Analysis of Podcast
The Ricky Gervais Show (Sample)https://www.therickygervaisshow.com/podcasts/the-ricky-gervais-guide-to-the-arts-preview
Purpose
The purpose of The Ricky Gervais Show is to entertain, as well as deliver opinions and discussions on different subjects. Both entertainment and point of view derive most from Karl Pilkington, one of the hosts.
Form and Style
The Ricky Gervais Show was a weekly podcast that followed the format of most traditional chat shows, but with a more relaxed and informal conversation style as they all know each other and not interviewing on another but instead talking and sharing anecdotes to entertain their audience.
Content and Meaning
The Ricky Gervais Show contains introductions hosted by the title star Ricky Gervais.
The dialogue is made up of questions and conversation starters prompted to Karl by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Humour, observations, opinions and anecdotes are supplied by all three parties on the show.
The Ricky Gervais Show is not a music show, so it doesn't contain any musical segments apart from the jingles that lead in and out of their other segments, such as their Monkey News and Karl's Diary. The jingle for Karl's Diary is... ...the classical music connotes some wit or well thought, educational aspects to behind it, which is a satire of Karl's ignorance and unsophisticated approach to the subject.
Target Audience
The Ricky Gervais Show has achieved the World Record for the most downloaded podcast, noting it's high popularity among it's large audience. One of the reason for it's high audience rate is most likely due to the show's hosts including famous comedians Stephen Merchant and Ricky Gervais, writers of the award winning sitcom The Office; fans of their work would be intrigued to listen to one of their comical podcasts. Although the show mostly revolves around Karl Pilkington, Rick's name is used in the title as the creators are aware that this would pull in a larger audience due to his commercially recognisable name, so it's more likely to draw the attention of his fans, or at least people who are aware of him.
The show is presented by three males aged in their 20's, 30's and 40's, so it makes sense that a large demographic of their audience are also males and aged within 20 to 40, as they can relate to these men and their ways of speaking and subject matters. Their use of crude language makes it clear that they're aiming their show towards older audiences and not the younger market.
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Frequency
The Ricky Gervais Show would be aired weekly to achieve the demands of it's large and increasing audience.
Production Process
Although a majority of the show is improvised conversations, Ricky, Stephen and Karl are still responsible for preparing their own new content before each show (e.g. what they want to present, talk about, ask, etc.). Their discussion are then recorded by a sound team, who also play the jingles at the correct moments.
Analysis of Radio Drama
The Archers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05410wn#auto
PurposeThe purpose of The Archers is to entertain by presenting a new story with each drama/episode.
Form and Style
The Archers is a BBC Radio 4 radio show that serves as daily soap opera drama. The characters within the show know each other well and so their dialogue is usually scripted and delivered as being informal.
Content and Meaning
The Archers contains a plot, scripted dialogue performed/read by professional actors, sound effects and backing noise for setting, and a jingle.
Target Audience
The Archer's is mostly aimed towards women, who are usually targeted when it comes to soap operas (Eastenders and Coronation Street to name a few), who are most likely middle aged, 30's to 50's, again another standard audience demographic for this style of drama.
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Frequency
The Archers has been running since the early 1950's and is still and highly recognisable and popular radio show even today. Due to it's popularity and legacy, it is in high demand from it's audience. Whilst the show is only 12 minutes, a short running time compared to other mainstream soap operas, it meets demand by being aired on a daily basis, unlike many of it's competitors who will limit transmission to a weekly routine.
Production Process
A team of scriptwriters are given a limited time to come up with a storyline, plot and dialogue for each episode. The scripts, once completed, are presented to the actors who will receipt the scenes within a recording studio multiple times. The sound team, who have recorded these sessions, must then select the best takes of audio, compile them together and add sound effects, backing noise, and the jingle, before being transmitted.
Analysis of Audio Book
Room on the Broom
The purpose of this audio product is to re-tell the story of Room on the Broom.
This is not a professionally made audio book, as the creator states in the description that this is part of an assignment; it can be assumed that the creator of this did not get permission from the author/book publisher to make this. Due to this, this product would not be allowed to be aired or sold as it breaks copyright regulations.
Form and Style
Room on the Broom is a pre-recorded and edited audio book. This is the same form that most audio-books follow as live audio books just aren't as conventional. Although the language is simplistic for children, it is telling the story formally and the characters within the story have not met each other before, so they interact formally when asking "Is there room on the broom for a ___ like me?"
