1. CONTENT FOR LIVE RADIO
MAC 196: Multiplatform Radio and Audio

2. Things you can put in your show…
• Interviews
• Live in the studio
• Live on the telephone
• Recorded and then edited
• On location
• In a studio
• Reviews
• Live
• Recorded
• Vox-pops
• Packages

3. Programme • 30 minute programmes – Music +
Speech
Planning • Aim for at least 2 on-air features
• What do you want do?
Ideas • What’s the best way to do this?
• Research – what do you need to know?
Pre-
production
• Who do you need to talk to?
• Allow enough time
Production • Ensure content is edited before TX

4. Programme Roles
• Presenter
• Producer
• Technical Operator / Studio Manager
• Researcher / Reporter
• Visual Content Producer
What kind of people do you want in these roles?
What kind of skills do they need to have?

5. Skills….

6. Things you will need…
• Deadlines
• When will things be ready?
• Who’s doing what?
• A Running Order
• How things are and where they go
• A programme script
• Cues, Menus and plans for links
• A production file
• Research and evidence of planning
• Communication

8. Packages
• Contains:
• Scripted links, Interview clips, vox-
pops, music, actuality, reconstructions etc etc
• Structure:
• Mix the elements together, try to tell a story rather than have blocks
of interviews or script.
• Tell the listener what to expect – what the story is
• Add more detail – get an explanation
• Find out more – fill in some blanks
• Try and close the story, add a conclusion

9. Example….
• Cue from presenter….
• Opening Link
• 1st Interview clip
• 2nd link
• 2nd interview clip (same person)
• 3rd link
• 3rd interview clip (new person)
• 4th link
• Final interview clip (person 1)
• Back –announcement from presenter

11. Ideas and what to do with them?
• Audience
• What does the audience want/expect?
• What interests them?
• Resources
• What do you have access to?
• What do you have time to do?
• Techniques
• How can this story be told the best?
• How can you bring this alive? Make it relevant?
Look at the range of approaches here