Work Experience - Sound of Station Script

Sound of station VO
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WE REALLY ARE NORTH SOMERSETS MOST LISTENED TO COMMERCIAL RADIO STATION – AND HERE’S WHY
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FIRST LETS TREAT THE LISTENER TO SOME CASH
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WAKE UP WITH THE STAR BREAKFAST
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TAKING YOU THROUGH YOUR WORKDAY – LENGENDARY MUSIC, FROM LEGENDARY ARTIST’S – STAR RADIO LEGENDS
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STAR RADIO HAS THE LATEST COMMUNITY AND LOCAL CONTENT
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WE’RE WITH YOU ON YOUR WAY HOME – STAR RADIO DRIVE
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AND AT THE WEEKENDS WE REALLY PUSH THE BOAT OUT
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STAR RADIO – FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS AND TRAVEL
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WITH ALL THAT IT’S NO WONDER WE’RE NORTH SOMERSETS MOST LISTENED TO COMMERCIAL RADIO STATION – CAN YOU AFFORD NOT TO BE PART OF IT?

ASDA Multicam Edit

Video Diary of Work Experience Week 7

Individual project log

Hey bloggers - Mike here. Having settled on the ideas for my project I have begun to plan the filming. I booked the TV studio for Thursday the 22nd of May, thursdays being the only day it's free. Unfortunately I cannot make it any sooner, which is causing me some anxiety, but I am having to juggle work with university and this is proving to be a challenge. I spoke to Katey Brooks this morning to give her the date for filming. She will speak to work to try and rearrange her work schedule if she is unable to make that date she will call me back to reschedule. I feel as long as I plan the filming and editing properly I will be able to make the deadline set by the university.

Work experience week 6

Hi Bloggers - Mike here! Work experience at Star Radio was quite hectic last week as the assistant producer was on holiday and I was asked to fill in for him for the day. The first job I had to do was create the breakfast promo's, short clips from the show mixed with station idents that are played out at various times of the day to promote awareness of the show. I needed to find parts from that mornings show that were suitable and to do this I had to have a meeting with the presenters. It was fairly informal just a case of listening through some of the material from the show and deciding which bits were funniest. Then I had to take the audio from the logger. The logger records all output from the station as required by ofcom. This task was fairly laborious as logger records in hour segments which I had to go through to find the parts I needed. The next difficulty was editing the links using cool edit in such a way as to be as short as possible but still retain enough information to make the promo funny and interesting to listen to. I was able to cut out repeated sentences and a lot of the "um's and Ah's" from the conversation. These are words or sounds that the presenters use for thinking time. The magnification tool comes in handy for these edits!! I had to work to a deadline the show finished at 10am and the first promo was scheduled for 11.20am. It was quite tight but I managed in the end.

Individual project treatment

STAR RADIO’S SEARCH FOR A STAR
FORMAT: TALENT SHOW
PLATFORM: VIDEO PODCAST & RADIO BROADCAST
LEGNTH: EIGHT MINUTES
PRODUCER: MICHAEL HUCK
DIRECTOR: MICHAEL HUCK
WRITER: MIKE HUCK
TALENT: KATEY BROOKS




CONCEPT
The UK’s Indy music scene is thriving, growing from strength to strength popular amongst today’s youth and dominating the charts. Search for a Star is an exciting alternative to Pop Idol and exploits today’s 360 degree media world by utilizing Video Pod cast, mobile phone platforms, FM radio and the internet via social networking sites like Myspace, Youtube and Facebook. Search for a star exploits the use of these sites by using them to find the acts, for example on Facebook the acts with the most fan members take part in the program, in this way the public are the true judges.
With artists like the Arctic Monkeys, The Hoosiers and The Horrors who’s rise to fame was in no small part due to internet downloads and networking sites the potential with this genre for audience participation is huge. Voting for an artist can be done either via phone, email or text and to give you some idea for potential profit margins; in 2004 Pop Idol generated £2.5 million from text messages alone.
Live performances from Search for a Star will be will be broadcast on network radio and streamed from the website as video Podcast. Extra content will be available at a nominal fee for download directly to PC or mobile Phones.
RADIO
Radio stations broadcast search for a star on shows like Star Radio’s “Sunday Music Live” in a twenty-minute segment. The artist performs two songs and is interviewed by the presenter. Trails play between songs encouraging listeners to vote and the various ways that they can do this including via the website as the whole segment is being simulcast live.
VIDEO PODCAST
The Podcast features interview excerpts and the song being voted on by the public.
The opening credits show a time-lapse sequence of the stage crew setting up for the performance. As we fade to black the Logo “search for a star” appears on the screen along with the artists name, cut to the artist sat in a chair (think big brother) answering questions about herself (musical inspirations etc…) to a presenter off camera (This part of the film uses jump cuts giving the interview an edgy contemporary feel). Finally the artist introduces her song as we cut to the performance using TV static.
We fade up from black to see the artist sat at the front of the stage with soft lighting giving it an intimate feel. Graphics run across the screen giving voting details, which fade away leaving the viewer to watch the performance. As the song finishes graphics once again appears on the screen showing voting details before fading to black. (See attached storyboard for visual representation of video)
BUDGET & PROFIT OPPORTUNITIES
The radio show is syndicated and as such paid for by stations taking part that will also host content and voting details on their websites. We will however provide promo and trail kits for their use. The only outlay for the video Podcast is the equipment and location (TV studio) for the shoot. Broadcast Media students will be used as members for the production. In this way we save money and help the community.
This multi platform format has the potential not only to be a success on the Star Radio network but also could be franchised and rolled out to radio stations across the UK commercial radio network. Similar ideas such as GCAP’s “Music Week” have achieved great results in this way.

