National Analysis 5 - Technology:

This article is about revenge porn being illegal under new UK law.

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5 W's:

Who: Justice Secretary Chris Grayling.

What: There is a new law saying revenge porn is illegal.

Where: England & Wales.

When: Yesterday.

Why: 149 allegation of revenge porn made in the past two and a half years.

News Values:

Immediacy: The law has just been made.

Familiarity: Yes the law has now been made in England and Wales.

Amplitude: 149 incidents took place over the last 2.5 years.

Frequency: Often new laws or amendments to existing laws are brought in.

Predictability: It was inevitable due to the type of crime.

Conflict: The conflict in this story is between the victim and the person uploading the revenge porn.

Personalisation: Yes because the public feel bad for the victims.

Balance: Yes it is good news because the law has been passed.

National News Analysis 4 - Education:

This story is about Ofsted inspecting three Islamic schools in London.

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5 W's:

Who: Ofsted
What: Three Islamic schools are being inspected by Ofsted to see if they are being taken over by a hardline Islamic agenda.
Where: London
When: In the upcoming few weeks.
Why: Inspecting these schools in London due to a Birmingham school which is being faced with a hardline Islamic agenda.

News Values:

Immediacy: The inspections took place this week.
Familiarity: The schools are in the UK making them geographically close to us.
Amplitude: Involves school and a large Muslim community.
Frequency: These unannounced visits by Ofsted are becoming more frequent.
Predictability: This story is predictable because people are always concerned about the standards of education. The reader expects Ofsted reports and due to the increased concern about Muslim extremists.
Conflict: There is conflict between the government and school, teachers and Ofsted and the Muslim community and British government.

National News Analysis 3 - Health:

This article is about how the NHS are going to tackle the medical outbreak of the virus Ebola.

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5 W's:

Who: NHS

What: Handling Ebola upcoming/ current sufferers.

Where: Global

When: Now.

Why: Outbreak of the disease is spreading and the government needs to deal with the disease before it causes more deaths.

News Values:

Familiarity: This story is geographically near to us as the virus has come to England.

Amplitude: Many deaths have been caused by the virus.

Impact: This story threatens people's lives as Ebola is a life ending disease.

Continuity: This story has being ongoing for 3 months.

Negativity: It is bad news.

National News Analysis 2 - Business:

This article is about the Microsoft boss - Satya Nadella, who made a sexist remark and is apologising on national news.

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5 W's:

Who: Boss of Microsoft - Satya Nadella.

What: Nadella made an inappropriate comment.

Where: At a conference.

When: N/A

Why: N/A

News Values:

Amplitude: Caused outrage on Twitter.

Conflict: Many women were offended by the comment Nadella made as it was sexist.

Elite People: This article is about a famous business man - Satya Nadella.

Scandal: Yes the article has caused moral outrage via the internet. 

National News Analysis 1 - Politics:

This news story is from the BBC website. The story is about The Labour Party having more cut-backs due to migrants.

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5 W's:

Who: Brooks Newmark.

What: Quits his job as an MP.

Where: United Kingdom.

When: Last month.

Why:  He felt like he'd been "battling demons."

News Values:

Familiarity: This story is geographically near us as he is a British MP from Braintree, Essex.

Elite People: The story does contain an elite person. 

Frequency: It's becoming quite common for MP's to resign if they've been involved in a scandal.

Predictability: It was inevitable he was going to resign after being caught out on sending X - rated pictures to a journalist.

Continuity: The story reports fresh allegations from an incident that has already been reported.

Conflict: There is inner conflict with Newmark and his family and an outer conflict with Newmark and the public as well as his Party Leader.

Negativity: It is a negative story because Newmark is in a position of power and has the public's trust and has broken it.

Scandal: This man is an MP sending nude pictures which doesn't reflect well.

News Analysis Introduction:

The main part of my AS local radio show will be the news bulletin. In order for my news bulletin to have the key elements of local news stories I will be comparing 10 local news stories and 10 national news stories from the BBC website as well as from other news websites. For this assignment I will be analysing the news values as well as the 5 W's which are represented in each story. Although a news article is different to a news story on a radio show I feel like this task will help me with writing a news story which grabs the audiences' attention.

