LO1 Research Notes

Podcast from bbc.co.uk/podcasts
Huw Stephens: Dead English Gentlemen and Sunset Suns

The purpose is to entertain and deliver new music to the audience from a wide variety of genres. It is fit for its purpose as it is easy to listen to and very enjoyable, as well as giving fresh ideas to its audience
The form is a radio show, condensed into a short podcast. It is an informal and very friendly show. This show he does not have any guests but introduces the bands with some information about their background. But sometimes he has conversations with artists.
It delivers new music in a friendly environment for people to enjoy. It also gives conversation starters that the audience can use in their day and gives the audience new music and ideas to think about.
It seeks to influence what the person listens to by offering new genres that the listener may not have encountered or not given a chance, the two songs played in this one are relatively new and low key, so the audience may not have heard of them.
The genre of the music is not specific, the only part that is specific is that the music will be fairly new and from lower key, less well known artists, this will give them a chance to get noticed as well as offer alternative music for his audience. You can tell as all the music is very fresh and there is a good chance you won't have heard the song.
The target audience is anyone willing to expand their musical taste and knowledge, the stations age demographic is between 18-40 as these will be the people that are most likely willing to listen to new music.
The frequency of the show 3 times a week, it is on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the individual shows last for 3 hours, from 10pm.
The product will be produced in a studio. There will be a number of people to help with the show, their will be script writers to help with conversations, there will be people to organise the guests, even though in this podcast there are none. There will also be people in research to find out what music will be played on the show.

Area of research: Music Talk Show	Notes: Big John @ Breakfast Recording
Purpose	The purpose of the show is to entertain the listener on their way to work and school runs in the morning. It is fit for purpose as it has a variety of interesting topic conversations as well as popular Adult Contemporary music.
Form & Style	The show is a music talk show presented on the radio. It is an informal, regional talk show which you can tell from the accents and dialect in the show. It is informal and conversational to entertain the audience, as it is fun, which keeps them listening throughout the show.
Content	There are a variety of things that make up the content of the show. Many songs from AC genre are played as it is the music that most people listen too. There is an advert about Subway on the show which connotes that the people listening are in the ABC1 category because they will have the disposable income to spend on fast food. The jingles and idents on the show will denote the type of music played, which is AC, but will connote that the show is for the general listener who enjoys the radio and has a stereotypical musical interest.
Meaning -	The show will influence the listeners conversations in the morning and give them something to talk about in their day. The adverts, jingles and idents convey the connotations of a general, stereotypical person in Yorkshire that goes to work or looks after their family because everything on the show is played or talked about because it is popular and the general working public will have an interest in it. Therefore their target audience are people between the ages of 20-45. The dialect used connotes that the people on the show are from Yorkshire and will relate to their audience because of this.
Genre -	The show belongs to the genre music talk show, as there is lots of conversation that is split up by music. The genre of music in the show is adult contemporary as it is the one most listened too by their target audience so they will play it to meet the needs and the taste of the majority of their listenership.
Target audience -	The target audience of the show is both genders between the ages of 20-45 as most of these people will have jobs or kids, so will be able to listen to the show on the way to work or when they are taking their kids to school. This is also why the topics on the show involve talking about work and kids as most of the listeners will be able to relate to this when listening.
Frequency	The show is made weekdays between 6-10am as this is when the majority of people will be going to work or taking kids to school, so the majority of their target audience will be able to listen.
Production process	The show will be written out by a team of script writers that decide on the number of topics as well as what the presenters will talk about. The music will be selected and put onto a play server for the presenters to select on the show. The cart wall will be used to play the jingles and idents on the show. The adverts that have paid the most will be used more as they will have more priority on the show. It will be played on high quality wav files.

Area of research: Music Talk Show	Notes: Jake Thompson- Kerrang Radio http://radioplayer.kerrangradio.co.uk/live/
Purpose –	The show is designed to give listeners something to enjoy musically and conversationally as it is designed to entertain the listener. It does this through it’s popular rock and indie chart music as well as a few from the past, and engages the listener with the talking points the show brings up. It is successful in what it does as it attracts a large audience when it is on, due to its entertainment factor.
Form & Style –	It is a music talk show on the radio, the style is conversationalist with music to break up the chat on the show, which helps to switch topics and gives chance for the listeners to discuss and/or respond to the raised topics. The talk is informal, as it is targeted at a younger audience who would relate more to the colloquial language.
Content -	The shows delivers music and talk in a calm and friendly atmosphere that is appealing to the audience. The idents on the show appeal to their audience as well as tell them what sort of music is played on the show. One jingle has fresh, modern rock/indie music in the background which denotes the music it plays but also connotes that it appeals to a more modern, young audience. One of the conversations is about the kerrang magazine as they are part of the larger conglomerate, Bauer Media, so it is able to advertise its own products on the show. The Jake Thompson show Ident is very short, but is easy to recognise and remember for the audience. It is a very modern sounding ident to connote a modern, youthful target audience, as it is also fast and upbeat. There is an advert about dieting, which is used on the show as young people are usually very image conscious, so the advert will appeal to the audience it targets.
Meaning -	The show seeks to influence the music that the audience are listening too by playing their favourite tracks as well as introducing them to newer music they may not have heard. The music and theme of the show connotes modern times, to appeal to a younger audience that the station and show both target.
Genre -	The genre the music on the show belongs to is indie and rock, you can tell this through the music the show plays, as well as the idents and jingles that are played throughout the show. As they denote the genre of music in the show.
Target audience	The audience for the show is mixed gender between the ages of 15 and 30, as its youthful advertisements and presenters are designed to appeal for a young audience, so that they are able to keep their listeners for a large amount of years. The music is also modern, so the target audience will know the songs and will be able to relate to the music.
Frequency -	The show is on weekdays between 10am and 2pm, this is because the target audience will probably be at college or at work, so they will be able to pass the time by listening to the show. They will be able to enjoy the show more as they will, more than likely be getting on with work, so it will be used as an escape from the stresses of work.

