Darren Lee – Mercia (local radio station for Coventry): 4pm – 7pm weekdays
Listened Live 14/12/2010
Radio Station: Mercia is a local commercial radio station sponsored by West Orchards shopping centre – Coventry. The sponsor is made very clear throughout the show with a soundbite with a short jingle about the sponsor and a message about their free parking. Because this is a commercial radio station they play radio adverts at regular intervals, this adverts include OLAY, The television channel GOLD which is playing Christmas specials every night, Safe Styles windows and doors and Signatures Restaurant at the bell grade theatre. Mercia also plays an infomercial about A&E and what not to go to A&E for. This campaign has been highly promoted in Coventry because of the raise in patients that did not need emergency help but went to A&E. I think that the advertising contradicts the type of audience that the music style attracts, however this could appeal to the secondary audience of either peoples parents that may be listening to the radio with their children or the older adults that enjoy popular current music. There are also many Christmas themed adverts because of the time of the year.
Feature: They play local news every half a hour on the hour and at half past the hour, this news piece I listened to talked about how the west midlands was deemed ‘the fattest county’ Mercia played voxpox of the public in the west midlands to get their opinion of the subject. Then they spoke about how facebook has been monitoring status updates recently and can say that a lot of people are talking about x-factor and the football. These two news stories relate to young people because young people are renowned to think that they are overweight. Facebook plays a huge role in young people’s lives and the majority of the audience would have an interest in either the football or the x-factor, this news story would interest them as they are subjects that they are interested in and more than likely going to listen to. Local travel news is played every 15 minuets because this show is aired at ‘drive time’. Darren Lee talks about the Mercia advent calendar competition that will be announced at 5:20pm this is a competition that lets people who have phoned in a chance to win meals out, tickets and many different prizes, at this point the presenter plugs the website and informs the audience what they need to do to get information about entering the competition. The news is repeated half an hour later repeating the same news piece however they play different voxpox of the public’s opinion on the obesity piece.
Song choice: Mercia mainly plays pop songs including Katy Perry and Nicole Sherzingher, this is because similarly to Radio 1 Mercia has a young audience (about 14-26) and chooses to play popular music as most young people like to ‘keep up with the trend’ and enjoy listening to the latest music. After the news Mercia played WHAM – Last Christmas, this song is very well known and, even though it isn’t a recent popular song, would still be able to maintain the young audience because of the time of year, the audience would be able to recognize the song. Later in the show Lee plays Take That – The Flood, this song is popular both with a young audience and an older audience because take that was a 90s band any many fans from the 90s are still fans today, this opens out the age range of the target audience. , I initially assumed that this show was primarily targeting young a young audience because of its first 4 song choices but as the show has progressed I feel that if I would be listening to it on my way home I would of turned it off, the different genres of music are not systematically ordered, because of this there seems to be 3-4 recent pop songs then a few ‘older songs’.
Presenter: From what I have heard of Darren Lee’s show I can only imagine that his shows are very music based (much alike our project needs to be) however I think that Darren Lee takes this concept too far as we only hear him saying what time it is and hat songs are coming up next. However I think that his technique of announcing what songs will be on next is quite effective, for example he said up next is Nicole Sherzingher with Poison after WHAM with last Christmas, this means that audience members who want to listen to Poison but not to Last Christmas would be more than likely to stay tuned to listen to the next song, we hear a lot of clips from other presenters to advertise their shows. If any of the songs are segued there was an advert, mainly for the popular breakfast show The JD Show. Darren Lee is very well spoken and clear, unlike Elaine Page and Ferne Cotton he does not have a practically memorable voice this means that if you where to tune into his show unless you are a regular listener you might struggle to recognize the show that you are listening too. I think this point is backed up by the wide mix of music chosen for this show, there doesn’t seem to be a set theme for the show.
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
Sunday, 28 November 2010
Evaluation
Radio Evaluation
Throughout the assignment I have played a main part in The Encore Show, I produced and presented the show. I have also helped in the production of Tea and Toast all be it on a much smaller scale than The Encore Show. I feel that during the production of both shows there has been more emphasis on the Tea and Toast show in regards of other people contribution. Because of this I wasn’t able to put a lot of my effort into Tea and Toast as I was producing a lot of work for the Encore Show to make sure everything was completed on time.
