Month: March 2017

This week, our group had our first important assignment due: Our demo and run sheet.

In Monday’s class, we worked to polish our run sheet, ensuring it was flowing perfectly, and meeting all requirements, including the one hour deadline, and ensuring we had the correct amount of songs, sponsorships and interviews for the demo.

On Thursday, we headed down to 3 Triple R with this, as well as a basic script to record our all important demo. We practised certain pieces of the show beforehand, as well as practising many of the transitions. From here we were able to record our demo.

Overall, a lot of positives came out of our demo. We were able to create a relatively well rounded show, with the hosts (Corey and myself) working quite well together. Our timing was pretty much perfect, with our signals to one another working to pull the show back into line if we were going over or under time. Many of our transitions were also extremely clear, with no dead air and the right

amount of overlap.

Despite this, there are still many things we need to work on before our show is ready to be aired. We learned, through our demo, that iTunes is not preferable for playing songs. We had a couple of instances where our song would end, and the next one would play instantly after when we did not want it to, which caused some of our transitions to be messy. We also need to practise a little more with our specific songs and pre-recorded footage, to ensure that we cue it at the correct moment, and have even smoother transitions. We did have an issue in our demo where we were unable to get our pre-recorded footage to play. While this is an issue we hope not to have in the future, it did give the hosts the chance to learn what to do in the situation. While it was not perfect, we were able to fill the silence and some-what cover up the issue.

As a presenter, I need to work on keeping my voice level and keeping close to the microphone. It was realised that my levels were changing very often throughout the show, with my voice becoming very quiet in some places. This was partially due to the fact that I often turned my head to speak to the co-presenter and our interviewee. For our first show, I will make sure to position my microphone in a way that allows me to speak to each person, as well as continuously monitor my own volume levels.

We now have about three weeks until our first show will be going to air. From now until then, we will need to use the ideas that Elizabeth from 3 Triple R has given approval to to plan the show. We need to begin contacting people who we wish to interview for the show, and begin to come up with questions to ask, as well as a thorough run sheet, similar to the one we made for our demo.

 

Please find Group 3’s Demo Track here:

Over the last week and a half, my Room With a View time has been spent brainstorming interview ideas for our later assignment. I am interested in looking at the culture of Melbourne and the surrounding suburbs, and therefore decided to focus two of my interview ideas around the markets within Melbourne. I am interested in hearing from stall holders who are constantly immersed in the different cultures and the different people who move through the markets.

Other than this, our group had also discussed doing a show, or at least some of our segments, around homelessness. This got me thinking about Urban Seed, an organisation I visited a number of years ago with my school. The organisation does work with the homeless, and runs various projects within the community. Within my research I found that the organisation does work around my home suburb, which made this idea resinate with me on a personal level.

In class this week we also began to discuss our demo and first show. Despite the fact that our deadline is fast approaching, I am confident that everything will get done in time. We have designated roles, and I am both excited and nervous for my role as presenter in the first show.

The next week or so will be spent planning our demo and our running sheet, which are both due in just over a week. This will involve working on our ideas for our first show interviews, as well as picking the music for our show, and working out exactly how everything will fit into the hour we have. We will be going back to the radio station next week to record this demo, which will be a great way to see how we are tracking, and how much work will need to be done for the actual show.

Today we headed down to the RRR radio studio for our first official day of panel training. Besides our brief introduction to the studio two days prior, I have had no experience with broadcasting radio or using a radio panel, and was therefore unsure of what to expect from our session. 

After spending some time being somewhat unsure of what to do, our group was given a quick a refresher in how to use the panel and left to get our heads around how it works.

We spent the session rotating through jobs, with each of us spending some time on the panel cueing music, sponsor messages, and specific microphones, as well as working on getting the different volumes to the correct levels. I found this to be quite a challenge, as the panel in many ways felt unfamiliar and there are many different functions to handle at one time. However, the training has helped me to see how the different functions work as one in a chain, and how important it is to make sure everything is perfectly flowing for the sake of the program

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The training was also a good chance for our group to work collaboratively for the first time and begin to understand how each person works individually as well as in the team environment. Judging by our first training session, our team dynamic is already very positive.

Overall, I am pleased with my progress today and am looking forward to further panel training to refine our skills before we begin production of our show and put it on the air!!

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