LO2 Task 3 - Understanding Skills needed to fulfill the role of a radio program director

I will be looking into the personal traits that a radio program director needs including key attributes such as a hard worker and the production tasks they do daily.

Written communication:
In my Unit 55 Radio production unit I created a plan for the radio show of what it should include and what type of audience it will be aimed at. Other key points were suggested too such as the music to add, different type of radio adverts. I had to do all of this planning in order to create this radio show. I feel I took initiative as a program director because you must act and think ahead of any scenarios that may occur. I even wrote the script for my particular radio show, usually in the job a professional radio scrip writer would write this and the director would read through and edit/change any particular parts they felt needed to be added or not.

Verbal Communication:
To be a good team leader verbal communication is the essential part of the job, if you are not able to communicate properly within your team then you wont have much success. In the recording sessions which we had to record the radio programme sometimes if a line did not sound right then I would alter it or if we needed to do plan a action better I would communicate addressing all the team so we could make our program better.

Practical production:
The main responsibility for the program director is to contribute in all the phases such as pre and post production to ensure the best job possible is done. As producer you must aim to stick to the plan and script at all times, you must also be creative and not scared to take risks which can pay off such as tweaking the script to make the program appeal to the target audience.

Area for further Development:
After reviewing my role in unit 55 radio production I feel that I gave a confident performance but with anything you do in life there is always room for improvement. Starting off with the audience choice although it was a very good suit I feel that we could have aimed it at a more mature audience to help us gain more viewers. Editing could have been done slightly better to make the voices sound much more crisp.The script was very creative but we could have added a lot more and paid attention to little details such as the particular demographics of viewers, this would have helped us to write the script in the same dialect and keep it more engaging. However I feel my team did a professional job throughout in order to create this radio show, I enjoyed this unit and felt I gave a very good effort to get this unit done.

Action plan:

In order to get into the radio station role this would be my action plan:

• September 2014 - June 2016 Complete OCR cambrige nationals in college along side Alevels of creative writing and Extended Project

• Gain 280 Ucas Point at the end of the two years to get to university

• Study a media BA degree at Sheffield Hallam University. Having experience creating a radio program has inspired me to study media at university which can lead to many different career paths

• Another Idea could be an apprentiship as a graphics designer or even in the film industry at BBC.