radio evaluation

The aim of the show was to inform and entertain on the subject 'food'. The purpose was, in my opinion, only partially achieved, as we entertained but didn't inform. The representation issues were met well- the music we played was met with a positive image, and all of our songs, apart from linkin park and enter shikari, were related to food. However, the representation wasn't met with equality as all of the songs were by male artists, although one of the songs was a parody of a song by a female artist. We had no requests as we were playing our own songs, but we did have shout outs for boys and girls. We didn't make fun of the 'older generation' because we didn't play any old music. However, this could be a problem for older listeners if we don't have old songs as well as new, but we only played obscure food songs as an alternative to famous songs. Nothing we said was biased, as it is very hard to be bias about a topic such as food. The show didn't sound realistic for the genre, but it did sound hilarious. 

Throughout the show the levels were kept between 5 and 6, however the levels did go over 6 when were talking. The balance of talking and music was okay, we concentrated more on the music to play rather than the talking. We put the microphones up quite fast so nobodies voice got cut out, and we followed every ad break with a jingle and a song. The only embarrassing gaps came when Matthew was to busy laughing to ask questions on the interview, but we left the microphones down when talking so as to not add extra noise in the background. We also wore headphones to check our voice levels weren't too loud, and we also varied the links to music tracks. 

The narrative and conventions seemed to be unique, as it is very rare to have a show about food on the radio, and the radio show wasn't typical as it was seemingly unpredictable, as things kept going wrong, in a good way. On a program on a professional station it would have been planned out a lot more carefully, and we would have played a variety of music instead of just songs related to the topic of food. The professional stations have other advantages, such as they have money to produce the program, and would give us better guests and a better topic than food. The only convention of good narrative we used was the tease which teased listeners as to what was coming up later on the show.