I think that both shows went very well but after listening back to the recordings I feel that improvements could have been made.
The Encore Show could be improved by me knowing the script better, at some points I stutter and lose my way; this is very noticeable when listening back to the recording. I also think that the features needed more clear introduction and explanation. I also think that the ‘What is this musical?’ feature would off worked better if it was fully explained at the start of the show and then the clips played throughout the show and the answers revealed at the end of the show, this way it give s the audience a chance to email their answers as throughout the show we didn’t have any emails, I believe this is because of the amount of time given to guess the answers. I also think it would of helped if we played the video over stratcast along with the webcam, this gives the audience a chance to see the video if they are not able to go on face book in such a short space of time.
Tea and Toast could be improved by having the 3 presenters have their own parts in the script instead of having one main presenter and the others adding comments in as it was not clear which one of the girls was presenting. There was a promotional video made by myself for the show, unfortunately due to work load I was unable to finish this video before we recorded the show, I think that we could off used more online content for the show but I believe that everyone has been so involved with the shows that the online content has been slightly overlooked.
For the encore show we chose an older audience to make our show more unique to the others that were submitted for the children in need broadcast, we could of aimed this at a younger audience by using soundbeds, a lively presenter (or two) and more up to date songs from musicals such as legally blond and sweet charity. We think that our show targeted ages 25/30+ and from our audience research we saw that the show appealed to women more than men. After our first rehearsal we got feedback of some of our listeners, the women who work in the zone canteen said that they loved the show and really enjoyed our choice of music and other listeners actually suggested different songs from the musicals we chose. Because of our feedback we decided that for our CIN show we would keep the same format and musicals but change the songs to include some of the requests and to keep the energy up for the live event. In hindsight the rehearsal worked better than the live show because there was not as much energy, the girls Amy and Laura who were dancing for the camera in our first rehearsal did not do the same for our live show, I think that they made the audience laugh and stay listening to the show. Also I think that because of the unfortunate circumstances of the Thursday morning I could have had more energy and could have been a bit happier as when listening back I don’t sound like I’m enjoying the show which I did in the rehearsals. We chose not to use soundbeds so we did not confuse our audience with different sounds from different places; this is similar to Elaine Page’s show, also when looking for suitable soundbeds we could not find many musical related ones that would not confuse the audience as some might think that a song had started. I think that if we used the overture for Chicago for a soundbed however it would not be suitable for every musical and give the show a very different sound as the overture is all brass band music which some people dislike. Also we could not use other musical instrumentals as people who know the musicals well will recognise them and if we did a different soundbed every time to suit the next song in the playlist the audience could become very confused and the shows fluidity would be lost.
In regards to the encore shows playlist we chose songs from musicals that have been previously played on Elaine Page’s show, this way we knew we were covered by the PRS licence, when researching this we found that Elaine didn’t play and songs from Oliver or Grease, because of this we replaced these two songs with ‘don’t rain on my parade’ by the cast off glee and ‘time warp’ also by the cast of glee. However whilst broadcasting the show we found we needed to cut the show down by 5 or so minuets so we chose to take out the time warp as the song had the least rehearsed link. We had to cut our show down as we were asked to put James and Greg’s hairspray feature into our show, our show was the most suitable for the feature and I think it worked well within our schedule. The feature was 8 minuets long so we had to take something out to fit it in. Our other features were 2 musical reviews and 4 clips of our ‘actors’ acting out clips from different musicals. The reviews didn’t work as well as we had hoped and both seemed to be the synopsis of the show. The clips of the actors would have worked better if we had them in our schedule on myriad because our first clip didn’t actually work because Georgie’s Mac (that we were playing the clips from) wasn’t properly connected to the desk. However we did mention the website where we could watch the video’s as I have previously mentioned.
