Evaluation Question 1

1. 1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challengeforms
and conventionsof real media products?
Rebel Radio has used a wide variety of conventionsof radio news. We have
varied our typesof stories and how they are conveyed throughout our
presentation. This is to make our bulletin sound interesting and for our listeners
to enjoy hearing the most recent stories in many varied ways. We developed a
electro - dubstep bed for our bulletin as this is thetype of music our target
audienceis in to. We hope that our audience will listen to our storieswhilst
enjoying the bed placed underneath it.
All bulletinsseems to followa coherent structure. We noticed thisthrough
listening to several radio news bulletinsfrommajor radio broadcasters
ourselves. Examples of stationswe listened to were BBC radio 2 and Capital. We
listened to many different stationsof different varietiesto see if they all
followed a similar structureto presenting news. We found that they presented
news in different ways from one another. Somepresenting it in a funky style
whilst otherstook a more formal approach;but ultimately they all followed a
pattern. We incorporated thispattern into our radio newsbulletin.
Our radio news bulletin takesconventionsof other radio news bulletinsbut
modifies and adapts them in order to make them suit our target audience. The
stories arepresented in a fast-paced manner as they can keep up with that
pace.
Our news bulletin startswith a jinglethat is short but cool. This is to really
enticeour target audienceinto thebulletin. We decided upon thisjinglefor that
very reason. The jinglethen cuts to theintroduction which isvery to the point,
thisis so that the audienceunderstand what's about to happen.
Our first story is presented as a Cue and Voicer. We chose this format as it was a
breaking news story and we had a lot to say about it. We found it imperative
that our target audiencewas well informed about this as it was a shocking
event. Our second story was done in the format of a copy story. This is so that all
the information in thestory could be clearly presented to them in an easy to
understand manner. This was important for thisstory as it was also a breaking
news story that had to be reported on urgently and efficiently.

2. Our third story was told in the format of a back anno. This is so that we could
insert a clip of the manager of Ryde arena speaking. Our target audiencewill be
able to clearly understand theposition Ryde arena is in. Our fourth story was
another copy story with a stab in it. This was just a simple story about an arena
so we chose thismethod as it is themost convenient way to convey the
information.