Radio Trailer Script

Music:
Style – Electronica
Song – House Fever
Version- Break It Up

Voice over
Will the increase in University tuition fees really have a negative effect on students who want to apply for a University course?
Will students be put off by having to take out a loan or has the increase had no effect at all?

Speech from Terry Justice Conservative Chancellor of Dagenham and Rainham

Voiceover
On Friday 18th December at 6’o clock HCTV presents Is University Worth It?
You can’t afford to miss it!

Newspaper Advert

Codes and conventions for a Poster

Codes in operation in TV posters
 Photography
 Language – register (high or low)
 Layout
 Typography (fonts – important in terms of mode of address (formal/informal)

Conventions- (application of codes)
 Imagery – simple and condenses key theme, could be symbolic
 Image needs to be engaging and emotionally involving
 Sentence- simple (include factual figures/questions/statements)
 Typography- upper case(links idea with current affairs)
 Fonts - elaborate in design (clearly contrasting with background to aide readability)
 Broadcaster Logo/links to website
 Layout – headline, framing, anchoring image
 Good quote from interviewee( facts that engage audience)

I took the codes and convention of a poster into account when designing my poster

Update - newspaper advert

I found an established image from the internet and played around with the manipulation of the image using Gimp. As it was my first time using the image manipulating software, I had to familarise myself with what it offers. This included using layers, colourising, merging etc. It took quite a while to get used, but I improved bit by bit. In the beginning, I downloaded Picasa; this was an easier programme to use, though there wasn’t much choice and variety on what I could do to the image making it weak.


When it came to taking my own image, it did not work at all. It was hard to get hold of a university outfit and graduation hat, so I scraped the idea.




Next I came up with the idea of graduation certificate with money surrounding it. The flash of my camera worsened the picture, which made it look messy and unclear.



Finally with help from media teacher, I decided to take 2 pictures. The first image was coins stacked up against a white background, second was a model carrying something against a white background as well. Then I had to merge the two together. Problems that occurred were the background, even though the background came out white and bright on the camera, on the computer it was grey. To fix this problem I used the magic wand, which is a fuzzy effect, select the images I wanted. I then placed the coins on top of the model’s hand. So it looked like the coins were weighing the model down.

There are so many ways I could improve image, but time was running out. I added the title, a simple statement to the poster that related to the topic, the broadcaster’s logo and a link to website. Typography was bold, in upper case, making more clear and appealing.