1. Music Based Programming-
Damen gave everyone a booklet in the class to research different radio shows some of
the radio shows which we had to research were Capital FM, Smooth, XFS and more. We
had to find out what sort of music they played, who their target audience was, how much
they brand themselves in an hour show and etc… We also had to research different jobs
within the radio industry, once I completed these I had to listen to a variety of radio
shows to listen to what they speak about and other things. Once I finished all of my
research I decided to do my two radio shows with Megan Robinson.
Megan and I produced two scripts for a broadcast radio and an in-store radio we made
these scripts on celtx. We listened to other radios to see how much they branded the
radio station, how much they spoke, what they spoke about and how many songs played
in an hour show. We looked at radio stations like Capital FM, Smooth Radio, and Rock
Radio we also looked at different in-store radio stations. We were given a list of songs
which were downloaded in the radio studio and got told to send Damen any songs we
wanted for out radio show. We both made a different list of songs and found out
interesting facts about them which we could talk about on our radio show. We used
Megan’s song list and facts for our Broadcast Radio and mine for our In-Store Radio. On
our broadcast Radio show we included 9 songs, our own made jingles, news which we
found on the internet, song facts and spoke like we were having a conversation.
Whereas on our In-Store Radio we included 12 songs, very few song facts, mentioned
deals which were going on in-store, own made jingles which represented the shop and
we also included band gossip because Pulp is a band merchandise shop.
Once we finished our scripts we went into the Radio Studio to practice using the
equipment, we were shown how to blend in music going from one to another straight
away. We went into the radio room and practised a variety of times before we actually
recorded our show. When we wasn’t in the Radio Studio we had to use voice recorders
to record what we was going to say in our jingles, the news and the band gossip. Once
we finished recording we edited our jingles on Reaper, we both edited them ourselves
and made a few different jingles even though we only used around 2 different jingles in
each show. Once we finished editing our jingles and recording our news and band
gossip we had to go into the radio room to do 2 schedules, one for each show, with Chris
the Media Technician. Doing this we had to estimate how long our show would be, we
did this by saying how long everything getting said would take and how long the news
would be on etc… For example we said the news would take around 5-10minutes and
the intro would take around 5minutes. Then we went into the Radio Studio to do our final
recordings of our Radio shows, even though we had a script we changed a few things in

2. the Radio studio for example when we was introducing ourselves and saying goodbye.
We recorded our Broadcast Radio first when we first went into the Radio Studio we
couldn’t get our songs to work and when speaking into the microphones we couldn’t hear
it. We had to shut it all down and reopen it to see if it worked. Once we got everything
working we started to record our show, we made a mistake towards the beginning
because I read the wrong part so we had to stop recording and restart. Once we got
going we recorded it the whole way through without any mistakes. We set up our news,
jingles and the news intro which was already made on the screen so we were ready to
play them when we wanted them in our radio show.
Once we finished recording our Broadcast Radio we booked to go into the Radio Studio
to record our In-Store Radio Show. We had only practised the In-Store Radio around two
times even though it’s mainly songs throughout the In-Store Radio we made a few
mistakes as we were getting started for example when we were introducing the show we
left a break between the jingle and us introducing and then there were a few seconds
break between me introducing me and Megan introducing herself so we had to stop
recording both times and start again. Once we got going and us to everything again I
found it pretty easy. We had to blend majority of the songs which we chose because we
barley spoke between songs there is around 2 songs which are on their own in-between
us speaking. When listening back to both recorded radio shows I think we did well in
both especially the Broadcast Radio because we both spoke clear, none of the ends of
the songs were cut off and we didn’t make any obvious mistakes throughout it.
I found when there was just one of us turning the microphones and music on and off we
messed up quite a few times so when we were recording our actual Radio Shows we
both did it and worked together and doing this made it a lot easier throughout the show.
When we first started we didn’t know exactly when the song would always finish so we
had to try listen to it carefully, also some of the introductions were long and we had to try
and remember which songs they were. We had to speak throughout some of the
introductions or play jingles in them so there wasn’t around 5 seconds of silence.
I think both of our radio shows were suitable for their target audiences for example we
used popular and well known nostalgic tracks and also songs which aren’t old but went
with the music which we were playing. We chose these songs by asking the students in
our media class what sort of songs they would like to be played. The nostalgic songs
which were chosen by Megan, other media students and I were ‘Wake Me Up Before
You Go Go by Wham’, ‘We Will Rock You by Queen’, ‘ I am the Resurrection by The
Stone Roses’ and more… Other songs which were also chosen are ‘Paradise by
Coldplay’, ‘Wonder wall By Oasis’ and ‘Locked Out Of Heaven by Bruno Mars’. We

3. ended our radio show with the Bruno Mars song even though it doesn’t go with any
genre or the previous music it played it sounded good at the end and we wanted a happy
song to end our show. Also a lot of the people who we asked about the music liked this
song and they were included in our target audience.
Our In-store Radio show was for Pulp store, this store sells rock band merchandise for
recent bands to nostalgic bands. We chose some of the artists which they sell
merchandise for, instead of just choosing them randomly we chose artists which are well
known for example we used ‘I Bet You Look Good On the Dance Floor by Arctic
Monkeys’, ‘This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race by Fall Out Boy’, ‘Basket Case by
Green Day’, Mr Brightside by The Killers’ and more. For the last three songs we use well
known and popular nostalgic tracks to end it with for example we used ‘Sex On Fire by
Kings Of Leon’, ‘Living On A Prayer by Bon Jovi’ and ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns N
Roses’. I think these songs met our target audience even though the last three are old
songs they’re popular bands with a lot of rock looking teenagers/ young adults. A lot of
the people who shop in Pulp will most likely listen to this genre of music since they’re
shopping somewhere that sells merchandise for all of the bands.
If I did it again I wouldn’t just read off the script all the time because when we didn’t read
off the script for the introduction it sounded better and during certain parts it was obvious
we were reading straight off the scripts we produced. I think it was obvious because we
wasn’t completely confident with doing everything even though we had practise and
grew more confident the more we practised we still wasn’t fully confident and didn’t want
to make mistakes. When we made mistakes we just stopped recording and started again
I think if we made a joke about it and didn’t make it too obvious. Also we could have
come up with a few more interesting band gossips than we did, we could also joke
around a bit as if we’re having a conversation instead of the quick conversation we had
at the beginning of the Broadcast Radio, it wasn’t exactly a happy conversation it was
just a quick ‘how are you today’ etc… . I’d also be a little more organised for when
recording the show because at the beginning of certain songs there was a few seconds
gap and we had to quickly fill it in with a jingle so it didn’t sound obvious.