My Breakfast Show Segment

1. Did you fulfill all the content requirements; both in terms of including all the correct features and as well as the actual choices made.

I think that we did manage to fulfill all the content requirements as we followed the brief and running order. The opening track outro we used was Forget You- Cee Lo Green and the winning track we used was Fountains of Wayne- Stacy's Mom. Despite that both of these tracks are not British, we compensated for this by including an outro song; She sells sanctuary- The Cult, as they are a British band. We were also able to include jingles for Radio Latymer, Celebrity Gamble and the news. They were achieved by Dara playing a short melody whilst saying things like "Welcome to Radio Latymer..." Within our show, we had Zain as the radio host, myself as a member of public and Dara as the news reporter. We played Celebrity Gamble, in which we used teachers as the celebrities and chose one of their songs to play, which therefore showcases audience interaction. After the choice of song was made, opinions were read out from Twitter with both positive and negative reactions, which is another form of audience interaction. We also tried to create humour between the interaction of the member of public and the host but failed to do so with the news reporter due to issues with time. Throughout the segment, we tried to constantly remind the audience about our celebrity guest, Ms Kelsall, therefore keeping the audience hooked as well as having the news about the Latymer community, such as issues with lanyards or uniform problems.

2.Have you nailed the conventions and style of Nick Grimshaw and the Radio 1 Breakfast Show?

On the whole, I think that we were able to nail the style and convention of Nick Grimshaw and the Radio 1 Breakfast show through the use of humour, direct address and informality. Therefore having the same style as the show. However we could've included more young British artists, as well as having humour between the host and news reporter to make it more like the Breakfast show.

3. How did you manage your running order/ timings? 

Despite having a script, we managed to go over the 3 minutes we were allocated. Nevertheless, in our final recording, we managed to record it in 3:08 compared to our first recording of around 6 mins. We did this by cutting down the script significantly and cutting down the length of the jingles. We also avoided any unnecessary pauses between the people to make it more natural.