Final Product

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Preliminary task

Original group script: 8 minutes

Anchor: You’re listening to flash FM news with your hosts Faizah Islam and Nazrin Khanom. Bringing you the latest news in a flash. Todays headlines are, thieves on mopeds, how safe are you? Spit hood controversy, dangerous or necessary. Teenage grievance, east end school introduces anonymous web chat service. VFX festival kicks off at Rich mix and finally your chance to win tickets at the weekends concert at the O2 .

Do you walk the streets texting or playing games on your mobile? If you are, then the police have one message for you…. STOP! The warning is being made after the fifth mobile phone moped robbery of the month took place on the streets of London this morning. Here’s more in this report from Nuzhat Ahmed.

Nuzhat: 35 year-old Callum Webster was strolling along Bow Road when motorcyclists attacked him. The victim told Flash FM News that he had been using his phone in public view and the men had their eyes set on it.
CUE IN: This moped… CUE OUT: … took off DURATION: 9 seconds
The police are yet to identify the attackers and Callum continues to wait patiently for results. However, he says he is fully aware that the police have a difficult job on their hands.
CUE IN: It is really difficult… CUE OUT: … other vehicles there Duration: 10 seconds
The police say mobile phone users should be vigilant as this type of daylight bike attack is increasing in frequency. However, they are advising the public not to panic.
Police officer _ _ _ _ Rogers says the Met are taking steps to discourage this kind of behaviour. CUE IN: On a day-to-day basis… CUE OUT: …plain clothes DURATION: That was PC _ _ _ Rogers speaking in an exclusive interview with Flash Fm News.
His top advice is to keep your mobile phone out of sight and to only take it out when you absolutely need it. This is Nuzhat Ahmed reporting for Flash FM News.

Anchor: Thanks Nuzhat.
Anchor: Have you recently lost a loved one and are finding it difficult to cope? Well, this story may have the answers to help you find the support you need and strategies to help you get through it all. An east end school has introduced a web chat service to allow its student to share their grief anonymously. coping with loss to talk about their grief. Mahfuza Chowdhury has that story.

Mahfuza: Death of a loved one is always difficult to deal with, no matter how old you are. But it can be especially though for young people as we are still trying to make sense of the world. Losing a close friend or family during your school years is likely to take its toll in many ways. But some young people like Tilly don’t have the courage to show their pain.
CUE IN: its been hard...
CUE OUT: ...off of that person.

 It’s for this reason that Central Foundation Girls’ School in Bow has started a web chat where young people from any school can speak with professionals about their loss without revealing their identity. The school’s Support Worker, Debbie Townsend, manages the web chat. She advises young people suffering from grief to find someone to talk to, even if it’s not on the web chat.
CUE IN: Not to keep things to themselves… CUE OUT: …harder to deal with. School Support worker, Debbie Townsend. To access the web chat visit the school’s website cfgs.com and click the chat tab.
This is Mahfuza Chowdhury reporting for Flash FM News.

Anchors: The London Metropolitan Police are investigating reports that a teenager almost died after police used a spit hood on him during an arrest. The 15 year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was released from hospital two weeks ago. Tasnim Ali filed this report.

Tasnim: A Spit hood is a restraint device intended to prevent someone from spitting at or biting the police. The teenager was fitted with one when police arrested him on suspicion of making prank calls on police emergency numbers. He told Flash FM News that the mask put his life at serious risk. CUE IN: I was very uncomfortable.
CUE OUT: … know how I mean? But Police officer Matt Selby says sometimes the spit hood is the only protection the police have.
CUE IN: I have been spat at… CUE OUT: … head and neck Spit hoods have been used on 93 youths under the age of 18 in the last five years.
  There have been previous calls for them to be banned. Whatever the outcome of the investigation into this case is, this fresh incident is sure to restart the debate about the safety of spit hoods.This is Tasnim Ali reporting for Flash FM News.
Anchors: Are you hashtag yes or no to spit hoods. Tweet us on @flashfm, letting us know your opinion.

  Anchor: Do you know your Simba from your Super Mario? Or your PlayStation from your X-box? Here’s a chance to top up your video gaming and animation skills. Head on down to the VFX festival currently underway at the Rich Mix Cultural Foundation in Bethnal Green. Our talented techie teen reporter Noshin is there checking out the geeks and the gadgets.

