Task 4 Evaluation

My radio show was directed at at adults who was interested in the Grenfell tower catastrophe, my main target audience was set for adults who want to hear about the tragic events that toke place. My secondary audience was younger adults aged around 16-20, at this age you would understand the tragic events which occurred so therefore people would be tuned into our radio to listen for further information. I used some sophisticated language to attract the adults into listening to it also it's not too informal as it should be able to attract the young adults too. Throughout my whole recording I stuck to my brief script of what i should talk about, not once did i manage to go off target.  

My chosen topic was about a massive disaster which occurred less than a week ago which left one third or even less than of the population alive. So I decided to make it into an interview where I have two survivor that talk about their view about the event. I also choose this topic as it is easier than most other things as this one is trending and has a lot of facts and information about the chaos all over the web today. everything I talked about was relative to my script and ideas, the interviewers stuck to their script as well even thought it was brief.  

I completed the work within two days as the planning didn't consist of many things, I recorded my radio recording 4 times however i ended up picking the first one anyway as it was the best. The brief script helped me as it gave me ideas when talking so i improvised most of it. My radio show was easy to record after planning as it made everything easier for me. My plan gave me a lot of hope as it was brief but really detailed.  

My main strengths were having experience on talking behind a microphone also the plan gave me confidence on what to say and not stutter, also my interviewers were positive about what to say as their scripts were brief but brilliant for them. It gave them an idea of what to say also it was brief so they could put it in their own word and say it in confidence. The weakness that i had was with time as I didn't manage it well enough. I could have improved things by writing a full script for both me and the interviewers however i found it better to write it brief so as the interviewer he/she could put in their own words. another massive improvement was going back on the work i did to check for any mistakes that could have occurred, fortunately not many mistakes were made when recording or even editing.

Evaluation

Presentation 8 from anzar coowar

Pre - Production

Script -
Grenfell tower after the tragedy.  
A week ago one of London's council flat were burned to ashes with more than 70 official deaths, the council flat were holding more than 1,000 lives before the tragedy, only 70 bodies were found dead and couple hundreds alive the question is how many bodies got burnt to ash that night?
we are hear with a survivor fro the 22nd floor of the building, she escaped the building with her 3 year old. (1minute 30 seconds intro)

Interviewer: we could smell smoke as I was putting her to bed so I checked in the corridor nothing, then looked out the window and I see fire on the side of the building, so I toke my child and ran down the stairs, I could hear panic and screaming everything that you would have in a nightmare.
Describe the event more.

We also have a man who was trapped in his flat due to the corridor being on fire so how did he get out? here the man himself.
Interviewer: Only room with a fire extinguisher, he used it for his escape and wrapped his face with a wet towel so he could not exhale the smoke.



Equipment - 
Headphones, microphone

Recording schedule
 Friday 23rd June 2017 -I am hoping to record the whole script. my main achieve is to record this at least 5 times so I can choose which one is the best. this will take time to do but it will be much better than recording it once and messing up.

sound checks -
First I will have to check the microphone and see if it working in perfect condition if not then I will need a new one, secondly the room being used has to be a small compacted room that is sound proof so we can hear no echo's or unwanted noise. I will also check the level on the microphone so I know how it sounds, regular checks would be needed

Health and Safety
 a  massive health and safety would be wires and cables that are lying in room, this could cause someone to trip over it and fall this could cause a breakage of equipment or injury to themselves. the equipment being used is really expensive and some sensitise so to use this ill have to be careful.

sound test

Radio show

Call the midwife

In "call the midwife" a lot of different background music is used however the main focus at the start is what type of theme is playing this is due to make us either be happy or sad or give us any type of emotion. If the theme tune at the start is happy music then we can expect to see happy scenes however if its sad music then we are expected to see the opposite. The theme tune always makes us feel a certain way  and lets us know what type of content to expect. the theme used in this is effective as it was used more than once and especially used in the start and at the end. Voice over is a great technique to use when you try to make the audience understand things easier, so instead of explaining something long you can just do a voiceover that is much more simpler to understand by the audience. The dialogue is very different as the characters speak in different accents, in this show we have cockney and posh accents from different characters. there are parts where the music is really slowed to cause tension and drama in the show this is done so the viewers can feel a type of way. We also have a lot of different sound effects use throughout "call the midwife" we have sounds such as doors closing in the distance, baby crying in the background, we can also hear kids running, the sound effects are used to create effect on the viewers this is also done to show the audience what is going on as little detail matter.

Microphone

Microphone

There are many sorts of microphone that are utilized as a part of the media business. They have likenesses additionally also includes contrasts that if not taken care of could potentially break or damage the expensive equipment/hardware. The most known microphones out there are large diaphragm condenser mics, small diaphragm condenser mics, dynamic mics, Bass mics, Ribbon mics, multi-pattern mics, USB mics, boundary mic. these are the most relative to the media industry as it is used regularly.



