Final pitch

Ofcom and their rules and regulations.

OFCOM

·         Ofcom is a communications regulator in the uk.

• ·         They regulate things like TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobiles…
• ·         They make sure that people are protected from scams but at the same time they ensure that competition can thrive.
• ·         Ofcom operates under the acts of parliament, this includes the communications act 2003. They must act within the powers and duties that are set or it by parliament in legislation.
• ·         One of their main purposes is to further the interest if the citizens by prompting competitions.
• ·         They enforce rules for the sectors that they are responsible for.
• ·         Ofcom are funded by the fees from the industry for regulating and broadcasting networks.

·         Their main legal duties are to ensure:

• ·         People who watch tv and listen to the radio, they are protected from and offensive content.
• ·         People are protected from being treated unfairly in tv and in radio programmes.
• ·         That a high range of tv and radio are produced to the customers, making it appealing to a wide range of people.

Ofcom also investigate the complaints about the behaviour that goes against any rules that they enforce. They also work with Office of fair trading to enforce the competition law.

Structure:

Their main board provides guidance on the way forward for their organisation.

Sheffield live application.

Evolve Treatment

 

 Evolve.

 

Name or title of program:

Evolve.

Length of show (minimum 60 minutes):

The length of each show will be 20 minutes long.

Five minutes on each topic

Genre or type of program:

A gaming preview and review.

Brief description / synopsis:

Within the podcast, there will be an introduction of the game that I will be looking at or a round up of what happened at an event. If the game is new then there will be a breakdown of trailer and a talk about all of the latest news about the game. If the game has been released then I will be reviewing the game and then giving my personal views on it and if it is worth buying. I would then talk about if there is any sort of special content within the game that could be useful for the gamer.

Production method: c Live gRecorded c Both

Target audience

Time of day: The time of each podcast will be at 7:00pm GMT +0.

Day(s) of the week: The podcast will be updated every.

Intended age of audience: (15-24)

Other target details:

Peer assessment:

-          In depth description of what the podcast will include, everything is answered clearly

-          Add other target details (talk about demographics etc.) cx

Show Presenters/Hosts

# of Hosts: 2

Name/Descriptions of hosts:

Andre

Ken 

Delivery style:

Is it going to be delivered is a very informal way, this is because the target audience is very young so being informal would allow me to be more open with the audience.

Resources required

                Human:

Two people: Andre, Ken

                Equipment (Do you have your own setup, or do you need to use LukeRadio resources?):

Both sets of consoles Xbox and PlayStation. There are some games that are only available on a certain platform.

Hire a Studio so that all of the equipment that we need is included in the cost .

                Location:

G2 Studios, Sheffield.

                Production time (recording and editing):

The production time will be around 1 hour and half minutes, 10 of those minutes will be setting up the equipment and getting settled. It should take around 20 minutes to record the and the last hour will be spent on editing the audio.

Additional information 

Content of show (items, features and articles):

• Introduce what game I will be reviewing.
• Talk about the positives and the negatives of the game.
• My personal experience.
• Discuss any Easter eggs (special content) that is within the game.
• Close the episode by briefly mentioning what the next game is going to be.

Examples of questions and issues to be raised for interviews:

The makers of assassins creed have removed some features of there new game to make the overall experience more realistic, do you think this has been a positive improvement on the franchise.

Do you think that it is important for Rockstar to continue with franchises like GTA to satisfy their audiences or do you think that they should do something new.

Styles of music to be used:

The music that will be used in the podcast will be some of the soundtracks of the games that will be reviewed, for example soundtracks from League of legends. 

Will your program use advertising to make a profit?   g Yes  c No  c Maybe

Additional Details:

Legal and ethical:

One of main things that I need to consider is I’m I breaking any copyright laws. Since I am planning to have the external sources of audio that I would have gathered from the internet, I would find out whether it is free to use or not. Therefore I will need to contact the relevant people regarding audio. Another thing that I would have to consider is that is the content suitable for the audience, sometime in the future there may be games that are controversial to the public for being too explicit, if we decide to review the game it may lead to some backlash with our audience. One why we could combat this is to include a warning before the podcast so that stop listening to that particular if it might cause offence to them. To add to this the other thing that I need to consider is that are the games appropriate for me,  since I am only seventeen and some of the game out there have an eighteen rating it wold be right for me to review it, this is because it would set up a bad example to the audience as it would seem that I am encouraging young people to go out and play the games. Having a radio show or podcast means that you have a certain level of responsibility for the public.

Profits/Costs

Write a summary of your costs and profits here…

Resources.	Cost.
Studio hire	£30 per hour, £60 for 2 hours.
Guests	£15 per person
Production assistant	Minimum wage
PRS License	£43.50 per year
PlayStation 4	£349.99
Xbox one	£329.99
Total	£802.23

Profits.	Cost.
Per episode	£0.70
Rate card	£51.00

Sponsorship – in the gaming sector.


Sample of the script:
P1: Welcome back. So back on topic: GTA V. 

P2: It is now the year 2015 and rockstar north have finally released GTA v for PC, the re-release for this version was made available for PC on the 14th of April. The re-release changes little from the basic gameplay of the original version however, one of the more significant changes that have been made is that the online multiplier mode has now been increase from 16 to 30. The latest version of GTA V also includes a first person option, this seems great at first however after playing around with it a while you begin to notice that everything has become a lot harder. For example when driving you can only see what is in front of you, so you end up constantly crashing into things every time you want to turn. Although this is a setback, it also enhances other aspects of the game. An example of this is shooting, when you shooting up the place if feels like you’re playing call of duty I think that it is amazing that you can actually aim down your sights now.

P1: There's been a lot of concern about the game not running in its promised 60 frames per second. The reason? People's computers.