Noshin: The Rich Mix is abuzz with a range of sounds, sights and smells I am surrounded by hundreds of video gamers and creative animators. The event includes a variety of gaming and animation specialists. They are providing youngsters with the opportunity to get into the gaming and animation industry. I have with me … What is the VFX festival about? What opportunities are there in the industry for young people listening right now? Cue In: Cue Out: Thank you. Well let’s find out how young people feel about that. (Name) is 16 years old... What brings you here today? What’s the best skill you have and where do you hope it will take you?
Cue In: Cue Out:
Thanks … I’m going to challenge you a duel later on, I’m sure you’ll demolish me. The doors to the festival close at 7 tonight so if you this is your kind of gig beam yourself up and join the fun. If you want to find out more go to Twitter @escape studio. This is Noshin Jahan, reporting for Flash FM news.

Anchors: So, here we go your chance to win exclusive front row tickets to the weekends concert at the o2 arena. To meet the star boy singer hit us up on Instagram to win these tickets with a funny attached image of Abel. Make sure you hash tag flash fm and tag us in your post. The competition closes at Friday at 6, so get tagging.
You’ve been listening to Flash FM with Nazrin Khanom and Faizah Islam. Bringing you the latest news in a flash.

Audience reactions to my final product

Personal production log

NAME:    Mahfuza                                                                                                                       Production Company: Flash FM

DATE	TASK	My personal contribution	Evaluation of Task.
15/10/16	Preliminary task	I planned my script in order to contribute to my part in the preliminary task. I acted as a presenter and also planned which story I was going to include in the task (The mass brawl between school students). I edited the preliminary task and cut the bits out we didn’t need from the preliminary task using audacity. I also inserted the news jingle that we chose as a group and added in the fade ins and fade outs.	Preliminary task was completed. Leadership skills and team working skills were shown. Uploaded to blog.
26/11/16	Pitch	Planned and produced my part of the pitch. Explained our ideas and the ideas for my own story. Explained why I chose my story and how I will use it. Explained why we chose the name ‘Flash FM’ for our production name.	Pitch completed and presented.
26/11/16	Pitch feedback	Took down notes of feedback. Recorded the group feedback on my phone. Used the feedback to improve on my ideas and my story.	Feedback was used to make my story sound better in the radio newscast.
28/11/16	Primary research: Audience VoxPops	I found a few of my target audiences and asked what they listen to on the news (+more questions). I recorded it on my phone. Edited it on the 1st/12/2016 and uploaded it on the 3rd/12/2016	Primary research was completed. Experience of how to create VoxPops was gained. Uploaded to blog.
8/12/16 12/12/16 15/12/16 16/12/16	Audience profile	On the 8th of December I filmed the female version of our audience profile. I was in charge of deciding who our target audience female was and was in charge of recording with the camera. On the 12th we uploaded the footage onto the iMac in school and started to edit the footage, cutting out the scenes that we don’t need. On the 15th we recorded our audio to the audience profile and edited it in to the video. On the 16th we added music and completed our audience profile video.	Audience profile completed. Experience of editing audio was gained. Uploaded to blog.
18/12/16	Treatment plan	I created the treatment plan to my story for my radio news broadcast.	Treatment and contingency plan completed and uploaded to blog.
18/12/16	Contingency plan	Created the contingency plan / backup story in case I can’t do my original story.	Contingency plan completed and uploaded to blog.
19/12/16	List of sources	List of people to be interviewed and where to get the sources from.	Decided on who I was going to interview.
20/12/16	Draft script	I planned the script to my part of the radio newscast. I also did some research in order to make my draft.	Draft script completed. Independency shown. Uploaded to blog.
02/01/17	Improved script	Asked people to give me feedback on my script, what they like/dislike about it.	Improved script from the feedback.
07/12/16	Sequence of whole group newscast layout	Decided which stories would go first and last and whose story is soft news/hard news. I was in charge of the layout and scripts for the anchors as well.	The layout and sequence was completed and seemed accurate.
03/01/17	Changed my script and story to backup story	Changed script to fit the story and edited all planning.	Completed.
16/02/17	Editing	Edited my section of the whole group newscast.	Editing my story is completed
30/03/2017	editing	Edited the whole newscast with group. The whole newscast was too long so we had to cut it down. We used the software called Logic to edit and add sound FX to our product.	Editing whole group newscast completed.

Chosen clip from victim's interview NEW

Victim interview - uncut (re-take)

Chosen clip from victim's interview (1)

Victim - uncut (1)

Chosen clip from my interview

I edited out the long pauses and irrelevant things that I believe my target audience doesn't need to listen to or any parts that won't benefit them in any way. This is my chosen clip because it answers all the questions that I asked the child support worker in one go and it summarises it all.

