Production Schedule

This is the production schedule of our talk and music radio programme

We will be launching The Glorious Space Chefs on the 11th of June as it will be a Thursday, getting people used to the schedule, then we can start planning for the next episode on the following Monday. This is because we want the show listened to people on their way to work before the holidays so they can get used to the show now without trying to attract people at a time where radio wouldn't be as used.

Editing our final discussion

Editing 

For our radio show we needed to edit the raw audio that we had recorded to ensure a decent quality throughout the entire discussion, we used the software Adobe Audition to do this. The things during the editing process that we had to keep in mind was the mixing of all the tracks so that the volume is at a consistent level. Meaning that the volume for the music isn't really high compared to the rest of the discussion, by doing this it would mean that the listener will be able to have the same volume throughout the entire discussion and not get startled.

Personal Contributions 

James Hartshorn

Writing the Script

Creating the jingle

Planning the radio show

Collecting audio effects

Presenting

Joe Taylor

Writing the Script

Creating the running order

Researched legal/ethical issues

Planning the radio show

Presenting

Andrew Quinn

Writing the Script

Planning the radio show

Editing the radio show

Setting up equipment

Presenting

LO2 - Planning for a talk & music radio show

Title

The Glorious Space Chefs

Intended radio station/broadcaster

Our intended radio station is Sheffield Live! They are a community radio station which caters to the undeserved listeners of Sheffield. Due to the variety of unique shows which Sheffield Live! broadcast, 'The Glorious Space Chefs' would fit into their schedule of radio programmes.

 

Target audience

The radio show is targeted at 16 to 35 year olds, as there will be electronic music which appeals to the younger age range, and music from the science fiction movies, TV shows and video games which can range up to the age of 35. The cooking aspect of the show will appeal to adults because they are much more likely to want to learn to cook more adventurous food using the space chefs' recipes. The audience will be part of the DC1C2 demographic because they are listening to community radio and want to find out how to cook new and interesting recipes.

Content plan

At the beginning of the show we will have a jingle which will familiarise the listeners with who the Glorious Space Chefs are, what the show is about, if there's any special guests, they will be mentioned as well.  We will then have an introduction to the show which reminds frequent listeners and informs new ones what happened on the previous show. After that there will be a structure to the show which will allow listeners to become familiar with the shows content but stay entertained. The content and will be in five minute intervals and advertisements will be in 1 minute intervals in order to keep the listeners interested in the show.

Production

 

Pre-production

We are going to collect audio effects which can be used when editing the radio show. We will also be researching what we are allowed to say on the radio in order to ensure that we do not offend the audience.

Production

We will be recording the audio which will be part of the radio show, it will include the hosts who are talking to each other and help the audience to understand that the show is Sci-Fi and will entertain audiences who will enjoy listening to show's content which is about "glorious space chefs."

Post-Production

During post-production we will be editing the audio which our hosts have produced for the show. We will be creating a jingle and adverts which will make the show recognisable and allow pauses in the show in order to make it more exiting.

Running order

7:00     Jingle

7:00     Introduction to the show

7:05     Content

7:10     Advertisement

7:11     Content

7:16     Advertisement

7:17     Content

7:22     Advertisement

7:23     Content

7:28     Advertisement

7:29     Content

7:34     Advertisement

7:35     Content
7:40     Advertisement

7:41     Content
7:46     Advertisement

7:47     Content
7:52     Advertisement
7:57     Conclusion to the show and how to learn about the next recipe
8:00     Jingle

Script

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(Jingle)

GLORIOUS SPACE CHEFS! SUPER DUPER SPACE TUNES. ALSO COOKIN' TOO! ONLY ON SHEFIELD LIVE, YEAH! 

ANDREW

Welcome to The Glorious Space Chefs, the finest show in cooking and spacey sounding music.



JOE
An unfilled niche!

ANDREW
I'm Andrew

JAMES
I'm James

JOE
And I'm Joe

ANDREW

Let's kick this off with a classic space song, one of the most memorable. Why from John Williams himself, the Star Wars theme from A New Hope.

JAMES

A bit generic. so your idea of spacey music instantly goes to Star Wars right guys, right?

JOE
Yeah let's just have superhero radio and then play the Superman theme all the time on a loop

ANDREW
Whatever, whatever let's just play the song.

