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.
- Open Audacity
- Record “Hello and welcome to our radio programme. I’m [name] and I’m [name]”
- File – open – find music file Savannah Sketch in Oak/Maple/Folder
- Select all of the track, copy (Ctrl – C)
- Go back to the first Audacity file
- Add a new track by pressing record then stop – select and delete the bit of sound
- Paste the music in to the new track (Ctrl – V)
Challenges…
- Can you turn the volume of the music down when you are speaking?
- Highlight it on the music track…
- Can you add more speaking?
- Just press record and it will add another track
- How can you get the speaking to the correct place?
- Can you get rid of the spare music at the end – leave 15 seconds after the last speaking
- Can you fade out the last 5 seconds of music at the very end?
- Find out what “Auto duck” (in effects) is and how it might be useful