The use of Radio as a Sound Device in Friday Night Lights

According to Covil, “Radio is the one media that has had the greatest impact on sports and the audience. There is no other form of the media that covers the different levels and varieties of athletics more than radio.” Radio has the abilities or skills that other media cannot match and the first connection is formed between the broadcasters and audience.

Radio broadcasting has become an influence in contemporary times as it is a way of communication to a wider audience. Through radio broadcasting, we are introduced to a variety of components, different music genres, currents events both locally and internationally, competitions, free giveaways and live interactions between presenters and listeners. However, it is the idea of co-presence that is stimulated through these components in which makes radio broadcasting exciting to listen to and engage with. The realm of co-presence within radio broadcast has defined how the audience is actually listening to their preferred radio stations. In this essay will discuss and break down concepts such as intimacy, liveness and the implied audience that define the hegemony of co-presence with in radio broadcasting as described by Hugh Chignell’s in his text, Key Concepts in Radio Studies (2009). This essay will also be focusing on how the Mai FM breakfast show, Mai Mornings (2017), deliver Chignell’s concepts in order to understand the importance of co-presence. Mai FM is a hip hop and RnB station that is broadcasted all over New Zealand, and throughout the radio station, Chignell’s concepts are highlighted. Scholarly references will also be included throughout to shape the argument.

The show Friday Night Lights gives viewers an inside look into the lives of high school football players of a small town in Texas. The show is astonishing on many levels, from it's unique camera styles to the complex characters. Many people usually dismiss athletes as dull characters and some think of sports as something pointless or shallow. The show disproves these thoughts by giving viewers a perspective into the lives of the players, coaches, and fans of the Dillon Panthers football team. This show ultimately builds empathy for the lives of the football players in the show, which helps in understanding real life athletes and their coaches.

Even though the film is essentially a visual experience, the use of sound has become extremely important in modern film. The modern viewer hears a complicated soundtrack that is as meaningful as the image on the screen. Three elements comprise the film's soundtrack: the dialogue, the sound effects, and the musical score. The proper balance and mix of these elements produced the essential emphasis required, which created the desired effects. As explained by Joseph Boggs and Dennis Petrie,

In H.G. Bissinger’s novel Friday Night Lights he goes in-depth describing the world surrounding high school football in Texas. There is nothing like high school football in Texas, it is the best thing to happen to many of the people that live there. Winning a high school state championship in Texas can make someone a hero for the rest of their lives. This being said, it causes a lot of difficulties once this peak in their life is over at such a young age. Many of these people do not know how to live with themselves after their days of football are over. They grow up and live through their kids. Sports and academics are two of the areas of life where parents attempt to live their dreams and ambitions through their children.

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The surprisingly non-fiction novel, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream, was written by H. G. Bissinger in 1990. The story follows the Permian High School Panthers football team of 1998. The setting takes place in the town of Odessa, Texas. Bissinger describes this town as, “the setting for this book, but it could be anyplace in this vast land where, on a Friday night, a set of spindly stadium lights rises to the heavens to so powerfully, and so briefly, ignite the darkness.” (16). It highlights the teams attempt at a Texas state championship with plenty of distractions and obstacles along the way. The main barrier for players and staff of Permian High was racism. Some may find it hard to believe but in the town of Odessa, desegregation was simply a “suggestion” and the community refused to accept the fact that white and blacks are equal. It was not until the early eighties that Odessa desegregated.

The movie “Radio” is the tale of a young African-American man who suffers from severe mental retardness and his journey to fame from football in the small South Carolinian town of Anderson. James “Radio” Kennedy is befriended by the T. L. Hanna High School head football coach, Coach Jones, and begins to help as an “assistant coach” of some sort. Eventually, James begins to attend Hanna High as an eleventh grade student due to the persistent efforts of Coach Jones.

In my audio text I think I would be able to incorporate many different types of primary sources that would be very useful. One simply being the news and film footage. The news would be a great source because I would be able to hear what people think of the game and what the outcome might turn out to be. It’s a great way to see what other people think about the game instead of just my opinion. It would also be a good reliable source because the people giving out this information know a lot about the sport and probably have a better understanding on who will win or lose than I do. I think film footage would be a good source as well because it would allow me to see some of the past games that they played, and it would give me a better outlook to see who has stronger players and what the teams strong or weak points are. The last primary source that I would use would probably be an interview. I would love to try and get an interview with one of the head coaches, but that is not very likely. However, I do think I could maybe find a past player of one of the teams because they are likely to keep up with the team and what they think about them. The three questions I would ask would be…who you think will have the strongest impact on the game, what it will take to win the game, and who will pull out the win? I think these three questions will have a big impact on my audio

Sustaining the ambitions of not only themselves but the alumni and town of Odessa, Texas is a lot to ask from a young adult. That’s exactly what Permian football provides to the people of Odessa, where the post economic boom of the oil business has left the town in a racially tense, economic crisis. The lights on Permian High School’s football field are the only sanctuary for the west Texas town. Socially and racially divided, Odessa’s mass dependence on high school football constructs glorified expectations for the football team to temporarily disguise the disappointments that come with living in a town tagged as the “murder capital” of

There are many factors to consider before deciding whether or not, a tape showing the death of an umpire in a major league baseball game, should be broadcasted on a Canadian news program. News cast rooms are bombarded every day with stories happening in the local community and around the globe. There are a lot of unforeseen events and accidents that can happen in a day but what makes a story news-worthy? Having a prominent person involved or featuring a story that has a great significance to the public would certainly create a lot interests and attention. In this example however, if a viewer is not all too familiar with baseball, hearing the name “John McSherry” or the word, “umpire” may hold little or no value to them. Not to mention it might be a poor taste or disrespect for his family to show the film on prime time television. This is the type of news that time-restricted and easily distracted viewers wouldn’t pay attention to much as they would to news that carries political, economic, or social weight.

Every news broadcast begins with music and progresses, just like any narrative. There are characters, a setting, rising actions,a climax and a resolution. These

Another aspect of sound in this film was how it affected the story. By using sound dramatically in certain parts and not using it at all in other parts, sound gave this story an entity of its own. For example, during long stretches of film with mostly dialogue, there was no music played in the background, only a phone ringing in the distance, or the men's voices during their deliberation. These long silences also took place during editing shots of the town and images that surrounded this German city. This dramatic difference in sound was a revelation of how mood can be made by images and sound put together to make an incredible component.

The radio is one of the most influential pieces of technology ever invented. From political debates to Taylor Swift’s latest hit, with the help of the radio, society stays informed on a plethora of topics. Freddie Mercury wasn’t lying when he said, “and everything I had to know, I learned it on my radio.” In almost every country in the world, there is at least one radio station used to broadcast news to it’s people. Since the creation of the FM radio, it has been used to reach out to people over a certain area and keep them informed about the society they live in. During the 1930s and the 1940s, the radio played a very important role in history; it was a tool used during World War II by America, Great Britain, and Nazi Germany. By sending

One would have to say that one of the most notable features of the film would have to be its soundtrack, which incorporates no music but only diegetic sound, from the preliminary noise of the river flowing under the bridge through the even louder sounds of the forthcoming American tanks to the quaking clamors of the ending battle scenes. A prodigious example of sound transpires within the middle of the film. It is when the boys are woken from their cots and called into combat; the sequence features electronically distorted sounds that together equally insinuate the boys’ disorientation as well as the disorientation of the viewers.