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History of radio 4 ***Www.Wikipedia.Com***

Radio 4 is a radio station with no music just, offering in-depth news and current affairs and a wide range of other speech output including drama, readings, comedy, factual and magazine programmes. It replaced the bbc home service in 1967.The service appeals to listeners seeking intelligent programmes in many genres which inform, educate and entertain. The age range is late teens to late 60s, it has a wide range of different programms appealing to this age range. The late night shows which include comedy shows are a funny but are not really suited to young listeners. It is thouight that 89.2% Of the uk population aged 15 and over listened to the radio.Radio 4 is just one of 12 bbc radio stations it is the main station for comedy, it is also the home of the the archers with more than 16,000 episodes, it is both the world’s longest running radio soap. Radio 4 is the second most popular british domestic radio station, after radio 2, and was named “uk radio station of the year” at the 2003, 2004 and 2008 sony radio academy awards.

The station has also been designated as the uk’s national broadcaster in times of national emergency such as a war: if all other radio stations were forced to close, radio 4 would still carry on broadcasting, it has been claimed that radio 4 had an additional role during the cold war: the commanders of nuclear-armed submarines believing that the uk had suffered nuclear attack were required to check if they could still receive radio 4, and if they could not would open sealed orders which might authorize a retaliatory strike.

Between 17 january 1991 and 2 march 1991, the fm broadcasts were replaced by a continuous news service devoted to the gulf war, nicknamed “scud fm”.Radio 4 is part of the royal navy’s system of last resort letters. In the event of a suspected catastrophic attack on the united kingdom, submarine commanders, in addition to carrying out other checks, would check for a broadcast signal from radio 4 to verify annihilation of the homeland.

According to the latest official figures (which i’ve rounded slightly) bbc radio 4 has a weekly reach of almost 9.5 Million and has an 11% market share.Sex:men (51%), women (49%).Age:15-24 (4%), 25-34 (9%), 35-44 (14%), 45-54 (20%), 55-64 (23%), 65+ (30%)

So from this i can see that the gender is almost 50/50 but the more people to listen to it are from 35+, however from listening to radio 4 and also looking at bbc radio 4 online i can see that have something for everyone.

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The extractFlight is the control of opposing forces weight verses lift

This is Mick 15 do you read me?

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Controls not responding, can you hear me?

Research on extract***http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html***

This extract is an advert for the programme being showed on the 50th anniversary of the first man in space Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human being to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and honours, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation’s highest honour. Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash). Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him. Gagarin died in 1968 when a MiG 15 training jet he was piloting crashed.

April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin’s accomplishment.

The Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union would dominate the 1960s. The Soviets managed to have Yuri Gagarin the first man in outer space during the Vostok 1 mission on 12 April 1961 and scored a host of other successes, but by the middle of the decade the US was taking the lead. In May 1961, President Kennedy set for the nation the goal of a manned spacecraft landing on the Moon by the end of the decade.

Yuri Gagarin’s first space flight was plagued with technical problems and his ship would never have left the ground if it had been subject to today’s safety standards, a top rocket scientist said Friday. This is the clip I took off the radio station.

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Yuri’s Day***http://nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.com/2011/01/yuri-gagarin http://catherinemoorekinetictype.gdnm.org/files/2011/04/yuri_Gagarin_cover.jpg-graphic-novel-launched.html***

Yuri’s Day is a graphic novel that has been released on the anniversary of the first man in space. It reveals the drama and complexity of Soviet life in its insane and often cruel glory. Out of hard times came the world’s first great triumph of human space exploration: a victory that will forever be Russian!

This book has been released as a traditional graphic novel on the time that Yuri Gagarin had on his first trip into space and also about what was happening at the time.

The graphic novel is very in-keeping to the time he went into space because in 1961 there was a theme of comic books that were all about space and space travel. as well as graphic novels. It is very effective because it is easy to read, and can be read by anyone. The style is has been drawn in is all black and white, and is in-keeping with the time is is illustrating.

Yuri’s flightGagarin blasted off from the Tyuratam Missile Range in Kazakhstan at 0907 local time. He became the first man in space, completing a single orbit of Earth in 108 minutes, at 5ft 2ins tall, Gagarin was well suited to the cramped conditions in the space capsule the spacecraft was controlled from the ground, but Gagarin could take over in an emergency.