(Star Wars theme plays)

JAMES
Alright so now we have the type of people who'd listen to the Star Wars theme in the car, let's get onto our recipe

JOE
 Today we will be demonstrating a delicious pork casserole with apples, walnuts and celery.

ANDREW
Of course. Introducing special guest, Ken, to read out the ingredients!

JAMES
(Mutters) I hate that Ken.

KEN
(Background music in recipe)
 For this dish you will need two tablespoons of sunflower oil, 500 grams of pork fillet, cut into cubes and trimmed of fat. 900 millilitres of boiling chicken stock, 100 grams of broken walnuts, 300 grams of long grain rice, one onion roughly chopped, 8 celery sticks cut across into 5 centimeter lengths with leaves reserved and chopped, 450 millilitres of apple juice or cider, one bay leaf, 3 crisp dessert apples and salt and pepper.

JOE
If you missed out on any of these ingredients, have no fear as at thegloriousspacechefs.blogspot.co.uk, we will post the list of ingredients needed. Again that's thegloriousspacechefs.blogspot.co.uk.

ANDREW
And if you forget any ingredients then you'll be in a muddle (boing sound effect)

JAMES
Now that the ingredients are stated, while you get them together, we have a very classic space related David Bowie song to play.

ANDREW
That's right, up next, David Bowie: Starman.

JOE
Not Space Oddity?

ANDREW
At this point it's lost its touch, Joe. It's lost its touch.

KEN
Can I go now?

(David Bowie: Starman plays)

ANDREW
Starman's pretty underrated.

JAMES
It's not really, it's David Bowie, everybody loves him.

JOE
I prefer Space Oddity

ANDREW
Joe just proved the point I was going to make, Space Oddity and Life on Mars overshadow it

JOE
Speaking of overshadowing, now time for the method.

ANDREW
 How does that make sense?

JOE
I don't know, but you know what makes less sense? A random ad!

JAMES
(Audible sigh) 

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JAMES
Okay now for the method.

ANDREW
Pre heat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius or Gas Mark 3.

JAMES
Then heat the oil in a flameproof casserole.

JOE
After that, add the pork and fry until it's browned on all sides.

ANDREW
You're going to want to stir frequently, for about 5 minutes. Until then we're going a little bit Daft, with Daft Punk: Digital Love.

(Daft Punk Digital Love plays)

JAMES
That was Daft Punk Digital Love. From the 2001 Discovery album.

JOE
So now you're going to want to add the celery and onions and fry for about 10 minutes.

ANDREW
Or, until softened!

JAMES
Now while that fries, it's time for a good Aerosmith song. I don't wanna miss a thing.

ANDREW
Oh no that one.

(Aerosmith I don't wanna miss a thing plays)

ANDREW
And if you don't wanna miss a thing either, at thegloriousspacechefs.blogspot.com, as soon as we say the steps of our method, we'll put them there too.

JOE
Now the pork, celery and onions should still be frying, so how about we give our show, a touch.

ANDREW
A touch?

JOE
Not just a touch.

ANDREW
You mean... the touch?

JOE
The touch..... by Stan Bush.

JAMES
Best known from the animated Transformers movie in the 1980s.

(Stan Bush the Touch plays)

ANDREW
That was Stan Bush the Touch. A beautiful song. Anyway the pork, celery and onion should be fine now, so it's time to add the apple juice or cider if you prefer, and the bay leaf.

JAMES
Season with some good old salt and pepper to taste.

ANDREW
If only Stan Bush made a song called The Taste.

JOE
It'd make transformers seem less epic though.

ANDREW
That's true.

Legal and Ethical

The show will only be able to play material which is either uncopyrighted or that we have gained permission to use. We will contact the owner of the copyrighted music in order to gain their permission to play the song on our radio show, though the radio station has a PRS license so this will never be an issue. We would need to ensure that, since we are on the radio, the presenters do not say anything which could be considered offensive. We will make sure that nothing offensive is on the radio show, in order to ensure that we followed the guidelines of Ofcom and that nobody will find the radio show offensive. The show will be broadcast at 9AM which means younger people, such as children, will be listening to the radio show which means that we will need to control the language used on the show so that they aren't offended. When producing the radio show we need to make sure that we follow the rules of Ofcom, so that we do not offend anyone when talking on the radio show. We must make sure that we do not use any "offensive language" on our radio show because it is available to younger audiences. We will also need to make sure that we have paid for a PRS license to make sure that we are allowed to play music on the radio show. We will have to make sure that we have permission to use all of he material that we use as part of the content of our radio show as required by section 319(4) of the act 3 because content is part of the ownership of a particular person or company that created it.