Re-Attempt At Recording My Interview

From this second attempt at recording the interview with the child support worker, Debbie Townsend, I have improved a lot of things within the recording.
I have used a dictaphone instead of my own phone to record the interview this time round. This led to the interviewee and interviewer's voices to be clearer than before and less muffled. The dictaphone's mic is omnidirectional, allowing the voices to be clear and well heard.

Furthermore, I introduced my self, my story and where I am from at the beginning because my target audience feedback said to do this to make my recording better.
Also, her answers to my questions were more simp lied, summarised and clearer.


 What I learnt from the interview:

 There are many places to go to help when you are grieving or if you have lost a loved one. For example, the school that you attend may provide extra support academically, physically and emotionally.
Also, if you are going through a rough time, you shouldn't keep it in and keep it to yourself because telling someone else or someone you trust, like a friend or teacher, may help to relieve some tress and anxiety that you have.

VFX FESTIVAL

I went with Noshin to the VFX festival to help her record.
I was holding the microphone whilst she was doing her role as the outside reporter for the outside broadcast.
By doing this, I achieved to get a clear omnidirectional sound of Joseph (the person we interviewed).

Personal production schedule

Personal Production schedule

Tasks	Completed?
Treatment plan	Yes
Contingency plan	Yes
Pitch	Yes
Pitch feedback	Yes
Roles and responsibilities of the group	Yes
List of sources	Yes
Interview questions	Yes
Risk assessment	Yes
Signed contracts	Yes
Full version of recording	Yes
Interview date	Yes
VoxPop dates	Yes
Editing	Soon

 

Update: List of sources

Child support worker - what support they have available for students/children going through a rough time like losing someone close to them.

Students - how do they feel about the school and the loss of loved ones.

Television news broadcasts - what information do they already know and have published that I can use.

Internet websites such as news websites - what information do they already know and have published that I can use.

NHS - perhaps they have something that can help with people who are not coping well with the loss of loved ones.

These all link within the genre of my story as well as the narrative

Trip to Berlin

On the 3rd of February 2017 I went on a trip to Berlin, Germany.

During the trip we visited the Berlin Film Museum and a Television Studio. I gained a lot of skills, knowledge and experience from this trip. In the Berlin Film Museum we learnt about the history of film and how it has adapted. We learnt about the different editing techniques and CGI that has developed since the start of films.

In the TV Studio, our tour guide, Christina, taught us about the history of television and the industry, and I learnt how there was a time where nobody really watched TV because of the War that happened. Furthermore we learnt about how green screens and blue screens can be used in order to create an artificial atmosphere to suit the type of programme that you are creating. The TV studio we went to is the second largest television studio in Berlin. There are thousands of cameras which are hung from the ceiling when recording a live show which capture every angle and composition of screen. I learnt that live shows don't fully go onto air directly, they go on a few seconds later because hundreds of editors are sitting at their seats waiting to crop out something inappropriate that and audience member or host might say. The editors have a large separate room and have different types of controls everywhere. They can cut off a scene of the camera and stop one recording if they want to.
We also learnt that shows that are based in the studio are not a real place. Most of the mise-en-scene is created out of wood or cardboard and there is a secret alleyway that the audience members have to come through.

Group production schedule

Asking a professional journalist for tips on my story

This interview with the journalist helped me develop skills and understanding in order to be a professional reporter. I found out the conventions of a human interest story - which is what my story is about. I can use these conventions in my final product. The tips she gave will also help me to improve the content of my story and how I produce it as a whole. It has been a beneficial experience.

Production Group Logo

This is our Logo for our radio news station. I was given the task of being in charge of designing the logo for our group. It is called Flash News, with the slogan "giving you your news in a flash". We chose this slogan because we wanted it to be short, catchy and related to our logo. It also gives an idea about our radio news station to people; they will know that our news stories / headlines will be quick and flashy. The reason why I used the lighting sign for the 'S' in"Flash" was to represent how quickly our radio news station can provide it's audience with information about recent evens and information. The font is in "AR JULIAN" and it is in the colour black. My aim for the logo was to make it look formal as well as attractive and memorable, which is why I used a simple readable font and colour.
As a group, we decided that this was a good idea and discussed the positives and negatives about this Logo. A negative for example, would be that you can't print the logo on yellow paper otherwise the flash sign would not show. However the positives over-ruled the negatives as we hardly found any other negatives, and therefore decided that this logo was perfect for our radio news station.

Update: New Draft Script

Anchor:

Young people have been coping with the loss of loved ones. But how?

Here's Mahfuza with more on this.

 

Mahfuza: 

Young people are undervalued and unheard of.

What are actually going on in their minds?

 

The NHS says that many people feel different feelings after they have lost a loved one; sadness, anger, shock, anxiety, not eating, not sleeping and many more different feelings.

