Evaluation of My Radio Jingles

This past week I have been producing jingles for a radio show. I made a promo, station Ident and a news jingle, the promo can be up to a minute long station Ident had to be 8-10 seconds long, and the news could be 15-30 seconds long. I used the programme sound booth which is on the Mac’s.

First I made the promo which took me a day as it was my first time using the programme and I was getting use to it. first I chose to base it on a morning show as I had songs in my head already that I could use and effects that I believe would work well. I used 4 songs which was kanye West – Good morning, John legend-Good Morning, Pink Floyd-Time and 50 Cent-Disco Inferno, but cut them down so I hand 10 seconds of each then added sound effects to merge the tracks together. Then record my voice and others on the Mac, then placed it over the instrumental. I was very happy how it turned out as it sounded really good and other people said it went well with the effects such as fading, I put in and the voices I used, I don’t believe I could have made it any better, it lasted 46 seconds.

Next I made my station Ident, this only took me half a day as I was use to using the programme I made this 15 seconds short and catchy, as this was used to advertise my show. I used 1 track and a couple effects and Loads of voices to get the name herd loud and clear and so it would be remembered. Again I felt this turned out really good as it went well and is very catchy. I believe it was the right amount of time as it was long enough to remember but not too long you got board with it.

The last one I made was the news jingle; this was the most fun to make as I made it more fun. I put many voices in it, different sounds, this was more of an experiment seeing what happens when I fiddle with the tempo, effects, volume levels and fading.

I was still very happy how it turned out. The only thing I was not happy with was the time it lasted, it lasted for 26 seconds which I believe was just a little too long and maybe a bit repetitive.

Overall I was very happy how they turned out and really enjoyed this project; I found the programme Sound Booth really easy to use and quickly new the ins and out of the programme.