Recording

We began recording this week in our Recording Room using Audacity. Due to the practise we’d had from our preliminary we knew to speak softly into the microphones while sitting straight and were prepared with a script we had wrote. During our research phase we listened to both national and local radio for inspiration- surprisingly, a lot of the smaller local stations were of a better presenting standard as they connected better with their audiences and had relatable dialects. A lot of national stations used television celebrities to present their shows but it became apparent that being a talented television presenter does not necessarily make you a good radio presenter. Often these celebrities such as Veron Kay and Fearne Cotton would trail off and speak about their own lives rather than the topic in hand.

We listened to a large variety of radio because we wanted our own work to be of a high standard. We made this basic plan to follow which we then wrote our script around:

Jingle -30 seconds

Headlines – 1 minute

Main Story – 2 minutes

Vox-Pot (weather) – 30 seconds

Sports – 1 minute

Light Story to end on (interview) – 1 minute

We found numerous problems during the recording process such as conflicting time tables so it was harder for the whole group to meet, illness such as Ruhul losing his voice and lack of time in the recording room due to having to share it with two other groups. Despite these setbacks, we overcame them to meet up for work effectively.

Our first few lessons were spent script writing and searching for news stories we could report on, these included:

A main headline

Other headlines

Sports

Weather

Light hearted story.

To do this we looked online at reliable sites such as the BBC.
Before recording, we read our scripts aloud to practise and sometimes had to record a story three or four times to get it right. This was worth it though, as we wanted the best results.