This week started quite well in regards to us having made significant contact with potential contributors with James having put an advert out on Mandy actors about potential contributors. We did receive quite a few responses however and after we had shifted through we decided to approach two people from this. One called Charlie was experienced in doing a comedy programme called news revue which is a live comedy programme with sketches etc. The other potential contributor was Will who is a more local standup comedian/actor. James contacted both and arranged phone conversations with them. Unfortunately, i wasn’t able to be at the one that he had with Charlie but judging from what he said she was interested and also gave us pointers on how we should conduct ourselves generally as we hadn’t set a date for recording etc. I was however able to come and speak to Will, who over the phone seemed like he had the right interests and knew what he was talking about in terms of satirical comedy etc. The one problem that did become apparent was that we weren’t going to be able to book both Charlie and Will at the same time meaning one of them would have to be cut, and it was decided that out of preference we would have Charlie due to her experience.
I had also been in regular contact with Alex Rhodes from BBC Lincolnshire and he wanted clarification over what the project was and how we intended to do it, with who was also on the panel. However after trying to book Alex and dealing with requests one problem that has become apparent is that he may be working the day that we wanted to record which me and James had both set after Charlie’s advice and telling us that we need to do so. This ultimately leads us to be in an awkward situation with only a panel of three people and if Alex can’t do it we will need to find another journalistic type of person who would be willing to be involved.
We also had our weekly tutorial with Zara this week who is now our regular tutor after Dylan going off ill, meaning that a lot of ideas were discussed. The first thing that was discussed was our learning objectives, Zara said that we were not being specific enough with them and needed to go into more depth around the likes of target audience etc and state why we’re doing the project i.e Portfolio piece etc. The other thing was discussed was why we’re putting it on Radio 4 and whether our cast at the time really suited the station or whether they suited radio 1 to a higher degree, the other advantage of doing this for Radio 1 was that it would mean our duration would be reduced down to 30 minutes instead of having to fill a whole hour, related to this was the problem of James fitting a radio 4 presenter style as this was very unlikely. Finally, we discussed who we should be talking to as Zara suggested that we spoke to a list of people from both Radio 4 commissioning and presenting to give us advice from our script to helping us with what they are looking for in a comedy piece.
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