Monday 7 February 2011

Evaluation

I have now completed my evaluation using the website Prezi.com. This website has allowed me to be more creative with my evaluation as opposed to Microsoft PowerPoint which was used during last year's project. My evaluation included relative information on how well I managed to use technology throughout the research and construction process, how audience feedback helped during the project and how my products work in terms of display, content and as a combination of media texts.

Monday 24 January 2011

Final Products

These are my four final products for my Newspaper Front and First page, My newspaper poster campaign and my radio advert.
Front Page.
First Page.

Poster Capaign.


Radio Advert.

I will conduct one final focus group to recieve audience feedback on all my products as a whole.

Radio Advert Final

This is the final mixdown of my radio advert.

Tuesday 11 January 2011

Radio Advert Script

I have finished a draft script which I will use for my radio advert project. I originally had an idea of using newsagent sound effects such as a till ring, customers chatting and door bells perhaps, this idea was inspired during my analysis of other radio adverts, I particularly took features from 'The Sun Newspaper' advert. During writing a script for this idea, I began to think about how my target audience would react and I figured that may be my idea would be less interesting to 16-24 year old's.

I then began thinking about other ideas and came up with the following including minimal features of a newsagent;

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An upbeat song opens the advert, fading from low to medium.

A cash register SFX opens the ad as an echoing voice quotes;

The Daily One.

Alternate voices read out the following features of the paper.

-What’s The Daily One?

-Well, It’s Your Daily News

[Cheering SFX] Your Fix of Sport

Your Challenging Puzzles

[Whispering SFX] Your Local Gossip

Your Guide to TV

[Paparazzi Cameras SFX] Your Peek at Celebs

Your chances to win Big! [Party Horn SFX]

[Backing music rises slightly]

One City

One Paper

One News

This is…

The Daily One (Cash Register SFX)

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My idea features modern music and effects such as the echoing voice, which will be useful for attracting the young audience which my paper aims at, I also think the sound effects will add interest to the ad and will keep the audio process entertaining. The cash register SFX alerts listeners that the paper is available at shops. I have decided to raise the music volume towards the end to add emphasis on the tag line and then the upcoming full title, re-quoted by the original speaker. I repeated the use of the word 'Your' to apply the feeling of the buyers having the power when buying the paper.

Monday 10 January 2011

Radio Advert Practice

I have began using the programme; Adobe Audition and the recording studio to begin practicing and learning how everything works. In my first attempt, I learnt all the basics very quickly and began planning a minor radio advert for practicing purposes.

Working with a friend, we wrote a small script for a radio advert for a new chocolate bar; The Galaxy Truffle. Using the studio, I read and recorded my own voice to use in the advert with backing music 'It's Not That Easy' to add interest and to guide the 'chocolate' feel.