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'.