Preliminary exercise:

Create the introductory music/jingle for a show on the radio, with a presenter
introducing and greeting their guest (who must respond) and playing an archive sound clip relating to the guest (approximately 30-40 seconds duration in total).

This exercise is to demonstrate understanding of sound editing and mixing and conventions of radio.

So, the four elements are:

An introductory jingle
A presenter, introducing the show, themselves and welcoming their guest
The guest's response
The archive sound clip, relating to the guest.
DEADLINE: Friday 6th February


Audio Research
Radio Jingles
Chris Moyles show

The Chris Moyles show is an early morning radio broadcast airing at the common time of when people are travelling to work. As expected for a morning broadcast the representation of the show is that of a happy one, in order to cheer up the listener who needs to drag themselves to work first thing in the morning.
It features for its jingle a happy, fun theme perhaps with an element of comedy about it featuring light brass instruments and radio sound effects. This portrays an element of attraction to the program as something that an early morning, tired and bored simpleton will want to listen to in order to cheer themselves up upon tuning in. The idea is that the person is attracted by the fact that the music being played makes them feel better.

From this one can draw the primary element needed for a radio jingle, the attraction factor that depends on the time of day and the target audience.

The other necessity of the jingle is that it is short and distinguishable from the other jingles being played by other presenters, also it usually shares conventions with the music being played 

The opening of the Chris Moyles show portrays the controversial theme of his show, instead of the traditional straightforward questions asked by Radio 2 presenters Chris at times debates with his guests, or can bring up controversial issues which can clearly come across as offensive. This is portrayed in the jingle by it being rather long for a jingle somewhere just under a minute, rather long for a radio jingle. It certainly seems longer as a bassline plays while Chris has a starting conversation with his guests.

Channel 103
Peter Mac

Peter Mac is a presenter that i am used to hearing on the radio, he can be very unpredictable as to what he plays on air. So to mirror the effect this has, he has a very large selection of jingles the more famous of these jingles being "Spider Mac" . Essentially all this is is the introductory tune of the old "Spider Man" television series with Mac interrupting where the lyrics say "man" Mac simply interrupts with 'Mac!". This is an easy way to put across who is presenting the show and adds the comedic fun effect that is also represented in the Chris Moyles show at the same time slot.

This then suppourts the idea that the jingle is determined by the specific time slot which in turn represents the content of the show