In groups of five and six, we were assigned to put together a news podcast.
We had a news meeting in the practical the week before, where each of us had to propose at least two potential stories that we would cover. In the following practical we had to bring our completed stories which we then complied and played in the form of a live bulletin, with our news anchor linking the stories.
As this was in the format of a news podcast, we had the freedom to produce stories slightly longer than an ordinary radio bulletin would contain.
Stand-alone of my Soundclip:
Local Radio Stations celebrate Local music
This was a certainly an exercise in working on the spot.
When I walked into the prac, our tutor told me that she was not going to accept a straight read as a story as I had originally prepared; she wanted some 'meat' - or juice at the very least..
Fortunately, as luck would have it, one of Radio Grahamstown's local volunteer DJs was in the building and I had literally fifteen minutes to plan an interview and and conduct it before he left. And then completely rework and edit my story before we went into the studio. All this took under an hour, and although I have since been tempted to clean it up a bit, I believe this to be a relatively decent piece of work considering the conditions it was produced in.
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