Media Studies - Radio Diary

Week 1 - 3/10/22

This week we learned about representation theory and how people & groups are represented in the media. Next, we decided our Radio project groups and created a research survey that will be sent out to other students to gain information on our target audience/demographic.

Week 2 - 10/10/22

This week we learnt about jump cuts and stereotypes and how they're created in the media. Furthermore, we've decided the name of our radio show (RegentsX FM), the format of the show, the songs were going to play, and the segments were going to have.

Week 3 - 17/10/22

This week we learnt about narrative codes, identity theory, and binary opposites. More importantly, we moved on to the script making portion of our radio show to create an idea of what will be said on the show. After that, we started working on our jingle and testing our voices by recording a draft of the introduction on a phone.

Week 4 - 25/10/22

This week we learnt about news agendas and how and why the news portrays things the way they do. We also learnt how to use radio equipment like microphones, mixers, and editing software through a crash course a teacher provided us.

Week 5 - 1/11/22 

This week we learnt about the impact of new technologies on Media, and started recording our radio show and designed our logo.

Week 6 - 8/11/22

This week we finished our radio recordings and I edited the radio show to include the jingle, songs, ads, recordings, and more.

Week 7 - 15/11/22

This week I worked further on finalizing the radio show edit and received feedback from our teacher Mr. Nick, who told us to make some more jingles, which we did. He also told me to not include the jingle at the end of the song, instead to just allow the song to fizzle out as we talk over the end of the song, which I agreed sounded better and did that. Other than that, we finalized our logo and I also finished my critical self reflection.

Week 8 - 22/11/22

In the final week I finished editing and uploaded the final product to my blog. I also made some final changes to my blog and updated all my radio posts and organized them as well.