Selecting the right location, guests and recording natural sound is essential to creating a piece that will come alive to the listener.
Set up as much as you can in advance. It saves time in the long run and means you can be more relaxed about your work. You can concentrate on what you want your piece to say - not whether you’ve got enough decent material to fill the time slot.
Even if you have to put something together very quickly, it’s a good idea to spend as much time as possible researching your story.
With interviews or actuality, more is always better than less when it comes to recording. The more options you have when editing your material the better the piece will be.
Listen through carefully to everything you have recorded. It will make editing much easier. You don’t want to risk missing the best clip because you didn’t listen through to the end.
In this video Melanie Grant talks us through putting together a short radio package which will be used to set up a debate back in the studio.
