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.

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!!

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

Sound Clips

-SUICIDE PART, NO EFFECTS.MP3-

This is the suicide part of the drama before editing.

-SUICIDE PART WITH TRAFFIC AND POLICE.MP3-

This is the edited version of the suicide part , we added traffic noises and a police siren. This is too add drama to the scene.

-SUICIDE PART WITH ALL SOUND EFFECTS.MP3 -


- SHORT CLIP WITHOUT FOOTSTEPS.MP3 -


- SHORT CLIP WITH FOOTSTEPS.MP3 -

Some people in our evaluation said that these footsteps sounded like marching , so we had to change them.
- MONOLOUGE WITHOUT BEYONCE TRACK.MP3 -


- MONOLOUGE WITH BEYOCE TRACK.MP3 -

We found the beyonce track on the internet. We had the instrumental version.

- SHORT CLIP WITH FOOTSTEPS AND RAIN -

Production Diary

22nd October
As a group we decided on the plot , we based our story on Katie Price's book "Angel". We decided on the theme and the style. It took a little while as , as a group we couldn't make a decision. But finally we all agreed on a storyline.

5th November

During this lessons me and Steph research the issues in the book , such as depression , rape and suicide. We starting thinking of ideas of how to write the script and how the characters are going to be.

We chose the character names , Roxy , Belle , Joe and Max.

12th November

We started writing out our script for the previous episode we tried working as a group and doing it together but that was very hard, so we decided to do a section individually and then put it all together later.

19th November

We continued writing our script and putting it together , Chris had done loads of work but it didnt really fit in with the style of script that we had wrote , so we eddited it a bit and cut it up and put it in our script.

We then had a read through of our script just to make sure it sounded realistic.

3rd December

In this lesson we had to write out the suicide note , we found this really hard so i suggested that we all write a suicide letter each and then choose the best one. But they were all not that good , so we acted out as if it was a drama and then wrote down what we were saying and then we had our suicide note.

We also made the finishing touches to our script and printed them off , we had another read through.

10th December

Unfortunately the radio recording room was busy this week so we coudn't record so we decided to look at sound effects and have another read through of our script.

17th December

We recorded most of our drama , i thought this was lots of fun. I was the main character , i didn't want to be but the group persuaded me. I thought m group was really good as we put lots of emotion into the script.

7th January

We did last minute recording for the radio drama , we went through it lots of times because we kept messing up our lines. We also had to record a part again because the paper from our scripts was rusteling and it was in the background , so it wouldn't sound realistic. I never realised how much you have to think about when recording as there are so man noise around.

14th January-25th February

We started editing , i found it difficult at first , because we had recorded so much material as we had to keep starting again but after a while i got used to it and we cut it down to 7 minutes and we had it all in order.

We spent absolutely ages looking for the right sound effects , everyone had the same ideas in there head of how the wanted the radio drama to sound , so there was no arguemnts about what sound clip to use. Me and Steph spent a whole lesson looking for the themetune and music for in our radio production. I love Beyonce so i made sure we listened to her so i could convince the group to have one of her songs in our drama. It fitted in well. After that i had the song in my head and i kept singing "listen". Then i realised we didnt have a title for our radio drama then everyone said it should be called Listen!!!