Sunday, 2 April 2017

Evaluation - Using Conventions of Real Media Products - News

The key part of my radio station show is the news bulletin. I did lots of research into the 5Ws, news values and the ways that news is presented online, in newspapers and on the radio. I went on the BBC News website and finding articles while analysing them. Therefore, I did this because I wanted to get a hint/idea on what news story layout should look like and how I can make my radio news stories more original.


After researching about the 5W's and news values, I analysed a number of news stories online for both local and national news to see the similarities and differences. I did this because my radio station is going to be in a local area, so I wanted to know the type of news stories which would appear. Below is one of the links to my news story which I analysed.


The next thing which I did was that I had to listen to a number of news bulletins on different radio stations being both local and national, to see if the news stories changed depending on the type of genre and the target audience. This helped me when scripting my own stories and deciding what order the stories should appear in. Below is the links to some radio stations I have analysed.


In addition to this, I made a list of all of the conventions that I found in radio news bulletins so that I could use conventions such as voxpops, correspondents, outside broadcasts, soundbites and interviews with experts in my own radio news bulletin. Below are examples of each one of these conventions used in my extract.





Here is my complete news bulletin after fixing the voices, adding the effects and cleaning it up. As you can hear it includes all of the elements that I noticed when researching existing news bulletins from real radio stations.

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