Evaluation- Using Conventions Of Real Media Products- News

When it came to researching news stories, I looked at multiple onine stories, on the radio and on newspapers which showed me how news is presented, so from this I had to create my own news stories and make it sound realistic for my radio show.

5 W's
News Values

Then I had to research between national and local news stories and had to identify the similarities and differences between them as well as seeing how they are constructed when they incorporated the news values and 5 W's, below is example of a national and local news story with the analysis I did.

National News Story 1) Disaster
Local News Story 1) Disaster
Comparing National And Local News Stories


I then listened to news bulletins from a couple of different stations and found that the news comes on the hour, every hour as well had to compare the news between the stations. I found out that there are roughly 3 or 4 news stories and 2 to 3 adverts as well as the main headlines have a soundbite with it so when I created my own news bulletin Incorporated these soundbites in the headlines.

News Bulletin For Kerrang
News Bulletin For Capital FM
Comparing News Bulletins

Researching news bulletins showed me different ways in which news stories are given. They use a varity of conventions which include correspondents, voxpops, outside broadcast, soundbites etc. So by including these conventions in me stories it made it sound more authentic and a realistic piece of radio. For my first news story I used a correspondent for it as if he was at the scene by oxford street and as well added the sound effect of cars in the background and people walking to make it sound that he is giving the news live. As well as for voxpops I got opinions from the public about their team doing well in the league as well as students protesting about the recent increase in uni fees.

Below is the my complete news bulletin after putting all the conventions that i researched into my news such as correspondents, voxpops etc and you can hear all the elements that ive put to make it sound like a real radio show.