Roles During The Production Of My Radio Project

For our most recent project, we were paired upto to plan and create a short radio project. i was paired with my classmate, Rob, and after a production meeting or two we were able to come up with the idea of doing a short radio show about tribute artists. we arranged interviews and had samples of their music.

During this project, i think i was more associated with the less practical side of things. My partner, Rob, had his own microphone, knew our contacts very well and is able to drive so he was in a much better position to handle more of the recording and interview work. I focused a lot on the research side and was able to research a fairly accurate budget, working out what we would have paid if not working on it at a university with free microphones and editing suites .etc.

We tried to work on as much of it together as possible though, and from production meetings that we had held we were able to create clear recordings of our interviewees, a decent portfolio and a well edited piece of audio.

I think throughout this project i covered many different media roles:

Researcher - for portfolio work
Audio Mixer/Sound Editor - cutting and editing the interviews
Scriptwriter - scripting small parts of the show where we would host
Interviewer - interviewing our sources
Producer - watching over the project

I'd hope that if we did something like this again, i would get more involved in the interviewing part of the project