Statement Of Intent

I intend to create an hour long radio show which talks mainly about the BBC but also recent events. The show will include 5 speakers and will also play music throughout the hour. The show will also be recorded and then uploaded to soundcloud.

Crissel sets out four main categories for Radio: Words, Sounds, Music and Silence. Our show will likely include all but sounds, a lack of experience with presenting a radio show implies we will likely not include the convention of non-diegetic sound but rather focus on Words, music and silence. Silence will be used as time for thought as the show isn’t scripted or a reading the speakers will need time to think a response or a new topic of discussion. We will play music which a likely audience will be familiar with, as the main topic of discussion is the BBC we will expect viewers to be British so playing music such as ‘Gorillaz’ and ‘Dizzie Rascal’ listeners will likely be familiar with the music.

Radio is chronological and linear, our show will also exhibit this to prevent confusion to the listeners, by doing this we allow the listener to easily follow the narrowcast and conversation. By making radio linear we could relate it to narrative theory when trying to de-code radio and its meaning, because of this radio is also reliant on editing techniques. Editing techniques such as the fade will be present in the narrowcast and will therefore help construct meaning. To relate to Stuart Halls Encoding and Decoding model it can be seen that we (the presenters) encoded messages for the audience to decode, these messages however could’ve been decoded differently to how we intended.

The idea of intimacy, which is present in almost every broadcast and narrowcast will also be present in ours. With use of an informal register and selective use of pronouns such as ‘you’ ‘I’ ‘we’ we will be able to construct this same intimacy between presenter and listener. Radio is a flexible medium and is either a broadcast or a narrowcast depending on the size of the audience, for ours we expect our live audience to be 10-20 so this would be considered a narrowcast.