Latymer Radio Breakfast Show!

Riana and Livia's Latymer Radio Breakfast Show!

1. Did you fulfill all the content requirements; both in terms of including all the correct features as well as the actual choices made.

Livia and I satisfied both sets of criteria when producing our Latymer breakfast show. This is highlighted through the two snippets of contrasting song tracks as we played Rockstar by Post Malone juxtaposed with Beautifully unconventional by wolf Alice. The mainstream rap and modern hip-hop ‘Rockstar’ has been consistently playing on the Radio 1 Breakfast show, therefore it was a good choice. Furthermore ‘Beautifully unconventional’ is an example of an alternative English rock band. Radio 1 breakfast show provides a global platform for emerging UK artists to flourish, therefore playing this song was also an intelligent option. In addition, our radio consisted of three different jingles; the Radio Latymer jingle, the celebrity gamble jingle and the news jingle. Moreover, our radio includes a phone call from Jade, a fellow Latymer student, who stars in the main feature of celebrity gamble. As a result, the social media responses flooded into the show, with a special tweet from @BossmanMrsCobbet. Furthermore, our radio breakfast show comprised of a promo with the celebrity guest, Molly Foster, who is head girl at Latymer, which is relatable for the target audience. Our radio also includes two major news headlines involving a ‘Teacher Fight Club’.  

2. Have you nailed the conventions and style of Nick Grimshaw and the Radio 1 Breakfast show?

When planning our script for the Latymer Radio show, Livia and I ensured that we contained youth speak which is similar to Nick Grimshaw’s conversational style. Therefore, we added colloquial terms such as ‘lit’ and ‘true say’. Furthermore, we made sure that there was banter throughout the whole radio show as this is a typical convention of Radio 1 Breakfast show. We did this by incorporating as many jokes as we could into our everyday conversation as well as maintaining a lively, energetic and bubbly atmosphere like Nick Grimshaw does. Moreover, we made sure that our Latymer Radio show serves the three purposes of informing, educating and entertaining by including the news headlines and a diverse range of music. Another major convention of the Radio 1 Breakfast show is the audience interaction, which was evidenced through our game of ‘Celebrity Gamble’ whereby a member of the Latymer School called and participated in.

3. How did you manage your running order/ timings?

When we first rehearsed our script, we realised that we were over time, however only by 15 seconds. Therefore, we decided to cut out some of the dialogue which we thought was not as entertaining as the rest of our script in order to stay within the time limit of three minutes. Before recording properly, we ensured that all the IPads and IPhones were loaded with the correct songs and jingles and then we started recording on one of our phones as a practice run. This allowed us to have an idea of our time when rehearsing. Finally, we decided to actually record via the microphone and computer, however the timings were the hardest part of the task as we felt very rushed with playing all the sound effects and songs, therefore we made many mistakes, for example, when a song wouldn’t play or when one of us would mix up the words on the script.