A dynamic microphone is well used and known microphone, also dynamic microphone is when sound vibrates the diaphragm of the microphone so therefore the coil inside moves up and down which then creates a very small electrical current, this is how the sound is transmitted. this microphone is used in many concerts or shows due to its incredible strength, meaning it is very hard to break and a tough equipment.


A condenser microphone is used in studios and places where extra background sound needs to be cut out so instead of editing the sound out the microphone automatically cancels it out, the only sound captured in a condenser microphone would be the sound that is directly being played in the microphone, when using this specific microphone you have to be placed in a vital position so everything is captured if not then it maybe be cancelled out.



Polar patterns is the direction in which the microphone is picking up sound from, cardioid is when your main focus on the microphone is the front and nothing else. the figure 8 is when sound is recorded from the back and front however sound from the side is cancelled out. another one would be the boundary mic. this is mostly used for like stage use as it picks up sound form every direction and everything is heard wherever you are.


There are two different kinds of cables, either stereo or mono. Mono means it has one black circle around the metal tip, stereo means that is contains two black rings around the top. Usually for microphones we use XLR cable this fits in every microphone and the other end would be a mono or stereo plug.


Also when trying to edit the microphone clips you can use audacity which is the easiest one and most popular out there, there is also many software's out there but some isn't as easy as audacity.

What is sound?

What is sound?

Sounds are tiny molecules which are made by vibration from the actual molecule. Whether it’s a small concentrated box room or extremely massively room, all rooms consist of acoustics. The interior of acoustics would be something that is a sound reflector so an example would be solid concrete wall that reflects the waves, soft wall or absorbent martials on the wall would make it sound proof and no waves would travel, walls can be sound proof by adding a type of black form to absorb the travelling waves. Studios are usually built in a structure where it contains form inside the wall to stop sound from travelling through.

Booths are small compacted room that contains sound proof form which are all over the wall, this foam is sponge and has a triangular shape to make the sound reflect in a way where it can’t be heard again however the sponge itself absorbs the sound before it can even travel anywhere so therefore the sound won’t have time to travel, even if there’s a little leftover sound, the sound wont travel as it will be reflected in directions that will get it cancelled. Acoustics treatment in when its dead.

 The surfaces around you is a  property of acoustics. Reverberation is how long the sound takes time to die out so this would be a instrument playing then slowly fades away and dies out completely.

Serial Podcast

Aural landscape – a way of designing sound to create a specific feel or atmosphere, usually combing music and dialogue or dialogue or dialogue and special effects.

Incidental music and aural motifs – repeated small piece of music that creates feel/branding. Meaning/ reason for sound

Serial Podcast

At 9 minutes in we can identify background music starting to play, this music doesn’t make us lose concentration is actually makes us more concentrated into the podcast. Whilst she starts to talk about the different witness of the murder that when we hear the background music this is could probably have a purpose of making us listen even more for small details, the sound of the strings of a guitar playing could suggest that the story coming is a bad one or sad one, most of the instruments used were pianos or guitar to cause a sad atmosphere, when good news came happy music was used straight away. The dialogue is very important as we have the ability to be Informed, without the dialogue the podcast would be nothing just background music that has no meaning or purpose however with the informative dialogue we are able to learn what happen leading to the day of the murder. At exactly 5 minutes the narrator goes silent for a good 5 seconds and the background music gets louder whilst the narrator has paused. couple seconds later the silence form the narrator Is broken and the music is lowered and she speaks again. At 2 Minutes and 33 seconds we hear some unpleasant noise due to the microphone being to close to the teenagers mouth, this is where you can hear a loud noise which is unintentionally done. however this is neither the audio files fault or the editors as it is the original recording document. At 2 minutes and 22 second we hear our first interview that is between the narrator and two teenagers, the interview was a social experiment as they wanted to find out if a normal teenager could remember what he did 6 whole weeks ago. Most teenagers could not remember anything they did 6 weeks ago. The 2^nd interview at 2 minutes and 46 seconds was another interview of another teenager who stated the same thing at the to others “Probably in school, can’t remember a thing”. At 2 minutes and 43 seconds we hear our first phone conversation which is between the narrator and a teenager, in the podcast we hear many phone-ins however this is the first one to be heard in the podcast. 7 minutes in and we can hear a voice over where the narrator is talking without any interruptions, a voice of a young man is being heard in the distance it is pretty hard to make out what he is saying but it is defiantly a message and a clue as he is talking about the topic. another example of this would be at 25.44 seconds where we hear another interview and this time we can hear a lot of voice over and background noise from other people.

Task 1

Task 1 unit 4 from anzar coowar