Show: Fearne Cotton
Time: 11.30 – 11.45
Presenter: Fearne Cotton
Songs played: Tim Berg – love you seek, Celo Green – Forget You, Lissie - Everywhere i go, jay- z – young forever
Topics: The Inbetweeners, talking about upcoming shows, MTV Punked, new and upcoming singer
Lots of music, sound beds and sound effects, not much talking in between.
Radio 1 is a very busy and diverse radio show especially the Fearne Cotton show. When analysing the show it was clear that the show had quite a young target audience, around 15 – 40 year olds. We could tell this from the type of music played. For example most of the music is, or has recently been in the charts and other music is new and upcoming artists. This narrows the target audience down as not all 40+ year olds keep up with the current music. The style of the show is also quite fast and upbeat to suit the target audience. For example the mode of address is very informal and conversational and her tone of voice and use of phrases is very suited to young people, almost as if she is interacting with the young audience directly. There are many examples of this throughout the show as she shares her opinions on different tv shows and music and refers to relevant media in a conversational and enjoyable way, rather than just informing the audience.
Throughout the show a number of soundbeds and sound effects are used. These are used when advertising upcoming shows and explaining what is next on the station. The idents used are very loud and lively making them sound fun and entertaining for the listener.
The show focus’ mostly on the music having 4 songs, (roughly 12 minutes of music) in just over 15 minutes. The gaps for talking in between the tracks were short and informal and Fearne mentioned things such as, the other nights episode of the Inbetweeners, the revival of the MTV show “Punk’d” and a new and upcoming singer, all of which are things that the target audience want to know about. This was proved be how many people were texting in, in response showing that the show has a big following and how the generation targeted are all willing to text in to the show.
Pitch: I would say for a lady Ferne Cotton has quite a low pitched voice but this pitch is very easy to hear on the ears and is a calming yet young voice that her target audience can relate to.
Projection: Her voice is very clear and has the perfect levels in sync with the music and sound beds etc.
Pace: Her pace seems like a normal and easy to grasp pace to the listeners however when she gets excited about a new band or song etc, her pace can speed up making it sound more fun and exciting. The pitch also changes with this and i feel this is the best way to build excitement and also attract listeners.
Projection: Her voice is very clear and has the perfect levels in sync with the music and sound beds etc.
Pace: Her pace seems like a normal and easy to grasp pace to the listeners however when she gets excited about a new band or song etc, her pace can speed up making it sound more fun and exciting. The pitch also changes with this and i feel this is the best way to build excitement and also attract listeners.
Show: BBC World Service – The Strand
Time: 9.30 - 10am
Presenter: Mark Coles and Harriet Gilbert
Songs Played: None
Topics: Current events, important new stories, architecture, lots of interviews.
Short news style ident. Preseters say a point at a time and don’t talk over eachother. Quite depressing news stories. The style of the show is very formal and indirect to the listeners. Her pitch its quite low but her projection is good, making her voice seem suited to what is being told but also easy to listen to and understand. There is no music or any other idents and the show is pretty much all filmed out on the streets, the only background noise the show has is the ambience of the people around them and the traffic noise. This is quite effective as it shows where the information is coming from and is almost more visual for the viewer as they are able to think of where the interview is being held, however i do not feel this would appeal to a young audience as it is quite boring, therefor if we were to use this type of style then it would be more suited to our "Encore show".
The way the show is presented, idents and soundbeds would not be appropriate as there is so much information being given and the two together would be too much for the reader to take in. That is something that we would need to consider when we do our shows.
The presenters take a lot of short pauses as so much information is being explained small pauses are needed so that the reader can keep up and understand what is going on.
As i said earlier this show is more like the style of our show "The Encore Show" and wouldn't really fit at all with our show "The Tea and Toast Show". I would say the target audience of this show is an older audience, late 30's +, purely because of the presenters mode of address, information being given, the topics, the age of presenter and how she is talking to the listeners. Therefore we can take some of the style and ideas from this show and incorporate it into our show.