The Production
We have followed production processes in order to make sure that the radio show would be usable and that it that we created it to a high technical standard. We used the sound booth in order to raise the quality of the recordings and make sure that there wasn't much of an echo when the presenters were talking. In terms of legal and ethical we have made sure that we haven't sued any offensive material and that we have permission for any music we use. We have made the radio show entertaining by making sure that we have a jingle and interesting background music, as well as editing the audio to make it sound more professional and remove the hiss from the audio.

Proposed scheduling time

The show is scheduled to be broadcast on Thursdays at 9AM. The show will be hammocked between 'Sheffield Uprising' and 'Africa Beat' because it will allow people to listen to the show when they are on their way to work and then attempt to follow the recipe when they get home. The show is early in the morning and will be uploaded as a podcast available for download at any time.​

 

Script Updated (LO2)

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(Jingle)

OH YEAAAAAAAH!

GLORIOUS SPACE CHEFS! SUPER DUPER SPACE TUNES. ALSO COOKIN' TOO! ONLY ON SHEFIELD LIVE, YEAH! 

ANDREW

Welcome to The Glorious Space Chefs, the finest show in cooking and spacey sounding music



JAMES

I don't want to get in trouble with OfCom so I'm not going to say anything about

JOE

whats that meant to mean

ANDREW

Well you will never know. However what you should know is this upcoming song, why from John Williams himself, the Star Wars theme from A New Hope.

JAMES

A bit generic. so your idea of spacey music instantly goes to Star Wars right guys, right?

JOE

Yeah let's just have superhero radio and then play the Superman theme all the time on a loop

JAMES

Yeah better than Andrews voice though 

ANDREW

Well it's the first episode so I think it should fit well into it.

JAMES

I bet people are right sick of the Star Wars theme though. Like with the amount of Star Wars related things, parodies and uh... like YouTube videos which play it or whatever.

JOE

What videos have you been watching?

JAMES

You know like tutorials that play music? I swear I remember one with the Star Wars theme.

ANDREW

I'll go play it now anyway.

(Star Wars theme plays)

JAMES

Alright so now we have the type of people who'd listen to the Star Wars theme in the car,  thats not the audience I want listening to me. 

ANDREW

Well I doubt that George Lucas was so into cooking space radio in the first place but you never know what you're gonna get... in life... yeah

JOE

What are you on about?

ANDREW

Something, Joe. Something.

JAMES

 Anyway it's time for our cooking recipe today, and today we will be demonstrating a delicious pork casserole with apples, walnuts and celery.

ANDREW

Of.. of course. For this dish you will need two tablespoons of sunflower oil, 500 grams of pork fillet, cut into cubes and trimmed of fat. 900 millilitres of boiling chicken stock, 100 grams of broken walnuts, 300 grams of long grain rice, one onion roughly chopped, 8 celery sticks cut across into 5 centimeter lengths with leaves reserved and chopped, 450 millilitres of apple juice or cider, one bay leaf, 3 crisp dessert apples and salt and pepper.

JOE

If you missed out on any of these ingredients, have no fear as at thegloriousspacechefs.blogspot.co.uk, we will post the list of ingredients needed. Again that's thegloriousspacechefs.blogspot.co.uk.

JAMES

Now that the ingredients are stated, while you get them together, we have a very classic space related David Bowie song to play.

ANDREW

That's right, up next, David Bowie: Starman.

JOE

Not Space Oddity?

ANDREW

At this point it's lost its touch, Joe. It's lost its touch.

(David Bowie: Starman plays)

JAMES

Now time for the method.

ANDREW

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JAMES

Okay now for the method.

ANDREW

Pre heat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius or Gas Mark 3.

Production processes Notes

3 stages of production

Pre Production - Planning;

Production meeting - Discussing script, running order, script, equipment checking and budget, Permission for music (PRS License) or ask them for consent, prepare interviews by scheduling them as well as questions to ask. make sure you don't breach Ofcom guidelines make sure the content is appropriate for under 18s especially not discriminating or offending people especially because it is community radio.