work experience week 3

This week I attended a team meeting with programming to discuss how to increase listening figures ( rajar) and how to keep the listeners we have already. Sue brooks brought up locality and it's importance within our role in the wider community. The group discussed ways in which we could achieve this aim. We came up with these ideas:- a) To attend more outside broadcasts and community events b) Use information gathered from Star Cards such as birthdays and announce them on air c) to support charities with a new initiative called charity of the month. Check out www.rajar.co.uk for more information on RAJAR.
My job in production was to come up with ways to support these ideas, we decided to refresh and update production for the notice board, an on air and online facility for the community to promote non profit and charity events. I was asked to make a promo for this. After some thought I decided to to a spoof of the A team and using the theme tune from the show i set about the task of creating the piece of production. I decided to use an American style voice over on top of the theme tune to mimic the style of the opening credits of the A team. After I had voiced the script in an american accent i had to pitch it down to sound more authentic. I used the pitch plugin in Adobe audition and pitched it down a semitone. Then I overlaid it on the A team bed. I had difficulties in getting the first half of the promo to flow into the second half which, contained the information needed to use the notice board and was more serious. After some time using fades and not getting the result I was after I decided to make the change more obvious and used the pitch plugin to emulate the sound of a turn table losing power on the A team theme tune. I felt this worked really well accentuating the fact that the promo was fun as well as factual. Then I used the voice overs voiced by our artists in bristol I completed the second half using a bed from a music CD. As a tag line I used the initiative we came up with in the meeting "Star radio, at the heart of and in partnership with the local community". I felt this piece of production followed company values of being fun and unconventional.

SCRIPT
AMERICAN VO
IF YOU HAVE A CHARITY OR NON PROFIT EVENT YOU'D LIKE ADVERTISED ON STAR RADIO, THEN MAYBE, JUST MAYBE. WE CAN HELP. THE STAR RADIO NOTICE BOARD.

FVO
ADVERTISING ON THE NOTICEBOARD COULD'NT BE EASIER. JUST CLICK ON STAR 1077.CO.UK AND FOLLOW THE LINK. WHO KNOWS YOUR AD MAY EVEN GET ON THE AIR

MVO
THE STAR RADIO NOTICE BOARD. AT THE HEART OF AND IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LOCAL COMMUNITY STAR RADIO

Group project minutes

These are the minutes I took for our first meeting on the group project the promotional DVD for WSM Tennis Club. Have a look at their website westontennisclub.co.uk

group members present lloyd dunseith, michael huck, adam boyce 4th april 2004

Minutes taken by Mike Huck

Agenda

Filming schedule, Questions for interviewee's, stylistically (look of program).

Shedule - filming saturady morning at 9 am adam and lloyd to attend. future filming date 26th april.Adam asked if we could shcedule filming during easterbreak. lloydwill givethe mattersome thought andbring it to next meeting.

Checklist for shoot:-

Complience forms for location and contributer content signed and dated.

cameras booked out.

risk assesment on location complete.

interview questions...

past present and future, questions for each? what do the get from tennis? why is it important? what would your life be like without tennis or the club? what makes a good tennis player and there any greats who inspired you..what changes have you seen at the club over the years...what direction is it taking in the future...
Style
lloyd suggested a look similar to the fiat ad, punchy imagary.and ping pong game, mike suggested wide high shots of the club, stop motion photography, hard hitting credits. serve noises. grunt noises...lloyd suggested 30 sec promo

lloyd raised conserned about syle of actual documentary, will it fulfill brief??


items for agenda:-

Editing?? logging? rough cuts, music
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Minutes for next weeks meeting will be taken by another group member. The job of minute taking will be rotated on a weekly basis.