Throughout the assignment I have played a main part in The Encore Show, I produced and presented the show. I have also helped in the production of Tea and Toast all be it on a much smaller scale than The Encore Show. I feel that during the production of both shows there has been more emphasis on the Tea and Toast show in regards of other people contribution. Because of this I wasn’t able to put a lot of my effort into Tea and Toast as I was producing a lot of work for the Encore Show to make sure everything was completed on time.
I think that both shows went very well but after listening back to the recordings I feel that improvements could have been made.
The Encore Show could be improved by me knowing the script better, at some points I stutter and lose my way; this is very noticeable when listening back to the recording. I also think that the features needed more clear introduction and explanation. I also think that the ‘What is this musical?’ feature would off worked better if it was fully explained at the start of the show and then the clips played throughout the show and the answers revealed at the end of the show, this way it give s the audience a chance to email their answers as throughout the show we didn’t have any emails, I believe this is because of the amount of time given to guess the answers. I also think it would of helped if we played the video over stratcast along with the webcam, this gives the audience a chance to see the video if they are not able to go on face book in such a short space of time.
Tea and Toast could be improved by having the 3 presenters have their own parts in the script instead of having one main presenter and the others adding comments in as it was not clear which one of the girls was presenting. There was a promotional video made by myself for the show, unfortunately due to work load I was unable to finish this video before we recorded the show, I think that we could off used more online content for the show but I believe that everyone has been so involved with the shows that the online content has been slightly overlooked.
For the encore show we chose an older audience to make our show more unique to the others that were submitted for the children in need broadcast, we could of aimed this at a younger audience by using soundbeds, a lively presenter (or two) and more up to date songs from musicals such as legally blond and sweet charity. We think that our show targeted ages 25/30+ and from our audience research we saw that the show appealed to women more than men. After our first rehearsal we got feedback of some of our listeners, the women who work in the zone canteen said that they loved the show and really enjoyed our choice of music and other listeners actually suggested different songs from the musicals we chose. Because of our feedback we decided that for our CIN show we would keep the same format and musicals but change the songs to include some of the requests and to keep the energy up for the live event. In hindsight the rehearsal worked better than the live show because there was not as much energy, the girls Amy and Laura who were dancing for the camera in our first rehearsal did not do the same for our live show, I think that they made the audience laugh and stay listening to the show. Also I think that because of the unfortunate circumstances of the Thursday morning I could have had more energy and could have been a bit happier as when listening back I don’t sound like I’m enjoying the show which I did in the rehearsals. We chose not to use soundbeds so we did not confuse our audience with different sounds from different places; this is similar to Elaine Page’s show, also when looking for suitable soundbeds we could not find many musical related ones that would not confuse the audience as some might think that a song had started. I think that if we used the overture for Chicago for a soundbed however it would not be suitable for every musical and give the show a very different sound as the overture is all brass band music which some people dislike. Also we could not use other musical instrumentals as people who know the musicals well will recognise them and if we did a different soundbed every time to suit the next song in the playlist the audience could become very confused and the shows fluidity would be lost.
In regards to the encore shows playlist we chose songs from musicals that have been previously played on Elaine Page’s show, this way we knew we were covered by the PRS licence, when researching this we found that Elaine didn’t play and songs from Oliver or Grease, because of this we replaced these two songs with ‘don’t rain on my parade’ by the cast off glee and ‘time warp’ also by the cast of glee. However whilst broadcasting the show we found we needed to cut the show down by 5 or so minuets so we chose to take out the time warp as the song had the least rehearsed link. We had to cut our show down as we were asked to put James and Greg’s hairspray feature into our show, our show was the most suitable for the feature and I think it worked well within our schedule. The feature was 8 minuets long so we had to take something out to fit it in. Our other features were 2 musical reviews and 4 clips of our ‘actors’ acting out clips from different musicals. The reviews didn’t work as well as we had hoped and both seemed to be the synopsis of the show. The clips of the actors would have worked better if we had them in our schedule on myriad because our first clip didn’t actually work because Georgie’s Mac (that we were playing the clips from) wasn’t properly connected to the desk. However we did mention the website where we could watch the video’s as I have previously mentioned.
