Ideas

Grading:

It is time to create your final production and the work that you have created for your other units will make up part of this live show.

Your brief is to produce a one hour radio programme, that will be broadcast on PGFM, during the daytime schedule and be in the genre of .......

• The breakfast Show (People getting up and travelling to work or school)
  
• School's Out (Aimed at primary school students and their families)
• The lunchtime chart hour (Aimed at students 11-16 who will be listening on their lunch hour)
• Drive-time (Aimed at people travelling home from work or school)

Have a listen to some examples to help you generate some ideas..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/

The show must be appropriate for younger listeners but you can choose the style of the programme.

You must evidence the production process that you go through and the remainder of this blog will help you set this out....

1. Comment on your current situation by answering the following questions...

• How much time have you got to produce the programme?
• How much money do you have to spend?
• Who will be in your broadcat team and what will they be doing?
• What are the restrictions of your brief?
• What resources are available to you, for the live show and for the production of pre-recorded content?

Budget.......

You have £500 to spend on your show and the pre-production process.

(All prices are to hire per-hour)

Edirol Roland D-90 voice recorder = £15

Mp3 voice recorders = £10

Imac editing suite = £20

Macbook editing suite = £20

Recording Studio = £25 per hour.

2. Mindmap your ideas...

Have a look at the following video and try and utilise bubbl.us, an excellent mindmapping website, free and easy.


Analyse each idea and then select which idea you will be producing, explaining why.

3. Produce a treatment, to give to your client.....

You must present this to the directors of the PGFM and they must give you approval to broadcast

Include:

• Fellow presenters and production team and justification for each role.(Skills, personality, reliability etc)
  
• Content outline + list of pre-recorded material to be included
  
• Target Audience + breakdown of who will be listening and why? What is the demographic of the audience? Why will your programme appeal to specific genders,age groups, intelligences?
  
• Resources needed
• Budget
• Project Schedule = Date of show, practice shows, pre-recorded content ie; interviews, phone calls.
• What the competitors are doing successfuly and unsuccessfuly.
• Explanation of why people will be listening
  
• Contingency plan ie; if you run out of time, member of team drops out, guest cancels etc.