When we were first put into our radio groups, I felt quite excited, because trying to create a radio show, with hardly any experience in that field made the assignment quite unpredictable. I decided to evaluate the morning show as I am one of the presenters for that show.
Our first airing was of our morning show that was pre - recorded, Jon began accidently by pressing the wrong bumper. Good start that was. As I was one of the presenters I introduced the guests and that was Jamie, Craig & Kris, as there were the people that were on the microphones. However once we were on air we didn’t really follow the codes and conventions of original/professional radio programmes as Jon forgot to play sound beds when the guests and I were talking, which created an unprofessional feel that the actual radio shows would frown upon.
Jon decided to play a three minute song before introducing himself and his guests, I thought doing this, made the radio show seem more exciting and unpredictable, giving the audience the feel that we are not like some boring radio shows where it's just talking, but it's a nice and fresh feel to it (thats why the show is called Phresh FM). Also by doing this, our target audience could immediately be drawn into the show, with music they listen to, rather than people talking and having the listeners changing station.
When we brought up different topics we (Me & Jon) got the opinions of the topic from our guests. As the producer, Naomi, did schedule the show and gave the main presenter a list of the times and basically what was on the agenda, but unfortunately a script wasn't handed to us (Me & Jon) even though she said she could make a script for us. We did discover a problem when we tried to play our first song, and it was either that the ipod wasn't working or the levels weren't turn up high enough. The problem was eventually found and it was that jon didnt turn on the input levels therefore the song was playing but wasn't being heard on headphones or the speakers outside.
Later in the show we did conquer a disagreement between the crew members and that was about the quiz show ' Phresh FM quiz' and because the show was pre-recorded jon said that after the bumper and before the quiz i should basically introduce it. As I did that and the quiz was now being played there was a slight confusment between the members of the group and that was that because gemma was in the quiz and earlier in the show we hadn't introduced her and she wasn't pleased with that. This really irritated me because if Gemma wanted to be introduced she should have told me in person and the problems would have been sorted out but because she didnt say anything, I hadn't had the slightest idea that she wanted to be introduced, I would have introduced at the beginning of the show but her and Naomi were quite a distance away from the rest of the group and from the equipment therefore making them inactive to the show.
Apart from that, the rest of the show seemed to go on without anymore major mishaps introducing the news every 15 minutes, using bumpers correctly etc. But I do have some criticsms and that is that Jon ought to have used some soundbeds over some topics therefore making the conversation seem more interesting and fun, but with jon not using soundbeds of some sort the topics lacked professionalism. Also with our show we needed a script to follow, because at some points I felt that some conversations weren't going anywhere exciting and that people were talking over each other, and that really annoyed me.
Overall the way I think the show went for the listeners was very good, I feel the reception we would of got from that show would be quite good because of the professionalism that we try to install in the show. As a crew member I feel the show could have gone better with some better songs, soundbeds and better fluency with the topics. Also the topics that we spoke about, we didn’t have enough detail about them. I believe if we research and get more detail into other topics for our live Children In Need show, it would be even more successful and professional than our pre-recorded show.
Presenter
The presenting by Me and Jon Wills I thought was well controlled and was extremely professional throughout the show. I though recognised as we were doing the show that Jon's pitch and volumes of his voice was more well presented then mine to make his voice sound more overpowering, we did this to make the audience hear which presenter the main focus is on. Like in the research, Jon used inflections in his voice to make the audience realise if he was asking a question directly or if he was having just a conversation with the guests in the studio. He also kept the show very scheduled, as he would introduce a new conversation topic, a new feature to play or the next song; this helped keep the show flowing smoothly.
How I feel the audience would respond.
We made a radio show targeted at an audience that could be able to access the internet radio, as that would be the type of format we would be broadcasting on. From the research that I've found out, a large amount of the people we asked (for the questionnaires) were in the 16-23 age range. So we decided to aim our show at this type of audience. Also, we found out that this type of audience was particularly fond of the Chris Moyles' Show. Finding this out was was a great boost for us, as we now know what to base our show on.
The way Chris Moyles' show is mainly made up is of lively conversations and features with only a few songs. We wanted to improve that and try to increase the number of songs and try to decrease to length of talking, this is to try and keep our morning radio show fast paced and original, but not by too much as it might swing the attitude of our show, and make it feel like it might as well be a show for the evening. I believe we got the balance between songs and conversation done very well, primarily because when the topics were being discussed between the guests and myself we kept the discussion short but quite lively.