Manipulation of Provided Material

We were given the task to edit some pre recorded and some of our own material and then compose an interesting radio package edit, this included an interview with Annie McGann, a recording of "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg and a vox pop. Below you will be able to listen to my final edit.

Broadcasting (Public Service, Commercial, Digital and The Internet

In today’s session we looked at the different ways things can be broadcast whether it be public service broadcasting, commercial television, digital television or over the Internet. We discovered that public service broadcasting such as the BBC is controlled by the public and also paid for by the public, through TV licensing, its non commercial and therefore has to appeal to a wide range of people of all diversities and will have to be of high quality. Commercial television on the over hand is the opposite and is funded by advertising, TV producers will therefore have to answer to the companies funding the TV programmes this could cause an affect in the quality of programming. Later on in the session we went on to discuss how the Internet and innovations such as on demand television may affect public service broadcast suggesting “why would people pay for television, when they can get it free over the Internet” I found this topic very interesting as I think that this could affect we consume our media in the future, I believe soon public service broadcasting may no longer exist due to the internet and on demand, because this allows us to view what we went and when we want for free.

Andy Netley Freelance Editor

In today’s session a freelance editor called Andy Netley came in, so we asked him questions on editing, he explained that editing is all about getting images to link together to create a story, he also described how music plays a very important role in editing, being interested in music myself this appealed to me, he went on to explain that its important to choose the right music for the sequence so that it can capture the right mood and set the scene, he also stated that if he is struggling to make an edit he selects a track which he thinks is good for the sequence and edits along to the music, I found this very interesting and may well use this technique in the future. During this session I found myself thinking that the role of an editor really appeals to me because we found out that editing allows creative freedom but also involves a lot of technical stuff, both of these areas appeal to me within the media industry. Andy gave some good tips and how to get in to the editing industry he said that its important to make lots of contacts, to go on lots of work experience, make lots of your own stuff and practice editing he also said that time management is key with in the industry.