Evaluation - Progression from the Preliminary Task

My technical skills, and my understanding of the conventions of radio shows, have developed significantly since I completed my preliminary task (a very short radio extract that contained a jingle, a presenter introducing a guest and an archive clip of a scene from a horror film that the guest was promoting).



The preliminary task was an invaluable exercise in helping me to learn how to use Adobe Audition to record and edit and the techniques I became familiar with helped me enormously when it came to scripting my full task for Big Smoke FM, and allowed me to be much more creative with elements like outside broadcasts and specialist reports and the adverts that I used to reflect genre and target audience in my main task.



My preliminary task script was quite basic, only containing a few of the conventions of existing radio and I had to flesh out the script for my main task to make sure that it reflected the listening research I had done, and that it contained the right representations that I had noticed, and wanted.

Script - Preliminary Task

Script - Final Task - Big Smoke FM

A major development from my preliminary task revolved around my script. In my preliminary task I only had one jingle, but in my main task I wanted to include a range of jingles to reflect the research I had done (which indicated that there were show, station and news jingles and even weather, competition and traffic jingles).











After I completed my preliminary task I did a thorough evaluation into the way that the software had helped me create the effects for my jingle and the archive clip. I also made notes about what I had learned and how I could use this before I scripted, recorded and edited my full show, Big Smoke FM.

Evaluation of Preliminary Task

Creating the archive clip, in particular, gave me some good ideas about how I could be really creative with bits of my full task - like creating outside broadcasts that would sound realistic. I decided to include as many of these elements in my script now that I knew how to create authentic sounding outside locations.







The final major development from my preliminary task was the thought I put into representations for my full radio extract. During my listening I paid attention to the different voices I heard and carefully planned exactly who the voices on my show would be, so that the representations would seem authentic to my audience. I played the major role in my preliminary task but wasn't convinced that I really sounded like an authentic actress, and I didn't want to make the same mistake again. Below is an example of some of the research I did into representation as a result of not being happy with some of the representations in my preliminary task.

Research into Representation