Music Based Programming

Staff radio workbook

staff radio questionnaire

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Radio Demo Evaluation

I feel like I have met the unit brief because I have recorded a radio demo that is 20 minutes or longer that is aimed at 16-19 year olds. I have made sure that I have done my audience research so that I have picked music that relates to 16-19 year olds.

There is also a 2 minute news bulletin in my radio demo and the news stories appeal to my target audience.

My strengths on this project were mainly knowing how to use audition and the hardware needed to record the radio demo. My improvisation ability helped out alot with the radio show with some of the conversations that we had on the show.

My weaknesses on this project mainly was my confidence that let me down at the start of the project, but as we continued with the recording I felt better and my confidence was boosted.

My work was suitable for the intended purpose because it fits to the target audience and the things that we talked about on the show related to the target audience.

My target audience was 16-19 year olds that preferred electro music. This meant that the music that was played on the show were from genres like trance, techno, drumstep, etc.

I found out my target audience by using results from a questionnaire on what they enjoy listening to and what they do in their spare time, what they do as a job. As well as where they listen to the radio and if they listen to the radio.

If I had to compare my radio demo to a professional radio show, I would have to say that my radio demo has alot more long pauses and more ums and ahs where I was making stuff up as I went along. If I were to do anything to make my next show sound more professional I would script more of the show so that I don't have to improvise as much as i did in this radio demo. I would also burn all the music to a CD so that I could use CD players to queue up the music. The radio show would also sound more professional if I had put a music bed on under the news so it sounded more news like.

Pre Production Planning sheet

Time planning sheet

Regulation & Codes of Practice

Regulation & Codes of PracticeA) What are the names of the two companies that licence radio stations to play music?□ PPL & PRS            For a bonus point, what do the above acronyms stand for:

B) PPL - Phonographic Performance limited

C) PRS - Performing rights sociecty

D) What else do the above companies collect and distribute for music artists/songwriters/publishers?
-they collect Royalties

E) What would happen if a shop / club / radio station didn’t purchase licences from these bodies and were found out by the PRS/PPL?
-They would be fined and possibly shut down___________________________________________________________________F) What is the name of the regulator of the Broadcast and Telecommunications Industries?

OFCOM

G) The document that sets out the principles, meanings and "practices to be followed” by the Broadcast industries is called the:

The Broadcasting Code

H) Name three of the areas (sections) of the “Code” and two examples of what that section states you cannot do on Radio.1) Section Ten: Commercial Communications in Radio Programming
 - you have to separate advertisement from the main program
-  shouldn't have any commercial references

2) Section One: Protecting under 18's - can't broadcast anything that will impair the physical, mental or moral development of people under 18


3) Section Two: helps to protect others from harm and offence

Assessment [1b]

ASDA FM is the radio station that plays in all ASDA stores in Britain. The people who listen to it dont really have a choice as they can't turn off the radio as it would be played on the speakers
ASDA FM's target audience are people who shop at Asda. this means that their target audience is pretty much everyone who chooses to shop at Asda which would mean that the music must appeal to everyone. The radio would have to play different music at different times as that can determine what people are in the shop at  certain times.
For example they can play songs that are more suited to adults at the time when they think only adults will be in the shop, they can play songs that children might like during the times that the children have just finished school and are going shopping with their parents. so Asda radio plays different music that all depends on the type of people that are in the shop at the different times of the day.
The main purpose of ASDA FM is to use music to make people more relaxed in the store and so they will buy more stuff.