Radio - Package

Ideas for my radio package were quite difficult as the possibilities were pretty much endless. However I have a friend who just had her benefits stopped completely because of her leaving her last job, so I decided to focus on this as I thought of her case as rather unfair. Gaining authoritative interviews was also difficult, but I finally managed to secure an interview with a local councillor who dealt with benefits. To make my package better I could have included music beds and layered the audio so that it was more interesting and varied in sound, as going from sound clip to sound clip can become quite monotonous.

Radio - Talbot FM Newsday

As we knew, the audience for this newsday was much younger than that of South Coast Radio. I was nominated as the editor for this newsday, meaning all the responsibility was with me. I found choosing stories for a younger audience relatively easier, and during this project I learnt some essential people managing skills.

Radio - South Coast Radio Newsday

The audience for this newsday was an older one, which presented us with some difficulty in choosing news stories and material. But we listened to other bulletins on Radio 4 and Solent to see what stories they were running with. My job was to go into town to gather vox pops on the stories that the rest of the team decided on, which as unnerving as I may have found it, added good quality material to our news day.