Secured Work Placements.

1) Local Radio

Details: Palm 105.5 FM


Contact: Graham Russell, Marble Court, Lymington Road, Torquay, Devon, TQ1 4FB

Outline: Behind the scenes, looking upon the production process of how the radio show; "Saturday Sport" is are prepared before being aired live.To gain knowledge working within the producing field with professionals and devloping new skills.

Intentions: My intentions are that on Saturday the 16th of January, I have been invited to help produce and work with professionals on the radio station; Palm FM. The program I will be helping to produce and gaining some hands on experience is known as the "Saturday Sport" show. I will be helping out and learning new skills from 2pm until 6pm at the radio station itself.

Skills to develop: The skill in which I am to develop with be to learn more about how producing a radio show in two different forms. The first form is the producing that happens in preparation for the radio show to comment. The second, will allow me to gain new skills while radio shows are on air live, and to help out in any way that I am able, to the best of my ability I wish to develop my skill of organization further, working in a radio station environment, will help me to achieve this, as time allocation and time management is highly important.

Aims: I aim work to deadlines, and to use my time effectively. I also wish to gain more confidence working with professionals. I aim to work hard and listen well to other professionals that will surround me, from this I will be able to learn new skills, knowledge and thus enhance my skills further. I also aim to be punctual, be arriving on time and being flexible to the company’s needs.

Roles and Responsibilities: My main role for this work placement will be to help produce the "Saturday Sport Show", in preparation for the show to go live on air, in any way that I can. From this comes many responsibilities, one of which will include; I will have to take note of all health and safety procedures. I will need to be responsible for my own safety and if I notice any problems linking to this area, I will alert the relevant person.I also understand whislt working with the professionals of this radio show, I will also gain new roles and responsibilities in new tasks of which I help them to produce "The Saturday Sport Show"

Learning Outcomes This will allow me to enhance my own personal career, by allowing me to gain knowledge within working in radio stations and of how radio programs are created and produced. This will also allow me to learn more about planning and how to plan projects in my future career. It will also give me the experience in working with professionals and hopefully help me to gain more confidence within this field of work. This will also allow me to discover new skills of which I may carry on with me throughout my career in the music buisness.

How will I evaluate: I shall evaluate this particular work placement experience, via this blog, I will focus on what I achieved, what I learnt and gained from this experience. I will also ensure I take some photographic evidence, to upload and support my evaluation blog. I will also focus upon my success whilst work on the project and also any problems I may face, included solutions and how I dealt with the different situations of which I will be placed. I will also look upon my own feelings and emoutions.How I can improve in the future will also be of interest within this section.

Contingency Plan: Should this particular work placement fail, I will then write an evaluation, discussing why and how the placement failed. This will include my advantage of my skills and also my disadvantage of skills of which helped in my downfall.