Evaluation of 3 jingles

News Jingle

Station Ident

The aim of the task was to create three jingles which would be used to suite the Suffolk New College radio show, the three jingles were station identification, this would be used for a specific radio station, and this would be unique for this radio station. The next radio jingle was for a news station, this would be formal and very suitable for a news intro. The last jingle would be based on a station promo. This would be used to promote your show.

Things that went well in my jingles were that I thought I completed the task of the target audience, the music and sounds I used I personally thought they would suite a student ages group. Also I thought that I completed the station identification very well, the use of music chosen was a good choice. The way in which I got my music and sounds went very well too, this was because al of the music I used was of my phone, so all I needed was my adapter and could successfully add music to my computer to use.

There were many things in my jingles that didn’t go very well; I didn’t complete the full task as a result of this. The programme we used on the Macs was very poor, for me personally the programme kept randomly closing and freezing, as a result of this the file either closed without saving or just corrupted; this was very annoying as I had to start all over again about three times. This wasn’t just the case for me; I found that this happened to a few other people. I didn’t use my time correctly either, this was a bad thing because I spent way too long on a specific jingle and then had to rush the other two, and with the programme crashing it gave me not long to do two jingles.

There are many other devices I used to get my jingle working, for additional voices on top of the sounds I used the built in microphone on the Macs. This was very helpful as I didn’t have the nuisance of changing the formats and everything just to put it onto the programme.

An overview of the assignment would be that I didn’t use my times wisely, and would space my time out for each jingle. Also if I was to do this assignment again I would not use the programme (Soundbooth) on the Macs. This is because the programme kept crashing and I have used more and better programmes that do the same job and I know the layout of those programmes, maybe I could say that the lack of experience of the programme could be a reason for not a great set of jingles.

I thought that the best jingle of my 2 was the station identification; this was because I put the most effort into this one due to it being more interesting. I would defiantly do the harder jingles first if I was to do this again so that I give myself more time of those ones. Or I would create a timetable so that I can keep to a set period for each jingle.