Production - Making the Product

Recording the interviews if they are pre recorded, sound effects and jingles and adverts cue up jingles on cartwall usually pre determined, made on Adobe Audition and Cubase, music would be on a play server or CDs and MP3s.

Learning Cubase

Within today's lesson I will be using Cubase and trying different techniques out. Also depicted is a before and after.
Before - I started with the default drum sample that it automatically gives you.

After- I took the default drum track and edited it so it had a more catchy hook and took out the basic unecissary sounds. I also added it later on within thw track to allow it to help the rest of the beat pick up. I also added an introduction to the piece as it helped give it a nice effect, i did this by sampling two default sounds and lowering the tempo of them both.

LO1 Task 2 Analysing a Talk and Music Radio Show

 Running Order

For this analysis I decided to listen to the radio show called 'The Local Talent Show'. This show is recorded on a weekly basis at 4pm everyday for an hour. The live recording is then uploaded as a podcast an hour after the live broadcast. This podcast is then available on the Sheffield Live website.
So the first thing the audience get to hear is an advert advertising how you the listener can have there very own show on Sheffield Live. We then get a jingle signifying to the audience that they will be listening to 'The Local Talent Show'. We then get our first taste of some music from local artists which is a fairly generic rock band. They then introduce themselves and talk about some music and how music has different sounds.They then play some more music. and then just talk about streaming music on spottily and how he got a "scary" email about the band he was listening to straight after. Then after this fascinating discussion a soothing acoustic piece is played. Then she talks about live events including a band called the seahorses. They then play a few more songs. After we get them to talk about upcoming festivals as it is "festival season". Then they play a final track which is a cover of a song.

Time and Content

4:00 - Adverts - About hosting your own show on Sheffield Live
       
4:01 - Jingle
     
4:05 - Local Artist's Track
         
 4:10 - Local Artist's Track
        
 4:15 - Talk about different musicians and what the music scene is like 
         
 4:20 - Local Artist's Track

 4:25 - Talking about live events, and previous happenings          
 4:35 - Local Artist's Track
           
 4:45 - Local Artist's Track
         
 4:50 - Upcoming Events 
           
 4:55 - Final local Track
          
 4:00 - End of show

The Local Talent Show



DJ's and Presenters

This show is presented and produced by Natalie Beard, who is joined by Graham Marshall and Ollie. They do a weekly. Natalie is the clear host of the show as she is left to hold the floor the most, while others interject there opinions on topics that she clearly comes up with. Natalie appears to rely on Graham Marshall a fair amount because she sometimes doesn't seem too sure on her words. Luckily it means that they have a nice back and forth conversation.

Target Audience

The target audience for this show appears to be people that enjoy finding out about new types of music, and enjoy being exposed to new artists. also I believe that musicians will listen to this to see if the work they have submitted will make it onto the show. I imagine that the target audience is for a younger ABC1 audience whose age ranges from around 15 to 25 because I believe that people above that age are mostly set on their music taste. And have already formulated their opinion within their minds on what music they do and don't like. Whereas a younger person is probably more open to experiencing different sorts of music. The reason why this is relevant to The Local Talent Show is because they showcase new, exciting music fro the audience to enjoy.

Content

The issue with this podcast is that the description of the podcast says they will be having different guests on each week and interview them. Even though the show I listened to had no guests on, it was full of interesting local music talk. They spoke about the past including older bands, and how streaming music is so amassing because it can expose people into the past. This show also has a lot of different genres of music that they play on the show. Probably to attract a more vast audience.

Production Process Notes

Pre Production

treatment for shows, scripts for show, research, team meetings to organise schedule and production content, organise PRS and stick to ethical guidelines

Production

Live Broadcast - Presenters talking with sound effects mixed in, faders during production

Mix together when a jingle is used on a live broadcast as that is edited and then played

Pre-Recorded - Recording sound material, interviews (Vox-pops)

Technology has become advanced so we can have a simulcast which is a live stream and sometimes a webcam

Post Production

Programme types

Ethos 

The ethos for Sheffield Live is for social gain which is for the benefit of the community as they are a non profit organisation which means any money made through advertisement is put back into the radio station to help fund programming. They are also part of social gain because they aim towards mixed communities and they must provide education for the unemployed if it is requested. They are an independent company which means they are not part of a conglomerate. An example of a mainstream company which is part of a conglomerate, would be Hallam Fm the cater for a mass audience which is all about grabbing as many people as possible for listener ship, whereas Sheffield Live is all about catering to a underserved audience. Which is an audience of people who aren't catered for on mainstream radio such as Hallam FM, which again is all about social gain.

