So yesterday I turned up 'just on time', giving myself no time to segue... To add to my woes, there was no news AND I was in the other studio, which meant hot swapping them to stick me in the right one.
It's a simple procedure really. Dan, other Dan or Matt press some buttons and tell me to wait in the studio that's about to go live and then yell at me to hit 'GO' on the desk... It continues from there and I can conduct the show from there.
As for the segue'ing, I can segue on the fly (which means in the studio just ahead of time) but I did something wrong this time and my segue'ing was going out on air until Chrissie (station manager) came into the studio and told me off! I then completed the task visually using the graphic display rather than audibly just incase I got it wrong again!
Once the segue'ing was done and I had (at the same time) delivered a couple of links, I got to work on the news and delivered that 10 mins before the hour and then at half past the hour thereafter as per usual. I recorded my news feed too so that it could be dropped into the subsequent hours until 00:30.
This role has become quite easy in some respects, but lays on just enough pressure that one has space to come up with ideas and try new things. Chrissie has already suggested I try mixing up he show a little, which I have done but once the uni work is all out of the way, I will have the time and capacity to really go to town. Production, the works! I have already developed the technique for talking over audio 'beds' and produced some of my own.
I have created beds to reflect what I am talking about such as 'Blind Date' in the background or the theme to 'Miami Vice' but also some generic ones utilising familiar clips from the music often played on the station - to give the familiar feel to what I am talking about.... Oh yes, there's a lot of theory in radio!
It's a simple procedure really. Dan, other Dan or Matt press some buttons and tell me to wait in the studio that's about to go live and then yell at me to hit 'GO' on the desk... It continues from there and I can conduct the show from there.
As for the segue'ing, I can segue on the fly (which means in the studio just ahead of time) but I did something wrong this time and my segue'ing was going out on air until Chrissie (station manager) came into the studio and told me off! I then completed the task visually using the graphic display rather than audibly just incase I got it wrong again!
Once the segue'ing was done and I had (at the same time) delivered a couple of links, I got to work on the news and delivered that 10 mins before the hour and then at half past the hour thereafter as per usual. I recorded my news feed too so that it could be dropped into the subsequent hours until 00:30.
This role has become quite easy in some respects, but lays on just enough pressure that one has space to come up with ideas and try new things. Chrissie has already suggested I try mixing up he show a little, which I have done but once the uni work is all out of the way, I will have the time and capacity to really go to town. Production, the works! I have already developed the technique for talking over audio 'beds' and produced some of my own.
I have created beds to reflect what I am talking about such as 'Blind Date' in the background or the theme to 'Miami Vice' but also some generic ones utilising familiar clips from the music often played on the station - to give the familiar feel to what I am talking about.... Oh yes, there's a lot of theory in radio!
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