In this revision, I would like to reflect on my learning curve from week 1 of this semester, to week 12. I’m writing this after hosting our second show on 3RRR, which I would like to think was pretty successful.

What we took away from our first demo show was a killer run-sheet layout. This was easy to customise for each show, containing clock time, show time, track numbers and file sources. The demo also acted as a base for our first show on the 24th of April. We used a convo about penalty rates which was ad-libbed in the demo.

In this show was also my first interview with Thrusher which I reflected upon here.
Though it was marred by the sound quality, I definitely learnt to utilise the studio headphones, making sure they were loud enough to pick up tapping and twisting sounds I was making. I think this learning curve was reflected in our feature, where I interviewed and panelled Prof. Martin Mulligan, a senior lecturer in sustainability from RMIT. I had never panelled before so I was nervous and unsure of what to do. We took the interview in one take and I was thrilled with the outcome. The sound quality is crisp and free of distractions. You can hear the interview below in our feature titled “Fashion Faux Pas” which I narrate and also don’t touch the mic stand in.

I hosted our final show today (May 29th) and as we worked through the hour I felt much more comfortable than I did even in my prerecord with Thrusher. I had briefly met Russell from the ASRC and invited him into talk about his social enterprise on air. I ad-libbed a few questions and tried to throw in a couple of jokes here and there.  When a prerecorded segment crashed on air, we had about 10 seconds of dead air, but luckily Nat is an experienced panelist and quickly threw to a song. We decided it would be best for us to play the recording from the start as it was only two minutes in. We cut some songs to run back on time and it was smooth again. Here is a link to the show.

I would love to continue with radio. 3RRR has a great atmosphere and is a Melbourne institution I admire and respect. I would love to be further involved in the station, and I will be signing up for SYN Radio training this week!

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