Thursday, 3 December 2009

Radio Assessment Edit Session 1

As planned Me, Edem and James met up for our first stage of editing our Radio assessment at the Gate House, Bath Spa University. We edited our Vox Pops fairly to make sure that we had a good balanced argument so that it does not come across as bias views. We decided that the track Kanye West - Cant tell me nothing fits really well with our Radio show, but we had to get hold of a instrumental version of this song as we have it playing behind the presenters introduction and the song includes rap which might drain out the presenters voice



This is us editing in the Gate House. Kindly taken by Ross on my iphone.


We are editing our Radio assessment in Logic we all know the basic skills in Logic so we were comfortable using it. We had one problem which took a long time to understand was that the audio was recorded in different kHz so that some of sounds were fast or slow due to the different kHz. We try to get around this by exporting the file into Quick time Pro and changing it in there. We are continuing editing on the 4th of December, we think that we could finish it on this day and then we got a few day before the deadline to tweak it if necessary.

Radio Broadcast Meeting 4

Meeting was held - Tuesday 1st December, Gatehouse, Bath Spa University.


Attendants - Mike, James, Edem and Ed.



Action Points from the last production meeting that have been completed



Planned questions for interview with welfare

Planned Vox Pops

Which me, James and Edem finished last week



Action points from this meeting



Edem to record statement from loan company (To be recorded 1st of December)



Listed to Recording from last week

Agreed to start editing on the 3rd of December at 1.00pm at Gatehouse, Bath Spa University.

Radio Assessment Recording Progress

As planned Me, Edem and James met up at Bath Spa University for our first stage of recording our assessment on the 26th of November 2009, we met at my house for 12.00pm. So from 12.30pm-3pm we performed Vox Pop's, we recorded in the Students Union Bar, outside the library and around halls of residence we got alot of good answers which are relevant to our topic. We also recorded our introduction for our assessment we did this in my shower room! as from many level tests it was the best place to record. The introduction was read by Edem.

Above is James and Edem recording the introduction in my shower room (Image taken from James Blog)


At 3pm-4pm we had a interview booked with Andy Leahy the Student Money and Welfare Adviser at Bath Spa University. The interview went really well and Andy's responses were really good and we have got plenty of material to cover the interview.

Radio Broadcast Meeting 3

Meeting was held - Tuesday 24th November, Gatehouse, Bath Spa University.

 Attendants - Mike, Edem and Ed.

Not Attended - James (Excuses for not present is that he was ill)

 Action Points

• Listened to Ed's edit of news clips

• Read scrip for presenter

• Picked music - "Cant tell me nothing" - Knaye West

•  Agreed that Edam is the presenter as Harry has been absent

• Listened to proposed jingle

• Planned questions for interview with welfare

• Planned Vox Pops

Next meeting is to be held on Friday 1st December at the gate house at Bath Spa.

Cornish Mike's Introduction

Below I have written a script for our presenter Mikes introduction.

There will be a snippet of either an interview, or a vox-pop with a student explaining how and why they have financial problems due to late loan payments.

These are just some of the problems which can occur when students at university, fail to receive their loans in time for the academic year.  In september 2009 the student loans company was hit by a mass number of problems, which resulted in a lot of student's failing to receive their loan payments eventhough they had applied for financial support early.

• Then medley of news broadcasts and jingle. 

Hi im Michael Kelly and your listening to Gatehouse Fm. Like many students who applied for university in 2009, and processed their student loans in time for the start of the academic term, I am yet to recieve my loan payments from the student loans company. But why did these problems occure in the first place?, and what does Bath Spa University do to help it's students who are going through financial prolems. We asked the students of the university, if they had received their student loans and if they had what had they spent their money on.

Radio Broadcast Meeting 2

Meeting was held - Tuesday 17th November, Gatehouse, Bath Spa University.




Attend - Mike, Edem, Ed and James



Action Points



Interview with Welfare has been confirmed and to be held on the Thursday 26th November at Welfare office at Bath Spa University.

Equipment has been booked for the above interview (Edirol R09 Kit).

Vox Pops to be carried out on the morning/lunchtime of Thursday 26th November at Bath Spa Students Union Bar as this will be a prime time that students will be at the Student Union.



Next meeting is to be held on Friday 20th November at DYG01 (Dairy) at Bath Spa University. Below is the next step of what we discuss at the meeting.



Organise making a jingle for the beginning of radio show in Garage Band.

Speak to Harry who has been asked to attend Fridays meeting about presenter of our radio program to share his personal experience with Student Finance.

If Harry is unable to be our presenter anymore then Mike (Me) from the group is happy to take his place using his own experience with some of Harry's put in.



Talk about how much time we have to edit our radio show, we want to leave a minimum of a week to edit our show as problems will arise.

Radio Broadcast Meeting 1

Radio Show Meeting, 10th of November 2009, 2.35pm, Gatehouse, Bath Spa University.




Attendants - Mike, Edem and James.

Not Attended - Ed (Excuses for not present is that he was ill)



Action Points



Reply from Welfare interview at Bath Spa University that they are happy to be interviewed gave us contact details



Harry has agreed to be the presenter of our radio program and share his personal experience with Student Finance.



Phoned Welfare to find out when they are available to be interviewed.



Edem has the music for the radio show (Kanya West - Cant tell me nothing and The Game - Money)

Next steps



Chase Welfare for interview

Speak to Harry for presenter duty's



Organize Vox Pops

Talk about next steps at next meeting which is on Monday the 16th of November.



Agreed roles in the group also discussed at the meeting



Harry = Presenter

Edem = Researcher

James = Editor

Mike =Sound

Ed = Interviewer