PSA

Worksheet – Script

Title: Save the Endanger Animals

Author(s): Jennie, Penny, Alexis, John

Characters:

Jake: John

Sophia: Penny

Caroline: Jennie

Lucy: Alexis

Lucy: We are recording live at AIS school

Sophia: Do you have anything to do this summer?

(Everybody said “NO!!!")

Sophia: Then why not join the Wild Saver Group to save endanger animals

Jake: So? Why should we?

(Everybody said “Yeah”)

Caroline: What is your favorite animal?

Jake: elephants.

Caroline: well then, think this. One day all the elephants will be extinct because people want to take their skin to make things like clothes, shoes… they are all endanger and will be extinct some day.

Jake: Arrr, what evil people. I want to help.

(Sound effect: awww)

Lucy: so what do we do there?

Sophia: good question. We will learn about what causes global warming, make sign about endanger animals, fieldtrip to zoo and do fun activity there.

(Everybody said “I want to join”.)

Lucy: cool, how fun. I’m going to ask my parents to join. This is going to be a fantastic summer!

(Sound Effect: students clapping)

Worksheet  – Running order

Replace the examples below with your own running order of narration, sound effects and music, with start and end times.

Item	Description	Source	Who	Start	End
1	… AIS school	Microphone	Alexis	00:00	00:03
2	Do you have anything to do this summer?	Microphone	Penny	00:03	00:06
3	Noooooooooooooo!	Microphone	All of the group member	00:06	00:07
4	Then why not join the Wild Saver Group to save endanger animal	Microphone	Penny	00:07	00:11
5	Why should we?	Microphone	John	00:11	00:13
6	Yeah	Microphone	All of the group member	00:13	00:15
7	What is your favorite animal	Microphone	Jennie	00:15	00:18
8	Elephant	Microphone	John	00:18	00:19
9	Bla, bla, bla someday.	Microphone	Jennie	00:19	00:34
10	Sound effect	Sound bibble		00:34	00:40
11	So what do we do there?	Microphone	Alexis	00:40	00:42
12	Bla, bla, bla There	Microphone	Penny	00:42	00:50
13	Cool, I want to join	Microphone	All of the group member	00:50	00:51
14	Bla, bla, bla summer	Microphone	Alexis	00:51	00:56
15	clapping	Sound bibble		00:56	00:60

Internet Radio and Podcast

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

Watch this video  http://www.commoncraft.com/video/podcasting

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

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

Read the following list of Radio production Terms.

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

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

Convention	Analysis
SFX	They make it sound so distance
Jingles	I hear it when they are introducing Station 3
Beds	A woman talking while the music played
Loops	A piece of classical music is repeated several times
Crossfades	When the music played or the man started to talk
Tracks	I hear a lot of tracks of classical music
Vocal Effects	There is a guy talking like he put effect
Support Presenters	The woman who read the news The man who introducing the music
DJ	In this station they don’t have a DJ
Voiceover	When the woman talk about the news