I will be looking at 10 different genre news stories from local and national news. I will be picking 10 of these genres.

Politics
Business
Health
Education
Technology
Sport
Disaster
Entertainment 
Celebrities

Crime
Environment

Local News

National News

The 5 W's:

The 5 W's is used in almost every article in a newspaper. It is used by journalists as a formula for getting the "full story." They are usually at the beginning of an article. 

This is done for two reasons:

1: To grab the reader's attention so they continue reading on.

2: If the article needs to be cut down the 5 W's won't be cut out of the article because the vital information (5 W's) will be at the top of the article.

In the following post I'm going to use 5 random examples from different news stories from the BBC.

WHO is it about?

WHAT happened?

WHERE did it happen?

WHEN did it take place?

 


WHY did it happen?

This is an example of a newspaper article including all the 5 W's:

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News Values:

News values are the factors defined by Galtung and Ruge that help to explain how journalists and editors decided that certain news stories and images were accepted as newsworthy, while others were not. While they applied these factors to news stories in newspapers, they can also be applied to radio news bulletins. The list of news values below is adapted from their work.

Immediacy: Has it happened recently? Is the story "breaking"?

-This often pushes the news stories to the top of the news bulletin.

Familiarity: Is it culturally or geographically close to us in London/ Britain/ Europe/ USA?

-This is one of the most important news values when it comes to local news. It determines on what gets chosen to be on the news.

Amplitude: Is it a big event or one which involves large number of people?

-The more people the story effects the higher up the story will be on the news bulletin.

Frequency: Does the event happen often?

-The kind of event determines how high up the story is on the news agenda. I suspect that frequency is least important out of the news values.

Impact: Can we identify with the story as having a profound effect on our own lives? Does the story contain elements that would make us feel threatened?

-If individuals are going to feel personally effected or moved by the story, news editors see it as more important because the readers make a connection with the story. If the story causes concern for the reader we are more likely to read the article.

Predictability: Did we expect it to happen?

-If the reader predicted the story, then the story will be less likely to be pushed up the news agenda. As the reader suspected it was going to happen, it's not shocking, therefore other breaking news stories will appear higher up the news bulletin.

Surprise: Is it an unusual or unexpected event?

-This is likely to make the story higher up on the news bulletin. Often 'breaking' news stories have news value of surprise.

Continuity: Has this story already been defined as news? Is it part of an ongoing or long-running story?

-This generally means that once established as a story it will be further down the news bulletin. Some time, immediacy and continuity can be in the same article. If there is a new development to a story which pushes it up the news bulletin.

Conflict: Does the story contain drama in describing disagreements arguments fights or battles between two or more people/ organisations?

-Most stories contain conflict. This doesn't have to be physical it could be a verbal battle or conflict of ideas, policies. It doesn't have to between individuals it can be between for example political parties.

Elite People: Does the story concern well-known people, such as celebrities?

-Anyone in the public eye (politicians, celebrities, high-powered people.) Once an elite person is in a news article the story goes higher up the news bulletin. 

Personalisation: Is it a human interest story?

-If the story moves the reader emotionally and people can connect with the story, the higher up the article will be on the news bulletin. This is one of most important news value.

Negativity: Is it bad news?

-Most news stories will have this news value.

Scandal: Is the story likely to provoke moral outrage from parts of the audience? 

-A good example of this would be someone in a position of power, abusing their power.

Balance: The story may be selected to balance other news, such as a human survival story to balance a number of stories concerning death.

-Good news stories are mostly used toward the end of the news bulletin to balance the bad news.

Preliminary Task Evaluation:

I used the college's sound effect library to choose my sound effects. I used a programme called Adobe Audition 1.5 To record the sound I used a microphone called Shure SM58 through a PC using a Mackie Mixer.

Adobe Audition 1.5

Mackie Mixer

Jingle Actor speaking into microphone.

