- Lecture 5
Radio: an almost
pre-technological medium? Photograph: H. Armstrong Roberts/Corbis
So…. You
think Radio Presenting is all about Talking?
Well
you’re wrong, it’s about listening.
Listening
to your guests
And
Listening
to what your audiences want!
The rate of the
decline of conventional media is not as rapid as you may think. Sure, we have
social networking, online news, pod casts and twitter but good old fashioned radio
listening figures don’t seem to be dropping. This oldest form of electronic
media is truly here to stay.
Brisbane based ABC reporter and presenter; Steve Austin attributes this
phenomenon to the Time poor information hungry population that can multi task
and listen unlike watching a show or sitting online.
Driving,
shopping, cleaning the house, walking the dogs and all those other ‘mundane’
life absorbing tasks can become somewhat tolerable and even enjoyable in the
midst of good conversation.
HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU ANSWERED THE PRESENTER ON THE
RADIO?
Now that’s good Radio!
“Good Radio is
not so much about facts, figures and rationality it’s an emotional medium, in which
listeners need to feel inclusive. Listener’s responses to radio programs are
driven by their own emotional life experiences – its what makes the human
connection” Steve
Austin
Just as
the written words of text bring about the “Death of the Author”, the audible
journey of radio belongs to the listener – why else would radio be considered
to be
The Theatre of the MIND?
“Only
Radio can create
Colourful
visual images in
The brain
with nothing
More than
the right voice,
And a few
well placed
Sound effects.”
-Dan
Acree
Local radio
presenter Richard Fidler invites his listeners to travel on outrageous and
spectacular adventures into other peoples lives and reminds budding presenters
to ;
Act as facilitators
Include the
listeners – get inside their heads
Develop a
report of trust
Don’t be afraid
of silence – it allows for reflection.
Conversation
radio should not be putting listeners to bed
The time frame
of an interview should not exceed 7 minutes if you don’t want your listeners to
zone out, Conversation radio on the other hand needs to sustain itself for the
whole show, usually an hour.
LISTEN TO THE POD CAST
Conversations with Richard Fidler
“Anna Krien travelled to Indonesia to
investigate the live cattle trade, and has also examined animal testing in
science labs around the country.”
Conventional Radio is effortlessly blending
into the modern social media networks with;
Twitter: tell us what you
think
Podcast’s
Listen on the go or catch up what you missed.
ADVICE FROM THE GREATS:
OK, so
you want to be a journalist / presenter?
Read, Read, Read!
Bring down
Barriers
Develop a well
articulated voice
Develop you
vocabulary Be open minded
“Don’t
live in an ideological GETTO!”
-Richard Fidler
Expose your
minds to ideas and thoughts you disagree with.
Expand your
world view.
Word of the week
Discombobulate: To throw into a state
of confusion.
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