Introduction to Project 4
PART A – Internet Radio
Go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio
Find three radio stations
which you can listen to their programmes live.
List them below:
1.
1
2.
6
3.
3
What sort of audience
does each station appeal to?
(e.g. fans of a certain
style of music, young people, middle aged people, people interested in
News/Current Affairs, sports fans etc.)
Station 1) Teens
Station 2) 80’s people
Station 3) business people
What are the similarities
and differences between the stations?
Similarities:
They all are music
Differences:
Kind of like the 80’s
They have different genre
Homework
Part B Podcast Terminology
Here is a list of new words that you will need
to use in Project 4. Complete the two missing definitions after watching the
video
Podcast terminology
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Word Definition
Podcast digital
media that have series of video file
Blogcasting a
diary type podcast with regular installments
Podcatcher a
computer program used to download various media
Mediacasting any distribution of podcasts using RSS
MMS Podcast podcasting to mobile phones
mp3 Blog podcasting
single song downloads
Narrowcasting a podcast that is aimed at a
minority audience
iTunes holds the largest podcast
directory
RSS one
of the software programs used to download
podcasts
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Read the following list of Radio production Terms.
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Word Definition
SFX Sound effects (single sounds)
Jingles Theme tune of the station or a short
burst of music
Beds Music that is played quietly under chat,
discussion
or a report
Loops A repeated sound or piece of music (used
for comic
effect)
Crossfades when two separate sounds are merged
together
with one fading out and one fading in
Tracks any song or single
Vocal Effects using effects to distort the voice for
comic effect
Support presenters people who act as
foils or ‘buddies’ for the DJ
DJ Disc Jockey, name for a presenter who
mainly
plays music
Voiceover used when a voice is dubbed over music
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Part C
Choose one radio station from Part A and identify the different use of
the above conventions and terminology. Write notes in the table below
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Convention
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Analysis
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SFX
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They make it sound so distance
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Jingles
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I hear it when they are introducing Station 3
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Beds
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A woman talking while the music played
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Loops
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A piece of classical music is repeated several times
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Crossfades
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When the music played or the man started to talk
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Tracks
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I hear a lot of tracks of classical music
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Vocal Effects
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There is a guy talking like he put effect
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Support Presenters
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The woman who read the news
The man who introducing the music
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DJ
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In this station they don’t have a DJ
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Voiceover
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When the woman talk about the news
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