TASK 1A: My Speech Packages

Treatment For Speech Package 1

Story Title: Unemployment For Young People In The UK

Radio Station & Programme: BBC 1 Xtra (1:00PM)

Legal Issues:
I will need to make sure that I speak in a professional manner when doing the interviews.

Content Synopsis: 
It will have interviewees from City Of Westminster College. This treatment will be to inform the audience about Unemployment for young people in the UK. It will also give the audience an opportunity to let their views and opinions be heard. 1 College Teacher will be interviewed and 3 College Students will be interviewed. I decided to choose these types of people as it is good to hear views from different age groups of people.

It Will Contain:

• Actuality sounds that are heard in the background.
• Introduction to the topic.
• Interviews with a few people from City Of Westminster College.

Introduction To Interview:
"It has been recognised, around most parts of the UK, that young people are unemployed as they are finding it hard to get jobs. I'll be interviewing a few people from City Of Westminster College. During this interview, I will be asking them questions about their views on unemployment for young people in the UK and what they think the Government can do to help young people get jobs."

Questions:

• What do you think about unemployment for young people in the UK?
• What do you think the Government can do to help young people get jobs?

Interviewees:
1 College Teacher and 3 College Students.

Location:
City Of Westminster College. The College Corridors.

Secondary Sources:

• At 22%, the unemployment rate for 16- to 24-year-olds is highest in London.
• The unemployment total for young people aged between 16 and 24 is now at 958,000 - a rate of 20.7% - down 17,000 in the quarter.
• Britain faces a shortfall of 395,000 jobs for young people, who are far less likely to find work now than before the recession, a study reveals today.
  
• Britain's young people are being starved of jobs and spending years not working at all, a major study has revealed.
• An average 15 to 19-year-old spends almost 2.5 years out of work - higher than many other countries - and many have simply "given up".

Appeal To Audience:
This treatment should appeal to the audience who want to give their opinions on what they think about unemployment for young people in the UK. This treatment informs the audience about what this topic is about.




Treatment For Speech Package 2

Story Title: The New EE Network

Radio Station & Programme: BBC 1 Xtra (1:00PM)

Legal Issues: I will need to consider copyright issues for any music, that I do not own, being used in the background. I will also need to make sure that I speak in a professional manner when doing the interviews.

Content Synopsis:
It will have interviewees from City Of Westminster College. This treatment will be to inform and educate and entertain the audience about the new EE Network. It will contain music which will be suitable for the chosen topic. I will be interviewing Students from City Of Westminster College, and also Members Of Staff who work at the EE shop. I chose to interview members of staff from the EE shop because they will have more information about the EE Network and it will be interesting to find out their views about the EE Network.

It Will Contain:

• Actuality sounds that are heard in the background.
• Suitable music for this chosen topic.
• Introduction to the topic.
• Interviews with a few people from City Of Westminster College.

Introduction To Interview:
"As we all know, T.Mobile is a popular network that is used by many people in the UK. It has come to attention that T.Mobile has changed their name to EE. Today, I will be interviewing a few College Students, Staff Members and also people who work at the EE shop. I will be hearing their views on what they think about the EE Network and finding out more information about what EE is all about."

Questions:

• What do you think about the new EE Network?
• Have you had any problems with this Network?
• Is there anything different about this Network?
• Why do you think the Network keeps changing?

Interviewees: 2 College Students and 2 Staff Members who work at the EE shop.

Location: City Of Westminster College.

Secondary Sources:

• The EE 4G network is now live in 85 cities, covering more than 55% of the UK population. 
• The new 4G network is run by a new company, once called Everything Everywhere it's now simply know as EE.
• EE is owned by the same people that run the T-Mobile and Orange networks.                  At present it's the only 4G network available, as it uses the current 1800MHz band.

Appeal To Audience:
This treatment should appeal to an audience ranging from 16-25 years old, who are constantly on their mobile phones and have discovered this new mobile network. It will also appeal to this kind of audience as there will be music that this age group tend to listen to.


Treatment For Speech Package 3

Story Title: Horse Meat Scandal

Radio Station & Programme: Radio 4 PM (4:00pm)

Legal Issues: I will need to consider copyright issues for any music, that I do not own, being used in the background. I will also need to have that correct fact about this chosen topic.

Content Synopsis:
It will have interviewees from City Of Westminster College. This treatment will be to inform and educate and entertain the audience about the Horse Meat Scandal. It will contain music which will be suitable for the chosen topic. I will be interviewing a Dinner Lady from City Of Westminster College, Students and a College Teacher from City Of Westminster College. 
I chose to interview a dinner lady as the food that they cooked, may have contained horse meat and I would like to know their views on the Horse Meat Scandal.

It Will Contain:

• Actuality sounds that are heard in the background of the College Canteen area.
• Introduction to the topic.
• Suitable music for this chosen topic.
• Interviews with a few people from City Of Westminster College.
• Facts about this chosen topic.

