Evaluation

Morning Show on 5th November 2010

Immediately it is noticeable that we were under prepared. Even though we had lots of practices, and everybody had their specific job, on the morning of the show complications were risen which added extra pressure. Problems such as changing the play list and the presenter not wanting to present, this caused friction between the group before broadcasting. However once on air we didn’t follow the codes and conventions of radio programs as the mixer forgot to play sound beds when talking, which created an immediate unprofessional feel along with cutting songs off midway.
The introduction created to open Jon’s show wasn’t played therefore the audience wouldn’t know who the presenters were, however he decided to play a three minute song before introducing himself and his guests, doing this immediately put us off schedule.
Jon being the presenter should have worn his headphones so he could hear exactly what was being broadcasted but didn’t, this could have solved the smaller problems if he had been more focused.
During most morning shows there is large percentage of talking compared to music, and I feel the topics we chose to talk about were up to date and the facts of the topic were given before the opinions on the subject, however with four guests and a big character as presenter it meant that they were talking over each other and getting louder, which would confuse the audience and not been appropriate for the morning time.
Also there was a few times were a pause would happen for longer than 3 seconds which is the biggest mistake you can make in radio as the audience instantly feel there is a problem and could lose interest, however this was caused by a faulty wire but could have been prevented by putting all the songs onto Myriad.
When the music resumes there is still technical difficulties which cause the song to be broadcasted at midway through, this is very unprofessional.
The features were played at their scheduled time and were very helpful as the pre recorded 9 minute quiz gave us a chance to get on our feet and hopefully give a more professional feel, also the 15minute dedicated to Children in Need was a success as most of it was features with a short input from the presenters.
We had decided that we would have two types of news a short one at quarter past and quarter to and then a longer more detailed one at half past. The program does contain a short and long news however they aren’t played at the specific time they should have been, this is one of my jobs however I didn’t fill the duty as we were all very under prepared. Before Nathan would read the news on each occasion we had developed a introduction for him which would allow the audience to know that the news was next, besides this the presenter decided not to play it and instead introduce him.
We had decided to make the presenter as more of a character, even though this would create a distance between the audience and the presenter it could be seen as more fun, so we thought putting a character on would be exciting quite similar to Westwood, who’s character is exaggerated and has a strong personality aswell as beliefs, however our character Boris came off as quite rude, thinking he was better than others. Some things that he would say such as “Next song is catch the train with Soul Sister” this is incorrect information as it is just Train by Soul Sister however he felt the need to add which I felt unnecessary and that our target audience wouldn’t appreciate.
I felt our radio program was not a success, as the level of professionalism was minimal and that if we worked as a team better then we could have has a successful show, I do feel the features were well received as a lot of work went into them especially with changing the levels on volume as some were originally too quiet.