Thursday, 1 April 2010

LISTEN

Photos taken for poster

Roxy and joe , Belle and Max this photo shows conflict!
Roxy and Belle argueing

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

My Radio Poster


This is the poster I have created for my Radio Drama recording "Listen" we decided it would be a good idea to use the people in our A2 group for a photo which would represent the characters in our story. On the right Jess and Chris are standing together, Jess clearly loves Chris however chris has his back turned to her and has folded his arms to show he is not interested.
On the left Me and Simon are standing together, I played in my drama recording so as you can see i appear scared with my boyfriend as I had been raped by Chris's character Max, to show this Jess and Chris have turned there back to me as they have fallen out with me over all of the drama during the story.

I have included the BBC Radio 4 logo and frequency to show that this is a Radio broadcast I have also included the time and date of the broadcast so my listeners know when my broadcast will be on air.

I have also used a review tag from "The Times" these are used to draw listeners in as when a big company or organization likes something the companies fans will be sure to follow there recommendations.

I have also used a caption underneath my title to give the listeners a clue about what they should expect when they listen to the show.

how effective is thie combination of your main product and ancillary texts?


For my radio drama i had to make a poster and radio listings to support my radio broadcast. The poster would be in the radio times and would hopefully attract young people to listen to the radio drama as it has young people on the poster. The radio listings has a radio guide to inform listeners what the drama is about , and to get them to want to listen to it.

I think that this is effective to have other ancillery texts to support the radio drama , as it advertises and informs the audience about the media product.

Sunday, 21 March 2010

What media technolgies did i use in the construction , reaserch and planning and evaluation stages.

During the construction , research , planning and evaluation stages of making my media product i used lots of media technolgies.

FOR EXAMPLE

Indesign





I used indesign to make my tv listings , i found it hard at first but when i got the hang of it i found it simple and easy to use. I used textboxes for my listings and used swatches and strokes to change the colours. Indesign was a good programme to use as it is sometimes used in industry and it was simple to construct the tv listings.
  • Photo Shop


I used photoshop to do my Radio Poster , this was because i found it easier to use and edit the poster. i changed the tint of the background to a more calming orange. I added the text in different font sizes. I did some research on posters and most of them had 1 line reviews praising the radio drama so i added one. I put the radio 4 sign in the corner of the poster , i had to edit this so that it looked more professional.

  • Digital Camera
We had alot of fun taking photos for our poster , i think the end photo was really effective as all our emotions really showed the characters emotion. We took photos with Simon Jess and Chris and ME. Kieran took them , he is good at photography. There was about 150 pictures we took all together but the one we used really stood out and i knew straight away that would be on my poster. Other people in my group used this photo also.

  • Sound track pro

We used sound track pro to edit our radio drama this was a lot easier than i originally thought! i had never used sound track pro , but i quickly picked it up and edited and found sound effects!We deleted many parts of our radio drama and parts we didnt need and bits we recorded ,more than once. We had to change the voice levels. We then added all our sound effects. We all helped with each part of the editing. It took longer than expected and some people from my group had to come in during the holidays to finish editing.

  • Mac Computers

I used Mac computers to do all my research and type up my part of the script.

These media technologies really helped in the making of our radio drama!!





Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Consider the way in which your radio drama represents different social groups

My radio drama represents teenagers as a social group. There are 4 characters in our radio drama.


  • Roxy: Roxy is the main character , she is young adult in her early 20's. She enjoys drinking and hanging out with her friends and her boyfriend.

  • Belle: Belle seems to be a stereotypical young adult , she also likes socialising with her friends and is interested in boys as in the radio drama episode she gets a new boyfriend.

  • Max : Max seems to be a more "Jack the Lad" character , he likes drinking as one scene is set in the pub. he also likes girls and stereotypical thinks Roxy wants him even though he just met her this shows he is arrogant.He also gets aggressive with Roxy when she threatens to tell Belle about the attack he says "If you tell Belle anything i will hurt you so much you wish you were never born."

  • Joe: Joe seems to be a really caring character he doesn't jump to conclusions like Belle did about the attack , he is always there for Roxy and helps her through her difficult time.

Social groups are represented in a stereotypical way