OUR FIRST SHOW finally got to air on the 1st of May!
Facilitating a whole hour of radio, proved to be challenging – mainly with organising the availability of guests and being surprised by the interview we recorded in our demo, being turned down for a live interview for our first show. Besides this, two live interviews were organised. Our first, Savannah from the zine ‘Ladies of Leisure’ as suggested by Chloe and our second with Anthony who I had previously interviewed as a pre-record. Although our interview subjects were diverse, when rehearsing our show, Chloe and I noted down connecting links of the interviews to transition the program, for example Savannah spoke of empowering women through her zine, and Soreti Kadir was an inspiring woman empowering her community in Footscray so that connection was used to back announce one interview and introduce Soreti’s which was a pre-record.
A theme that kept occurring to me in the production of the show was the idea that even though things sounds organic and natural and air, planning and preparation are key for this ‘style’ to take effect. The producers, Hannah and Georgia and panelist, Bradley – worked to make two versions of the runsheet: one for Chloe and myself as presenters and a version that detailed more of the technical aspects of timing and where sound sources were kept (ie Computer 1, CD 1). In addition to this Chloe and myself individually made notes in order of each segment of the runsheet. This included things like a fact about the songs we played, whether a tour or an album of that artist is announced or ways to segway into the next segment in case we ‘froze up’.
Before the show we combined our notes, but in future we would have just worked off the same notes document to make sure we had identical information in front of us and avoided making a few reprints and revisions of the notes very close to the show. This was not so much to script exactly what we would say, but to provide a guide with detail of what to say to avoid being tongue tied, especially granted we’d be naturally nervous on our first RRR Live show.
Overall, I would say our first show ran smoothly with challenges like a last minute change to the pre-record as requested by the interviewee, handled with an exceptional amount of calm by our producer. If this interview was to no longer air, fortunately I had spent several hours (more !!) editing down an additional pre-recorded interview with ‘Lushsux’ making it ‘radio ready’ at 11 minutes and even preparing an introduction to contextualise the interview if it needed to air. The most positive aspect of this experience for me personally, was the chance to get to present on-air. I have approached this class with the attitude that it is wholly beneficial for my career goals and hence striving for accuracy in my presentation efforts and broadcast abilities.
Attached below is a link to it on soundcloud with annotations as I listened back through to the show a few days later…
Group 4 RWAV Show #1