During our week 12 workshop, we were asked to present our project brief 4 rough cuts to industry professionals for their feedback.

After presenting our rough draft to Jon This, he told us our work was relatively good and creative, in the aspect we had the whole fake story within the fake radio podcast. In terms of technical feedback, he told our talking part of the segment was too soft, and because we had the fear of it peaking too much, we toned it down, hence it became soft.  So he suggested to compress and normalize the audio to make it sound like a more professional broadcast, as he did say it did sound a bit awkward. He also mentioned to us to work on our timing as our opening, just sounded like atmosphere and nothing else, so he had to add more to it. We did after this, go outside during our workshop to record some more sound and dialogue for the opening, so it just wouldn’t sound like just atmosphere.

It wasn’t just the opening, the talking part of the segment, needed some cuts to make it sound more natural and less forced, especially when he told us to cut out the response for the phone cutting out in the segment, by mention to us that the studio wouldn’t ask if the person is still there, after the phone has been obviously cut off. Well apart from those criticisms, there wasn’t much to be said, we just need to get the rest our radio cast together, because the opening is done, we just need to finish it off strong, because we began strong, with the fake drama story to the fake cast, and then we go into the actual radio broadcast. We just need to finish it off, because our opening is basically done, and we got good feedback, and capitalised on it.