Production of the broadcast 2

Gathering the Material was the next step to the production of my broadcast. This was done over a few days with a little help from a few members of friends and family. To make the broadcast as authentic as possible, I decided immediately that I would need a range of people to feature as members of the radio show team as well as guests to be interviewed. The first to be 'roped in' to my broadcast was my grandmother in the role of 'Margaret Myer' in the powerplant story featured first:

I felt this was a very successful interview as it was carefully scripted along with my grandma being interviewed putting an authentic tone of voice on to the whole piece.

The next story to address was a sports reporter. I decided to go with a female sports reporter as there are more and more female sports reporters appearing in modern day media and I was aiming to make this as authentic as possible. I asked a friend of mine named Kate to rehearse a short script that I had written the day before I wanted to record and then used the portable sound recorder I had been leant by my media dept. to record her in a quiet room with good acoustics. Next up was Sophie who stepped in a Susan to do an interview with 'Matthew Colborn' played by a young friend names Samuel.

The sound recorder it's self is a small, hand held device that captures extraordinary quality sound clips. This Olympus WS-321M was used to record every vocal element of my production. I tried especially hard to record every sound clip in the same room so that the general sound levels and acoustic properties of the clip would be similar.

After capturing all the individual clips I needed, The next task was to then upload them to an apple mac in the media suite, where I could then begin compiling and editing the clips together into one single, seemless broadcast. This was very easy in many respects, but was not without it's problems. The sound recorder I used throughout was a very cleverly designed unit that incorporated a hidden USB output so that any clips could be immediately transferred to a PC.That however, was also the problem as the unit had been designed solely for PC's and so recorded all clips in WMA (windows media audio) which was not recognised as an audio file at all by the mac's that I needed to use for editing. I therefore needed to convert the files into WAV (waveform audio) files that the mac would recognise.