However, this audio book was uploaded as a YouTube video, whilst a professional/standard audio book would usually be available for download.
Content and Meaning
Room on the Broom contains dialogue constructed from the original written text of the same name. None of the language has been altered in the creation of this audio product.
What makes it different from the book is it obvious lack of visuals (illustrations) which it makes up for with added sound effects and edited voices, which are used to tell the story as they establish characters and atmosphere.
Target Audience
Both the book and audio book are aimed at children of a young age, which is evident through the simplistic language and childish character that will appeal to them. The audio product follows the set example of the book by keeping it fun and simple for kids with fun music and simple sound effects that children will either learn from or be able to identify.
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Frequency
As this was only made as part of an assignment, it was only a "one-off". If this had been made by a professional audio book supplier, they would be expected to have a library/album of audio books made in advance, which they would update regularly, creating more based on the most recently popular books.
Production Process
The creator of this audio book has had to find a voice actor, record their lines (script not required as they are reading straight from the book), put the collected audio to be used in the required order, collect and add suitable sound effects and music, and then edit/auto-tune audio to match the desired theme, and then upload for others to listen to. They state in the description that these were completed within a "48 hour deadline".
Analysis of Ident
Purpose
The purpose of this graphic is to serve as a logo/ident for BBC Radio 1, as a representative image for the company.
Form and Style
The ident take the form of a graphic made to be logo, featuring text, numbers and shapes put into one image. It's style is well crafted yet simplistic logo suited for the station with its formal appearance.
Content and Meaning
BBC Radio 1's ident contains the company name, which is often acquired for a company logo though not always. This ident matches the theme and style that the rest of the company is attempting to achieve, using the standard BBC logo, (three black squares), as well as it's associated images, such as the distinctive circle, which appears is multiple BBC logos/ident graphics.
Target Audience
This ident has stayed fairly simplistic as they are not trying to appeal to any specific demographic as the BBC is a public service station, so they're content must appeal to a wide range of people across the country, though admittedly BBC Radio 1's content appeals more towards an older audience, so their plain black and white logo is still justifiable as it may be misleading if they made it bright and colourful as it doesn't feature a lot of content that a child would be interested in.
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Also, the BBC is a well established and recognisable company, so they may not need to make their logo eye-catching as they're aware that due to the BBC's large audience figures, they will also have a substantial audience rate.
Frequency
The BBC rarely changes it's logos/demographics, so the frequency for a new one is quite rare as they don't need to be updated often.
Production Process
The BBC will hire a professional graphic designer and work with them on the ident design they want to use.
Analysis of Radio Quiz Shows
What's My Line
BBC Radio 4 - General Knowledge Quizzes - Brains of Britain
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio4/r4quiz/r4quiz_20150223-1532a.mp3
Purpose
The purpose of these audio quiz shows is to entertain and serve as a competition to members of the public.
Form and Style
Both examples given above are radio shows completed in the traditional style and format of a quiz show and/or game show. The contestants in What's My Line? speak informally whilst the host will try to bring some formality to the show, meanwhile Brains of Britain's contestants speak formally when answering, whilst the host tries to make the show feel more relaxed by attempting to bring some informality to the show.
Content and Meaning
Brains of Britain contains a host who asks pre-arranged questions to the contestants infront of a studio audience, sample pieces of music with copyright permission to air, and sound effects used to signify if a contestant has taken too long to answer.
Target Audience
In Brains of Britain it is evident through it's sophisticated and formality used by the host, who himself is approaching the age of 70, that this show is aimed at a much older generation of people, possibly trying to remain popular with some of its audience who grew up listening to the show, which has been running from the 50's/60's.
Frequency
Brains of Britain in BBC Radio 4's weekly quiz segment. Although it has been running since the 50's and still remains today, it doesn't match the popularity or demand rate of BBC'S Radio 4's other hit show, The Archers.
Production Process
A research team who work on the show are required to create new challenging questions per episode, which they must make sure are accurate for the quiz to be fair. The questions are then presented to the host via script or que-cards. The quiz, featuring host and contestants, is recorded by a sound team with a studio, with an audience's reactions also being recorded. A disk jockey would also be there to play the music segments. An "official" - (a member of the research team) - would be at hand to keep score and verify results/answers.
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