Evaluation 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media ?

After completing my preliminary task the first task I completed was listen to a range of radio stations, by doing this I was able to compare different station, to observe the similarities and differences. As I was planning on doing a radio station inspired by Capital Fm, I listened to similar London based radio stations and noted down the structural features that were similar.

most of the research and planning for my radio station was carried out to discover and to educate myself  on the main conventions of radio. By doing this I felt I would be confident enough to incorporate these conventions into my own radio show.I found that regardless of the station and genre of station, there were many similarities shared between the stations.

Each news bulletin contained three to four stories which included sound bites, vox pops and outside broadcasts. Another aspect I picked up on is that each news bulletin from different stations began with the same type of music, which would automatically tell viewers that the news of the hour or day was about to be told, after hearing this across several stations, I made sure to note it down and incorporate it into my own station.

Whilst listening to various stations such as Kiss FM, Capital Fm and LBC I noticed that they each included various jingles throughout there daily show, for example, kiss had a jingle for news, for the introduction of a new DJ and a main station jingle. Having noticed this I made sure I would include several jingles in my own station.