TV - Week 9

Luckily I didn't miss much after missing the week before. I found out what the idea for the tv show was which was a music quiz type of show, much like Never Mind the Buzzcocks. This was good as for the radio show we had done a music based show which meant that it was similar. This session we picked roles for people and I didn't know what I wanted to do prior to this. I had interests in being part of the editing team however as it was a live production, the editing is different to what I am used to doing. I also was interested in being part of the production team however all of those roles were taken up fast. It wasn't until Lianne suggested that her and I become the team captains and are actually in front of the camera that I even considered being on the show. As it turned out, it wasn't enough for us just to be on the show so we had to be involved with the writing of the show and contributing ideas and work with the director and writer. This was good because that meant that I was able to be involved in the production of the show.

TV - Week 8

Unfortunately I went home at the weekend and fell ill and was out of uni all week which meant that I missed the first week of TV

Radio - Week 7

This week was the week that we did the live show. Although I wasn't on air I was still nervous about doing it. Our presenter was nervous to start off with but after a few minutes the show was going well and all our timings were correct. As it got to the end of the show, it appeared we had 1 minute left and so managed to fill it with live talk which meant that the whole show was a success.

Radio - Week 6

This week we did a run through of the radio show. As I wasn't speaking live on the radio it was my job to produce a script so that there was an order to follow on the day of the broadcast. I wrote what each presenter was going to say, roughly at least, and then managed to timings of the interviews we had already recorded a few days ago and also the songs that we had decided to play. After a couple of run throughs, we decided on the final script which I later typed up that night to make it easier to read.
We had also arranged to do an interview over the phone which turned out to be the best interview out of all three of them. Unfortunately, due to some technical faults, the interview didn't record properly which meant that the script had to be changed around to fit more live talking in to make up for the lost time.



Here is the final script:

Hi I’m Lianne and welcome to the Sunderland Success Show with me, Alex, Lauren and Ollie. On today’s show we will be talking about the success of bands from across the North East.

Coming up in the next half hour we have interviews from 2 local bands; Cohesion and Frankie and the Heartstrings.

The first song I’ve got to play for you is by Maximo Park who recently headlined 6 music festival in Newcastle. Here’s: Girls Who Play Guitars

SONG - GIRLS WHO PLAY GUITARS (3:02)

Now to start off the show we have an interview with local band Cohesion who are a 5 piece indie-rock band from Sunderland. 

They’ve also supported bands like Frankie and the Heartstrings alongside Split Festival and Maximo Park.

Ollie caught up with them last week for a chat.

INTERVIEW

SONG - LUNA (4:22)

WE ARE SPARK?

{{{SONG - UNGRATEFUL? (3:56)}}}

Still to come on today’s show we have Heartbeat by The Futureheads and an interview with Frankie and the Heartstrings. But first we have another song from the local band Alexander, this is Drive.

SONG - DRIVE (3:43)

Now we’ve got the interview by the more well-known band from Sunderland - Frankie and the Heartstrings.

Me and Alex went down to their record shop, Pop Recs, in Sunderland City Centre, where we spoke to one of the members of the band.

INTERVIEW

SONG - HUNGER (2:53)

That was Frankie and the Heartstrings with Hunger. Hopefully be hearing new music from them soon. And finally, to finish the show for today we have a song by a local band The FutureHeads; Heartbeat.

SONG - HEARTBEAT (2:25)

WE ARE SPARK?

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