Sunday, 21 August 2011

Lecture 4- ABC radio

Telling stories for radio notes
Richard Fidler
  • radio is a very different medium
  • intimate medium
  • often you are multitasking
  • important to engage your listeners in the conversation to keep them included
  • the story needs to be interesting and be able to sustain itself
  • subject being interviewed must feel safe and comfortable with their interviewer
  • a privilege to be part of others recollections
  • silence is very powerful sometimes
  • the afternoon focused more on entertainment and audience participation (e.g. talkback radio)
  • friendliness to talback listeners to make them feel comfortable
  • shift in how people take in their media, yet radio has not changed to such a dramatic extent
  • radio is public service in a sense
  • read the paper, keep asking question, expose yourself to different currents of thought

Part 2- Steve Austin
  • annunciation is important
  • bring down the barriers between the listener and the presenter
  • creating pictures from words
  • reflecting what the audience desires
  • know who your audience is
  • entertainment, intimacy,interest
  • diverse audience at night
  • even if you don't answer the question the listener will pick it up, people can tell what is fake
  • try and empathise vocally
  • simple question is good
  • important to be human and human experience, we respond emotionally and subconsciously.
  • talk less and listen more, show respect
  • news radio and podcasts
  • a lack of time helped radio to flourish because it can be on in the background and save time









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