Evaluation-Palm FM Part 3 - Final

Show: Saturday Sport
Presenter: Graham Russell
Date: 6th February 2010
Duration: 5 hours (1pm-6pm)

I arrived at 12pm as I did last week and still I found myself working alone without the radio technician however having done this for three weeks in a row, I felt I didn't need the technician anyway as I was now feeling rather confident in how the whole process works. 

The presenter greeted me as usual, but also warned me that today was going to be very hectic as a lot of football and rugby matches were happening around the same time as each other. This made me feel a little nervous and I must admit, knocked my confidence a little. I sat down at the computer to start the importation of the radio clips process and this time, the presenter did not do another run through with me, but went to make a cup of tea. So I was on my own on the computer to import the many different clips ready for live production. The process continued the same way, as I had been doing the past two weeks and so I felt as though my learning at this placement had come to a halt.  

I also continued to make notes of any goals or fouls during the matches, via the internet, and once a goal or foul took place I had to make a note of the important information and then, when the "on air" light was off, I had to run into the main studio and pass the message onto the presenter so he could talk about the matches in more depth, before new reports came through, as I had done the previous week however this week I missed a few important goals due to the constant updates within the file editor which I had to keep my eye on. 

Did I meet my aims and objectives?

My main aims and objectives for this work-learning placement were to, be as professional as I was able, work to deadlines, listen and learn from other professionals and then implement what they do in their work. I also wanted to learn more about how to produce a radio station and I found it highly interesting to learn about what equipment is used and how it is used. However I have made many mistakes today and which were processed and displayed live on air. I named a few of the teams wrong and so when the presenter played them on air, it was all wrong and made the radio station look as if they didn't know what they were doing. 

Overall I believe that I did achive all my aims and objectives. The only down side I had was that I never got to see how the official producers of the radio show “Saturday sport”. I must also admit, I have told them that I have run my course with working with them and I am now going to move on and do other things. The main reason I decided to this was because I felt my learning there had stopped I was constantly doing the same week after week and nothing new was happening. I felt as though, they were using me as nobody else was volentering and so this is the reason I have ended this placement.