The student learned several important skills from completing their AS Media coursework project. They gained experience using audio editing software like Adobe Audition and Premier, learning how to import and export files and use various tools. They also learned the importance of taking time to properly record high quality audio and do multiple takes to ensure perfection. Through the process, the student developed their understanding of how to produce a professional radio broadcast and conduct interviews.

1. Looking back at your preliminary
task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it
to the full product?
Evaluation Question 7
AS Media Coursework

2. How does your final broadcast demonstrate a progression
in the standards of production (recording and editing)
compared to your preliminary?
• The main task final broadcast has shown a lot of development in the
time between the preliminary task and the final take. It has
improved a lot in many areas, such as gathering the interviews. We
improved when editing the final pieces together, because we then
had experience with the software that we were using. We got more
confident during making the final draft because we had a better idea
of what we were doing.
• In our preliminary task, we didn’t have much experience with
creating a radio broadcast. We didn’t know where to start and made
some mistakes along the way. One mistake was to use a ‘transition
sound’ in-between the different interviews we had collected. We
decided to scrap the sound, it was too distracting and sounded
terrible.

4. What do you think you have learnt
from completing the coursework overall?
• I have learnt many things while proceeding
through this coursework. I have learnt about
how to create a professional and well made radio
broadcast, and learned how to successfully
record and edit things together.
• I learned about the different aspects to a radio
interview, and the different techniques and how
they work, and how to conduct a professional
one myself.

6. What have I learned?
• During the process of making it, I have learned how to
use the different software's such as adobe audition and
premier, and also the recording sound software, pro
tools. I have managed to explore around the software
and understand how to use them, finding out how to use
the different tools, and import and export the files
needed. I think that most of the software's were easy to
use and smooth to work.

8. I have also learned…
• I have learned that you need to take time with recording,
and make sure that if you want to record, you record it to
the best possible quality as you can. You should always
take several takes to get the perfect recording, and we
found out that we should re-do recoding because it didn’t
sound right when we listened to it back.
• We took note that we booked the studio, and the
equipment needed, in order to produce our work. We
learned that we needed to take time out of lessons to
write the script and prepare for the recording session.