Radio Planning Session 11 - Equipment List And Studio Safety

Although you're going to present your show, in a sense you're also going to be the producer too, cos it's you that's taking charge of the planning, recording and editing as well. With your producers hat on you need to create a list of all the equipment you're going to need to create your show as well as the health and safety issues associated with working in a studio. This is a really quick part of the planning documentation and you should complete it as follows.

1. CREATE A NEW BLOGPOST AND CALL IT 'RADIO PLANNING - Equipment & Safety'

2. Add the heading 'HARDWARE & SOFTWARE' and give me a full list of the equipment you're going to use to create your show. Have a think about EVERYTHING you're going to need. Your list should at a bare minimum include the following HARDWARE

Microphones
A pop shield.
Headphones
Radio Studio Mixing Desk
Computers (both in the studio during production, and in the classroom during editing/post-production)

Also - what SOFTWARE are you going to use? What programme(s) are you going to use to record and edit your links? You can do it all on Adobe Audition but what programme will you use to write your script? How are you going to add music to your show - play them off Youtube in the studio as you're presenting or edit them in afterwards after you've recorded your links?

3. Add the heading 'STUDIO SAFETY'

Go to this link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FFWjQ642kh8aDTNSJzhNBoBrBgu3Cp4l/view?usp=sharing

Go to the part called 'Health And Safety'. Upto & including the point where it says 'Clean up and straighten all areas after use' put it in your own words.

THEN if you can think of anything, add a couple of other things you think might prove hazardous in the studio (cables you could trip on? Head-height mics you could injure yourself with? Perhaps high-volumes damaging hearing?) With each addition, add a line as to how danger can be avoided.

WHAT YOU SHOULD END UP WITH

A short-ish post explaining the equipment you're going to use and what health-and-safety constraints you're going to abide by.

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