Live programmes p1

DQFWhat does that mean?

For radio? (and tv)

LIVE PROGRAMMES

PRODUCTION PLANNING, CLOCKS AND RAJAR

THE TEAM & JOBS

Producer

Presenter (or presenters)

Technical Operator (Studio Manager)

Content producer

Research

Recorded Features

Online Content

Planning

Scripts

Creative ideas

Show format

Studio Manager / Technical Operator

JOBS

Producer

JOBS

PRODUCTION PLANNING

Allocate Roles & Responsibilities

Set Deadlines

Maintain and submit a log of activity

Meet often

Write and submit a programme treatment / concept

Have a planKnow what your programme is about

PROGRAMME CONTENT

Consider:• Team skills / resources• The audience• Time slot• OFCOM codes

Content:• Live / Pre-rec• Interviews• Packages• Reviews• Sketches• OB inserts

What is your programme going to do? Be ambitiousBe creative

RUNNING ORDERS / CLOCKSPLANNING

Paper Running Order

• List items and timings / start times

Scripts

• Cues / contacts/ ID numbers

Links

• One thought• Where’s the exit

Programme Clock

• On paper and RCS

RCS CLOCKS

RAJAR

Reach

• The number who listen to a station in a defined period

Share

• That stations share of local listening

Hours

• How long the station is listened to, in total, individually = share

BUILDING THE HOUR

Worry about the stuff between the music

Menu and signpost

Build towards key features

Avoid clutter

Flow and progression – everything makes sense

Less is More

Are you making me care? Are you involving me?

PRODUCING

CONTENT

Think outside the box

Audience expectations

what are they talking about

what matters to them

What’s the best way to tell this story

Make it make me listen

Don’t bore yourselves

Don’t indulge in radio incest

WHERE DO IDEAS COME FROM?

Read everything

Watch everything

Hang out with normal people (have a life outside radio)

Ask what the stories mean FOR YOUR LISTENER

Be curious

“You have to hit listeners over the head with what you’re doing…make your station sound different. I’ve always been able to figure out what people like, what’s going to catch on and be popular… stay ahead of the curve” Scott Shannon

VALERIE GELLER SUGGESTS

Your Life

Overheard/Observed

News you’d talk about off-air

“in each case find the Universal Angle… a common thread or dynamic that affects everyone. Often the details of a story are interesting only to the participants and are no-one else’s business. While the personal is universal, the private can be boring”

A DAY IN THE LIFE…

DEVELOP 3 IDEAS FOR TODAY

Grab a paper

Go Online

Press Releases

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