U16, P2: Describe how the sound elements are produced

 

U16, P1 Identify and explain the characteristics of media products

 

Unit 14, M1 Analyse the structure and content of a programme broadcast by a chosen radio station

 Programme Analysis

The name of this programme is called "The Uncanny", Uncanny was first released on 12th October in 2021 and comes on every 6 days on a Saturday. Each episode is 28 minutes long however the into is only about 3 minutes long , the target audience will be for those who want a bit of entertainment or like jump scares. This programme is accessible on BBC Radio 4 on your TV or when you are inside your car and if you have access to a radio.

Uncanny is a factual and has realistic ghost stories for people to listen to, they speak about how these real life ghosts have been causing some issues towards people in the past and what kind of affects it has created towards these people. This podcast is to entertain people as ghost stories do often interest everyone and it is amusing to them, these podcasts will never bore anyone as paranormal activities are always happening. This podcast can inform and educate people as it can give everyone information about ghosts and what you need to know and look out for if they also have any paranormal activity going on they will not be as shocked and scared as they would be as they will have a little bit of knowledge. in 12:23 when he spoke about the door and how it would make very aggressive sounds as no one was there. This is educating as they are bringing real life scenarios into the podcast, in 12:28 a women named Caroline Watt who is a professional psychologist at the university of Edinburgh , Peter Laws tells us that he thinks it could be an illusion that's playing with their  minds like a dream and their physical body is confused , this will educate us as they are giving their opinions and what they think is right as well as what they believe because they have studied this for ages. 

The content this podcast is trying to give off is a scary/horror ghost stories as the podcast is based on a man who doesn't believe in ghost at all and his name is Ken and he cant take in the fact that he has seen a ghost when he was a student in Belfast as in this first clip he was speaking about how some events have happened inside his bedroom and he has seen this situation as "pure evil" and he also tells us that these activities have always happened in room 611. with this you are able to see that as soon as the main speaker has started speaking in the podcast and says "just supernatural or if it can be explained". At 0:51 the music plays in the background and gives us a sense of an eerie atmosphere  as it has a bass playing in the background and due to this they are slowly drawing in the audience as its meant to be spooky.

At 6:03 ken was talking about him feeling a dark presence around him and he quiet didn't understand the reason on why his blankets started to move which frightened him even more and didn't know what to do. while you continue to watch the clip you can hear the music gradually getting louder and louder and this has created an exaggerated/dramatic effect to the audience which will make them think something extravagant has happened or someone is in danger. All of a sudden at 07:11 the music has a sudden stop indicating that nothing has happened and this creates a confusing atmosphere makig the audience question what has happened as they could have been expecting something. the same thing happens again in the clip. there was someone inside an elevator going to the floor ken was in and he found that very unusual and it made him think that someone was after him or going to visit him, however at the same time he felt as if something bad was coming and didnt like the sense of it. At 11:00 the music/sound came back however it is much louder than before and we heard marching footsteps, loud stomps and the sounds of doors being  punched and kicked making the audience feel sick to their stomach as theres so much happening in such a little amount of time.

with the mode of address in my opinion I feel like this show was informal only because Danny and Ken are using their personal pronouns which has engaged the audience to make them feel as if theyre directly talking to them. this makes the audience feel like they are a part of this podcast. ken uses the word "I" a lot throughout this podcast which is his own personal pronoun as it is him talking about the experience that he has been through and makes sure the audience feels comfortable with  him as he tries to not be so overly informal and not too overly formal.

Unit 14, P2 : Describe the focus of a chosen radio station

 Radio 4

Demographics

Radio 4 is notable for its new bulletins and programmes such as "today" and " The world at one" , radio 4 has been broadcasting the "shipping forecast" which reached 150 years old in august 2017. Radio 4 is the most popular British domestic radio station and its recorded that their highest audience was of 11 million listeners. It has been on air since 30th September 1967 which is a total of  54 years. They are funded through everyone's TV license  and are owned by the BBC.

The most listened to radio 4 are people who are age of 56 or over and skews towards an older audience , however their target audience is originally aimed at adults who are between the ages of 35 - 54. This could be because the most watched on radio 4 are the breakfast programmes and one of the popular show is called " The today programme" as it has more than seven million weekly listeners and the third is the radio 1 breakfast show with Greg James.  There is not a specific religion that listens to radio 4 as there is a mix of all the religions who sit at home or wherever and listen to the radio. There are a number of ethnic groups who listen to the radio and the biggest ethnicity group are the Hispanics as 97% of them listen to the radio than the Africans and Americans where only 92% of them listen to it ass they only spend around 20 minutes a week than Hispanics. 

 Lifestyle 

There are many people in the audience who listen to radio 4 that are quite busy people who have to work around 6-8 hours for their shift and they wont always have time to listen to what is going on around the world or to watch the news to find out , so what they will usually tend to do is turn the radio on and listen to for example "The today programme" and this show is a long running BBC early morning news and current affairs radio programme which is also on radio 4. It is broadcast on Monday to Friday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am and Saturday from 7:00 am to 9:00 am. 

Spending power

The BBC is funded by everyone's TV licence. The audience will have a high spending power because radio 4 has been educating alot of university students who have already got their degrees.

Listening Figures

Radio 4's audience have remained at a massive 10.8 million and this adds up to a total of 116,503 hours everyone has spent altogether listening to radio 4, we can also see that an average of 55,675 people listen to radio 4.

BBC Radio 4 Schedules

At 6:00 in the morning there is a programme called "News Summary" which is broadcast and as people will usually have work early in the morning they will need to sort their morning routine out and get ready for work and by having this play on the radio will make it easy for them to catch up with what is going on around the world and their area. this is towards a larger audience because the age range is much older and a lot of people listening to this programme will be working , however there are programmes in the evening such as "pick of the week" which is on around 6:16 and this could be listened for people who are potentially making their way back home from work and are wanting to catchup.