Development of ideas for audio pre-production +risk assesment + script.

For my audio project I have chosen the Idea of a chat/discussion show because it seems like the best type, as people have a tendency to change the subject when having a conversation, it was in my view the best way to come up with different ideas by having a chat about random topics. I was right, thanks to the help of my classmates I was able to come up with ideas like previous experiences, chavs and a brief time to complain about stuff like annoying phone messages and the colour of the carpet.

My audience is teenagers around my own age group which is 13-18. My reasoning for that is the topics discussed, chavs aren’t really the topic for young children and neither is annoying phone messages about apps (they wouldn’t have a clue what we were talking about). But complaining about the colour of the carpet isn’t really an eventful conversation that adults are into (adults are just too picky). I have chosen this age range because the topics of the radio/audio topic are based around what young teenagers are into and what teenagers complain about on a daily basis, so I thought this was the perfect age group for the audience of my show.

The genre of my radio show is chat/discussion with a bit of comedy. The comedy part comes from taking the mick out of chavs and why someone would have a multicolour carpet that appeared as if it had dog hairs all over it (not nice). The chat/discussion part comes from us because the only thing we were doing was chatting and discussing things.

I'm using a community radio format because my radio show isn’t going to be broadcast to other communities its merely going to be uploaded on a blog so that people in this community can listen to it.

My radio show fits into a Hewett radio because I and my classmates are Hewett students and the radio show belongs to us, we created it.

I am using open questions mostly because I think if we only used closed questions the show would be too short and too boring, we have used mainly open questions to extend the length of the show and to make it more interesting and detailed.

I chose not to interview people because the idea seemed boring and it’s harder and more time consuming to come up with ideas for questions whereas with my original idea the chat/discussion idea the topics and ideas would flow naturally.

I wanted to create a chatty and fun atmosphere because this type of atmosphere draws people in and interests them more, I think this because when I'm in that kind of atmosphere it puts me in a chatty and listening mood and keeps me interested for a while, that was my main idea for the atmosphere I tried to create.

We could have recorded outside or in a quiet room, we didn’t really have access to a studio at that time and a studio was unnecessary considering we had a portable recorder. We chose the quiet room because if we were outside we would have the annoying sound of wind and would have to shout to be heard clearly. The quiet room helped me create the type of atmosphere I wanted, it would have been too chaotic to record outside because of the weather.

I didn’t use any music tracks because it would have distracted the audience if we had a really good song on they wouldn’t really be interested on what was said. I think my radio show would be just as successful without music as it would be with it so I didn’t see the need for it. I didn’t use any pre-recordings either because it seemed like too much trouble and it would only waste time.

I could have used a wide range of sound effects however I chose not to because my radio show wouldn’t  be the same, if I had added sound effects I would have thought there was a bit too much. There's a time for adding lots of cool sound effects and there’s a time for being serious and using less to make it seem more like a chat show than a comedy show. The only sound effect I used in my radio show was the sound of natural laughter that came from the topics we were talking about, since my show was meant to be a cross between chat and comedy I felt that the laughing was enough to make it seem slightly comedic.

We didnt use takes in the production of this project what happened was we just recorded up to 10 minutes of nonsense and I filtered out all the useless information and pauses to create a flowing and chatty atmosphere.

I think this project went well, i got the atmosphere i wanted, got a decent recording, we were able to use a decent room and i had decent actors.

Risk Assesment.
The risks in this project were that on the day of the recording it was very windy and cold so if we were planning to record outside we would risk our recording sounding unclear and our voices not heard. another risk was because it was windy the room we decided to go in to record may not have been free, its sometimes used for important interviews and stuff luckily it was free we would have run out of time if it wasnt. More risks are that someone could have came in for something because we couldnt lock the door and been caught in the recording, around the time of the recording the school bell could have gone during a crucial part, and when the school bell goes the corridor just outside us can get very noisy but we would just pause the recording if that happened and continue when it was a little bit quieter.

Rough Script.

Lenth of section	topic	speakers
20 secs	Introduction	Kieran M, Kieran S, Jordane C.
2 mins	chavs	Kieran M, Kieran S, Jordane C.
2 mins	App messages	Kieran M, Kieran S, Jordane C.
2 mins	colours	Kieran M, Kieran S, Jordane C.

 

 

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radio show notes

what i did today 15/3/13

today i listened to several radio shows, the ramblings, the now show, the ricky gervais show, and writ notes about them on paper like what genre are they, what audience are they aimed at, what is their content and stuff like that. i listened to fantasy and comedy but i found the ricky gervais show the best it was funny and it was taking the mick out of what things are like now and what they will be like in the future. whereas i found the ramblings very boring because it was just people droning on and on in a monotone with no sound effects or music or anything. the fantasy on terry pratchetts eric not very interesting because the voices reading the scrips sounded very old fashioned and boring, lets just say they were giving me a headache, so i do like fantasy but i would rather read it than listen to it on a radio show because it just goes on and on.