Introduction To Interview:
"It has been heard that Horse Meat has been sold at a few shops in the UK and that has caused a lot of concerns and issues about why this has happened and if it is safe to eat Horse Meat. I will be interviewing Dinner Ladies at City Of Westminster College, and a few College Students and Staff Members at City Of Westminster College, to find out what they think about this Horse Meat scandal and how they feel about Horse Meat being in the shops."

Questions:

• What do you think about the Horse Meat Scandal?
• Do you think that Horse Meat is a big issue?
• Would you still have Horse Meat?

Interviewees: 1 College Dinner Lady, 2 College Students and 1 College Teacher.

Location: City Of Westminster College.

Secondary Sources:

• Irish food inspectors announced in mid-January that they had found horsemeat in frozen beefburgers made by firms in the Irish Republic and the UK, and sold by a number of UK supermarket chains, including Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
• Since then, a growing number of stores and companies across Europe, including Findus and Nestle, have recalled beef ready meals, after tests found they contained horse DNA.
• Five samples were checked for the presence of horse DNA above a 1% threshold under a UK-wide programme.
• Mislabelled processed meat products have so far been discovered in the UK, the Republic of Ireland, France, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and Germany. Suspicious products have also been withdrawn in the Netherlands as tests are carried out.

Appeal To Audience:
This treatment should appeal to a range of different age groups of people. It will have suitable music for this topic and it will also have news and information that people will want to listen to.

Speech Package Analysis

Speech Package 1:

Name: PM Presenter By Eddie Mair
Topic: Clarks Shoes
Found On: Radio 4 pm
Date: 4th Of December 2012
Starts At: 49.10- 52:48

Purpose:
The purpose is to Inform, Educate and Entertain the audience about Clarks shoes.

Content:
The music playing in the background is 'Clarks- Vybz kartel'. This song is appropriate for this speech package.

Audience:
This speech package is for an older educated audience.

The topic is about Clarks shoes, talking about school children wearing the shoes to school and saying that most Jamaican's like Clarks shoes.
An Artist also represents Jamaica and talks about wearing Clarks shoes.

The reporter is a male and they add some humour into this speech package. This makes the topic interesting and entertaining to listen to.
It is also clear, when the reporter is speaking, as they talk in a medium pace so that the audience can understand what they are saying.

This speech package also talks about young men wearing Clarks shoes and gives us some history in the Caribbean.

Speech Package 2:

Topic: Nelson Mandela And The History Of South Africa
Found On: Radio 4 pm
Date: 1st Of December 2012
Starts At: 
History

Purpose:
The purpose is to educate people about Nelson Mandela's history and to educate people about South Africa.

Audience:
This speech package is for an older educated audience who's interested in history and finding out more about Nelson Mandela and South Africa. This speech package could also be for students who are studying and doing history.



Speech Package 3:

Name: PM Presenter By Eddie Mair
Topic: A Nurse Suicide Murder/A Prank Phone Call And The Duchess Of Cambridge
Found On: Radio 4 pm
Date: 10th Of December 2012
Starts At: 05.00-09.35
News

Purpose:
The purpose is to inform people about the prank call that was made, by two Australian DJ's who pretended to be members of the royal family and then this prank was received by a nurse, who then committed suicide.

Content:
An actuality sound is used and you hear the wind outside where the person is being interviewed.

Audience:
This speech package is for an older educated audience who listen to this Radio Station and want to find out information about what happened in connections to the royal family.

Speech Package 4:

Name: PM Presenter By Eddie Mair

Topic: Electronic Books

Found On: Radio 4 pm

Date: 5th Of December 2012

Starts At: 24:47

News

Purpose:
The purpose is to inform people about the new Library which will open up in Birmingham 2013. It also tells people about the disadvantages of having new technology because this causes libraries to go out of use.

Content:
A short advert is used in the background, with music and someone talking about a new project which is going to take place at Birmingham in 2013.

Audience:
This speech package is for an older educated audience and for people who are interested in reading books, going to the library and fore people who like to use ebooks.

The new library opens on the 3rd of September 2013. This library will have wifi and all the latest gadgets. It will be used to so that people can sell and borrow ebooks. 
In this speech package you hear some actuality sounds such as someone typing and sounds outside. The reporter is also a male and they speak in a clear, medium pace so that the audience can hear and understand what they are saying.


Evaluation:
The speech packages about Clark's shoes and Nelson Mandela are different because in Nelson Mandela's speech package, there are content sounds used and it is a simple speech package. The Clark's shoes speech package is more entertaining to listen to, as they use humour in the interview. The Clark's shoes speech package is to inform and entertain the audience, whereas, Nelson Mandela's speech package is just to educate the audience about the history. However, they both educate the audience.

The speech package about The Nurses' Suicide and The Electronic Books are both to inform the audience about things happening. They both have content sounds, however, the speech package on The Nurses' Suicide uses actuality sounds so that you can hear the surrounding's and atmosphere.

Therefore, the techniques that are used in all of these speech packages are vox pops, actuality sounds and content sounds. Actuality and content sounds are used so that you can hear the actual sounds that are in the background. Throughout the speech packages, the male reporter speaks in a clear, medium pace so that the audience can hear and understand what he is saying, during the interviews that take place.