The Encore Show
The Encore Show Treatment
Format
Live radio show to be broadcast for children in need.
Duration
1 hour
Intended audience
The primary audience for this show would be middle age women as this group of people enjoy watching and going to musicals, on our ‘test run’ we found that the ladies in the zone (ages 45+) really enjoyed the music and we got some very good feedback from them. However our secondary audience would be people of all ages as everyone enjoys musicals in some form of medium. We found that in our rehearsals we had lots of people singing along and dancing to the well known classics.
Style
As the show’s content is very similar to that of Elaine Page’s BBC 2 show we have chosen to make the style very similar too. We are doing that by having mainly music, a female presenter and lots of facts about each different musical. We also have a interview with a ‘actress’ which is also featured on the BBC 2 show.
Rationale
We believe our show is something different, a style that no one else had chosen to use for children in need. It will be a good ‘break’ from all of the current music and conversation. Musicals are for all ages and we play music that everyone appreciates.
Feasibility
We think this radio show is very feasible as there is such a wide audience for it, it is fun and exiting.
Budget
No budget necessary
Deadline
The show goes live on the 17th November
Format
Live radio show to be broadcast for children in need.
Duration
1 hour
Intended audience
The primary audience for this show would be middle age women as this group of people enjoy watching and going to musicals, on our ‘test run’ we found that the ladies in the zone (ages 45+) really enjoyed the music and we got some very good feedback from them. However our secondary audience would be people of all ages as everyone enjoys musicals in some form of medium. We found that in our rehearsals we had lots of people singing along and dancing to the well known classics.
Style
As the show’s content is very similar to that of Elaine Page’s BBC 2 show we have chosen to make the style very similar too. We are doing that by having mainly music, a female presenter and lots of facts about each different musical. We also have a interview with a ‘actress’ which is also featured on the BBC 2 show.
Rationale
We believe our show is something different, a style that no one else had chosen to use for children in need. It will be a good ‘break’ from all of the current music and conversation. Musicals are for all ages and we play music that everyone appreciates.
Feasibility
We think this radio show is very feasible as there is such a wide audience for it, it is fun and exiting.
Budget
No budget necessary
Deadline
The show goes live on the 17th November
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
The Encore Show Playlist. Updated - 2 times missing
1 Gimmie, Gimmie, Gimmie- ABBA 3:51
2 Stars – Les Mis
3 Electricity – Billy Elliot 5:49
4 Do Ray Me – Sound Of Music 2:16
5 I’d Do Anything – Oliver 3:44
6 Defying Gravity – Wicked 5:51
7 What a Feeling – Flashdance 4:04
8 All That Jazz- Chicago 5:04
9 Grease Lightning – Grease 0:00
10 (I’ve Had The) Time Of My Life – Dirty Dancing 4:42
2 Stars – Les Mis
3 Electricity – Billy Elliot 5:49
4 Do Ray Me – Sound Of Music 2:16
5 I’d Do Anything – Oliver 3:44
6 Defying Gravity – Wicked 5:51
7 What a Feeling – Flashdance 4:04
8 All That Jazz- Chicago 5:04
9 Grease Lightning – Grease 0:00
10 (I’ve Had The) Time Of My Life – Dirty Dancing 4:42
Tea and Toast Playlist
1 Do Your Thing Basement Jaxx 04:10
2 All Summer Long Kid Rock 04:55
3 The Bird And The Worm Owl City 03:27
4 Hey Soul Sister Train 03:38
5 Sweet Escape Gwen Stafini 04:06
6 Dancing With Myself Glee Soundtrack 03:10
7 Just The Way You Are Bruno Mars 03:39
8 Rollerblades Eliza Doolittle 03:03
9 The Cave Mumford & Sons 03:37
10 Barbara Streisand Duck Sauce
11 Kiss With A Fist Florence and The Machine 02:04
12 Last Thing On My Mind Steps 03:03
13 Doctor Jones Aqua 03:20
2 All Summer Long Kid Rock 04:55
3 The Bird And The Worm Owl City 03:27
4 Hey Soul Sister Train 03:38
5 Sweet Escape Gwen Stafini 04:06
6 Dancing With Myself Glee Soundtrack 03:10
7 Just The Way You Are Bruno Mars 03:39
8 Rollerblades Eliza Doolittle 03:03
9 The Cave Mumford & Sons 03:37
10 Barbara Streisand Duck Sauce
11 Kiss With A Fist Florence and The Machine 02:04
12 Last Thing On My Mind Steps 03:03
13 Doctor Jones Aqua 03:20
Radio Analysis Part 2
Elaine Page – Radio 2: Sundays 1pm till 3pm
BBC iPlayer
Content: Elaine Page discuses different musicals, talking about the writers and the actors in the show, she also talks about different covers of the songs and when they were done.
