NEA SET BRIEF 6

Please note:

1. We will not have our classroom from Friday – Tuesday
2. You need to record your programme live in the radio studio on either Friday and/or Monday (ie at least your presenter to establish an overall structure and meaning to the report)
3. You will record your programme live, BUT you will ‘fly in’ sections of your report (jingle, live or recorded report)

You have 4 days to complete the following set brief. You can work in a small group. You can use the radio studio to record your programme ‘live’, BUT you will need to prepare all of your material first. Recordings will take place on Friday 5th and Monday 8th February. You will need to upload your finished programme as a URL link (ie YouTube, Soundcloud etc). You will be assessed but this assessment will not carry any weighting for your overall grade.

SET BRIEF

Create a convincing, realistic and believable (but not true) three minute audio news package or inclusion within a local radio news programme.
The programme summarises the main national and international news events of the day and features reports on the local impact of national and international news, local politics and events.
The target audience for the news programme are listeners with an interest in current affairs and their local area.
Your news package can be based on any news story that you feel is relevant to the local audience of the radio station. You could select:
• a local take on a national or international news story
• an investigative report on a local political or social story
• a report on a local event.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Three minutes of content (not a second more or less!!)
• A narrator/interviewer/presenter to establish an overall structure and meaning to the report
• At least three different voices: presenters and interviewees
• Some scripted dialogue
• Diegetic sound (which could include but is not restricted to dialogue, foley and ambient sound) and non-diegetic sound (which could include but is not restricted to soundtrack and
voice over) as appropriate to create meaning
• Use of appropriate language and register for the genre and target audience
• Use of narrative codes appropriate to engage the target audience
• Editing and sound-mixing to establish meaning
• Use of codes and conventions of audio interviews and news packages

Start by producing an image and a jingle for your programme. Upload via web based platform

https://soundcloud.com/user-161973945/6-discs-jingle-1-mixdown-1

ASSESSMENT

Indicative content – Non-fiction audio
This is not an exhaustive list but indicates areas that students are likely to cover/include:

• a concept and structure, that is appropriate to the radio feature and that would engage the target audience
• appropriate language and register used throughout
• use of different voices to create interest
• use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound, including original dialogue, music and appropriate sound effects
• acknowledgement of the media industry context

In the top bands, students may:

• demonstrate a confident understanding of the convergent nature of contemporary media across tasks
• use conventions from other genres alongside factual radio to explore a hybrid genre
• include intertextual references
• create complex or deliberately ambiguous representations though the use of audio and technical codes, to subvert the audience’s expectations
• use media language to position the audience in relation to the people, situations and overall narrative included
• convey values, attitudes and beliefs appropriate to the specified industry context.