Prelim Task

1. PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION NAME: Chloe Read
Task What went well
What went wrong
What I will do in the future
Preliminary Planning Task One
– Radio Station/show names
& conventions and Target
Audience planning
Creating the radio station was fairly
simplistic as we worked together and
quickly thought of a catchy name which
would appeal to our age. The genre of
radio station was also fairly easy to choose
because we all liked the same type of
music and therefore came to a decision
quickly. It was easy to pick our target
audience because we wanted the radio
station to appeal to ourselv es and our
age. We were also confident with the
conv entions of radio which helped us later
on to create the radio broadcast as we
knew what needed to be included.
I feel that we had no problems with
the initial planning in task 1 because
we all get along, all have the same
interests in music and are all the same
age and therefore we came to a
decision quickly and nothing went
wrong.
If I was to repeat this task in the future, I would not
change anything we did because we worked well as a
team and came to our decisions quickly. We also
researched everything we needed to research and
included everything that was relevant to help us in the
plan and we shared out the work evenly so I would
definitely to all this again in the future.
Preliminary Planning Task Two
– Identifying team roles,
sourcing examples of archive
clips, flow chart of broadcast
structure and script writing
Ident ifying team roles w as fairly st raight forw ard
as I w as keen to put myself forw ard to pursue the
role as a presenter. One of the group members
w ere keen to be a guest because he is in
already in a local band and therefore w ould be
a likely guest on a radio broadcast . Due to this, it
w as easy to make the decision as to w ould be
the guest and w ho w ould be the presenter. For
our archive clip, w e used a snippet of one of the
group member’s song’s w hich he had already
recorded and therefore it w as easy to choose
this as our archive clip. What w ent w ell w ith the
flow chart of broadcast st ructure and script
w rit ing w as the fact that w e split the jobs that
needed doing. I did the flip chart st ructure and
the other group members w orked on the script. It
w as easy to decide the st ructure of the
broadcast because I w as very familiar w ith how
a radio broadcast is usually set out . The script
w rit ing w as also easy as w e w ere all confident in
w hat w e w anted to say and therefore the task
w as completed quickly.
I feel that nothing went
wrong as, like the
preliminary planning task 1,
we got on with the tasks
quickly as we split them up
between the three of us. We
worked well as a team and
made decisions quickly and
therefore we had no
problems.
In the future, I would do exact ly the same
because I feel like we got on well with the tasks
as we split them up to make them easier and
therefore I feel like we did everything we
needed to do in the t ime we had.

2. PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION NAME: Chloe Read
Creating a jingle
Creating my jingle went well because I
used music in my jingle that was relev ant
to the genre of our radio station.
Recording our ident also went well
because in general I thought it was v ery
easy to record and we knew the name of
the radio station and knew the tone of
v oice we were going to use due to our
target audience.
Although I used music that
was relevant to the genre of
our radio stat ion it took me
a while to decide what
music clip I wanted to use
as I was indecisive and
therefore the process took
longer than I thought .
In the future, I will come to a decision quicker
in order to save t ime for other tasks.
Using Audition
At first I found using audition hard because
I had nev er used the software before but
once I got used to it I used it to my
adv antage and played around with
effects that would sound good on my
jingle.
Once I had learnt how to
work audit ion I found it easy
to edit my radio broadcast
to improve it and therefore
t here weren’t any problems.
I also feel like I included
everything I needed to
make it sound the best I
could.
In the future, I would t ry to work faster as init ially
it took me a while to navigate around the
software and I was indecisive in what effect s I
wanted to use but now I know how to use the
software I feel like I would work faster in the
future.
Recording in the Studio
I thoroughly enjoyed recording in the
studio as I found it fun to experiment with
the microphone and therefore I found
recording in the studio v ery easy and
enjoyable. We found no problems with
using the software and we had no
problems with recording our v oices so
ev erything went reasonably well.
On the first take, one of our
group members messed up
their lines so we had to
record it again but other
than that minor mistake
everything went well.
In the future I would pract ise reading the script
before recording so we are less likely to mess
up our lines.

3. PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION NAME: Chloe Read
Recording using a
Dictaphone
Recording with a Dictaphone was really
easy and straightforward so we got it
done quickly.
Nothing went wrong as we found the
Dictaphone easy to use and we knew
what we wanted to say when recording
and therefore we had no problems.
I would not change anything in the future
because I feel like we got on really well with
recording using the Dictaphone.
Editing using Audition
Editing using Audition took a while to get
used to as I had nev er used the software
before but once I had gotten used to
nav igating around the software I feel as
though editing my radio broadcast went
really well. Throughout the broadcast I
made sure there were no silences by
fading the music in and out to av oid it just
skipping and therefore I made it flow really
well. I also used a v ocal enhancer to
make my v oice sound different when
editing my jingle. I also used the v olume
editing such as using a sound bed to
prev ent radio silence and make it sound
better.
Audit ion kept freezing when
I was t rying to edit it and
therefore it took longer than
I thought it would.
I would do nothing different in the future as I
feel like I did everything I could to make it
sound good, such as using a sound bed and
fading in and out and also using a voice
enhancer. However, if I was to do it in the
future I would add more effect s.
Team work
Team work went extremely well which
allowed us to get our work done quickly
and efficiently as we made decisions
quickly and split the work out between the
3 of us so there were no problems with
team work.
Nothing went wrong with
team work.
In the future I would not change anything
regarding team work.
Blogging
I had no problems with blogging as I found
it easy to export the v ideos onto youtube
and then create a blog post.
Nothing went wrong with
blogging.
In the future I would not change anything I did
regarding blogging.

4. PRELIMINARY TASK EVALUATION NAME: Chloe Read
Individual contribution to
your team
I researched interv iewing techniques and
therefore contributed to my team by
hav ing knowledge of interv iews. I also did
the structural grid for the radio broadcast
to ensure we all knew what the structure of
the radio broadcast would be like. I also
contributed to the script and the editing.
Nothing went wrong with
individual cont ribut ion to my
team.
I would do nothing ext ra in the future as I feel
like I did everything I could to cont ribute to the
work.
Class work
I met deadlines and did all the homework
that was required.
Nothing went wrong with
the class work as I did all the
homework and met
deadlines.
I would look over my notes after class
discussions to make sure I know all the
interviewing techniques.
Independent work (work
outside of lessons)
I researched interv iewing techniques and
therefore contributed to my team by
hav ing knowledge of interv iews.
Nothing went wrong with
independent work.
I would not change anything in the future.