News Programme Evaluation
When making my news programme, in the planning stage I
researched different forms and conventions of a local news radio programme.
When making the final
product I aimed to include all of the forms I’ve researched. Including outside
news reporters, witnesses or opinions from the members of the public on a
story, two different opinions to represent the different views on a news story
were also taken into account when recording the news programme. I also made
sure that when presenting a news story or when the outside reporter was giving
their report, that the story contained evidence to back up certain information.
For example, in the story about Manchester United, I made sure that I include
the responses from the club’s manager as the evidence to the rest of the story.
I had to do the same
to the main news story of the programme as it also included opinions of the
Director General of the BBC, so I had to make sure that I included them in my
programme as evidence.
Another form of a news
programme that I had to make sure I use is of course for the presenter to be impartial
in regards to the stories on the show.
Another form of a
local news programme that I had to insure I follow, is for the programme to be
related to the local area. Therefore, the radio station the programme was made
for was named Hereford Radio. Also, since the stories weren’t from a local
area, I decided to interview people from the local area on a specific news
story and get their opinions.
In my original plan,
the main news story was intended to be from the local area. However, in the
final product, the stories were not from the local area, however, one of them
featured views of the locals.
Originally I planned to have witnesses for a certain
news story, however, for the final product I decided to just include views of
local residents for one of the news stories.
However the rest of
the plan for my news programme, the radio beds, pop music instrumentals to
relevant stories went as planned.
The feedback I got
from my audience to the first draft of my news programme was really helpful.
The one great advantage of getting feedback from someone who’s a first time
listener to your product is that they’ll find things that need to be improved
quicker than the creator of the programme. Also I was told about the things I
need to change that I didn’t realise when I was making the programme, after
making these changes I also realised how effective the feedback was, because
the news programme sounded much better and more professional after the
suggested changes were implemented.
I’d say the main
things I learned from my audience feedback which I could use not only for this
piece of coursework but for future projects are:
That someone who is
listening to your programme for the first time can spot errors and areas for improvement
quicker and easier than the creator of the show.
Also I learned that I
need to work on my planning so that the show does not exceed the time limit.
Overall the audience
feedback has been very helpful and I made changes to the programme that I
didn’t know were needed until they were pointed out by the audience themselves.
Other pieces of
feedback included the volume levels of the voice recordings and the radio bed,
the volume of certain people recorded was louder than the person who was
interviewing them. Also some responses were shortened because of the feedback I
got suggested that they were unnecessary. After changing the responses
mentioned I found out that some of the responses did in fact need editing. This
I believe made my news programme sound more professional and realistic.
In conclusion I learned
that audience feedback is always much better and gives you much more to improve
than you initially expect.
I
used lots of different technology to research and produce my news programme.
I
used the internet to research different news stories for my show, using various
news websites.
To
record the presenter parts of the news programme, I used Soundforge in
combination with an audio CONSOL in a recording studio.
To
record any outside content, like the recordings of members of the public as a
part of one story on the programme, I used the Voice Memos app on my iPhone.
The microphone wasn’t always the best when recording outside, however it was
good enough with some audio editing applied afterwards.
To
edit and put the whole news programme together, I also used Soundforge.
With
SoundForge I also created the different materials for my news programme,
including the radio beds and other sound effects.
To upload my news
programme to my blog I used an Audio Boo account which allows you to upload up
to 10 minutes of audio onto the internet. I used this service as Blogger does
not allow users to upload audio.
