PLANNING 3 - My Newscast Story

MY NEWSCAST STORY:

Well my news cast story is a hard news story and is about a London school called Harris Academy Upper Norwood which bans pupils from using slang words such as ‘innit’, ‘like’ and ‘bare’.

On top is an image of the other words that they are banned to speak of.

MY FEATURE:

When doing this story I will be covering it by doing a ‘vox pop’ which is when I go out and talk to the public but mainly to my target audience which is teenage girls and ask a quick question and listen to their quick views on this specific topic. The question that I want to ask is ‘Do you think the teenagers in this school are limited in their freedom of speech?’ I chose this question because it relates back to the teens in the audience for Fashionistaas.FM and includes the issue of not being able to use slang words, especially in an area like East London where slang is used a lot. 

MY ANGLE:

The angle that I have chosen to do this story at, is to teachers in the tower hamlets borough because I would like to see their views on whether they support in these kids not being able to express themselves in school or whether they think it is a good and methodical way of getting children to have a better vocabulary. I have also chosen to aim it at college students because I want to hear their views of how they would feel if they were in that position of these children, because some students may think that it is a good way of preparing for formal situations in the future.

Overall, when doing this I will be with my team mates because that way I will feel less uncomfortable when talking to the public and they can take images for the blog while I record so that I can use it as evidence. I chose to do this story because I believe that this is a good hard news story that can relate to our target audience and makes them want to see the different point of views of what people think on the issue. I also chose this because I found it interesting on how different it is to schools here in East London where there is more freedom and that students like me are welcome to use any word possible.

Sources: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/15/london-school-bans-pupils-slang-innit

PLANNING 2 - Our meeting about our ideas

THE PLANNING FOR OUR IDEAS TO BE PUT ON OUR LOCAL NEWS CAST.

PLANNING 1 - Audience Profile

AUDIENCE PROFILE

This is an example of an audience profile for a radio listener.

Demographic: This defines the adult population largely by what work they do.

Gender: Female

Age: Teens (16)

Demographic: E (Unemployed, student.)

Religion: Islam

Education: 6^th form/College. Studying A-Levels.

Occupation: Unemployed

Marital Status: Unmarried!

Income: Bursary (£119.00)

Nationality: Bangladeshi

Psychographic: This is the way of describing an audience by looking at their behaviour                                            and personality traits.

Psychographic label: Aspirer

Desired lifestyle: Somewhere on the lines of textiles and art, perhaps an event planner or decorator.

Media Interests: Soft News about celebrities and fashion, although she does consider knowing about serious matter. So generally, a bit of everything.

Loyalty to bands/buying habits: Enjoys buying material possessions such as clothing, accessories, pretty stationary and anything that related to her music idol.

Likes: Spending money that she has rightfully earned, but likes to save her money too. Loves anything fashion related especially autumn/winter related clothes. She also likes keeping up to date with her celebrity idol, Chris Brown and junk food of course. Also likes being creative and spending time with her friends and family & being organised.

Dislikes: People with bad attitudes, anything crime related especially towards old people and babies, people being exploited by others, those who eat with their mouths open & taking naps in the day. 

RESEARCH 23 - Audience Survey Response

RESEARCH 22 - BBC News Radio Analysis - Science in Action

SCIENCE IN ACTION

FROM THE BBC NEWS WEBSITE

BRIEF SUMMARY: This is about meteors hitting the Earth could become more frequent and that people are underestimating this, so we won’t be prepared if this does happen. Although, they believe that people shouldn't be afraid now, but they should be aware of this and to make this sustainable in the next 100 years. Professor Peter Brown believes that there should more prediction systems to let us know about events such as Chelyabinsk. Also, India is doing a rocket launch to Mars, if this journey goes well they will be the first Asian country to reach mars, they also want to conduct experiments around Mars to look at the life on this red plant. However, some commentators believe that if India has the highest rate of children who are relatively poorly and sick, should they really be spending money on making rockets to go in to space rather than trying to reduce the amount of problems India are already facing.

AUDIENCE: The Interactivity with the audience, talking to other professors online on the phone and talking about what they have been recently been discovering so that they can receive more information about the action in space. Such as Dr Daniel Tube he was talking about being able to control your bladder when out in space, to minimise the urge, for instance they are trying to make a device such as the IPhone which you can press to stop the nerves in your body from wanting to go to the toilet, to make it easier for the astronaut. From listening to this story I can guess that their audience that they are targeting are those who are interested in the affairs going on in space and this could be young science professors wanting to be learning more about the matters and helps them broaden their minds. Also given from the title, I can see how this straight away relates to people who are interested in scientific activities.

NEWS VALUES:  Threshold is a news value which is used in this story because the story uses facts and past events to talk about and predict what could happen in the future and people are interested in this because they want to know how and why this is happening, so they audience can prevent it. Proximity is also used in this story, this is because of when they are talking to the man in India who introduced the reasons to why they have built this rocket, so when they are he is talking about it people in India will listening will relate to him in either a good or bad way, as everyone has their opinions.

LANGUAGE: Well, throughout the radio news cast the language and tone used was formal, although there was slight use of sarcasm when talking about people who are listening, and for them not to be afraid of what is happening they said ‘we don’t want people tossing and turning in bed about it’. Which suggests how although they are talking about a serious matter of meteors possibly becoming more frequent, they don’t want to frighten their audience. Also by doing this, it allows their audience to feel more connected with the presenter as they feel that he is considering their feeling about the matter and trying to comfort them, which is why he used a slight bit of humour.

SOUND: During the story, they didn't use sound at all, it was mainly silence while the presenter was talking. This is so that it wouldn't draw the audience away from the matter they are talking about and allow the audience to hear what the other people on the phone are talking about, because sometimes they are not of the best quality.

The sources used for this blog, was the live information from the radio news cast.