The document provides guidance for creating sample audio material for a music radio program. It recommends including: 1) 10 seconds of a song to give a sense of the music while limiting the length for assessment purposes 2) A 5-second jingle identifying the station and/or show created in GarageBand 3) Spoken content from the presenter that is cleanly recorded with no background noise 4) Interviews that position voices subtly left and right for a natural conversation feel 5) It advises managing all audio files as clearly named .wav files and presenting evidence of the work through blog posts of running orders, individual audio assets, and screenshots of file organization and the Audacity project.

1. Music Radio
Task 5 – Sample Material

2. What is sample material
• It's not a scrappy first draft attempt at the final thing
• Well recorded, well edited and well presented audio material that
gives a clear impression of what your final work will be like
• Relevant paperwork – playlists and content plans – which are also
properly thought through and well presented
• You don't need complete running orders or detailed presenting notes
at this stage – there is a later planning task still to come
• You have to produce two sets of sample materials – one for each of
your two treatments

3. Running Order
• You need to have a point by point plan of the content of your sample
material, with a note of how long you expect each point to last.
• For the purposes of this task, you can play up to ten seconds of music
(either at the beginning or the end of your sample material) but no
more than that.
• What are you going to talk about?
• What jingles are you going to play?
• Is there going to be any interactivity?
• What's coming up next

4. Scripts,and why you're not using them
• Radio presenters don't work from scripts unless they absolutely have
to.
• News readers use them.
• Questions for interviews with celebrities will often have to be
scripted,agreed and kept to.
• Competitions come with a lot of small print that you have to read out
accurately.
• Other than that, no scripts. Notes yes,scripts no.

5. The Playlist
• Your show needs a playlist. If it's a prime time Radio 1 show then you
can adopt the current ABC and so on playlists, or you can investigate
the playlists that niche shows use
• You can come up with your own playlist
• Remember that 'Playlist' means two subtly different things – all of the
songs that are likely to be played most regularly on the station, and
the actual list of songs you've just played on your show. When you
create a playlist you're doing the first of these

6. Sample Audio Material – a list
• The opening or closing 10 seconds of a song
• A jingle(made on GarageBand, for example)
• The presenter, presenting(which might be several different audio
files)
• Other people talking (maybe in conversation with the presenter in a
single track)(or maybe you've got two presenters!)
• Music for music beds
• Any other sound effects you might want to use

7. Sample Audio Material - Music
• You can play songs on a music and talk radio show although for the
purposes of assessment you obviously can't make five minutes of a
show by playing a five minute long song. For the sample material of
30-40 seconds, 10 seconds of a song is your limit
• Make sure it's a song that perfectly suits the show and its target
audience
• Choose something that also suits the mood of the show for your
music bed. You can alternatively make music beds on GarageBand

8. Sample Audio Material - Talk
• Don't read from a script, talk. In fact, perform – even on talk radio we
talk about the 'vocal performance' of the presenter.
• Be very careful, and very fussy, about how you record your talk. Make
sure your recordings are 'clean' - that you record what you want and
nothing else – no background noise, no doors closing, no people or
cars going by.
• If you make a mistake in a short piece stop, pause, start again, and
tidy it up in the edit.
• Advanced tips on recording conversations coming up...

9. Sample Audio material - interviews
• If you are going to feature two people talking to each other...
• DON'T set up microphones, or edit, so that one voice is fully left
balanced and the other fully right balanced (so that one voice comes
out of one speaker/earphone and one out of the other). It doesn't
work
• DO record or edit so that the two voices are subtly shifted to left and
right to create just the impression of physical space between the two
people in the conversation
• There are some advanced skills in Audacity that will let you do this in
the edit if you can't do it in the recording

10. Sample Audio Materials - Jingles
• You need to have a jingle as part of your sample material
• You will need to have three different ones as part of your final five minute
production for Task 10 – the one you make now can (obviously) be one of
those)
• The one you make for your second set of material now might not suit your
final show...
• Make it on GarageBand – create a track using beats or drums, bass, and
whatever else you want AND
• You need a vocal track saying either the name of the station, or the station
and the show, or the station and the news (and maybe the show too)
• Your jingles should be about 5 seconds long

11. Sample Audio Material – File Management
• Every file you use should be an uncompressed .wav file
• Every file you use should have a clearly descriptive file name ('Show
Jingle', 'Presenter Talk 1', 'New Music Bed')
• The different audio files you put together are called your 'Assets'.
Keep them in one labelled folder.
• Take a screenshot image of the folder and post it to your blog as
evidence of your good file management and organisation

12. Audacity
• Use the 'resources' tab at the top of the page to show you the basics
about using Audacity. The basics are very straightforward and you'll
learn best by having a play.
• You're going to save work from Audacity in two different ways
1. An Audacity Project – which saves as two different things – a indexing file
and a folder of assets – which you must keep together, or they won't work.
You 'Save' the project. It will save as a multi-track project in progress that
you can go back to and continue working on.
2. An uncompressed audio .wav file of your finished piece. You 'Export'
the.wav file

13. Audacity – evidence of your work
• As well as your folder or audio files, you must take screenshot of your
finished Audacity project and post an image of it to your blog. You
can't upload the audacity project to your blog as evidence – it needs
to be available for us to see on your use are and the screenshot on
your blog reinforces that evidence.

14. Presenting your work
• You need to post to your blog:-
1. Through SlideShare,your proposed running order and playlist
2. Through AudioBoom, each individual audio assett and your finished edited
together audio sample(so you might post as many as ten AudioBoom files,
depending on how many different audio tracks you use)
3. As images to your blog a screengrab of your file management and of your
Audacity project