
The first stage of the production of my radio broadcast was to construct an opening jingle that the show could begin with. As I was constructing this solely on GarageBand, I didn't want to simply use 'loops', but instead construct an original melody with the help of loops for accompaniment to create a fuller, more professional sound. The first step of this was to open up a new garage band project and display the 'musical keys' feature.

This enabled me to use the ordinary computer keyboard as an on-screen musical one to create and then record an original melody. Using existing radio and television news broadcasts as inspiration, I decided upon a synthesizer sound that I wanted to use for my melody and initially begun to immitate jingles that I had already heard in existance. This soon lead to me changing certain notes and eventually ending up with my own melody which was this:

Once i had this, I decided to bulk out the sound with a few radio sound that looked like this:

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