Codes and conventions of radio trailers

We looked at two different radio trailers and the codes and conventions each have;

Madeleine McGann Documentary

• Rhythmic, beating music
• Narration

-Time programme is on

- The channel the programme is on

- The day the programme is on

• Ident - A score to close the programme

Queen's Documentary

• Fast rock music
• Voice clips of the different people in the documentary
• no narration

We found that different types of documentaries have different codes and conventions that are used in order to captivate an audience. the fast music in The Queen's radio trailer is used in order to make the documentary seem exciting whereas the slow music used in Madeleine McGann's radio trailer is used on order to show the audience that the documentary is serious. Only voice clips are used in the Queens trailer in order to show the audience what type of things are included, however in Madeleine McGann's a narration is used throughout in order to give an overview of the whole documentary.

After looking at these examples we decided to include some of the codes and conventions. We used a narration to state the title, day and time and to also give a bit of informtion about the documentary. We used vox pops from our documentary to show what the documentary included. We used the sound effect of a tattoo gun which relates to the genre of the documentary and we used rock music to mke the documentary seem moe exciting and dramatic. At the end of the radio trailer we used a channel 4 ident.