Y5 What makes an effective radio programme?

Listen to some of these radio programmes:

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03nsygq#play
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/schoolradio/subjects/history/romans/characters/the_centurion
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03g6vrq#play

What elements make them effective? (Collect ideas then Diamond 9)

Is there anything you would improve?

PMI for radio programmes

 

Explore Audacity

We are going to use a computer program called Audacity to produce and edit our own radio programmes.

1. Open Audacity
2. Record “Hello and welcome to our radio programme.  I’m [name] and I’m [name]”
3. File – open – find music file Savannah Sketch in Oak/Maple/Folder
4. Select all of the track, copy (Ctrl – C)
5. Go back to the first Audacity file
6. Add a new track by pressing record then stop – select and delete the bit of sound
7. Paste the music in to the new track (Ctrl – V)

Challenges…

1. Can you turn the volume of the music down when you are speaking?
   1. Highlight it on the music track…
2. Can you add more speaking?
   1. Just press record and it will add another track
   2. How can you get the speaking to the correct place?
3. Can you get rid of the spare music at the end – leave 15 seconds after the last speaking
4. Can you fade out the last 5 seconds of music at the very end?
5. Find out what “Auto duck” (in effects) is and how it might be useful