AS Evaluation- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Before even getting down to what ideas I had for my radio coursework I had to be cautious first with the very basic research of conventions with news and media. First I had to look the main five Ws:

1. What
2. Where
3. Who
4. When
5. Why

I then had to understand that news is pretty much detrimined geogriphically and culturally to the audience. This was then where I came to the conclusion that what was "newsworthy" was determiend either geographically or locally

Then I began my research on what kind of radio station I was going for. This all depended on what kind of presenter was conducting the broadcast, what his personalty was like whether it was formal or not. This lead me to another conclusion that this determines the kind of audience which I will later mention about in a separate post. I made research on numerous radio stations and noted down the repitition of media conventions used.

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My first radio task was a preliminary task. I had learnt a lot of vital tasks which would help me create my real radio course work. The key concepts I developed whilst making the preliminary tasks was the sound bites and the editing used. For instance with commentators, their voices tend to have their voices slightly muffled. With the help of these edits I managed to make my preliminary task look authentic. I also learnt the importance of jingles which would help me use a good jingle for my real radio.

To prove my point, in my radio we had adverts which sounded authentic and realistic. For instance, I chose Alex (a man with a deep and solemn voice). This is how his voice sounded without any sound effects. I have also added on the voices of Sam Flitterman and Elliot Soards without editing. If you then listen to the whole advert itself, it sounds more realistic as a car crash and backfround noise from inside a car has been added.