P2: One of the other things that I notice when playing this is that the Pc version can support 60fps and it is also 4K resolution compatible, this is good news for anyone that has the equipment to support this that wants to really bring the game alive.

Initial idea:
Pass- This is because thee are a lot of other media products that are similar to the ones that I am doing.

Target Audience:
Merit - This is because within sheffield there are a lot of teenagers / school  and college students, and since my podcast is targeted towards that age group it means that I will be targeting the majority of sheffield.

Format:
Merit - I wanted this as a podcast because I think that is would be easily assessable for people to listen to. Unlike the radio, you don't need a strong signal to listen to it. All you need to do is to download it and it is there for the audience to listen to whenever they want.

Finance:
Pass - This is because if was actually going to produce this podcast then it would be very expansive to start it.

Idea 1

Gaming.

One of the first of my ideas is a podcast on gaming reviews and all the news about new game releases on all platforms. Each episode will be ten minutes long and I will be exploring the news of all of the most popular games.
 For this idea the target audience would be in the age range of ( 14- 21 ) and mainly male. This is because most of the gamers tend to be male and it only seem to get the attention of people who are within that age range. This would appeal more to people who have a lot of spare time and most likely doesn't work, this is because gaming can be quite time consuming so if you are busy then you wont be able it enjoy it as much. The ideal person would have a stable income as they can afford to buy all of the latest games and game consoles however, it can also appeal to people with a lower income as game consoles are updated around every 5 years.
 My podcast would be available to the audience weekly, each episode will contain information on a different game.

Within the podcast I would start with a topic, the topic could be about sports. So for a couple of episodes i will be talking about the different types of sports games e.g FIFA, Madden, NBA etc...
Within each episode there would be a review of the game which would include the positives and the negatives, and would the game by worth buying. This podcast would be up to date because there are a mass amount of games to cover and new games are always being released quite often.
To record this podcast I would need a microphone so that I can record the audio, I would also need a computer with the software adobe audition. This is because this wont be live so the audio can be edited so that it can sound professional.

My possible ideas.

One of the first of my ideas is a podcast on gaming reviews and all the news about new game releases on all platforms. Each episode will be ten minutes long and I will be exploring the news of all of the most popular games.
The second idea is that I will create a music podcast. This podcast will be thirty minutes long and will contain a remix of all of the songs from a certain time of the year.
The third idea that I had will be a radio show on film reviews. Each show will be 20 minutes long and will contain my own views on some of the most popular films that are out currently. I will also be reviewing films from other years.

Treatment

 DJ Brown Treatment

DJ Brown

Name or title of program:

DJ Brown

Length of show (minimum 60 minutes):

The length of each show will be 30 minutes long.

Genre or type of program:

Music remixes.

Brief description / synopsis:

This is to be a radio show on music, I am going to have a 30 minute remix of all of the Rnb songs that have been released in a particular year. There will also be remixes of the significant phrases from a range of media in a particular year.

Production method: Both

Target audience

Time of day: The time of each podcast will be at 9:00pm GMT +0.

Day(s) of the week: The podcast will be updated every. (Friday)

Intended age of audience: (16-21)

Other target details:

Peer assessment:

-          In depth description of what the podcast will include, everything is answered clearly

-          Add other target details (talk about demographics etc.) cx

Show Presenters/Hosts

# of Hosts: 1

Name/Descriptions of hosts:

Andre

Delivery style:

Is it going to be delivered is a very informal way, this is because the target audience is very young so being informal would allow me to be more open with the audience.

Resources required

                Computer with audition.

Two people: Andre

Equipment (Do you have your own setup, or do you need to use LukeRadio resources?):

Hire a Studio so that all of the equipment that we need is included in the cost.

                Location:

G2 Studios, Sheffield.

                Production time (recording and editing):

The production time will be around 2 hours,  1 hour will be spent gathering all of the media I need and the other hour will be spent editing of the audio.

Additional information

·       Content of show (items, features and articles):

·       Introduce the show with what year I will be doing today.

·       Take in calls from the audience.

·       Play the remixes

·       End the show with what to expect on the next show.

Examples of questions and issues to be raised for interviews:

This year has been a bad year for RnB music, what would you want to see next year.

Songs like Chris browns’ Loyal has been seen as offensive to women, do you think that the way people are portrayed in music videos needs to be considered.

Styles of music to be used:

It will mainly consist of RnB and hip-hop but it may stretch to pop music.

Will your program use advertising to make a profit?   g Yes 

Additional Details:

Legal and ethical:

One of main things that I need to consider is I’m I breaking any copyright laws. Since I am planning to have the external sources of audio that I would have gathered from the internet, I would find out whether it is free to use or not. Therefore I will need to contact the relevant people regarding audio. Another thing that I would have to consider is that is the content suitable for the audience, there are some songs that are explicit and that can offend certain people. To combat this I plan to have the radio show on after 9 pm as that is after the watershed. Having a radio show or podcast means that you have a certain level of responsibility for the public.

Profits/Costs

Studio hire: £30 per hour, £60 for 2 hours.

Production assistant: Minimum wage

PRS License: £43.50 per year

Total: £103.50

Rate card: £51.00

Sponsorship – in music industry.

IP or the pitch.

The idea that I will be pitching is shared between me (Andre) and Ken. We came up with the topic of gaming then we developed on the idea on turning it into a gaming podcast which would consist of reviewing games and and talking about some of the events that have happened at some of the E-sports events. The one main thing that I have contributed to the pitch was about the reviewing the games section of the podcast, this will include mine and kens personal opinion of the game and how well the game has done within its first week of release. Ken came up with talking about E - sports section, this will include all of the main events and how e-sports become as big as it has today.