Media

1. Planning Your Radio
Segment/Podcast
By Onder Aslan

2. Booking Form for equipment

3. Health and safety (risk assessment)
•Watch out for wire cable’s across the floor that will tangle up and cause distress.
•Make sure the surface is clear and water free, otherwise that will cause danger
people who are walking past to fall over.
•Make sure the interviewee and interviewer doesn’t hold the microphone too close
otherwise the sound levels will be off point and possibly dangerous (as the mic can
explode).
•Be careful with the environment that you’re filming in. For example, if you’re filming
in a busy area make sure it is eco-friendly and clear of hazards.
•I would advise the area to be quiet and peaceful.

4. Task 1 planning a radio segment/podcast
Barclays Premier League
Sound checks
Sound checks are used to make sure that the sound systems which are being used are clear and at the right
volume and tonal frequencies. Sound checks are especially important in music events such as gigs, radios,
podcasts and pretty much anything that includes music and speaking. So When we are producing our podcast we
will be checking on the sound and making sure that the setting of recording levels is good, will we try to produce
our podcast in an acoustic quiet environment this is so there will be no exterior sound because you might be as
quiet as a mouse, but the world outside is a noisy place. And because we are in a college there will be lots of
students talking so to avoid all the nose we will try to find acoustic environments so we can isolate the
background noises. Also we must avoid the proximity effect which is when there is an increasing bass of
frequencies as a directional microphone comes close to the sound source. This makes the recording sound not as
good and muffled so as I said to avoid this we will try to find acoustic environments such as recording studios or
rooms with not many hard shiny surfaces such as tables, whiteboards etc. This is because sound bounces off of
these objects and causes reverb and echoes which will travel through and be heard in the recording. This is known
as interior sound it is airborne sound inside rooms, and how it propagates and interacts with the room’s surfaces
and objects. But it’s also about perception of the room’s acoustic properties too. Also when we are holding the
microphone we must also make sure that we are not too close to it so that voices can be clearly heard and not
sound fluffed and muffled. To avoid this we will stand 2 inches away from the microphone when any of us speaks.
In addition to this when we have our equipment we must make sure that it is all correctly working and that the
microphone is clearly picking up the voices which are talking. We can check this by using a test on the microphone
and then listening back to it to see if it has picked up the sound or not. When we are editing our podcast on Logic
will also be able to listen back to our audio to see if it has correctly all been picked up by the mic.

5. Task 1 – Planning Radio Segment/Podcast.
Equipment List:
- Zoom Mic
- Shotgun Mic (only if we record in a large space with lots of people)
- Logic Software to edit
- A computer
- Earphones to hear it back.

6. Dialogue Sound script/Timing
Intro
Jojo: We are going to be discussing today the topic of the premier league season review of the 2015/16 season.
Through this we are going to be gathering opinions analysing their thoughts and feelings and peoples predictions
for the future. (13secs)
Interview questions
Question 1: What is your remark of the premier league this season? (10-30secs)
Question 2: How well did your team do in you’re the 2015/16 season. (10-30secs)
Question 3: What individuals in your club stood out and if not why? (10-30secs)
Question 4: What do you think is going to happen in the transfer window? (10-30secs)
Question 5: Who do you think is going to win the league next year and why? (10-30secs)
Question 6: What are your takes for the Euros? (10-30secs)
Outro
Jojo: Thank you for your overview, opinions and predictions of this fantastic season and we hope the best goes
well for your club next year. (8secs)

7. BBC Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London
W1A 1AA
Dear BBC
I am writing to you to ask permission upon the right of using match of the day theme
track. Our collage are producing an interviews based on educational purposes upon
football. We will be posting this on an unpopular channel on YouTube just so our
examiner can mark it. We want to use the match of the day theme song as
background music for our interview. Can we have your permission to let us use the
theme song?
Yours Sincerely
Students from Leyton sixth form collage