Music Based Programming-

Megan and I produced two scripts for a broadcast radio and an in-store radio we made

these scripts on celtx. We listened to other radios to see how much they branded the

radio station, how much they spoke, what they spoke about and how many songs played

in an hour show. We looked at radio stations like Capital FM, Smooth Radio, and Rock

Radio, we also looked at different in-store radio stations. We were given a list of songs

which were downloaded in the radio studio and got told to send Damen any songs we

wanted for out radio show. We both made a different list of songs and found out

interesting facts about them which we could talk about on our radio show. We used

Megan’s song list and facts for our Broadcast Radio and mine for our In-Store Radio. On

our broadcast Radio show we included 9 songs, our own made jingles, news which we

found on the internet, song facts and spoke like we were having a conversation.

Whereas on our In-Store Radio we included 12 songs, very few song facts, mentioned

deals which were going on in-store, own made jingles which represented the shop and

we also included band gossip because Pulp is a band merchandise shop.

Once we finished our scripts we went into the Radio Studio to practice using the

equipment, we were shown how to blend in music going from one to another straight

away. We went into the radio room and practised a variety of times before we actually

recorded our show. When we wasn’t in the Radio Studio we had to use voice recorders

to record what we was going to say in our jingles, the news and the band gossip. Once

we finished recording we edited our jingles on Reaper, we both edited them ourselves

and made a few different jingles even though we only used around 2 different jingles in

each show. Once we finished editing our jingles and recording our news and band

gossip we went into the Radio Studio to do our final recordings of our Radio shows, even

though we had a script we changed a few things in the Radio studio for example when

we was introducing ourselves and saying goodbye. We recorded our Broadcast Radio

first when we first went into the Radio Studio we couldn’t get our songs to work and

when speaking into the microphones we couldn’t hear it. We had to shut it all down and

reopen it to see if it worked. Once we got everything working we started to record our

show, we made a mistake towards the beginning because I read the wrong part so we

had to stop recording and restart. Once we got going we recorded it the whole way

through without any mistakes. We set up our news, jingles and the news intro which was

already made on the screen so we were ready to play them when we wanted them in our

radio show.

Once we finished recording our Broadcast Radio we booked to go into the Radio Studio

to record our In-Store Radio Show. We had only practised the In-Store Radio around two

times even though it’s mainly songs throughout the In-Store Radio we made a few

mistakes as we were getting started for example when we were introducing the show we

left a break between the jingle and us introducing and then there were a few seconds

break between me introducing me and Megan introducing herself so we had to stop

recording both times and start again. Once we got going and us to everything again I

found it pretty easy. We had to blend majority of the songs which we chose because we

barley spoke between songs there is around 2 songs which are on their own in-between

us speaking. When listening back to both recorded radio shows I think we did well in

both especially the Broadcast Radio because we both spoke clear, none of the ends of

the songs were cut off and we didn’t make any obvious mistakes throughout it.

I found when there was just one of us turning the microphones and music on and off we

messed up quite a few times so when we were recording our actual Radio Shows we

both did it and worked together and doing this made it a lot easier throughout the show.

When we first started we didn’t know exactly when the song would always finish so we

had to try listen to it carefully, also some of the introductions were long and we had to try

and remember which songs they were. We had to speak throughout some of the

introductions or play jingles in them so there wasn’t around 5 seconds of silence.

I think both of our radio shows were suitable for their target audiences for example we

used popular and well known nostalgic tracks and also songs which aren’t old but went

with the music which we were playing. We chose these songs by asking the students in

our media class what sort of songs they would like to be played. The nostalgic songs

which were chosen by Megan, other media students and I were ‘Wake Me Up Before

You Go Go by Wham’, ‘We Will Rock You by Queen’, ‘ I am the Resurrection by The

Stone Roses’ and more… Other songs which were also chosen are ‘Paradise by

Coldplay’, ‘Wonder wall By Oasis’ and ‘Locked Out Of Heaven by Bruno Mars’. We

ended our radio show with the Bruno Mars song even though it doesn’t go with any

genre or the previous music it played it sounded good at the end and we wanted a happy

song to end our show. Also a lot of the people who we asked about the music liked this

song and they were included in our target audience.

Our In-store Radio show was for Pulp store, this store sells rock band merchandise for

recent bands to nostalgic bands. We chose some of the artists which they sell

merchandise for, instead of just choosing them randomly we chose artists which are well

known for example we used ‘ I Bet You Look Good On the Dance Floor by Arctic

Monkeys’, ‘This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race by Fall Out Boy’, ‘Basket Case by

Green Day’, Mr Brightside by The Killers’ and more. For the last three songs we use well

known and popular nostalgic tracks to end it with for example we used ‘Sex On Fire by

Kings Of Leon’, ‘Living On A Prayer by Bon Jovi’ and ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine by Guns N

Roses’. I think these songs met our target audience even though the last three are old

songs they’re popular bands with a lot of rock looking teenagers/ young adults. A lot of

the people who shop in Pulp will most likely listen to this genre of music since they’re

shopping somewhere that sells merchandise for all of the bands.