Evaluation
The process I went through to
create my radio news broadcast was to begin with , I researched the most
current news on websites such as : www.bbc.co.uk/news
and www.theguardian.co.uk . On these
websites I picked out the most current news and to me what I thought was the
most important. I picked an even amount of sport, business , political ,
culture and celebrity news so that my news broadcast had a wide range of
variety which will suit my target audience of 16-25. The language within the
script isn’t too technical so the younger ages of the listeners can relate to
these articles.
When I was constructing my first
draft I based the layout on an example I had from Radio 1 Newsbeat script, this
example is a conventional news script which most news broadcasters follow. On
the script I noticed that they count how many seconds each news broadcast is
and where you had to write down the duration. To make sure that my news script
reflects my target audience I kept the news broadcasts relatively short, as
younger listeners don’t normally like listening to too much talking on the
radio. When I thought I had finished my
first draft, someone in my class looked over it and gave me some feedback. This
is where I realised that I hadn’t written enough script for the duration to be
near five minutes, I also hadn’t included any jingles or music beds which was
rather important to keep my target audience interested in the news as music in
the background keeps listeners focused to what news is being broadcasted, I also
I hadn’t included audio notes. In order to improve my radio news script I
researched how to include audio notes and music beds within my script, I found
another example of a newsbeat broadcast script and followed the same layout. I
found a few more news stories from my news research and added in these stories
to extend my script.
To summarise my overall learning
from this assignment I was surprised how simple a radio news script is, what I
found difficult was making sure my news broadcast related to the right target
audience. This is where I found out that adding in a music bed helped to keep
the audience’s attention and also keeping the news broadcasts short but
informative. What I should have done better is researched more radio news
scripts as this would of helped me get the best news script to follow and
therefore I wouldn’t of had to make so many changes to my first draft. From
this assignment I have learnt that I should do a lot more research to improve
my final draft.
