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Radio Jingles

A jingle is a memorable slogan, set to an engaging melody, mainly broadcast on radio. Jingles are used in different areas of radio, they can be used as an advetisement for the radio station. We were set the task of creating our own radio jingles. A show promo which advertises the radio station and can be used to let listeners know about new shows coming up. This was to be 1 minute one. An station ident which is a short jingle which usually only includes the radio's name and frequency. This was to be 10 seconds long. A station ident is used imbetween slots of shows and a news jingle. A news jingle, 15-30 seconds long is an introduction into the news show of the station. We researched the codes and conventions of jingles. How they work, who they are for, what sounds and effects they are made up of and what each one has in common. We listened to different jingles including Radio 1 and began planning out what we wanted our jingles to be made up of. We used the software 'Soundbooth' which allowed us to mix music and affects together.

I mixed Bloc Party - Hunting for witches with the orignal BBC News theme song. I added a voice over of 'This is Jessica Mateer bringing you your weekly news live on SNC radio' for my news jingle. My show promo was more complicated when creating, i began with a clock ticking being followed by an alarm clock which was overlapped with a fast pace song. My show promo was similar to my news ident as it only consisted of one voice over and one song. I used The prodigy - Omen and played it until the bass drop came, leaving me having a voice over of 'SNC Radio'.

Pin Hole Project.

Sir David Brewster was one of the first to make pinhole photographs in the 1850s. They then became popular in the 1890s being sold in Europe, the United States and in Japan. Pinhole cameras are used to create photography without using a lens. The lens is replaced by using a small prick sized hole also known as an aperture. An aperture is a hole allowing light to travel into the camera. The size of the aperture and the brightness of the scene control the amount of light that enters the camera during a period of time, and the shutter controls the length of time that the light hits the photographic paper this can be measured in increments called f-stops. The aperture was 0.8mm, we worked out the f point by dividing the box length by this figure. The length of my box was 230mm, giving me the fpoint of 287.5. This gave us a reasonably good guess of how long the shutter was to be opened for. Outside, my shutter was to be opened for 40 minutes. Inside, it was to be opened for 2 minutes.

For my pinhole camera, I used a basic celebration chocolate tin. I started by making my tin light proof. I did this by painting the inside and the lid with two coats of black paint. Photographic paper can not be exposed to light, which meant we had to put the paper in while in the ‘dark room’. I rounded photographic paper opposite the pinhole in hope to create a panorama image. I then used a thick tape to seal the lid with out allowing any light in. I used a type of tin foil which I pricked a pin size hole in, this was used as my lens. A simple piece of black cardboard and selotape was used for my shutter.

I set out to take a picture of a sink tap. Unfortunately, i over exposed my photo.

Hello, i'm Jessica Mateer. A National Diploma student studying Media Reproduction at the Suffolk New College. This blog will contain my future projects involving, radio jingles, video work and my most recent pinhole project.

Enjoy!