Digi-Crew met again with Jon Kelly on Thursday 5th July. We had a production meeting to discuss the running order of our radio show, and what we can do to hook the listeners in and keep them interested.

Here is our running order:

1. Jingle (to remind the listeners what they are listening to.)
2. Intro (snappy and to the point.)
3. Music (get people listening and hook them in.)
4. Spoken link (guide through the subject and help the listener make sense of it)
5. Vox Pops (interviewing the people in the “outside world”)
6. Jingle
7. Spoken link
8. Interview (“When is it right to make a stand?”)
9. Music
10. Feature (more information about ourStand Up Doncaster site.)
11. Spoken link.
12. Music
13. Spoken link
14. Jingle
15. Interview
16. Music
17. Outro (round off the show and summarise what we have discussed.)

We then moved onto record our radio show. We all had a part to allocated, e.g I am being interviewed about reading my stand against bullying, and Brendan will be doing the spoken links.

Holly was responsible for going out into our XP community to record the Vox Pops – asking students and staff when is it right to make a stand, and what their pledge is to make Doncaster a better place.

We have now recorded everything, so watch this space for a broadcast date!

Blog Post by Ella 🙂

Today we were really excited to launch our new Digi Crew – and even more excited that our first project involves working with Jon Kelly from our local community radio station, Sine FM. We’ll be hitting the airwaves soon with our Stand Up! Doncaster broadcast, where we will talk about why it’s important to make a stand, our pledges to make our community a better place, all mixed in with some music!

We kicked off our first session with some media training, particularly focusing on radio presenting skills, and even made it into the recording studio where we made a start on our radio show.

Here’s Aran’s overview of today’s session:

Today, some students from XP East have been experiencing the life of a presenter. In XP, the community radio station is supervised by Jon Kelly. Jon gave each group a task to work on. The aim was to describe a colour to an imaginary blind person (this was much harder than we thought it would be!) After this, John gave us another activity – it was to describe a place in Doncaster.  It was almost like having to paint a picture, but with words!

He then explained that these exercises were to help us learn how to talk to an audience when in the recording studio. All of us had to answer a question from our last HUMAN expedition ‘Stand Up!’ about what making a stand means to us, as a community.

Catch us soon so we can update you next time!

The Digi Crew