Microphone - Shure SM58

Below are the techniques I used and the skills I learnt through completing my preliminary task:

• To introduce the Jingle I used a whoosh effect. 
• To make recording radio easier I recorded Matt's, Yossi's and Rafi's parts separately to reduce risk of error. 
• In addition I could also spend more time to ask the actor to repeat their lines if they made a mistake. 
• I took out mistakes by zooming into the audio and deleting any mistake and unwanted sounds like heavy breathing and stuttering. 
• I cut and pasted the lines together to make conversation. 
• I added a short/ slight delay effect to make the jingle-actor's voice seem more electronic (fatter) which is an effect commonly used on radio jingle's. 
• I learnt that I should take more time directions the actors' reading the lines so they have the right tone and performance. 
• For example, the actor for Mr M should have raised his voice so it sounded like he was speaking over the loud crowd. 
• For the crowd sound in the archive clip, I was able to fade in new sounds over existing ones for example the cheer at the end of the acceptance speech I used an adult audience mixed with a younger female audience cheering from a pop concert. 

• I used the multitrack option so I was able to layer sounds alongside each other for example the whoosh sound effect and Rafi's voice for example. The following sound file concludes my point.

I added compression which is used in all kinds of mixing as a way of balancing the soft and loud sounds so that it makes everything audio sound 'louder.'

Preliminary Task:

This is my finished preliminary task. I finally finished the editing and am really pleased with the final product. In the following post I'm going to do an evaluation and then will start planning for my main task.

Potential music tracks and sound effects for my Preliminary Task:

I have finished my script for my preliminary task. Now I am going to organise recording and editing in the next few days. Ahead of this I have gathered together the following music and sound effects that I might use in my jingle and archive clip featuring Mr. M.

I have gathered the following from the BBC Sound Effects Library.

Station Jingle:

I used the combination of the following two sound effects for the station jingle. The reason I used this effect is because it gives the audience a feeling of being immersed into the jingle. The whoosh sound effect is enhanced which the audience aren't accustomed to on a daily basis, therefore, creating a sense of excitement.

The following sound file is the full jingle including sound effects:

Archive Clip:

I used a combination of three different crowd's cheering and used the multitrack feature on Adobe Audition 1.5 to mix the sound files together. This created a more realistic and energised sound effect of a crowd cheering for Mr. M. 

The following clip is the full archive clip of Mr. M's acceptance his grammy for being picked best teen performer.

Script for Preliminary Task:

This is my script for the preliminary task. I have created a name for my radio station, used different sound effects and chosen three people to act out the parts of Mr M, the Presenter and the Jingle. The radio station genre is music, playing contemporary pop (similar to Capital FM). The archive clip features a world famous rapper - Mr. M who is on the show to talk about his 10th anniversary of being picked best teen performer. The archive clip is his acceptance speech at the Grammys.

Jingle: (sound effect - whoosh) Pop-FM on 98.3  bringing you popping tunes!

Presenter (Matt): Welcome to Pop-FM, I've been waiting all week for this! I'm hyped up to introduce the world famous rapper, the one and only Mr M. How are you today Mr M?

Mr M (Yossi): Sup Andrew

Presenter (Matt): We're here with Mr M to congratulate him on his 10th anniversary of being picked the best teen performer, as well as winning the grammy awards way back in 2010. Lets go back in time and listen to when you won your first grammy award for the album 'The Real Mr M.'  

Mr M (Yossi): Ooo well this will be a blast - let's do it!

Archive Clip:

Mr M (Yossi): (cheering sound effect) wow.. watup..okay this is crazy.. thankyou (cheering sound effect dies down) um thankyou - first off I'd like to thank the producers and everyone who put this together - and thankyou to the fans for all the support - and a whopping thankyou to my mother who I would never of been standing here without her today - watup detroit stand up!

AS Media Coursework - Brief:

This year during my AS Media course I will be researching, planning and producing an extract from a local radio show. My extract will contain a news bulletin (including conventions such as outside broadcasts, specialist reporters, news jingle, news music, sound bites, vox pops) and also jingles, adverts and different presenters. 

First I am going to script my preliminary task which will include the following:
-a jingle

-a presenter introducing a guest

-the guest responding

-archive clip featuring the guest