Show 1 Evaluation

Our first show was a foreign music show, where we played songs from European artists and had interviews with European people who had come to England. Marta and Keerah presented, I did a little bit of Research before Nathan and I switched roles and I became the producer, and then at the end I wasn't feeling well so Marta finished off the producing. It was our first show, and we were all finding our feet, so the roles were all a bit cloudy.

The first problem, and the one we got the most feedback about, was that our levels were a bit off. This was because we were listening throug the speakers, and not the earphones as we should have.

One of our problems was that Keerah didn't come in outside of college hours, and after our experience where we tried to use the studio in college hours and found it impossible because it was too noisy and we were being pushed out, the rest of us agreed to get our recording done in our time off. It meant that when I was recording we had to do a lot of Keerah and Marta's bits seperately and so the presenting lost some of the flow it could have had if they were together in the same room. It also made me feel very stressed and ill, and so Marta very kindly agreed to take over, because I really wasn't up to it. And I think the show sounded better for it!

The main problem though was the suitability of our programme to the target audience; there wasn't any. Our show was meant to be 40 plus but there was nothing that made it so, the presenting - although very good and clear- was very contemporary. The music was also mainly modern and quite fast paced, and the interviews we had where with students, so we had nothing that the 40+ demographic could really relate too, it was more of a student show.

There was also a lack of existing shows like it. Although it is good we chose something totally unique and different, it was a bit of a mistake for our first show, while we were all still finding our feet. In retrospect, for our first show we should have done something similair to something that already existed; something that had a precedent, and then we could have gotten more adventurous in the second and third shows.

Another problem was the lack of script. We started to make one, however we decided because we didn't want our show to sound scripted, that we just wouldn't finish the script. This was a big mistake; in retrospect we should have made a script and then ad-libbed when it seemed appropriate.
The show was also relatively feature-less. We had two interviews with students but that was it. Really that could have been a prime time to relate to our 40 + audience, but I think because it was our first show , none of us were really confident enough to do anything more risky that Song>Talk>Song>Talk, and that made it sound boring.

Our Feedback was lukewarm, no-one really thought a whole lot of anything, or though people enjoyed the novelty of listening to songs by foreign artists. Everyone said how the show didn't really have anything that made it 40+ though, and I think that was definitely our biggest problem of all.

So to sum up; although our show technically was relatively good for the first show, and the presenting had a clear tone and pace, it was the wrong tone and pace for the audience. From my listening, 40 + radio usually has a 40 + presenter, so it was a bit of a hurdle for Marta and Keerah anyway, but their tone should have been slower and not quite so up-beat. We should have scripted the show, had more features, chosen more appropriate music, checked the levels through the cans.