 

The National Statistics says that over 70% of primary schools have at least one child on roll who had been bereaved of someone important to them. All schools will be affected by bereavement at some point. I spoke to Emma Townsend, a child support worker from a secondary school in east London

 

CUE IN: what do you…

CUE OUT: … that’s it really.

DUR:

Emma Townsend

 Lots of support is available out there in the world. I spoke to a student who had lost a loved one to get information about her feelings. She made some strong points.

 

CUE IN: how do you…

CUE OUT: …Cherish them…

DUR:

Student

If you're having a  bad time or have lost someone close to you, you can call FLASH FM on 09876 or call the NHS support line on 0844 477 9400.

Question for journalist

What are the conventions of a human interest story.

Feedback on my interview

A range of feedback from target audience:

Good:

• Excellent use of communication skills.
• Good and clear questions.
• Informative answers.
• Good introduction.
• Interviewee is listening to the radio as the background.
• Her answers are detailed and descriptive.
• As a reporter I am confident.
• The answers and clearly answered.
• I remained ethical and impartial.

Improve:

• Noisy background.
• State my name, who I am, why I'm here and the purpose of the interview.
• Be more loud and clear.
• Could have stopped her speaking; rambling on a bit saying 'um'.

Update: Changing my story

I've changed my story to 'how do young people cope with the loss of loved ones' because I could not get hold of anyone that I was going to make an interview with.
I will be interviewing a Child Support Worker and a person who has gone through bereavement instead.

Interview with expert

Attempt to find an expert

My audio files list

Main background music for our newscast is an upbeat , catchy theme tune to attract my intended target audience. They would hear the sound and think it's interested and continue to listen.

Headlines: motorbike speeding sound FX for the second story in our newscast (Mopeds)
the transition sound between each headline in a smash to connote the changing of one story to another.

Tasnim's story (1st story on Spithoods) has no music or background music as it is hard news and silence is needed n order to reach our intended target audience properly.

Nuzhat's ( second story on Mopeds) story has the sound FX of a car screeching and the background music at the beginning should sound interesting and aimed at a young audience - not too upbeat as it is a serious story.

My story: sad/piano music to sympathise as my story is a soft story. it is silent when I will insert the audio of the school support worker

The transition from my story which leads into to Noshin's VFX festival story has gaming sound FX and a virtual type music background.

She has no music during her story as it is an outside broadcast.

Semiotics;
Whilst each headline is being read out for each story, each story will have its own sound FX. For example, Nuzhat's story of theft would have a smashing glass sound FX and maybe the sound of a racing motorbike because Mr. Macintosh almost got robed from someone on a Moped. These sounds would be the symbols of her story.

My story would have no sound FX as it's a soft story.

Interactivity at the end of the broadcast should include a Weeknd instrumental as the competition is for a concert at the o2 to watch the Weeknd.

Uses and gratification theory would link to this as our audience members would listen to our radio newscast for entertainment, information and for escapism. They may want to hear it to get more information about their local area too.
The sound effects would link to the hypodermic needle theory as the audience members would automatically assume that the sound FX and the story relating would be interesting and is important.

Risk Assessment

Risk assessment from m_xch

Script - improved

*Music fades in*

Concerns have been raised by a group of students in Tower Hamlets about safety within schools.  Their concern follows the death of a teenaged boy at Bow School in the borough. 

 

14 year-old Nasar Ahmed died from an asthma attack while in detention at school. 

 

Now, his peers, are asking whether there was enough done to prevent his death. We hear more in this report from Mahfuza.  

 

Me:

Nasar was put in detention after “intentionally” tripping over a bin as his teacher put it. CCTV footage shows Nasar pleading for forgiveness and to let him off detention.

 

The teacher didn’t think otherwise and kept Nasar in detention. Shortly, Nasar’s skin conditions became worse and he started suffering from an asthma attack. Nasar was taken to Royal London Hospital by ambulance where he spent four days in intensive care but passed away on Monday afternoon.

 

There's one question that everyone's asking: who is actually accountable of Mr. Ahmed’s death? 

 

The CDC says that most school-associated deaths occur during transition times – before and after the school day and during lunch. 

 

VOX POP: Students 

 

VOX POP: Teachers 

 

INTERVIEW: Lawyer 

 

DURATION: 2.5 minutes 

 

We received an email to FLASH FM from a politician. She states that she wants to help students feel safer at school.   

 

Don’t forget to check out more on this story on WWW.FLASHFM.CO.UK/N-A-INVESTIGATION/ or on our Facebook Page.