high quality magazine style radio show.

  Overall, I am very happy with the work we produced as a group and I am very confident that it fits the genre of magazine style radio show and is suitable for the target audience.