Radio documentary is normally an issue based seriously radio programme. Uni. Westerminster MA Broadcast Journalism students did one intensive "Story Pitch" day with Jean Whyatt, an experienced broadcaster who had worked mainly for BBC Radio 4.
The whole day started from 10a.m. until 4p.m., Students all feel quite helpful with such a discussion practice.
Since Jean guide students to discuss a variety of treatment towards making radio documentary, as well as some tips of programme making.
A range of ideas with different treatment
Most of the students have very good ideas, such as bully, not only consider about the childhood bully, but more focus on adulthood bully.
Regarding the different treatments, such as utilizing movies dealing with bulling, dramatizing documentary etc.
Jean provides suggestions to student, for instance, better focus on one particular kind of bully rather than spreading into many different kinds, like hook the story into a particular angle.
The story about obesity, the interesting treatment could be the cooking noise as the background; when obese children are sporting, might record his/her heavy breath.
Like the Chinese story, Chinese students who're studying abroad, what's their situation of finding jobs in the foreign countries?
In this case, the treatment could be the Chinese language fade in first, then fade out sensitively as the background voice, afterwards fade in the English voice over.
Cemetery near Bethnal Green is also a controversial story, the argument is about the business value of the land field, why should us provide the land for the death, since our living space is already crowded.
The story guided a range of discussion, such as talking about the Tibetan's sky funeral, even gain a working title as: the world of death!
Tips and techniques of making radio programmes
Other techniques Jean has mentioned, such as montage technique, cross fading, etc.
She is mentioning that montage is quite similar as vox pops, just not like "vox pops" are a number of people talking about the same topic.
Montage techniques are the different people appeared dealing with various thing, even some of the elements are music etc. A bit like the radio feature: the age of innocence.
Regarding interviewing the political figures, better avoid going through the bureaucracy, drop a letter directly to the official's personal/diary secretary, it even works more.
When proposing the story to production company, just telling enough of the story, but don't detail the contacting detail.
Since need to avoid the story to be stole by the company, they can just arrange a crew to do the story, if they can get the access as you provided.
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