Ownership

Community Media Association, which was founded in 1983 this is the organisation that owns Sheffield Live. They are a non profit organisation thats main goal is to help develop and establish communication medias to help promote different cultures and peoples creative expressions.

Programmes on the station

An example of a program on the station is Aaj Ka Sabrang, this program is all about playing different types of Asian music. To cater to an Asian audience which aren't getting their cultural music played on stations such as Hallam FM. This show also covers interviews with local members of the council. This show is also unique as they use several different languages, including Urdu, English and Punjabi. Which again enforces the cultural diversity.

Another example of a radio show  on Sheffield live would be Africabeat presented by Andy Healey this is a music show which plays the "best" music from Africa which again is providing a service which you wouldn't find on Hallam Fm and to help expand his listenership he has his music spanning from different time periods including modern releases to older classics. 

Cool Beans Radio Show is a more general show hosted by Chris Arnold this creates a contrast  to the other shows. It has old music, new music and has a talk radio element added within it.

Mixtape, Mixtape radio is all about highlighting Mixtapes from DJ's, producers and club nights. And is also all about telling people about local events at bars and clubs swell as bands that are in town.

The Indie Hour capitalises on the amount of Indie bands on the scene in Sheffield and deposes the best of the music, this show is produced by Denzil Watson and Stevlor.

Genres

Sheffield Live specialise in a varied range of genres to cater for an underserved audience, who may not be getting the specific type of programming they want from mainstream radio the first genre I'm going to be looking at is music.

Music

Sheffield live cater towards a vast underserved market within the music genre, therefor not playing music you would expect on a mainstream level. A perfect example of this is Africabeat as this is a show that shows the different African music spanning across Africa from each continent and from different time periods. As opposed to generic pop music you would find on other radio shows such as Hallam FM, therefor catering to an underserved audience.

Educational

 Sheffield Live has a show called Business Live  hosted by Jamie Veitch which is a show for people that are interested in business and making their own business. This show has interviews from people within the business profession to talk about their own experiences within the business profession as well as tips that they would give advice to people aspiring to be within the business profession. This again caters to an underserved audience as there is not any radio show on a mainstream level that goes into as much depth within the business realm as that is quite a niche audience which is something I will be talking about in the audience profile section.

Entertainment

There are quite a few shows that are aim to  have an entertainment aspect within them on Sheffield Live which also manage to cater towards an underserved audience. A prime example of this is Adal Voice of Eritreans . Which is a show that caters for the Eritrean community on a global scale. This show has several elements to it which includes history, reportage, multicultural arts and music, celebrity interviews, lifestyle, women's issues and young peoples programming as well as news and current affairs.

Audience Profiles

Main Target Audience

Sheffield Live hosts a variety of different scheduled programming as they serve to an underserved audience, which is an audience that don't get the type of programming they are looking for through mainstream radio. Social Gain means the good of society which something that Sheffield live specifically target. They aim towards mixed communities and give underserved people a platform for their creativity to be exposed to an audience, which is 11% of their target sample audience. Which evens out to 32 thousand people per week, which is quite a large audience for an independent station to draw in. They achieve this by having a variety of different shows aiming towards a very niche audience, which caters towards the underserved people that nare interested in listening to the radio on a regular basis but are looking for something that links to their ideal listening preference.

Audience Profile

David is a 35 year old business man that makes £700,000 a year. Due to the successful business that he runs. He tunes in to Sheffield live because its a cheap way to find out about the current state of the business world in todays economy.




underserved
sheffield in focus


add to first

Hallam FM are mainstream conglomerates

small station
non profit
any money made through advertisement is put back into the station to help fund programmes.


reaches 11% of target sample area 32thousand a week

aim for mixed communities and to give underserved people an outlet for their creativity and a variety of different music.

Literacy - Plurals

The plural for medium, is media which is all about mass communications.

Assignment and Learning Outcomes for Unit 55

Assignment:Production of five minute segment of the talk and music radio show to be a broadcast on Sheffield Live!

LO1: Understand existing talk and radio music programmes

LO2: Be able to plan a new talk and music radio programme

LO3: Be able to produce a new talk and music radio programme