Interesting Program
May come through one or more than one of the following elements:
Affects the lives of the listeners, relate them in some ways so that they feel involved.
There are some conflicts that stimulates interest.
The participants are enthusiastic, and sound interest.
Interesting Program
The program are understandable to your audiences, avoid confusion.
Create clear and precise images, avoid abstractions.
The element of variety is present.
Programme Planning
Overall Output
The audience
Program variety
Future programming
Overall Output
Aim for a balance of information and entertainment, music and speech, variety form within each of these (talks, drama, magazine).
Aim for balance of local versus imported music, topics are included local, regional and nonlocal contents, and program materials from the whole country involving the whole audience.
Overall Output
Aim to reflect whatever is happening in the community or in the world.
Aim for topicality reflected in everything, not just in news.
Aim for feedback to measure the audience, to meet their needs and their preferences.
How to achieve the aims
Try to look at the overall program schedule from time to time, and plotting priorities.
Look at the resources: time, and staff capabilities. Organizing one and developing the other to meet these priorities.
Keep a planning diary of all potential program material.
How to achieve the aims
Decide on how it will be converted for radio, assigning key personnel weeks or months in advance.
Keep an inventory of experts, and potential contributors, in your region.
The audience
We should provide programs with a balance between majority and minority audience,
favoring the mass audience, most of the time.
We should assess the changing needs of the audience:
A large juvenile audience demanding more sophisticated entertainment.
The audience
The changing status of women
Improved standards of education
Increasing fluency in English
Greater political awareness
Program Variety
Within each language, over a specified period, aim to have:
News
Background to news
Public information
Public service programs
Wide variety of music
Account to policy
Program Variety
Educational programming
Stories
Readings
Personality
Drama
Comedy
Audience participation show
Live broadcast
Program Variety
Outside broadcast
Local composition
Writing
Magazine
Personality sessions
Community work
Etc.
Future Programming
Aim to put the permanent form, suitable broadcast material – stories legends, scripts, which might be used again in another form.
Keep on tape a representative sound cover all events of significance, people, and sound; they form the nucleus of historical, anniversary, ort flashback program.
Planning the program resource
Planning consist of:
Deciding
Anticipating
Assessing
Communicating
Deciding
On clear objective
Or program outline
Anticipating
The sequence in which the final product will be realized.
Assessing
The resources needed, and evaluate it.
Communicating
Communicating all this information to everyone involved.
The resources
Information about the subject, the people to be approached, the general community, the society and the cultural environment.
This requires research, which itself needs certain resources, including preliminary
reconnoiter (inspection).
The resources
People with the skills needed to record outside, interview, be interviewed (talent), coach talent, write scripts, narrate, edit tape, and operate technical equipment.
The resources
Equipment like transportation, portable recorder, microphones, tapes, studio mixing, tape editing system and studio recording.
Time to plan the outline, do research, travel to location and back too station, audition, prepare for editing, edit, script, rehearse and recording.
The resources
Money for transportation, facilities fees, hospitality, and performer fees.
These are visible or above the line costs. Some program may have to be assessed for
below the line costs as well.
The resources
Before the production is committed, it might be advisable to ask some questions:
What sources for background information are available?
Are people with the required skills available?
Can suitable, reliable, equipment be committed for the time?
The resources
How can time be saved?
Will the result justify the resources used?
What alternative are there to achieve the program objective?
Is there a simpler way?
The resources
Good planning can save time, money, equipment, people for example for a series of
magazine programs.
Collect a set of times at one visit (maybe an extend interview in segments).
Collect items for other programs from people in the same place. Tape spare tape and
extra batteries.
The resources
Warn people in advance of your visit with a clear brief if possible.
Use other producers to gather material (if they are traveling to your location anyway).
In the studio, have standard opening and closing tracks pre-recorded.
Record with editing in mind: the final presentation planned, plenty of “atmosphere”
record repeats.
