Within most similar programmes to our intend one such as ‘The News Quiz on Radio 4’, ‘Fighting talk’ on 5 live , Mock the Week and Have I got News For You (read about them here) all use a live studio audience so that there is reaction from the people in the audience to the jokes that were being said by those on the panel and it means that you have laughter in the background rather than using ‘stock’ clapping sounds. It also allows for audience reaction such as a comedian who is a guest on Have I Got news for you laughing at someone in the audience or in fighting talks case make use of the audience to send in questions or to vote on items. However due to us not having the budget to rent the nearest theatre or venue of similar nature for example the Engine Shed we wouldn’t be able to. Alongside this there would be a huge increase in staffing and equipment hire costs as we would need to hire in security and many more staff unless the venue had a flat booking fee that included this. Another thing for consideration is that we don’t have the experience or the infrastructure to physically ticket an event and pack it out.
This ultimately means that we wouldn’t be able to make use of a ‘stage’ option for our actual project due to the lack of money we have and the fact that we would be very unlikely to get that many people who were seriously interested enough to come and watch the piece be created. Another issue that we would have faced if we were to do it like this would have been that we wouldn’t have ‘big enough’ contributors to actually encourage people to come and watch/listen to the programme being recorded. Instead of using an actual theatre or similar type of location
However, if we were, in fact, doing the project for real on radio 4 it would be recorded in a theatre with an audience to allow us to exploit that audience interaction possibility that we wouldn’t otherwise have resulting in more potential content alongside just generally sounding better as there would be actual laughter meaning that you can gauge whether the audience actually enjoyed what was being said rather than what we are going to have to which is do it by what we find funny, making the editing process a lot slower and more complicated.
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