2. Similarities and differences between the opening and
closure of the bulletin
The first difference between the two news bulletins are the jingles length, our jingle is 6 -8 seconds
long whereas the OCR jingle is 11 seconds long; which I think is a little too long and a waste of time
for the news bulletin. Both of them are very well edited and are nicely faded in and out. Both of
them state the stations identity, however the OCR bulletin does not introduce the speaker whereas
ours does. Another difference is that they have a different person speaking during the jingle and the
news bulletin, ours has the same person throughout. The OCR jingle sounds more technical on the
other hand ours is just a beat in the background. At the start of our broadcast the presenter stars by
saying “hello”, OCR does not do this they start of by saying “ you are listening to ..”. Both news
bulletins end in a similar way, OCR ends their bulletin by “that’s the latest I’m Rachel Joe”;
oppositely our news bulletin ends by “I’ve been Ellis Helire Catherall you have been listening to
Oldham community news more in an hour”. The main difference is that our bulletin finishes of by
stating the stations identity and the presenters name whereas OCR’s doesn't. For the opening and
closure of the news bulletin I have learned a lot, I learnt that the news bulletin has to start off by a
jingle which is both relatable and sounds good, it took time to find the right jingle, which was
copyright free as well. I learnt that you had to state the stations identity to the listeners so they are
aware of what radio station they are listening to. If you we're broadcasting the news you had to
speak in a formal tone of voice however this changes if you we’re just talking casually on a talk
show or when interviewing a comedian, this will then change to an informal tone of voice.

3. Similarities and differences between the scripting
of the bulletins
• Before writing the script we needed to learn how to write a
professional radio bulletin script. We learnt construction techniques
such as; the 5W’s and an H, the 3c’s, the inverted triangle and kiss
and tell (keep it short, simple and straight to the point). The OCR
news bulletin uses all of these because these are the constructions to
make a script and we have similarly used these to make our script.
These methods allow the listeners to understand the main features of
the stories. The way OCR has arranged the 5w's is different to ours
this gives it a different flow to the bulletin.

4. Similarities and differences between the
presenters
• The presenter for our news bulletin is Ellis. He appeals to point out
the target audience who are listening to the radio station, which are
the 12-19 years old who are attending high school and college. Ellis is
also from Oldham which gives him an Oldham accent he also has a
young/teen voice which may add a feel to the whole show. The OCR
news presenter sounds like a professional presenter and pronounces
words fluently. She speaks in the same tone of voice for the whole
duration of the show unlike Ellis who sometimes changes his tone of
voice. We learnt and made sure that Ellis performs the 3 word per
second rule correctly like the OCR news present does.

5. Similarities and differences between choice of top
news story
• Our top story was about David Cameron suggesting to cut benefits for
the under 25's. I picked this story because many listeners will be
effected by this news story. The value for this news story is
negative, this is because this change will affect many potential
students in the future. Similarly both stories have used the 5w's to
structure their story. The OCR's top story is about Nelson Mandela
coming out of the hospital. Their story has been chosen differently
and follows the values of continuity and personality. The news story
also has been continued from the previous news story which was
about how he went into hospital.

6. Similarities and differences between the length
and pace of the bulletins
• For our news bulletin we have included 3 news stories, which inform the
audience of a variety of news stories ranging from hard news stories to
sports news stories. The length of our news bulletin is longer than OCR's,
ours is 5 minutes and 6 seconds meaning we have more time to fill, we also
include more interviews and voxpops as well as more information than
OCR’s bulletin which is only 2 minutes and 10 seconds long. This has no
voxpops and no or interviews, just news stories. The OCR news bulletin
includes 6 stories which is double the amount of ours and is performed in
less than half our time. The OCR news bulletin just informs the listeners
about the basics of the news on the other hand ours goes into more detail
about each individual news story. Another reason it is shorter than ours is
because, in between the news stories OCR doesn't have a sound bed to
break up the news stories; whereas ours does.

7. Similarities and differences between the range of
number of stories
• In our news bulletin we have included three different news stories, a
hard, a soft and a sports news story. I did not pick an “of the wall”
story because, the news bulletins I listened to did not include an of
the wall story, they included a sport story instead. In the OCR news
bulletin they similarly include a soft, a hard and a sports news story.
They also have the same layout as ours by, starting off with the hard
news story and then the other two following it.

8. Similarities and differences between the
content of the bulletins
• Content, OCR’s news bulletin includes two specialist reporter
interviews for the main news stories. An example of the specialist
reporter interview is the reporter interviewing David Cameron. On
the other hand our news bulletin contains a variety of; outside
broadcasts, interviews as well as the voxpops due to the fact we had
more time to fill the time gap which was 5 minutes. This resulted in us
getting different people’s opinions.

9. Similarities and differences between the
production values
• We have included a variety of different techniques to produce this
bulletin, the main one is the editing. I was the editor and tried my
best to achieve a professional outcome. I did this by smoothing in and
out the sound bed when needed. We also used specialist equipment
to reduce the sound in the background for the interviews, an example
of the equipment is a squashy. Correspondingly the OCR bulletin has
also been very well edited and has a sound bed in the background.
The sound levels that were recorded independently for the
broadcasts were edited well and both were really smooth and neither
of them cut of too fast.