Jingles Evaluation!

Jingles are what we listen to radio between two songs or to advertise one individual show, to let the audience know it's time for news or to let you know what radio station you're listening to.
For this assignment we had to do 3 jingles:

-News Jingle (10 seconds)
- Radio Ident (15/20 seconds)
- Show promo (30/40 seconds)

We used Soundbooth to do these three jingles, we picked the bit of music we wanted then recorded our own voices with the dialogue needed for each jingle and then put it on top of the music.
Firstly I had to decide which songs to use so i went on YouTube looking for ideas, for my news jingle i found a sample of different songs used for the news so I used it on my own jingle. The script for this jingle is: '' This is the news on SNC live''.
For my radio ident jingle i used Faint - Linkin Park because I thought the beginning of that song was quite good for a radio ident the script was: '' snc, snc, snc live''.
For my last jingle, the show promo i used a sample of Disney songs because my show would be about the songs of Disney films that everyone likes. the script for this one was: '' Listen to SNC live Tuesday nights from 10pm to 12am with Ana. She'll be playing all the Disney songs you love. Go on to www.snclive.me.uk and make your request. Don't forget Tuesday nights with Ana''.
After picking everything it was time to work with the voice and music to make a jingle. Finding the right bit of music is quite difficult so I had to list to all songs and decide what to use, then i had to get my voice and put in the programme and adjust the levels. Because my voice wasn't very clear i had to copy it and paste it into the tracks on Soundbooth so it seemed like i spoke a little better but even so i sound really quite. This is the thing i have to improve the most; talking on a microphone.
After i put everything together for each one of these jingles I thought they sounded quite cool, the one i probably should have done a bit more work on was the Show promo because I had so many different types of music it was quite difficult to make everything sound brilliant. Maybe if I played a bit more with the sound levels I would have done a better job.
Overall I think this project was very well thought, even if it was just to get used using the software and understand a bit more about the radio and why are the jingles used. I really enjoyed it, apart from having to talk to the computer that's why I preferred to use an mp3 and record my voice somewhere else. I also thought that Soundbooth it's a very easy to use and I look forward to do my radio shows on it for the rest of the year.