Making the Radio 1 Breakfast Show

What are the different responsibilities of presenters and producers?
Need to ensure they ask the best possible questions to the person they are interviewing to interest the audience, being entertaining. Producers need to make sure tasks or games suit the person. Guests need to be briefed, radio callers need to be spoken to so they knwo what todo. Everyone on the show needs to be told not to swear, mention certain brands etc.


What preperation goes into each programme?
The day before is usually when they decide the routine for the show, e.g. questions they'll ask the person being interviewed and timings. The timings are flexible so they are able to change what they speak about, meaning that they can speak about more recent interesting things if something new breaks. Due to the target audience and people who are being interviewed, they do not need to spend alot of time in creating long in depth questions, instead they need to ensure that the 10 questions they ask, are the best questions they can ask. Constant preperation through their Whatsapp group chat about up coming news. Every morning when the producers come in they need to check social media and news sites to check that they are going to cover everything that needs covering.


Whats most challenging and most enjoyable about working on the show?
Enjoyable- working together as a team, as a 'disfunctional family'. Also finding things that you find funny that could be spoken about on the radio. Being able to play new music, be informative creating a good show. Being able to chose who the people who come on so that they can interview them.
Challenging- meeting the stats and figures of listeners etc. Having difficult guests, e.g. boring with closed answers.


What are the team dynamics like?
The team have to work close together and communicate alot in order for everyone to create the best show for the millions of listeners. Working in a small studio working close together, so everyone has to know what eachother are like (likes and dislikes). Producers ask each other questions to learn new things and new ideas. New producers makes people want to learn new things, in order to make the show better. Music team so that the same music isn't repeated.


How can you break into radio?
Go to your local radio station to get used to how it all works, and to get used to the environment. Contacting people in the radio industry directly, asking for experience without caring about rejection. Taking part in student radio, to get used to it and it can also promote you so that you meet other people who are in the radio industry to give you chances and to allow you to get experience in a range of things. 

Industry Key Word Research

Jungle Book Interview

Interview script:

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Jungle Book Fact Sheet from OCR

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Shirky

2008 Election – Some concern that there may be vote suppression. Video the vote, and document the voting purposes, with citizen observations. To ensure the sanctity of the vote.

Innovation can happen everywhere, and in media, moving from one spot. Largest increase of expressive capability. Only 4 periods in 500yrs where media can ‘revolutionise’.

The Internet is the media which has native supports for individuals AND groups. Media is natively good at supporting this. All media might move to the net, and every medium is available to everyone. Groups which see/hear can talk.

In a way, we can build our own news story. The media used to come from many different places and sources. Now, the Internet can do all of this! Every time a new consumer joins, a producer does too. Reporting as it happened. No choice these days. The media allowed for many different sites during China’s 2008 Earthquake. The great firewall of China, and they can filter the news.

Newspaper Front Page - Meghan and Harry

Plan for daily mail front page:

Interview:

·         Friends since 2005

·         Meghan and Brett – childhood friends

·         Indiana Savannah was her makeup artist

·         Continued speaking since 2005

·         Screenshots of messages

·         Brett – outgoing, manipulated

·         Brett Carpenter, 32, producer

·         Met in NY

·         He is bitter and resentful towards Meghan

·         Indiana Savannah said he should cut Meghan out

·         She did it for publicity and fame

What to do:

·         Small written article

·         Picture – harry looking sad

·         Dramatic, capital letters, bold

·         Celeb story at the side

·         Health story at the top

·         Big headline about the affair 

Evaluation: 
      The task we were given was to create a newspaper front page for The Daily Mail, about the story of Meghan cheating on Prince Harry. The target for the papers front page was mid market, aiming at C1 and C2. The research I undertook was to look at other popular front covers for the Daily Mail, and took note of the things I should include on my front cover, for example, adverts, spoilers and a large headline. I found typical conventions of a Tabloid from looking at my notes and looking at a range of Daily Mail front pages. 

      I used this paper front page as my main source, and the observations I made from this were that they had a large part of the front page as the main headline, then there was another advert up the side. I saw they used The Bake Off as an advert, so i also used it as that showed their target audience they aim at. The heavy font used for the headline created an immediate impact for me so I also used a large heavy font. 

      The areas I found most challenging were deciding the headline, as this is what creates the first impact to the reader, and also creating the layout for the paper was challeinging as it took alot of time to get everything in the right place. My initial feedback for my paper front page was that it has all the correct concentions on it, however it needs a different font for the headline, and also the spacing isnt quite right for the leading article. Other people said the font is the thing that needs editing, but overall I think it is quite successful. From completing this task I have learnt about newspapers that the type of adverts and spoilers on the front page create the first impact it makes on the person who buys it, as it either relates to your preferences or not, which makes the person decide immediatly whether they want to purchase the paper or not.

ASSESSMENT 1A

Newspaper History