7. Representing mainly a student audience Full range of content Not ‘boring’ Easy to follow structure to the bulletin ‘Up-beat’, fast tempo bulletins
8. We represented them through the content used. The style of beds, jingles and stings. The structure and the way we told the news through the style of the anchor and reporters and of course interviews and vox pops.
10. We hoped stations such as Radio 1 would be interested in our genre and that they would distribute it. We feel our bulletin is similar to their current ‘Newsbeat’. However they could benefit from our ideas.
16. As a structure we have an intro then news, then music news, then celeb news, then sport, then finishing with an outro. We used the traditional method of having hard news at the top of the bulletin and the content to generally get softer from there on. Also, we had relevant stories to our target audience, for example driving lessons info. We also threw a couple of peculiar stories in there for the audience to ponder.
18. We used any indents of music to our advantage making it catchy and hopefully liked by our audience. We felt the up-beat rhythm is the taste of our audience of today stereotyping their preferences.
20. We used language that was fairly informal and colloquial so our audience can relate to it. However, on the more serious stories we decided to mould the language to the same level of seriousness. In our script we placed a conversation the anchor has with a reporter in the studio to make it more relaxed and to bring our audience back to the reality that we are just like them.
22. What stood out to me was the importance of levels. I didn’t understand how crucial they were and how fragile for that matter. We had to adjust our production a lot because of this.
23. I also found the software me used in producing the bulletin (Audition) very helpful and efficient.
24. The main thing though was seeing how it all slotted together in the end and how important it was for all the vox-pops, interviews and sound bites we used.
25. At the start of the course I thought it would have been an easier task but also longer. We seemed to use time efficiently however hard we found the production.
27. In my preliminary task I guess I was naive and a stranger to production. I had a vague idea of what was needed to happen in that environment as I’ve always been interested in it but there’s so much I didn’t know
28. I have learnt how important it is to work as a team and how crucial the whole process is. There isn’t one part of it that shouldn’t be fulfilled as this will affect the production as a unit I now take more notes and analyse things further along with approaching things will a full working attitude
40. There was minimal negative feedback. We recognised this and agreed with the fact that our anchor and news reporter spoke a bit too fast at times so our audience could not hear some details
