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i did question 4 ofr Grace Darling...

i didnt think it was tht bad but i found the audience difficult in that 11yr olds have just come from primary school and 14yr olds are pre-GCSE.....

i loved the commentary it gave me a chance to explain why my piece was so bad !!

i wrote 3 and a half pages for it though... oooops :confused:

do we get penalised for going over???

How did everyone else find it??? :biggrin:

Reply 1

Helen :)

i did grace darling too, but did quetion 3! ive never written a radio script b4 but have looked over others. i thought it went really well! it was quite fun to do really, once i got into it!
all the other ppl sitting this unit did ibiza 1! one more exam to go then thats it 4 a levels!!!
freedom!

Reply 2

domjohn

I did question 3 also, I found it started well but towards the end i was pushing the word limit, so ended it quite abruptly! I would have also liked to have brought in a few more sound effects, but concentrated more on the speakers instead... never mind!

Will wait and see!

Reply 3

gringalet

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I did question 1, as I thought it would be the easiest, but they were all good questions. I kinda wish I'd done question 2 for some reason, just would have been more interesting, but I'm not incredibly sure what the TV Times is like – is it quite general audience and informal?

My commentary was awful – I did it in the last 5 minutes, and only scribbled about half a page. Ah well! I think my piece was alright, so maybe it won't matter too much...

Reply 4

dogtanian

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I did question two.

I said more about what I'd done in the original ENB5 thread. I'm not typing it out again :smile:

Reply 5

mscwd

It went really well, which i was pleasantly suprised about. I did Q3, there was no way I was going to to Ibiza it was too difficult.

Anyway I never usually have the worry of reaching the word count let alone going over it, but I think I did.

Do we get penalised too badly if we are over by 200 words (approx)?

Reply 6

Tatty

A bit late - but I did Grace Darling question number 4.

The audience was difficult, but I tried to sound upbeat, but not patronising. I added a lot of comparisons so they could relate and added lots of picture. I also cut the information into chunks so it was easily digestible and accessible.

Overall, I really have no idea how I've done - it could go either way in my opinion, and not just this exam, but for my others, too. I just want the results published soon, because I'm really anxious to know if I've screwed up or not. I don't know how I'm going to manage to not worry until then.

Reply 7

Fiona87

mscwd

It went really well, which i was pleasantly suprised about. I did Q3, there was no way I was going to to Ibiza it was too difficult.

Anyway I never usually have the worry of reaching the word count let alone going over it, but I think I did.

Do we get penalised too badly if we are over by 200 words (approx)?

They can't expect us to sit there counting the words for a radio show, so I wouldn't have thought it would have mattered that much. I also think it sometimes looks like you have done more if, for example, you use the three-columned radio-format. Was harder to judge because line size is different, too :s-smilie:

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Reply 8

domjohn

The three-columned radio format????

Did I miss a crucial stylistic feature here????

Reply 9

Fiona87

domjohn

The three-columned radio format????

Did I miss a crucial stylistic feature here????

I'm sure you didn't...It's probably me being random. I did mine weirdly, I think. Really, don't worry. It's just one way, of many, of constructing it.

Reply 10

domjohn

Fiona87

I'm sure you didn't...It's probably me being random. I did mine weirdly, I think. Really, don't worry. It's just one way, of many, of constructing it.

Ok. I did a mock radio script in lesson a while ago and wasn't told about a special format to write them in. I'm sure they won't look down on it, but it would look good if you have a specialist format to use! I'm quite worried about my English result anyway!!!!

Reply 11

Fiona87

domjohn

Ok. I did a mock radio script in lesson a while ago and wasn't told about a special format to write them in. I'm sure they won't look down on it, but it would look good if you have a specialist format to use! I'm quite worried about my English result anyway!!!!

You'll be fine - don't think about it!

Reply 12

schrodingerscat

I did the Ibiza website one... i thought i was quite easy though i found it quite hard to keep it brief and concise... hope it's ok. At about 2:05 into it i made the decision to rush the end bit and concentrate on the commentary.. which will hopefully be ok.

Lots of links and pop-ups and drop-down menus which i hope they will like, tho i forgot to put any sound in which apparently they love... oh well.

Wasn't the Grace Darling Pack a bit too dense and er well boring??? i read half of it and thought 'er... no'. Although my friend said she had good fun writing dramatised bits for the radio script: STORMS / LIGHTNING / THUNDER "Grace, NOooooo" "But Father, I MUST go, it is my destiny..."

Reply 13

The_Spod

I was doing this as a resit, last year it was Noahs Ark and the Panama Canal!

So I went for Grace Darling and the Radio4 script, I did a Radio Script for my original Writing coursework so hopefully I got it right as I dont have another chance.

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