Presenter: Female presenter Elaine Page is somewhat formal and cheerful, she talks directly to the audience, for example saying hello etc. When introducing different songs she uses puns that the audience might find amusing (‘Lets move on to something more GLEEful’ – Plays Don’t Rain on My Parade – Glee)
Layout: The show starts after the 1 o’clock news, after the newscaster finishes an ident introduces the show ’88:91FM Elaine Page’ this ident then goes into the first song, a cheerful musical number. Elaine Page does not use any sound beds so she is heard correctly and keeps the show formal. Like the radio 1 show EPs show also advertises other Radio 2 programming half way through the show, this is to get the EP audience interested in other radio 2 shows.
Feature: Break A Leg: Elaine Page plays clips from the public who thank her about mentioning their musicals. She talks about different performances of musicals i.e. the circus style performance of Wizard of Oz. Also she plays songs from the musicals helping raise awareness of the performance.
Song choice: All of the songs are easy listening soundtracks to films and musicals, many songs are from not so well known musicals. Elaine Page is also knows for playing songs from the popular American television series Glee. EP plays a wide variety of musical numbers, some very cheerful, some not so cheerful, some are acapella and others are just the music (like the well known soundtrack for E.T.) this is so that every different type and style of musical is covered so that all of the audience will enjoy some of the music even if they dislike conventional musical numbers.
Guests: Elaine page sometimes interviews musical theatre actors, for example a few weeks ago she interviewed Jim Dale, a comedian, actor, song writer, voice over artist and popular musical theatre performer. In the interview she discuses different jobs the actor has had and plays clips of the artists work.
BBC iPlayer
Content: Elaine Page discuses different musicals, talking about the writers and the actors in the show, she also talks about different covers of the songs and when they were done.
Presenter: Female presenter Elaine Page is somewhat formal and cheerful, she talks directly to the audience, for example saying hello etc. When introducing different songs she uses puns that the audience might find amusing (‘Lets move on to something more GLEEful’ – Plays Don’t Rain on My Parade – Glee)
Layout: The show starts after the 1 o’clock news, after the newscaster finishes an ident introduces the show ’88:91FM Elaine Page’ this ident then goes into the first song, a cheerful musical number. Elaine Page does not use any sound beds so she is heard correctly and keeps the show formal. Like the radio 1 show EPs show also advertises other Radio 2 programming half way through the show, this is to get the EP audience interested in other radio 2 shows.
Feature: Break A Leg: Elaine Page plays clips from the public who thank her about mentioning their musicals. She talks about different performances of musicals i.e. the circus style performance of Wizard of Oz. Also she plays songs from the musicals helping raise awareness of the performance.
Song choice: All of the songs are easy listening soundtracks to films and musicals, many songs are from not so well known musicals. Elaine Page is also knows for playing songs from the popular American television series Glee. EP plays a wide variety of musical numbers, some very cheerful, some not so cheerful, some are acapella and others are just the music (like the well known soundtrack for E.T.) this is so that every different type and style of musical is covered so that all of the audience will enjoy some of the music even if they dislike conventional musical numbers.
Guests: Elaine page sometimes interviews musical theatre actors, for example a few weeks ago she interviewed Jim Dale, a comedian, actor, song writer, voice over artist and popular musical theatre performer. In the interview she discuses different jobs the actor has had and plays clips of the artists work.
