Portable minidisk kits
Radio studios
Audio editing workstations
Audio playback equipment
Archive sources where applicable to the project
Library resources

AM75027-2

Beaman, J. (2000) Interviewing for Radio London: Routledge
Boyd. A. (2001) Broadcast journalism: techniques of radio and television news Oxford: Focal
Gage, L. (1999) A guide to commercial radio journalism , revised by Lawrie Douglas and Marie Kinsey Oxford: Focal
MacLoughlin, S. (1998) Writing for Radio Oxford: How To Books
McLeish, R. (1999) Radio production: a manual for broadcasters (4th edn) Oxford: Focal
O'Donnell, L. et al (2003) Modern Radio Production: production, programming and performance Belmont, Ca:Wadsworth
Scannell, P. (1996) Radio, television and modern life : a phenomenological approach Oxford: Blackwell
Shingler, M. & Wieringa, C. (1998) On Air: methods & meanings of radio London: Arnold
Wilby, P. & Conroy, A. (1994) The Radio Handbook London: Routledge

You will mainly learn through the experience of producing your programme, with group tutorials with your project supervisor. Where applicable you will also be negotiating directly with a client on a quasi-professional basis. Throughout the project you are encourage to keep an individual production diary in which you systematically record your production meetings and your individual learning. This process of reflection on the production process, along with discussion of the finished programme with your peers, informs the project evaluation with which you conclude the module.

This module follows on from the 'Preparation 1: Documentary Research' option you have taken in your previous semester. Here you take the project you have developed up to the completion of the pre-production stage and put it into production, post-production and evaluation. At the start of this module you will have the opportunity, in response to feedback you received at the conclusion of your last semester's module, to negotiate with you supervisor minor modifications to the brief or script you have devised. (There is not time or scope in this module to completely revise your project from scratch.)

Your experience in this module depends on the nature of the project you have devised in the last semester. At the end of this module your finished work will be played back and discussed along with the work of your peers. This feedback forms a very important part of your learning and will directly inform your written evaluation of your finished product.

1. A radio documentary programme, produced in a small group, which answers the brief you have negotiated at the start of the module and shows your ability to plan, record, script and post-produce a radio programme appropriate to its subject. (Supported by production notes.) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4]

2. An individual written evaluation of the effectiveness of the production and post-production processes in relation to the created product [Learning Outcomes 2, 3]