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Portfolio Piece

I believe that this project is a strong portfolio piece and I would include it in my demo.  Numerous different websites state the importance of having a good a demo which is essential for getting into radio and i intend to put this piece into my demo when I apply for jobs. It is also very different from previous items that I have in my demo currently meaning it will be stronger and help me to get a job.

 

In terms of what people look for in a demo, the website the pips suggest that the best part of the programmes you have worked on previously should be included so from this project I would probably utilise items that are in the trails for social media as they are the funniest bits.  The pips also warn against humour as this is quite polarising however I believe that our humour isn’t very polarising and is generally understandable. They also suggest that you shouldn’t over produce a demo and that there shouldn’t be a lot of sound effects and jingles in a demo, again we didn’t use many of these, however, the one area that may be off slight issue is that we did include music beds underneath and I may have to come back and remove these for the demo.

http://www.thepips.co.uk/hints-tips/demo-tips/

The student radio association also has tips on what is good for a demo with one of the most important beings that you should target your demo for different stations, while this is not entirely relevant for this objective there is a similarity as it would be advisable to have more of this project if I was applying for a podcast related job etc.  Again the next point is not entirely relevant but still relates as they suggest that you should be strong-willed and determined to make it into the industry and take criticism on the chin which is off great importance for making it into the radio industry as a whole.

10 Top industry tips on the perfect radio demo

I also believe that it is a strong piece as we have hit all of the commisioning guidelines that were set out in the original commissioning document and as a result, the project should be good to listen too as if we have achieved them this would transfer to the project being strong in a portfolio, especially at Radio 1 due to them being the ones who oversee the guidelines.

 

 

 

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Learning Objective- Experimental content

As has been demonstrated in previous blog posts about Radio 1’s current podcasts here. I believe that we have created something that is innovative and experimental as Radio 1’s current podcasts bar one are not intended to stand on their own as they all accompany a pre-existing radio programme that airs daily such as the Breakfast show or Greg James’ drive-time programme. Whereas our podcast will be a stand-alone item that is intended to be a stand-alone podcast which is what the brief asked for, despite it also saying that some may be broadcast in the early hours of the morning.  There are also very few podcasts that are clip-based with the ones that I discussed in this blog post proving this point, bar We Need To Talk About which is clip based but isn’t really a comedy podcast in the grand schemes of things, however, it is panel based.

 

Whereas Radio 1’s older comedy output which I talk about here is much more risky in terms of what they talk about and much more spontaneous than what is outputted today and these older programmes also had a lot more political discussion within them such as skits that involved politicians whereas nowadays this does not exist.  This is where Have You Heard The News- The Year in Review can come into its own as it is experimental as Radio 1 doesn’t output any is comedy, it is more under the entertainment strand such ass the 8th by Charlie Sloth and Greg James’ programme. It also doesn’t touch politics in any of it’s output. Furthermore, not many podcasts talk about Politics or are clip based meaning that we are innovative in the way that we put together our programme as we have mixed creating a  live radio programme with a stand-alone podcast and our recording process was based on a live programme that we edited to make a podcast  utilising a different approach.

 

Overall I believe this demonstrates I have achieved my learning objective of the podcast being experimental and the content of the podcast is not safe as it is an unmediated conversation about topics that people have differing opinions on and the approach that we have taken in creating the podcast has also been different from content that currently exists.