Radio Analysis Part 1
Ferne Cotton – Radio 1: 10am – 12:45pm weekdays
Listened Live
Feature: Live lounge – This is a ‘competition’ to see which live lounge song is voted the best off 2010. Ferne plays 3 clips of different acoustic songs (not the whole song) so people can get an idea of it, then the audience can vote for there favourite song by texting the name of the artist to the studio, later on in the show the Live Lounge cover with the most votes gets ‘put through to round 2’ and the full song is played. EXAMPLE: 30 Seconds To Mars’ acoustic cover of Lady GaGa’s Bad Romance, Dianna Vickers’ acoustic cover of her own single Once and Jason Derulo’s acoustic version of his song Ridin’ Solo. The feature is introduced and clips are played regularly throughout the show for 15 minuets. After 15 minuets the full version today’s winner’ song is played this example’s winner was 30 Seconds to Mars – Bad Romance.
Song choice: Radio 1’s target audience is mainly teenagers and young adults, we can tell this primarily through the song choices made on Ferne Cotton’s mid-morning show. The show plays current pop and indie music such as Katy on a Mission – Katy B, Firework - Katy Perry and I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor – The Arctic Monkeys both well known up beat songs. Other that ‘current music’ Ferne Cotton’s show doesn’t have a set theme for music unlike Elaine Page’s Radio 2 show where all of the playlist are songs from musicals. The radio 1 show plays a mix of current ant popular tracks ranging from pop, dance, rock, indie and new music.
Presenter: Ferne Cotton is a well known TV presenter who has presented a wide variety of shows, because of this we, as an audience, recognise her voice and already know what she looks like. Ferne Cotton is very chatty and talks directly at the audience as she is the only presenter; she tries to inject humour into what she is saying and how she is saying it by changing the pitch and tone of her voice, the audience can relate to how she is doing this, this engages the audience and keeps their attention throughout the show. Ferne also laughs to herself when she says something funny, she sometimes stops to think or ‘ums’ through her presentations, this makes her seem informal and accessible because she is not just talking at the audiences with a well rehearsed script. An audience can recognise a rehearsed script compared to a presenter with notes to follow, the latter is more comfortable to listen to and the target audience prefers informal communication.
Layout: Ferne presents over a very quiet sound bed so that the audience can hear her clearly but this is also because when she does pause the audience hears the sound bed instead of silence which can sometimes be uncomfortable for the audience. Some of the songs are seqwayed by an indent usually saying ‘Ferne Cotton on radio 1’. Idents are used when going to the news and returning from the news (half past the hour). Idents are also used over the opening of a song a good example of this would be when I Bet That You Look Good on the Dance Floor was played an ident with information about the show was played over the songs well known introduction. This is also done at the end of the song: the audience can hear both the ident and the end of the song. Also the show promotes different radio 1 shows in-between the songs, for example between 2 songs on the Ferne Cotton show was a clip from Chris Moyles’ Radio 1 breakfast show, the clip uses one of the shows idents, a soundbed and had the presenters laughing and joking with each other. At the end of the clip we hear ‘our’ presenter Ferne in the clip commenting on the jokes – this makes a link between the two shows.
Guests: Ferne has a ‘guest’ with her at midday. A woman who presents the celebrity news, through this Ferne and the other presenter discuss the celebrity news and listen to clips of quotes from celebrities for example Russell Brand for the awards and Dermot O’Leary for the X-Factor. The news presenter very formal when discussing the news and becomes chatty when discussing the news with Ferne, this keeps the news room feel to the discussion because it is till news and should be taken seriously, also by keeping the news part of the feature formal the woman does not show her opinion and cannot seem bias. As it is Radio 1 and a public service broadcast the BBC have a responsibility to share any news with the audience and cannot be bias towards any type of news – celebrity or otherwise. The celebrity news is broken up by a song, on this show it was The Black Eyed Peas – Time of my life, and uses a different sound bed to establish that it is different from just Ferne presenting.
End of the show: The presenter discuses the schedule for the rest of the day and what will be in some if the other presenters show, mentions a competition and talks about the TV show that she will be presenting at the weekend.
