P1 - Group Preparation

As a group, we got together and all decided on the things that we would like to be a part of our radio news cast. 

The kinds of stories we thought would fit our criteria are hard stories such as crime, education etc yet include stories for young people as they're out target audience. Also because we're targetting a youthful audience, we thought fashion, celebrity, sports stories and the weather would attract them more. This presents the news value of human interest, currency and familiarity; if we had done a story on health for pensioners, they cannot really relate. Therefore by choosing these stories, it will attract a larger audience because it's something they can talk about as it's also current. 

In addition, we thought we should include different ways of presenting each story so that it's not the same thing and bore the audience. We came up with vox pops and voice inserts instead of just using recordings in our newscast. To edit these, we said we'd use audacity to cut, trim, paste, etc the sound clips to how we need. To record all this, we said we'd use a dictaphone instead of using phones because they record at a better quality than our mobile phones. 

For our newstory, like others we decided to start off with the introduction to ourselves. By presenting ourselves first we feel that our audience will have a better sense of familiarity. The the normal procedure of how to start a news story once we fully research on how it is done on popular radio stations like Capital FM.