Evaluation unit 14,16

 

This is made for unit 14 and 16

Regulatories bodies report

  Ofcom:

 Regulator for the communications services

• Ofcom is the regulator for the communications services that we use and rely on each day. We make sure people get the best from their broadband, home phone and mobile services, as well as keeping an eye on TV and radio. The broadcasting code have 10 different sections that link together and shows to programme makers who require further advice on this code.
• Section 1:Protecting the under eighteens 
• Ofcom protects the public and in this section, Ofcom specifically looks at the aspects of children under 18s in order to protect them. This allows children to grow up in a slow pace as well as allowing children to be children. I will need to ensure that I have an over look of these rules and standards when conducting my final edit of radio podcast . My content must be PG friendly and no information or content shown to the younger generations. 
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• Section 2:Harm and offence
• It is important to avoid including any content that could potentially harm or offend the audience, such as misleading images /notes or offensive material, in order to maintain the integrity of the radio project. When addressing topics related to social media, it is crucial to choose words thoughtfully to prevent any potential offense or to limit their usage.
• Section 3:Crime, disorder, hatred and abuse
• This section finds the importance of removing any content related to server crime, disorder, hatred, and abuse. It highlights that the content should not directly or indirectly incite criminal actions or disorder. Additionally, it mentions that any speech should not influence the audience towards criminal behaviour. In order to adhere to these guidelines for my radio project, I need to ensure that my content does not encourage any actions that the listeners might take. 
• Section 4:Religion 
• It is important as religion plays a big role in almost everyone's eyes, and no one would want to witness or hear anything discriminate against things like religion and culture. Therefore, Ofcom has rules and regulation that protect these issues from occurring for audience satisfaction and protection. I will not be including any discussion about race, gender or religion. Therefore, I will not need to worry about this section.  
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• Section 10: Commercial communications on radio 
• This section is only for radio broadcasts. It makes sure that businesses communicate clearly so that consumers are protected. This is important for Ofcom because they want to make sure that every customer is safe. I need to know this because I want everyone to feel comfortable when they listen to my radio show as considering they will want to listen to educate themselves and watch for entertainment purposes. not to get offended and feel the opposite of what we want them to feel. .
  
  
  

M1 - investigating the audience profile for BBC radio 4

BBC Radio 4 along with demographics and schedule:

BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. It is also funded by the tv license.

BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, after Radio 2. It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011 and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards. It also won a Peabody Award in 2002 for File on  Costing £71.4 million it is the BBC's most expensive national radio network and is considered by many to be its flagship. 

0% of BBC Radio 4 listeners are aged 50 or over, while only 11% are aged 18-24. 54% of BBC Radio 4 listeners are male, while 46% are female. BBC Radio 4 has a higher proportion of listeners from higher social grades (ABC1) than any other UK radio station, with 62% of its audience falling into this category.

BBC radio 4 schedule: 

As mentioned previously, BBC radio 4 has a diverse audience as well as content being produced and distributed, Here we will look at what is on todays schedule on BBC radio 4.

In these images bellow, it shows all of the programmes that are shown in the morning/showing schedule of the day. In all the images bellow, there are different schedule timings that consist of the early shows, the morning shows and the evening shows. 

In the image above you can see the highlighted programme. This is highlighted due to the fact it informs everyone what the next coming show is that will be streamed ever live or just aired next automatically. 

here you can see that it shifted from early morning shows to now evening shows. This is a shift of change as the early the programme the more it is about news and things that inform the audience, however, the afternoon shows are more for entertainment purposes. This is the same situation from when it turns from afternoon to evenings but they start to get less entertaining to wine down programmes. 

This is for unit 14

location recce unit 14,16

  Location recce:

For my podcast, I have chosen the school media classroom because all the accessories that will be required in the podcast will be there. For example, the computers and the professional microphones. Also, the correct software to film the audio. The computers that the school media classroom has is iMacs which is very beneficial for my voice overs and what I need to edit my audio. I am using this location for my podcast because it is easily to access the equipment and I wouldn’t need to go all locations to finish it off. It saves me time which makes it quicker to upload my audio onto the iMac and edit the podcast in one time. My podcast only requires 3 actors/characters which is two hosts and one psychologist. I will need to film this in a studio like setting, which in my opinion the media class is the best option. A positive thing about filming in the media class is that I will be able to film all 3 of the characters in 1 location. Another positive factor is that the media room is quiet so while I record there will be no background sound to ruin the podcast. Overall, I chose this place as the environment portrays the setting I want as the things I’d need is all there and it suits my script because its calming and a quiet place just as if we were in a studio filming a real podcast.

This is for both Unit 14 and unit 16!

Audio assets - unit 14 and 16

 

Audio assets	Description of Audio assets
Intro music of zapping noise	Before the dialect begins there is an intro sound effect that i had added in order to alert the audience that the podcast has just begun
Background aesthetic music	I added this background music to make the podcast seem more realistic,aesthetic and professional looking
Outro music of zapping noise	At the end of the podcast, I used the same sound effect and reversed the sound in order to show that the podcast has now ended and finished as a whole.

This is used in unit 14 and 16 

Funding unit 14.16

  Funding is one of the most important aspects when it comes to several things. I will need to look at my funding aspects for my radio podcast. Funding doesn't necessarily have to come out of peoples personal money/pockets. These things are:

• Crowdfunding: This is when people in the public help put money towards whatever people are putting a crowdfund up for.  This can be done on websites such as GoFundMe. This type of funding is never accurate as there is also uncertainty of if the public can help reach the goals needed, whether that is for peoples health or even businesses.
• Advertisements: Businesses use advertisement in order to raise brand awareness and increase sales, this allows the advertisement to give a chance to business or in our case my radio podcast income of some sort to help cover costs.  
• sponsorship: Sponsorships is when business people join another company in order to help boost the advertisements faster. For instance with my radio podcast, if i had partnered up with someone I will need to promote what they wish and want me to promote at some stage of my podcast which gives me an additional  income at the end.
• Grants: Grants is when the government support the business by funding/helping set up funds and spreading them to the public or for the public.

Overall, I believe that advertisement will work best in my favour for my radio podcast as it will be smoother then having the other funding elements interrupting my podcast along with interrupting the audience from there entertainment which is not what  they will be satisfied with. 

This is for unit 14 and 16

initial idea mind map

 

This is for unit 14 and 16