Show: Classical Fm
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Presenter: Anne - Marie Manhall
Songs Played:
Topics: Early music memories, disney films and musicals,
Short simple ident to start the show, giving basic times for important shows. She interviews Florence Welch about her early music likes and her biggest influences. Talking about which musicals have influenced our lives would be something good to do on the show. The gues compared to the presenter has quite a timid quiet voice and would obviously have to have been turned up on the levels, however the presenter has a perfect pitch and projection. Her pitch and tone shows and level of interest in the guest and what she has to say which makes us as listeners feel more interested. Therefore our presenter need to be really cheerful and interested in the show else our listeners wont be. Also her projection is good as her voice is a right level and all of her words are clear and easy for all ages to relate to and understand.
The show itself has no music or idents after the start and it consists just of the conversation between the two people, again suggesting that more formal shows should have less going on and maybe not a soundbed.
Pitch: The pitch is considerably lower in the more classically based programmes. I feel this is a code and convention of these style shows, as they generally are slower, calmer and need a low, soothing tone of voice.
Projection: The projection pretty much stays the same throughout the show, keeping to the same low sound, so that it can be easily listened to in any circumstance and will not startle and older listeners.
Pace: The pace, as statued earlier, stays slow and almost boring to certain listeners.
Pause: There are an appropriate number of pauses in the speech so that the audience and listeners can listen easily but i do not feel that these are for anything such as dramatic effect.
Conclusion:
All of these shows are very different, Ferne Cotton's show for example is more like our Tea and Toast Show, whereas the others are closer to our show The Encore. As the above shows have done, it is important to cater our show to our target audience, right down to the presenter, effects used, topics and playlist.
The way the show is presented, idents and soundbeds would not be appropriate as there is so much information being given and the two together would be too much for the reader to take in. That is something that we would need to consider when we do our shows.
The presenters take a lot of short pauses as so much information is being explained small pauses are needed so that the reader can keep up and understand what is going on.
As i said earlier this show is more like the style of our show "The Encore Show" and wouldn't really fit at all with our show "The Tea and Toast Show". I would say the target audience of this show is an older audience, late 30's +, purely because of the presenters mode of address, information being given, the topics, the age of presenter and how she is talking to the listeners. Therefore we can take some of the style and ideas from this show and incorporate it into our show.
Show: Classical Fm
Time: 9:00am - 1:00pm
Presenter: Anne - Marie Manhall
Songs Played:
Topics: Early music memories, disney films and musicals,
Short simple ident to start the show, giving basic times for important shows. She interviews Florence Welch about her early music likes and her biggest influences. Talking about which musicals have influenced our lives would be something good to do on the show. The gues compared to the presenter has quite a timid quiet voice and would obviously have to have been turned up on the levels, however the presenter has a perfect pitch and projection. Her pitch and tone shows and level of interest in the guest and what she has to say which makes us as listeners feel more interested. Therefore our presenter need to be really cheerful and interested in the show else our listeners wont be. Also her projection is good as her voice is a right level and all of her words are clear and easy for all ages to relate to and understand.
The show itself has no music or idents after the start and it consists just of the conversation between the two people, again suggesting that more formal shows should have less going on and maybe not a soundbed.
Pitch: The pitch is considerably lower in the more classically based programmes. I feel this is a code and convention of these style shows, as they generally are slower, calmer and need a low, soothing tone of voice.
Projection: The projection pretty much stays the same throughout the show, keeping to the same low sound, so that it can be easily listened to in any circumstance and will not startle and older listeners.
Pace: The pace, as statued earlier, stays slow and almost boring to certain listeners.
Pause: There are an appropriate number of pauses in the speech so that the audience and listeners can listen easily but i do not feel that these are for anything such as dramatic effect.
Conclusion:
All of these shows are very different, Ferne Cotton's show for example is more like our Tea and Toast Show, whereas the others are closer to our show The Encore. As the above shows have done, it is important to cater our show to our target audience, right down to the presenter, effects used, topics and playlist.
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