Y5 LF Make an radio programme (3 weeks)

LF1 What makes an effective radio programme?

Listen to some of these radio programmes:

• The space race
• The centurion
• Come to Kochi
• 10 facts about the brain
• Ancient Greeks 1
• Ancient Greeks 2

• Have a listen to our radio programmes here.  Please leave a comment that will help us improve.

1. What elements make them effective? (Collect ideas then Diamond 9)
2. Is there anything you would improve?
3. PMI for radio programmes

LF2 Planning 10 Qs and As

• Open a new j2e5 page
• With a partner, write 10 questions and answers about:
  • Anglo Saxons
  • South America / Amazon Rainforest
  • Earth and Space
  • Greeks
• You could use
  • Homework help website
  • Speech to text in j2e5
• Read it throough several times to practise

LF2a Planning a mini documentary

• Draw a bubble map/mind map of ideas for your programme
• Use your Greek topic work to add detail to different ideas
• Take a section each (or with a pair) to work on
• (If you are working with a pair – don’t “chorus talk”)
• Record as soon as you have enough for a short section

LF3 Finding music

pixabay music

Attribution not required, but appreciated.  It is polite and respectfut to say where you got your music from to credit the composer/performer.

The music is “Forest Lullaby” by Lesfm from pixabay.com/music

LF4 Recording

• Record short sections (we haven’t got time for lots of takes of longer sections)
• iPad + iMovie: Just use the video (with the camera covered up) to record parts of your programme.
• Chromebook + Audio Studio: Open a new tab, click on then
• Outro example
  • 10 questions and answers about the ancient Greeks was written and presented by [Names]
  • It is a 2019 production as part of Computing at St Mark’s C of E Junior School, Salisbury
  • The music is [name of music] by Kevin Macleod incompetech.com   License: CC BY creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

LF5 Editing

• 3-5 seconds of music before speaking starts
• Dip music volume for speaking
• Make sure volume levels are good
• Use split then delete buttons to remove sections or mistakes
• Duplicate music if it is not long enough
• Clip and fade out any music at the end <10 seconds

LF6 Saving

LF6a Back up photos and videos on iPad

1. Open the Google Drive app
2. Login
3.  Click the + at the bottom right – Upload – Photos and Videos
4. Select your videos
5. LOGOUT – click three lines (top left) – click username – Manage accounts – MANAGE – REMOVE all accounts

LF6b Saving your finished iMovie

1. Click “Done”
2. Share button (square with up arrow)
3. Save video – medium
4. Then upload to Google Drive

LF6c Saving your finished Audio Studio

• Click then click the File audio link at the bottom
• In j2e, click then “Choose files” and find your file
• Go to “my files” , click on the and rename your file

Finished?  

• Go to iLearn2 and use the activity code on the whiteboard (headphones on!)
• 3d design cube – 3d Slash
• Townscaper