Day 7/8 - More discussions on radio programme + First assignment

On day 7 the group got together to have a discussion about our progression with research, as we were all given research roles. There was a lot of good information on the subject we had chosen, but not a great deal in material that was going to aid our radio programme greatly. So based on our research we seemed to have compiled a lot of information and opinions from the modern day christmas (1990-2008) but found less material from other decades we could use. Hence we made made a choice to alter our line of research but stick with the same subject.

On day 8 we had our first assignment, which was the 3 minute new production, using various jingles (of our choice) and blending in the best answers i got from the pier vox pops which i gathered previously. On the week before the exam i felt it bit nervous as, it i the first exam i couldn't really revise for, but when i started to do it and laid the foundations i managed to find my feet. For the exam we used Pro tools sound editing software. I think i did well at the project as a whole, but due to the time limit of 3 minutes i found it hard to fit in as many jingles at the beginning, and end, that i would have liked to. I think the thing i did best was integrating the vox pops into the programme without any disturbance between vox pops. it turned out to be quite fluent.