Radio Show Proposal

Every year, thousands of people embark on the journey to higher education. The concept is fairly simple, use tools such as UCAS to alert potential Universities of your course choices, attend interviews and hopefully enrol on your desired course. However, there are sometimes glitches in the system.



We propose to create a radio show that is primarily aimed at University students, staff and future University students.

The radio show will cover multiple angles on student life, but especially the main issue of Student Finance. The intention of the programme is to gather the correct evidence in order to create a story that affects most students during their first few months at University.


The main focus on Student Finance would be the late distribution of Student Loans and how this has affected the University and most importantly, the Students.


We will gather information regarding this matter from the Students themselves and how they are coping with the current economic climate and the shortage of disposable income they have.


We would also gather information from the Universities and Student Finance in order to give a different angle on the issue and what they are doing in order to help the Students and anyone else involved in the situation.


The radio station will be produced by Students, but will be aimed at a wide target audience. The target audience will be mainly fellow Students, but also the University staff, Student Finance and friends and families of anyone affected by the issues raised on the programme.


We intend to create a non biased production and to give as wide a view as possible on the issues raised in order to create a balanced and equal argument for both cases.

Radio Programme Structure

Here is the structure which the Gatehouse Fm production team has agreed on for our radio broadcast.

• A medley of news broadcasts/Jingle
• Harry's (presenter) Introduction
• Vox-pops (Have you got your loan through and if so how are you spending it) 
• Harry introduces Welfare 
• Welfare interview
• Student Finance segment
• Harry's conclusion

We will edit our production using the logic 9 softare. We will record the vox-pops using the edirol sound recording device. Snippets of each interview/segement wil be played before harry introduces the overall topic, by doing this hopefully our finished production will sound as auhentic/professional as possible. 

Gatehouse Fm

On the 27th of October we were given our first group assignment. We were sorted into groups and asked to explore ideas for a radio broadcast on a particular subject. My group consists of Mike, Ed and James. We Decided to call our radio station Gatehouse Fm as we felt that this was the most relevant title in terms of originality

Whilst brainstorming ideas on the subject in which our radio programme should be centered around it became apparent which direction in which our broadcast was ideed taking. We all came to a unanimous decision that our radio show should address issues that the students of Bath Spa University could relate to.
In a 4minute radio broadcast our show will be exploring issues in detail relating to student finance. We will be looking at what the university does to help students who are going through financial hardship especially at this time of the year due to loan payments not being received in time for the start for the 09 academic term .  

Our show will feature vox-pops from the students in the university we will be and interviews with people from the welfare department in the university as well as student the finance department.  

Photomontage Remake

For the past few weeks in class, we have been studying the revolutionary Documentary-Film Makers and fathers of Montage Eisenstein, Vertov and Kuleshov.

For our first assessment we were given the task of creating our own peices of history by trying to emulate their efforts and making our own themed montages. After watching the epic film by vertov The Man With The Movie Camera in which vertov documents a whole day in a city  I was inspired to create my own masterpeice with similar editing techniques.

Whilst learning how to use edit the software I learned how much effort goes into just a simple edit, it took me 4 hours to edit and compile roughly around thirteen photos and organise and arrange them in sucession. After my first effort was deemed too basic and lacked any imagination I remade my photomontage and chose a new theme.

My new photomontage is based on Africa as a continent. My video features parts of my hometown Accra  in Ghana where I was born.  I took most of these photos from a holiday, in which I returned back to my country of origin for the first time in thirteen years, some of the other pictures were from the internet.
Below is my remade montage.


Untitled from Edem King on Vimeo.

Soundscape Assignment

We were given the task of creating a soundscape. Our soundscape had to be between three to four minutes long and the sounds within our soundscapes had to be natural material which we had recorded ourselves and appear realistic.

My idea was to create a soundscape, witch would capture and doument the step by step process I take in the morning before going  to university.




Using the Edirol R-1 software I recorded homemade sounds. I edited the sound on Logic 9

During the process of making my soundscape I encountered some problems on the day in which I would address with great detail for future recording purposes.

• The Edirol software which I was using repeatedly switched itself due to the software displaying signs of a low battery I purchased some new batteries and  the editorl still switched itself off whilst I was in the process of recording my sounds

• When I tried to playback some of the sounds which I recorded erlier in the day the software would playback but some of the files would be sound damaged and the playback wasn't in good quality. 

Concerned about my problems which I was facing I raised the issues with our technician Richard Wood who in return tested the sftware and promised to keep an eye on its wellbeing for future use.

If i were to record again to combat these problems i would borrow the software early so if I had any problems they could be checked out early in time so it dosent interrupt me when i am in the process of recording for the future.


to listen to my finished edit please click here

Stop Motion

On the 9th of october in class we looked at Stop Motion Animation.

• But Just What is Stop Motion?

Stop motion animation is a technique in which an object  appears to move on its own Its first appearance in any motion feature was a production called the Humpty Dumpty Circus (1898). The concept of the film was to make a group of toy acrobats and anmials appear to come to life, the film itself was produced by  J. Stuart Blackton & Albert E. Smith . Stop motion works by moving an object individually and recording a frame by each movement each time. When the Stop Motion Animation is played back the object appears to move on its own.

Stop Motion Animation is ever present in childrens cartoons of today.
here are some cartoons which use the stop motion format today.

• Pingu 
• Postman Pat
• Bob the Bulider
• The Magic Roundabout 

below is an example of stop motion notice how the wooden model almost appears to move on its own, but at a close glance when the arm begins to slowly move we can see the framerate in which the movie has been recorded at.  

 


We were then set a mini task of creating our own minture videos I worked with Mike and Katie and we made a video called  disco dancing bins here is our attempt of creating a movie using stop motion animation.

 

Kuleshov...Vertov...Eisenstein...???

Here are three Russian directors who have made an impact on cinema, one way or another through their different styles of editing and techniques.

• Dziga Vertov

Dziga Vertov was born in 1896. He's main aim was to capture actuallity in films. this paved the way for the cinema verite style of documentary making

His famous films include.

• The Man With The Movie Camera .
• Lullaby
• Kino Pravda

He refferred to the camera lens as a second eye and he viewed the filmaking exploits as propaganda tool in which audiences could connect emotionally and empahize with the images and narative stucture in which the film consisted of.

he believed that the camera lens was far greater than the human eye from a visual perspective and he excersized his theory in his films shooting his films from a detatched perspective.

• Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Esisenstein was born in 1898 and seen as the father of montage. He is a revolutionary film director who's work has influenced many filmakers in the past and present. He stated that montage editing was the essance of cinema. Eisenstein stated that there were four methods of montage

• Metric
• Rhythmic
• Tonal
• Overtonal
• Intellectual

In his films Eisenstein did not use professional actors in any of his productions and often avoided casting star quality.

• Lev Kuleshov

Lev Kuleshov was a soviet filmmaker and also one of the pioneers of the montage theory. He created what was known as the Kuleshov effect, in which he put random images in a sequence, so that his films could emotionally effect the audiences perception. Many directors to this day have studied and applyed this effect in their films.