Gagarin flew over the Pacific Ocean, the tip of South America the Atlantic Ocean and Africa, during the flight, Gagarin could see out through a large circular window in the Vostok 1 capsule during re-entry, cables linking the descent module to the service module failed to separate there was violent shaking on the way back to Earth, but the modules eventually separated, some 7km up, Gagarin baled out, parachuting to a safe landing near Engels, Russia.

The violent shaking is the clip that i have gotten to do my kinetice type on as it really does show the fear and danger of this particular mission. It is a very animated piece of speaking and will be great to animate in type form.

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Research in kinetic type

History With the advent of film and graphic animation, the possibility of matching text and motion emerged. Examples of animated letterforms appeared as early as 1899 in the advertising work of George Melies. Early feature films contained temporal typography, but this was largely static text, presented sequentially and subjected to cinematic transitions. It was not until the 1960s when opening titles began to feature typography that was truly kinetic. Scholars recognize the first feature film to extensively use kinetic typography as Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959). This film’s opening title sequence—created by Saul Bass contained animated text, featuring credits that “flew” in from off-screen, and finally faded out into the film itself. A similar technique was also employed by Bass in Psycho (1960).

ExamplesThe I looked at was the Muller rice advert, this advert but only highlights the key words in the script that is said, so the connecting words in the sentence aren’t used, also it isn’t laid out like a lot of kinetic type examples that I have seen, as most examples animate all the words said. This advert for muller rice is a good exmple of kinetic type however it is very reliant on images not just the writing.. However it concentrates well on the important words in what they are saying to get the message of the advert over.. The colours used are in-keeping with the colours of the product that is being advertised.

The concept behind this kinetic type project is to show Conan O’Brien as a the monumental entertainer and solid wall that he is. Conan O’Brien is and will continue to be a seasoned television entertainer. After drawing inspiration from Lou Dorfsman’s Gastrotypographicalassemblage, this concept was achieved by creating a literal wall from over 60 individual typographic layouts. These custom crafted layouts reference a variety of eclectic type design. The combination of eclectic typography and modern 3D letter forms achieved in Cinema 4D provides a contrast between old and new. This contrast emphasizes time to create a sturdy and timeless object. This solidity and timelessness is the perfect representation of Conan O’Brien.

The animation is very well done, it is captivating and expressive. The original wall that is is bassed on is just as captivating even though its not an animation just a large piece of design.

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Title sequence North by Northwest

Lou Dorfsman’s Gastrotypographicalassemblage

Conan O’Brien

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My story boardThis is the storyboard that I decided to do, I didn’t want the animation to be too complicated as this would drae the atention away from the spoken words. I did however want the words to mimic the meaning of the word or the way it is said, for example the word ‘NOT’ I did bold and large because it is an important word.There is a space in the first page of the storyboard because I wanted to leave that untill I had done a bit on the animamtion before, so I could determin what the feel of the animation was gonna end up like. I then animated those words once i had done some. It was a bit tricky because it was alot of words being spoken in the space of a second. The wieght verses lift turned out a bit differently because when I went to animate it the word verses was too quickly spoken to put it in between the words ‘wieght’ and ‘lift‘ so I put the word coming up before the word lift rose to the top. The words ‘this is’ travel especially quickly across the screen, which makes it a bit tough to read but because these two words are spoken so quickly it is not possible for me to make it slower. The words ‘Do you read me’ i feel was the best bit because it is like they are emerging out of the question mark, which makes the words mean a bit more that way. On the words ‘thrust’ and ‘drag’ I wanted to show the actions of the word so the thrust went off quickly then the word drag went down slowely and dragging the word down.

My storyboard are longer as I was going to have the ending after can you hear me, but when I had finished half of it I decided that that wouldbe too much the main point was put across from the beginnning part so it really didn’t need then ending as that was just adding time to it. On the next page is the 2 backgrounds I made to use, the first one made was for the normal talking which is explaining i wanted it to look like old parchment, the text I used was old typewriter style this is because i wanted it to look like a classified army style document. The end background is the for the Space part, for this one I made a comic book style space bcakground, which is grey with white stars and light grey ‘space dust’. i wanted the look of this background to be a bit more surreal. The wrinting I chose was a bold army style writing, the type is often stamped on the side of equiptment in the army. I chose this because it was meant to have an official feel.

Overall i am please with the kinetic type it was very challenging using After Effects because I very limited knowledge on how to use the programme so I had to learn new techniques to use to make it look better. The storyboard was extremely helpful as I kept refering back to it when i got stuck.

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station with no music just, offering in-depth

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