Mac 212 week 4
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This document provides tips for planning and producing live radio programs. It discusses the importance of production values, understanding the audience, over-preparing content, structuring breaks, speaking concisely, planning each element, being prepared, using signposts and cues, thinking creatively, promoting content ahead, and using different textures and colors in the audio. It also discusses the roles of producers in setting the framework and presenters in connecting with listeners. The document is intended to help radio professionals improve their live programming through planning, preparation, and audience awareness.
Mac 212 week 4
- 1. MAC 212 Live Programmes Planning and top tips
- 2. Tip #1 Production Values are important How can you do it better?
- 3. Tip #2 Think about the listener What do they want? Who are they?
- 4. From Powerful Radio… Over-Prep Do things the listeners do Structure your breaks BEFORE the mic opens Remember your audience composition when building in features Speak concisely. Edit copy or write down important items so you won’t get lost
- 5. Tip #3 Plan the programme fully – And have a back-up
- 6. Tip #4 Plan each link and live element Live is a risk but you can reduce the risk
- 7. Be Prepared Be prepared and on time for your show. What listeners respond to is the finished product. Our product is what comes out of the speakers on the radio. Our preparation is real but often invisible. Geller. 2012. P137
- 8. Producers Set the framework of the show Establish what the show is about / style Communicate their decisions and ideas Support the process Have an overview of the whole process Leading but not dictating
- 9. What a presenter wants
- 10. Tip #5 Script all cues and menus Allows creativity, structure and humour
- 11. Tip #6 Use signposts Coming up….. Now we have… Earlier you will heard….
- 12. Presenters Know what you want to say Think about who you are talking to Consider: The pace of what you say The mood? Are upbeat/happy? Or serious? Intimate? Friendly? Your accent and dialect. Pronounciation
- 13. Radio Four
- 14. Tip #7 Think Laterally Don’t do the obvious… ‘cos that’s been done
- 15. Tip #8 Be ambitious and be creative Go for it!!!
- 16. Tip #9 Look beyond these 4 walls What’s happening in the real world?
- 17. Tip #10 Use Textures and Colours
- 18. Creating Powerful Radio: P39 extracts from Tommy Kramers Coaching Handbook Pull the listener with you Use real language Connect with the listener The rule of one Promote ahead Have a road map
- 19. PART ONE: 1100-1200 An idea for a 45 second link Plan it and do it Something new and fresh PART TWO… until 1300 In your groups create a show brief and then produce a 30 second trail for your show, play it back next week
- 20. Trail Making
- 21. Trails What are you promoting? Are you showing? Telling? Teasing? What do you want the listener to do? What reason are you giving to listen? Do you use your voices? A station voice? Characters?