Listened Live
Feature: Live lounge – This is a ‘competition’ to see which live lounge song is voted the best off 2010. Ferne plays 3 clips of different acoustic songs (not the whole song) so people can get an idea of it, then the audience can vote for there favourite song by texting the name of the artist to the studio, later on in the show the Live Lounge cover with the most votes gets ‘put through to round 2’ and the full song is played. EXAMPLE: 30 Seconds To Mars’ acoustic cover of Lady GaGa’s Bad Romance, Dianna Vickers’ acoustic cover of her own single Once and Jason Derulo’s acoustic version of his song Ridin’ Solo. The feature is introduced and clips are played regularly throughout the show for 15 minuets. After 15 minuets the full version today’s winner’ song is played this example’s winner was 30 Seconds to Mars – Bad Romance.
Song choice: Radio 1’s target audience is mainly teenagers and young adults, we can tell this primarily through the song choices made on Ferne Cotton’s mid-morning show. The show plays current pop and indie music such as Katy on a Mission – Katy B, Firework - Katy Perry and I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor – The Arctic Monkeys both well known up beat songs. Other that ‘current music’ Ferne Cotton’s show doesn’t have a set theme for music unlike Elaine Page’s Radio 2 show where all of the playlist are songs from musicals. The radio 1 show plays a mix of current ant popular tracks ranging from pop, dance, rock, indie and new music.
Presenter: Ferne Cotton is a well known TV presenter who has presented a wide variety of shows, because of this we, as an audience, recognise her voice and already know what she looks like. Ferne Cotton is very chatty and talks directly at the audience as she is the only presenter; she tries to inject humour into what she is saying and how she is saying it by changing the pitch and tone of her voice, the audience can relate to how she is doing this, this engages the audience and keeps their attention throughout the show. Ferne also laughs to herself when she says something funny, she sometimes stops to think or ‘ums’ through her presentations, this makes her seem informal and accessible because she is not just talking at the audiences with a well rehearsed script. An audience can recognise a rehearsed script compared to a presenter with notes to follow, the latter is more comfortable to listen to and the target audience prefers informal communication.
Layout: Ferne presents over a very quiet sound bed so that the audience can hear her clearly but this is also because when she does pause the audience hears the sound bed instead of silence which can sometimes be uncomfortable for the audience. Some of the songs are seqwayed by an indent usually saying ‘Ferne Cotton on radio 1’. Idents are used when going to the news and returning from the news (half past the hour). Idents are also used over the opening of a song a good example of this would be when I Bet That You Look Good on the Dance Floor was played an ident with information about the show was played over the songs well known introduction. This is also done at the end of the song: the audience can hear both the ident and the end of the song. Also the show promotes different radio 1 shows in-between the songs, for example between 2 songs on the Ferne Cotton show was a clip from Chris Moyles’ Radio 1 breakfast show, the clip uses one of the shows idents, a soundbed and had the presenters laughing and joking with each other. At the end of the clip we hear ‘our’ presenter Ferne in the clip commenting on the jokes – this makes a link between the two shows.
Guests: Ferne has a ‘guest’ with her at midday. A woman who presents the celebrity news, through this Ferne and the other presenter discuss the celebrity news and listen to clips of quotes from celebrities for example Russell Brand for the awards and Dermot O’Leary for the X-Factor. The news presenter very formal when discussing the news and becomes chatty when discussing the news with Ferne, this keeps the news room feel to the discussion because it is till news and should be taken seriously, also by keeping the news part of the feature formal the woman does not show her opinion and cannot seem bias. As it is Radio 1 and a public service broadcast the BBC have a responsibility to share any news with the audience and cannot be bias towards any type of news – celebrity or otherwise. The celebrity news is broken up by a song, on this show it was The Black Eyed Peas – Time of my life, and uses a different sound bed to establish that it is different from just Ferne presenting.
End of the show: The presenter discuses the schedule for the rest of the day and what will be in some if the other presenters show, mentions a competition and talks about the TV show that she will be presenting at the weekend.
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