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. 

                         

P1: Explore different types of radio stations

P1: Describe the different radio industry operations

 National commercial radio  

is a type of radio that is mainly made for a nationwide audience as it will mostly broadcast a specific genre of films or music depending on what is "trending", they are funded by their commercials that they make and the absolute radio talk shows that they have, whenever they are broadcasting something it is always a new topic and nothing gets repeated. From the research made the most popular broadcast from absolute radio is the Dave Berry breakfast show, rock n roll football, talk and music. Absolute radio is owned by a group called Bauer and this is a cross media group which means that companies who go across the radio and tv box set which all integrate so that they are able to promote their companies. The most popular magazine has a frequency of 105.2 FM and the name of this magazine is called "kerrang" this magazine is a British weekly which is devoted to rock, punk and heavy metal music which is currently published by wasted talent. Kerrang do not only own a magazine but they also have a tv channel for all their music and their very own festival. their target audience is mostly adult males as it has football adverts for games and other manly content. Here is a clip of the "Dave Berry breakfast show"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0GtsLONvNw 

Here this programme is a talk show and a music station where the presenter gets a celebrity to come in the show and talk about the music they make. this target audience is mostly aimed towards 16+ as the celebrities are in a range of teen pop and some 18 films. their gender is based on who is going to be interviewed , however their music is made for everyone and anyone who finds their songs appealing, for example not many males listen to Ariana Grande so her songs are mostly towards the females. https://www.facebook.com/bbcradio1/videos/ariana-grandes-advice-line-%EF%B8%8F/10156430389916763/ (Ariana grande on absolute radio)

Public Radio

Public radio is a radio station where their content is broadcasted into the public which allows everyone to listen to the news and are able to listen to music too, public radio is funded by the government and they are available online. Some examples of public radio would be BBC radio which consists of BBC iPlayer and a public radio which broadcasts between news and music, they include some of their programmes on BBC radio 1 and Scott Mills talk and some music genre. These are specifically based on the older generation for their entertainment and made for adults too so they can know about the weather or know what is happening in the news. Adding to this is that they are funded by the government so this means that they do not need adverts to get their money as that is what the government is giving them.

Scott Mills on the BBC 1 radio is a male presenter who is 20 years old and his target audience is for men who are over 20 because his content that he shares is mostly for the male gender as he talks about sports etc, his age of target audience is for 20 year olds because the younger generation will not find his jokes funny or they may not be able to understand his jokes or the way he talk about other topics as he does talk about what he was like when he was a child. this programme was compared to the bbc radio shows like the news as it would be a lot more informal as he starts talking about his life and the male lifestyle, whereas the news will only produce content that is current/recent.  https://www.facebook.com/bbcradio1/videos/punny-business-with-scott-mills/2489223174647595/

Regional Radio

The most popular show on regional radio is the "big john at breakfast" this show is presented by 3 presenters 2 males and 1 female and they have a main speaker, it is mainly speech based and they have music in the background. what they talk about on big john at breakfast mainly is to do with what is currently happening and their causes to people in the region. As there are adult presenters the target audience is mainly aimed at an adult audience who are 20+ and is aimed for both male and female gender. they are based on a particular sector of abc 1 families as their events are mainly based on sponsoring people for entering different competition. Adverts will be based on the ABC demographic such as their events regional and adverts from companies that are wanting more profit, as both genders have adverts they would play an advert for males like an aftershave advert and then a makeup advert for the females. regional radio is broadcasted in specific regions as they have a remit to only broadcast specific content like talking about the news and relevant  information. this radio station includes advertisement to fund the radio station but only by talking about lifestyle.

Community Radio

Community radio broadcasts to the local area which is aimed at local areas like Sheffield and they have programmes like film shows and talk shows they also have a very popular one which is the local talent show music show. Adverts aren't used as this is not a profit ran radio show, you are able to access this radio on DAB radio and on online streaming. this is a very niche station even though absolute radio also includes niche programmes. Community radio has all their programmes paired up for example rock n roll and football are both niche genres so they are put together. the type of adverts that the radio station is most likely to be going on would be the business wanting adverts which is aimed at the audience.

There are programmes where they aim to promote new or upcoming artists and we have a look at their music that could be added to the music genres, their target audience is for 16+ , for both genders male and female. this show is only there to boost the confidence of new upcoming artists/ musicians who want the world to hear what they have created and to see If people like their work. they will get a confidence boost while they perform their content and could most likely be found by a producer who is willing to help them become big.

Internet Radio

Internet Radio is mainly based on basic content like basic radio stations, this means that there are only stations online, live radio and gaydar radio are both online based stations which  podcast on Mixcloud streaming service, which used to be a British digital radio station for gay men, lesbians and gay friendly people, on DAB multiplexes in London and Brighton and also online. It was broadcast 24 hours a day, with live programming from 5am to midnight during the week, 7am to midnight at weekends.

Non - Profit Radio

Non profit radio stations are stations that have no advertisement mostly at universities and colleges, a station in particular would be leeds university as they have a student radio station, they have several content that is based by the students who are applying each term. there are talk shows and music programmes and evening based shows which are just for music and late night talks. you can access this type of radio on the internet and in the uni.