This project is my first of two audio projects to complete the final year of my Audio Production degree. The programme is a 30 minute-ish podcast that will be based on satirical discussion of politics up to June of 2o17. The title of the podcast is Have You Heard the News- The Year In Review and it would be a series of 3 podcasts covering the year, with this episode being the pilot. It would be aimed at Radio 1’s audience as this is where the podcast would sit and would be broadcast. The reason for this was that radio 1 recently launched a new commissioning brief which is for raw and unmediated opinion based podcasts and we are launching a pilot episode this. Furthermore, we would accompany this by a modest social media presence to demonstrate the potential of a multimedia presence for Have I Heard You the News- The Year In Review.
Second Production Meeting
Today we met with Dylan for our first of many tutorials about how we’re going to create our project. The first significant thing that was discussed was the feasibility of doing our project to the extent that we had initially planned (four thirty minute programmes based around that week’s news), after some discussion though it was established that it would be more achievable to do something based on the years news rather than a bi-weekly programme. This alleviated the potential problem of not having any content for a week and allows us much more time to create the project. The discussion then moved onto the topic of presenters and the actual format of the programme, where it was decided that we would need to approach comedians to help the programme alongside James who would fulfil the role as the ‘anchor’. In regards to the format of the programme, it was decided that we should try and do a piece based on each month with the biggest news to be incorporated in, for example, the General Election and Donald Trump vs Kim Jong Un. One of the key areas that was discussed was the legality of using other peoples content which is vital to our project, Dylan explained the premise of Fair usage (LINK HERE) and the fact that Siren FM have an agreement with Sky News to use their content, thus meaning that our programme will now most likely be broadcast on Siren FM. Finally, we talked about what areas we should research and this lead us to five key areas: Competition, Audience, Legality/Ethics, Content and Genre.