Evaluation

Phresh FM Morning Show

When we were first put into our radio groups, I was quite worried at first because we had never really worked on radio properly before, some of us had only touched upon it in the FD, but at the same time I was looking forward to it because it felt like a new challenge. In the end I decided to evaluate the morning show as I felt I played more of a part in that one.


We pre-recorded our morning show and straight away, Jon accidentally messed up by pressing the wrong bumper. After having a moan we needed to forget about it and concentrate on the rest of the hour. Brett was one of the presenters and we introduced the guests, who were myself, Craig and Kris. After this though, I found that once we had got into our rhythm as a team, that we didn't really follow the codes and conventions of original/professional radio programmes. This wasn't helped by the fact that Jon forgot to play sound beds when the guest and main presenters were talking. I felt that if this was a real radio show in for example Radio 1, we would get into alot of trouble for not doing things professionally.

To introduce the show Jon played a 3 minute song right at the start of the show and used it to introduce himself and the show. I thought this was a fantastic idea because you don't hear this much often and it gives the effect to the audience that the show/presenters are upbeat and lively. This would also attract the audience rather than them hearing a load of talking first and making them want to switch stations.

Every so often, in between songs, Brett and Jon would bring up topics which would be talked about with the guests and presenters. We tried to make them interesting and top news which would relate to our target audience(teenagers to mid-twenties). Naomi was the producer of the show so she gave the presenters a schedule for the show which showed the topics that were to be talked about and when the songs were going to be played and how long they were.

I think it was later on in the show there was a minor disagreement between the crew which also involved our pre recorded quiz show. Brett introduced it and then Jon played it, but seeing as Gemma was in the quiz, she felt that Brett should have introduced her first before playing it, but it was already being played so obviously it was too late. We all thought that, if she felt like this she should have said something about it at the start of the show, but instead, herself and Naomi distanced themselves from the crew and basically sat at the back of the room, and made themselves void to the show really.

Other than that confusement, the rest of the show went relatively okay. Bumpers were played correctly to introduce Nathan's news every 15 minutes. I think though, that Jon should have used soundbeds when the presenters and guests were talking about a topic, or maybe also when Nathan was reading the news. A script would have helped because sometimes conversations became awkward where we didn't know what to say to introduce a song and we tried to avoid silence. I also feel that we should have picked topics that all the speakers could talk about, so everybody could have a say and then it would go into more detail.


So overall looking back at the project as a whole, I feel we improved alot but there were still some weaknesses that showed. I think our strengths were confident presenters with Kris in particular, and Jon. Jon was a great help because if something went wrong ie; a song wouldn't play, he would divert the silence by sparking up a topic, mainly about the song whilst we were trying to quickly sort out the problem. A weakness we had was that, the songs that we had chosen to play on our morning show were scattered across all of our iPods, so we had to unplug and plug iPods at a rush, but I made sure that the next song was ready on the iPod and ready to play when needed. I admit though, that we should have been more organised and maybe had all the songs imported onto one playlist on one iPod.