Critical Self Reflection

Introduction

Around 2 months ago the beginning of term 2 we are assigned to create a radio show. For this project i chose Maxi, Me, Theo, and Timo for my group to create this radio project after i chose my group members we did a research about radio shows that are popular. We use RegentsX FM for our radio name. After creating a name for our radio we then recorded, edited, created logos, jingles, chose songs, and many more with all this our radio project ended up in a 15mins radio show.

How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?

Our radio show RegentsX FM focuses towards high school students in Bali but to be specific in mainly focusses students from our school Regents School Bali. We said this, because most of our recording segments of our radio show are related to events that happen in our school beside that it also has a segment that contain gossips from our school. This radio show purpose is to entertained and listen at your leisure time. This radio show is also for teenagers outside our school that likes to hear what is happening in other schools. Songs that are included in this radio show which are the Arctic Monkeys(Do i Wanna Know) are popular among teenagers and can be enjoyed by them.

How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?

Our radio show that we recorded at school focusses on high school students appeals to target demographic teenage students (aged 15-18) we say this, because our radio show has a segment that has gossips and songs that are popular among them. Beside that gossips that are in our radio segment are gossips that are for teenagers people that are not around that age can have difficulties understanding the gossips that are in our radio segment. Our radio show counts as a proximity, because it is meant for people that are in Indonesia.

Our Radio show RegentsX FM is very suitable to play after having a hard day at school for students that just went home from school, This radio show is very suitable to play anytime but we suggested to play this at the afternoon( after going home from school or having a leisure time at home)

Our radio show hosts are two male 16 years old with this can represent more male audiences specifically in Indonesia and in our school, this is because by being a male audience feel that they are being represented. However with this we cannot get all of the target audience because other representation are not represented in this radio show which leads to less female audience and male with different ages than us.

How did your production skill develop throughout this project?

After all the hard work and we finally finished creating this radio project i learned a lot of things one of the things are creating jingles that match our radio theme. Beside that i also learned how to use a radio equipments. There are many softwares and applications that i tried to create jingles to match and make a perfect for the radio segment I used Bandlab and created a jingles there with lots of trial and error. Last but not least I learned to trust each others at their own job and work as a team.

How did you integrate technologies - software, hardware, and online - into this project?

To create this radio show we used a lot of software, and hardware to create this radio show. For the software we used an app called Discord and we enter a call there than we record using our own hardware equipment which are Scarlett 2i2 Studio Mic and BM800 Condenser Microphone. Through out the recording we used OBS to record our online conversation. After finished with the recording we transport the file into a google drive that is sent to Maxi to edit our podcast recording using Adobe Premier Pro. When he started the editing process he takes the file of the jingle that was made by me using an application called Bandlab a free online software beat maker and transported all the jingles that are chosen into a google drive by using an iPhone 11 and MacBook Pro 2018. Last but not least our radio show logo was made by Theo using a software called Adobe Photoshop. Thanks to all this new and amazing technology allows us to create this radio show much better.

Conclusion

Overall this radio project has taught me a lot how to work on target audience and to work as a team and trusting each other on their own given job. Maxi and Timo as our radio host which are really connected with lots of chemistry of each other created a great vibe on our radio recording to make it entertaining. Theo as our logo designer which has an Art and Design background really worked on that logo. Last but not least me chosen as a jingle creator really shows me that they trust on my music background to work on the jingles. As a result I'm happy to work with them and created a radio show which we are very satisfied with.