Room With A View – Assignment 4 – Radio Reflection

Compared to the demo, the biggest thing we improved on was preparedness.
Coming into the demo, we had minimal chance to practice in the live to air booth and needed to do a quick run through to ensure we were comfortable with how it would run before recording.
For the live show, we did a test of our levels, confirmed if any segments needed to be read by a particular person and then jumped straight into it.

We really took the idea of doing the show in a single take to heart however, unfortunately, due to a lack of communication on the total length of one of the interviews, we found ourselves scheduled to go over our time limit.
We attempted to compensate for this by cutting out one of our songs, however, there was some miscommunication regarding the end of some music which had instead left us roughly 30 seconds short.

As a result, we did need to go back and rerecord the last 5-8 minutes of the show to ensure that we hit the 57:59 requested timeframe for our radio show.

When deciding on interviews for our show, the piece “Who Gets To Tell Australian Stories?” published by Media Diversity Australia helped us to pick between potential ideas. While most Australian’s have now experienced the lockdowns of 2020, this gave us the inspiration to seek a story from someone on their experience on being locked out of the country instead of just locked down.

Additionally, “Defamation – Legal information for community organisations” published by Justice Connect, helped when interviewing about the tattooing industry as the talent had been stood down by his previous employer, also as we were being given a public platform, we had to ensure that we did not say anything that would be defamatory

Beaman’s “Interviewing for Radio” – Helped us when deciding the official interviews to go ahead with by focusing on what actually is the story at hand and is it interesting or relevant enough for our potential audience?
We wanted the interviews to all be relevant to the theme of overcoming the struggles of 2020, and with interviews about what people’s experiences being locked down, locked out and even thriving in a primarily online setting, I think we kept the interviews different enough to remain interesting but still relevant to the primary theme.

Much of our feedback tended to revolve around encouraging the discussion segments between myself and Caitlin due to them feeling natural and friendly and also amending some of the language we use as well as our transitions to improve the flow of the show.
We took this information to heart and made the effort to include additional moments where Caitlin and I could talk to each other, even using this as an introduction to one of the interviews.

Similarly, we purposefully amended the way we reintroduced ourselves after a song break to try and feel less jagged and avoid using terms like “Welcome back” or referring to our pieces as “interviews”.

Overall, while the show was by no means perfect, I’m pretty happy with how this radio show turned out and was pleasantly surprised with how calm and not rushed we were in the recording booth.

 

 

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