Area of research:	Notes: Planet Rock: Wyatt
Purpose	The purpose of the show is to have entertaining chat about modern and past rock music to give the audience talking points in the day. They play rock music from past and present to entertain the listener. It is a casual music talk show that fits in with the genre displayed on the radio station. There is more music than talk compared to the average music talk show.
Form & Style .	The form is a rock music talk show. It is a show that contains a large amount of music compared to the conversation when contrasting it with other stations. However this is done as the show is much more musically focussed than conversationally focused. It is an informal show to entertain rather than educate.
Content -	It delivers a variety of rock music from no particular era so that people that appreciate different era’s of music can listen to the show and know something they like has a good chance of coming up, so it appeals to a larger population of rock fans. The idents and jingles used in the show that advertise planet rock are very recognisable and simplistic. The content of the talk is general chit chat, as well as information about new and old music and bands.
Meaning -	It seeks to influence the readers knowledge of rock music. The jingles for the show are played over rock music to convey the meaning that is a rock radio station.
Genre	It is a music talk show, however contains more music than the average show does, it plays rock music as it is on a rock radio station, you can tell by listening to it.
Target audience -	The target audience are people that listen to rock music between the ages of 15-44, most people of this age range can follow and participate with the discussion as well as enjoy the music played on the show.
Frequency .	Every weekday from 10am until 2pm, it is during this time as people that don’t work can listen to the show whilst doing errands and housework. Also people at desks who have the ability to listen to the radio can do so during the day.
Production process	The show will be made in the studio with Wyatt as the DJ, however the scripting team will write a scripted conversation for the show. There will be sound technicians to set up the microphones and the software, for ease of use. There will be staff to organise the use of jingles and idents in the show, so that the procedure will be swift for the host. It is made available on DAB radio for anyone who can tune in. Play servers will be used for song selection on the show, using high quality wav files. The jingles on the show will be made on non linear editing packages.

Area of research: Audiobook	Notes: Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, Youtube
Purpose –	The purpose of the product is to represent the book with audio so the person does not have to read it, it is to entertain and is fictional. We would know this by listening to the story it tells.
Form & Style –	It is an audiobook and is read formally by the reader, as the delivery of the story is formal. But it is a story for entertainment. It is read well by Stephen Fry and is a direct piece, not conversational.
Content -	It delivers a story to the audience from the book it is read from. There are no idents, jingles, adverts etc. and there are no themes as it is just a reading from a book.
Meaning -	It seeks to engage the imagination of the listener, and makes them think about the story. But the reading conveys no meaning that the book its self does not.
Genre -	It belongs to the science fiction genre, you can tell this when listening to the story as it is told in a fictional way and is evidently not a true story.
Target audience -	The target audience for the audiobook is educated adults, due to the complexity of the language and how mature the story is.
Frequency	The audio product won’t be updated and there it would only be made once.
Production process	There will have been a sound team to do the recordings, as well as a team to do the music at the start. There will be a narrator who will have read from the book and a producer to edit and mix the final product. Then it will have been released on  the internet.

Area of research: Ident	Notes: Radio 1 Ident https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYJvMFRV6c
Purpose –	The purpose of the product is to advertise the show on the radio; it is to inform the listener what station they are listening too. It is fit for purpose as it tells the audience what they are listening to in a musical manner they are accustomed to.
Form & Style –	It is an ident so isn’t conversational, but it is informative. Although being informative it is also casual, as this fits in with the theme of the radio station.
Content -	It delivers a short burst of music of the same genre of the station, whilst also informing the audience what they are listening to.
Meaning -	The meaning in the ident is derived from the music in the ident, as it is modern music that its audience are likely to listen to. It will influence the listeners musical choice.
Genre -	It plays an elecro-dance style piece of music, which is an alternative genre of music different from modern adult contemporary, as this is the music that is played on the show.
Target audience -	The target audience is people from the age of 15-29 however RAJAR data says the average age is 33, this is why the music is targeted at younger people, so it attracts them to the show.
Frequency	The ident would have been used very frequently between changes in presenter, as well as going back from the news and other areas. It will be played as often as possible as a form of advertising.
Production process	The ident will have been produced on a synth, keyboard or software due to its genre, then produced and mixed by a producer, then played on the station by a DJ

Area of research: Jingle	Notes: Radio 2 Jingle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVbYVJ-N6pg
Purpose	The purpose is to introduce the radio station in a manner that is consistent with the music and talk that they have on the show. It is fit for purpose as it links in well with its radio shows.
Form & Style	It is a jingle so it is formal as it gives information, but being a jingle it obviously isn’t a conversational piece.
Content -	The jingle contains a small brass orchestra, a guitar, drums and a vocalist, who work together to create this short piece. It delivers information in a short musical piece to its audience.
Meaning -	It tells the listener that the music of radio 2 is classic, yet contemporary, which will appeal to its middle aged audience. It seeks to engage its listener in thought about the conversation they bring up on the show.
Genre -	It belongs to the same genre as the shows music does which is modern adult contemporary.
Target audience -	The target audience are people between the age of 35 and 60 as it is the stations most popular age range. The station gets 18% of its audience share.
Frequency -	The jingle comes up on the show fairly frequently, usually after music, news and new presenters, this is to advertise the show and make sure it is known as often as possible.
Production process -	The product was made with a group of musicians, as well as composer and sound technicians. Then a producer will have finalised the product to make it sound as good as possible, then played on the station by the DJ.