My studies are complete and part of that was a radio assignment – naturally on beer! Through various resources I managed to get in contact and have talks with Paul Mercurio – cookbook author and beer enthusiast, Richard Watkins – head brewer at the Wig and Pen and Colin Marshall – owner of Brew your own at home.… Read More »
The final submission for my radio show is now complete! It will be available here to download and listen to shortly. As the final entry for my journal part of the assessment I thought I would write some notes reflecting my experiences to date. I decided at the start to try something new, something different (for me), something… Read More »
Working on the radio show and trying something new has brought up an interesting dilemma.Managing interviews. Ordinarily I would cut the interview up and slot it in where it needed to go. As I am trying to splice all the different comments from various people across the whole of the show I decided to do up a time… Read More »
Editing for the show is well on its way! Editing ums, ahhs out of interviews as well as the various sound effects and music clips is actually taking longer than planned. As I’m trying something different with this show there is quite a lot of planning on how and where parts of all the interviews will interact and… Read More »
I just finished up tonight doing another interview for my final assessment. The last two interviews I have tried a different approach and had more of an informal chat/discussion rather than a question/answer type interview. I’m hoping this different style will come across in my radio show well with trying new ideas, only time will tell but it… Read More »
In today’s class (Radio) we listened to different styles of radio shows. While two were similar to a traditional interview style albeit in a more conversational, friendly and relaxed demeanor the third style really intrigued me. We’ve listened to them in a previous lesson and since then I have actually subscribed to their podcast but once again I… Read More »
What to do? How to do it? What to do different? This time the assignment requirements are a 30 minute radio show. Which although may sound long it actually won’t end up being long after a few interviews. So what to it on? Should I theme it? My initial thoughts are to theme it, it will allow all… Read More »
With the first assignment for my radio subject now complete I thought I would write up some of my findings. The first thing I found was my interviewee, although he was very passionate about his business I felt I didn’t get what I wanted. Most likely my questions were not focused directly on what I should have been… Read More »