Evaluation

Our task for this unit was to create a radio show for both students and staff of Central Sussex College and the appropriate target audiences. These had to be around 30 minutes long and consist of around 70% music and 30% speech. I believe that I have for the most part reached this target however both of my shows are under 30 minutes long by about 5 minutes. Although this isn’t by much I feel I may have been able to add maybe a news segment for the adult show and possibly an interview or something else for the student one just to add extra time to the show and make it more complete.

For my student show I decided to go for a more comedic approach by making it sound like there are two people hosting the show and constantly arguing when in fact I was just doing two different voices. I found this to be quite a fun way to do the student show and so felt more motivated to do it. With the adult show however I wasn’t too sure how I could go about it so I decided to play it safe and just do it as myself with no particular angle. This however I believe made the show rather boring and uninteresting, if I had more time maybe I could have thought of a better way to do the show so it’s more interesting.

Perhaps my student show was a bit too immature for its intended audience however I believe the reason might be due to the fact that I am quite an immature individual, perhaps next time I do a radio show for a teenage audience I could get some opinions from others from this age bracket.  With the adult show like I mentioned before I believe the parts in which I am speaking are too boring and could do with a bit more enthusiasm.

The technical quality, though not as professional as a real radio show, I believe is good. I did have to do bit of editing in order to get all the audio levels at the same volume. Compared to a professional radio show of course this is nowhere near as good. One such example is that my voice isn’t a clear as it could be, this however is due to the fact that we were only using basic audio recorders instead of highly expensive equipment.

For a first attempt at doing a radio show I believe that I have done an okay job, not bad but okay. I put this down mainly due to the fact of inexperience but also possibly that I feel I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked.