As a group we intended to create a broadcast that would overall inform, educate and entertain in regards to the BBC – correlating to the BBCS ethos. We will address the BBC’s history and identifying how it has both positively and negatively affected people in Britain. We intend to discuss our thoughts and opinions on the BBC as a media platform including its radio, websites e.g. BBC Bitesize and its television (Live and iPlayer). Furthermore, evidence will be provided to support our judgements such as statistics on audiences and information around presenters. As a group we wish to address the current BBC and the future BBC including information on the government’s plans to improve it e.g. removal of TV license tax in order to attract more/maintain views.
Moreover, we will include two songs to begin and end our broadcast which will be ‘The Chain – Fleetwood Mac’ and ‘Waterloo – ABBA’. These songs we chose due to them being songs we like and we have freedom to express ourselves in the radio broadcast.
For our radio production, we will be going through the BBC’s history and identifying how it has both positively and negatively affected people in Britain. We will also be discussing some of the key broadcasts the BBC makes, such as Doctor Who and the World Cup in Qatar. We will be referring to Todorov’s theory of a beginning middle and end with the systematic structure of our program. We will do this by separating our key topics with music closely intertwined with the BBC e.g Gorillaz, Dizzie Rascal and Arctic Monkeys (British bands) to ensure we have breaks to figure out how to talk next. There will also be references to Levi-Strauss’ theory of binary oppositions, with Jayden often being the voice of reason and attempting to gather balanced opinions from the rest of our group, and Rohan and Ben often giving strong informed responses
In evaluation, our program was not as focused on the BBC as we would have liked. Overall, this simply came down to not enough preparation being made for the show and running out of ideas to talk about. In addition, Kai and Xavier did not talk as much as the others, and if I were to do this again I would ensure we had a full plan ready and make sure everyone was involved as much as possible.
As a group we intended to create a broadcast that would overall inform, educate and entertain in regards to the BBC – correlating to the BBCS ethos. We will address the BBC’s history and identifying how it has both positively and negatively affected people in Britain. We intend to discuss our thoughts and opinions on the BBC as a media platform including its radio, websites e.g. BBC Bitesize and its television (Live and iPlayer). Furthermore, evidence will be provided to support our judgements such as statistics on audiences and information around presenters. As a group we wish to address the current BBC and the future BBC including information on the government’s plans to improve it e.g. removal of TV license tax in order to attract more/maintain views.
Moreover, we will include two songs to begin and end our broadcast which will be ‘The Chain – Fleetwood Mac’ and ‘Waterloo – ABBA’. These songs we chose due to them being songs we like and we have freedom to express ourselves in the radio broadcast.
For our radio production, we will be going through the BBC’s history and identifying how it has both positively and negatively affected people in Britain. We will also be discussing some of the key broadcasts the BBC makes, such as Doctor Who and the World Cup in Qatar. We will be referring to Todorov’s theory of a beginning middle and end with the systematic structure of our program. We will do this by separating our key topics with music closely intertwined with the BBC like Gorillaz and Dizzie Rascal (British bands) to ensure we have breaks to figure out how to talk next. There will also be references to Levi-Strauss’ theory of binary oppositions, with Jayden often being the voice of reason and attempting to get other opinions from everyone else.
The idea of intimacy, which is in almost every broadcast and narrowcast will also be in ours. With use of an informal register and selective use of pronouns will be able to construct this same intimacy between presenter and listener. Radio is either a broadcast or a narrowcast depending on the size of the audience, for ours we expect our live audience to be 10-20 so this would be considered a narrowcast.
For our radio production, we will be going through the BBC’s history and identifying how it has both positively and negatively affected people in Britain. We will also be discussing some of the key broadcasts the BBC makes, such as Doctor Who and the World Cup in Qatar. We will be referring to Todorov’s theory of a beginning middle and end with the systematic structure of our program. We will do this by separating our key topics with music closely intertwined with the BBC e.g Gorillaz and Dizzie Rascals (British bands) to ensure we have breaks to figure out how to talk next. There will also be references to Levi-Strauss’ theory of binary oppositions, with Jayden often being the voice of reason and attempting to gather balanced opinions from the rest of our group, and Rohan and Ben often giving strong informed responses.
In evaluation, our program was not as focused on the BBC as we would have liked. Overall, this simply came down to not enough preparation being made for the show and running out of ideas to talk about. In addition, Kai and Xavier did not talk as much as the others, and if I were to do this again I would ensure we had a full plan ready and make sure everyone was involved as much as possible.
For our radio production, we will be going through the BBC’s history and identifying how it has both positively and negatively affected people in Britain. We will also be discussing some of the key broadcasts the BBC makes, such as Doctor Who and the World Cup in Qatar. We will be referring to Todorov’s theory of a beginning middle and end with the systematic structure of our program. We will do this by separating our key topics with music closely intertwined with the BBC e.g Gorillaz and Disney Rascals (British bands) to ensure we have breaks to figure out how to talk next. There will also be references to Levi-Strauss’ theory of binary oppositions, with Jayden often being the voice of reason and attempting to gather balanced opinions from the rest of our group, and Rohan and Ben often giving strong informed responses.
In evaluation, our program was not as focused on the BBC as we would have liked. Overall, this simply came down to not enough preparation being made for the show and running out of ideas to talk about. In addition, Kai and Xavier did not talk as much as the others, and if I were to do this again I would ensure we had a full plan ready and make sure everyone was involved as much as possible.
For our radio production, we intend to create a radio show where we discuss a hundred years since the creation of the BBC, discussing media theorists and how they relate to the BBC.
I intend to create an hour long radio show which talks mainly about the BBC but also recent events. The show will include 5 speakers and will also play music throughout the hour. The show will also be recorded and then uploaded to soundcloud.
Crissel sets out four main categories for Radio: Words, Sounds, Music and Silence. Our show will likely include all but sounds, a lack of experience with presenting a radio show implies we will likely not include the convention of non-diegetic sound but rather focus on Words, music and silence. Silence will be used as time for thought as the show isn’t scripted or a reading the speakers will need time to think a response or a new topic of discussion. We will play music which a likely audience will be familiar with, as the main topic of discussion is the BBC we will expect viewers to be British so playing music such as ‘Gorillaz’ and ‘Dizzie Rascal’ listeners will likely be familiar with the music.
Radio is chronological and linear, our show will also exhibit this to prevent confusion to the listeners, by doing this we allow the listener to easily follow the narrowcast and conversation. By making radio linear we could relate it to narrative theory when trying to de-code radio and its meaning, because of this radio is also reliant on editing techniques. Editing techniques such as the fade will be present in the narrowcast and will therefore help construct meaning. To relate to Stuart Halls Encoding and Decoding model it can be seen that we (the presenters) encoded messages for the audience to decode, these messages however could’ve been decoded differently to how we intended.
The idea of intimacy, which is present in almost every broadcast and narrowcast will also be present in ours. With use of an informal register and selective use of pronouns such as ‘you’ ‘I’ ‘we’ we will be able to construct this same intimacy between presenter and listener. Radio is a flexible medium and is either a broadcast or a narrowcast depending on the size of the audience, for ours we expect our live audience to be 10-20 so this would be considered a narrowcast.
