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.