Paperwork
Here is all the paperwork that I have written for the project, My comments are in green.
Treatment
Title: Kids Radio
Duration:1 hour
Resume: A breakfast time radio show for 4-6 year olds. To entertain and inform young children during the commute to school or nursery, and to be played by nurseries for fun as the children arrive. The show will include nursery rhymes, songs, stories and interactive features. It will be broadcast between 8 and 9 o’clock Monday through to Friday. An ideal outlet would be radio four as most cars have access to this station. An alternative would be radio seven as the show could follow its already existing children’s slot. The show will be split into ten minute slots so the audience can dip in and out without feeling out of the loop.
Source:
•Cbeebies radio and websites.
• Books Suggested elements:
• Jokes • Quiz item?
• Competitive item?
• Your time – children are given a minute of one segment to tell the listeners what they love
• Nursery rhymes
• Songs
• Stories
• Dance move of the day?
Recording days: 3 days
Budget: £150
The treatment I think was pretty accurate to what we did in our project. Some of the segments we did not included, like the your time section and the dance move of the day. But most of the others we included in what we did. The budget was not however accurate and we did got a little over on the budget. We probably spent about £200, we funded the project ourselves although we could have used some fundrasing for it. The majority of the budget was spent on hoodies so that we could go into the schools with almost like a uniform. We also spent money on train fairs going from Coventry to Hemel Hempstead to do some recording at MM and petrol going from Coventry to Gloustershire to record sounds from PH primary school.
Production Schedule
Title: Kids Radio Show
Recording dates: Thursday 12th March 2009, Tuesday 24th March 2009, Tuesday 21st April 2009, Thursday 23rd April 2009, Monday 27th April 2009
Personal: Becky Merriman Louise Jones Lisa-marie Houldey
Equipment: Marantz Boom Mic Normal Microphone
Locations: Thursday 12th March- Mini Monsters, Hemel Hempstead Tuesday 24th March- Primrose C of E Primary School, Gloucestershire Tuesday 21st April – Studio, Coventry University Thursday 23rd April – Studio, Coventry University Monday 27th April- Stoke Primary School, Coventry Wednesday 29th April- Studio, Coventry University Tuesday 5th May- Studio, Coventry University
Thursday 12th March
Call: 2pm
To record: Little Miss Muffet, Shouting words like ‘yeah’ and indents ‘bug bunch’ and to record sound effects.
End: 3pm
Tuesday 24th March
Call: 1 pm To record: Bug description game, Jokes, Shouting words like ‘yeah’ and indents ‘bug bunch’ and to record sound effects.
End: 2pm
Tuesday 21st April
Call: 1pm
To record: Poem, Lists of Bugs for bug remember game,
End: 4pm
Thursday 23rd April
Call: 1pm
To record: Games, Numbers game, Colours game, Imagination game, Descriptions of bugs.
End: 4pm
Monday 27th April
Call: 9.30am
To record: Out and A bug (kids outside looking for bugs,) Shouting words like ‘yeah’ and indents ‘bug bunch’ and to record sound effects.
End: 12.30 pm
Wednesday 29th April
Call: 1 pm
To record: Michael Moths Birthday story,
End: 4pm
Tuesday 5th May
Call: 1pm
To record: 10 Minute segments for hand in, as live
End: 5pm
Comments: We are likely to add another school to the schedule soon as we have another date. We are waiting for the school to report back to us on the date. We may also be adding in some recording days to the schedule in the studio as we may still have things to record after we have completed all the current recordings.
We did manage to stick to this schedule pretty much, although we did not finish the recording on the tuesday. On the Wednesday 6th May we recorded at GP primary school which we then added to the schedule and then on Thurday 7th May we also recorded some more for the show as we could not complete it all on Tuesday. We then had some feed back from our lectures and we decided that we needed to re-record somethings and also record some new things so that will be done on Tuesday 12th May. These should be added to the schedule. It took it longer to record then I thought it would. We obviously had to change things after we had the feedback both from Karen Arrand and Philip Draycott. To see this feedback click here.
Week by week schedule
Week 1-Friday 16th January-Pitch
Week 2- 19th -25th January-Research
Week 3- 26th January- 1st February- Research, Script development
Week 4- 2nd February- 8th February- Research and script development
Week 5- 9th February- 15th February- Research, Script Development, Timing preparation, Interim crit 1
Week 6- 16th February- 22nd February- Reading week- Research, Script development,
Week 7- 23rd February- 1st March- Research, Script development, Timing preparations, Meeting-Thursday 26th February, Job Allocation, Louise- Script, Permission forms, Budgets, Contact Paul Adkins. Becky-Logo, Timings, Keyboards- Loan Shop. Lisa-marie- Hoodies, Development of stories, Jingles
Week 8 – 2nd March- 8th March- Research development, Script development, Timings editing.
Week 9- 9th March- 15th March- Research, Script Development, Timings editing, Recording start, pre-recording.
Week 10- 16th March- 22nd March- Radio studio training, First studio session, Script development, Research
Week 11- 23rd March- 29th March- Easter holiday- Research, pre-recording schools, Script Development, Job allocation- Louise-Certificates, Timings, Becky- Story Development, Lisa-marie- Website, Adult Consent Forms, All- Pictures for website, Edit Mini monsters sound, The Script
Week 12- 30th March- 5th April- Easter Holiday- Research, Script Development
Week 13- 6th April- 12th April- Easter Holiday- Research, Script Development,
Week 14- 13th April- 19th April- Interim Crit 2, Radio studio sessions, Pre-recording in the studio, research
Week 15- 20th April- 26th April- Research, Script Development, Timing adjustments, Pre-recording in the studio
Week 16- 27th April- 3rd May- Research, Script Development, Pre recording in schools, editing, Degree show preparations,
Week 17- 4th May- 10th May- Research, Recording project as live, editing, Script Development, Pre-recording in schools, Degree show preparations
Week 18- 11th May- 15th May- Editing, Research, Hand in, Final reflections, Degree show preparations.
Post Hand in
Week 19-16th May- 24th May- Recording things in the studio we haven’t done ready for the degree show, Degree show preparations.
Week 20- 25th May- 29th May- Set up for degree show, Degree show preparations, Degree Show,
This week by week schedule runs all the way up to the degree show to show that the work does not stop after we have handed in the project. I also wanted to put in the things about the degree show so that the things that are in about the degree show already before the deadline make sense. The schedule has been hard to stick to as we have had a lot to get throught and not a lot of time to do it in. I think that the last week is going to be the busiest as we have alot to do after the improvements that the lectures said to us over the last couple of days, however knowing that the project is 80% there going into the final week has worked to improve our confidence. Each week I have written down all the things that we have to do throughout that week, as you can see research goes all the way through the project because any research is crucial to the development of our programme and only research will make sure that our programme is up to a professional standard.
