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MMCC3037 – Radio and Podcast: The 'On Air' Career

2022 – Session 1, In person-scheduled-weekday, North Ryde

General Information

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Unit convenor and teaching staff Unit convenor and teaching staff Convenor, Lecturer, Tutor
Helen Wolfenden
helen.wolfenden@mq.edu.au
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Ben Nash
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Credit points Credit points
10
Prerequisites Prerequisites
130cp at 1000 level or above
Corequisites Corequisites
Co-badged status Co-badged status
Unit description Unit description

This unit is suited to students who already have some experience producing spoken word and/or music audio. It explores diverse radio, audio and podcast forms and production as they are emerging in the contemporary online and broadcast context. Students work across a range of professional roles contributing their skills and output to either a series of programs composed of a variety of radio forms (features, comedy, talk-back, reportage, discussion, live music, performance), or towards a 'live' special event program for 2SER community radio station. Specialist studio/audio production is taught using 'Protools' and appropriate other softwares. Students also advance their skills in voice production and microphone techniques (also applicable to film, news broadcast, podcast, and other audio-visual forms).

Important Academic Dates

Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  • ULO1: apply radio and audio content production to diverse media applications.
  • ULO2: evaluate and apply a range of operational, technical and media industry skills related in particular to audio/radio production, program making and broadcasting.
  • ULO3: communicate, collaborate and plan to produce a range of creative and journalistic outputs.
  • ULO4: analyse and evaluate creative and professional media practice, with an emphasis on radio/audio industry or broadcast media content.

General Assessment Information

Please note that the University and the Faculty of Arts have launched a new assessment policy effective as of 1 July 2021. This new policy particularly affects LATE SUBMISSION OF ASSESSMENTS.

The Faculty policy in relation to late assessment submissions is as follows:

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – 10 marks out of 100 credit will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted seven days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. quizzes, online tests, etc.

 

To be very clear:

·         Unless you have applied for special consideration and had your application approved, for each day your assignment is late, 10 marks will be deducted. For example, if you submit your assignment 7 days late, 70 marks will be deducted, which means you will fail that assignment.

·         If your assignment is more than 7 days late (including weekends), you will get 0 marks for your assignment.

These are serious penalties that will substantially alter your final grade and even determine whether you pass or fail this unit. Please make every effort to submit your assignment by the due date.

If you find you cannot submit your assignment on time, please apply for Special Consideration through AskMQ. Make sure you read Macquarie University's policy regarding Special Consideration requests before you apply: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/special-consideration

Assessment Tasks

Name Weighting Hurdle Due Groupwork/Individual Short Extension AI Approach
Audio Portfolio 50% No Week 13: 2/6/2022 10am No
Radio Show/s and Production Diary 50% No Week 13: 2/6/2022 10am No

Audio Portfolio

Assessment Type 1: Portfolio
Indicative Time on Task 2: 33 hours
Due: Week 13: 2/6/2022 10am
Weighting: 50%
Groupwork/Individual:
Short extension 3: No
AI Approach:

 

Pre-produce audio content for the live or ‘as live’ radio show/s you will create for the following assessment. Refer to iLearn for further information.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • apply radio and audio content production to diverse media applications.
  • evaluate and apply a range of operational, technical and media industry skills related in particular to audio/radio production, program making and broadcasting.
  • communicate, collaborate and plan to produce a range of creative and journalistic outputs.
  • analyse and evaluate creative and professional media practice, with an emphasis on radio/audio industry or broadcast media content.

Radio Show/s and Production Diary

Assessment Type 1: Performance
Indicative Time on Task 2: 33 hours
Due: Week 13: 2/6/2022 10am
Weighting: 50%
Groupwork/Individual:
Short extension 3: No
AI Approach:

 

Produce radio show/s for radio station 2SER. Documentation supporting your contribution to the broadcasts will be required in the form of a Production Diary. Refer to iLearn for further information.

 
On successful completion you will be able to:
  • apply radio and audio content production to diverse media applications.
  • evaluate and apply a range of operational, technical and media industry skills related in particular to audio/radio production, program making and broadcasting.
  • communicate, collaborate and plan to produce a range of creative and journalistic outputs.
  • analyse and evaluate creative and professional media practice, with an emphasis on radio/audio industry or broadcast media content.

1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:

  • the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
  • the Writing Centre for academic skills support.

2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation.

3 An automatic short extension is available for some assessments. Apply through the Service Connect Portal.

Delivery and Resources

Unless otherwise advised, this Unit is structured using lectures as well as face-to-face tutorial /radio lab /studio workshops and discussion sessions. Please see iLearn for more detail.

Please note: lectures begin in week 1 and tutorials begin in week 2.

 

REQUIRED READING

A selection of readings are allocated to each week for the first half of the semester and detailed in the Unit Schedule (see iLearn). Readings are accessed via Leganto http://libguides.mq.ed u.au/leganto

NOTE that you MUST access Leganto via the block in iLearn in the first instance. This is how the system verifies you as a student in this unit.

 

REQUIRED EQUIPMENT

• One set of good quality closed or semi-closed headphones (compulsory for each student for hygiene and safety reasons).

• Memory device to store audio data, in progress and for transport between home and university.

 

RECOMMENDED READING

Abel, Jessica; foreword by Ira Glass. Out on the wire: the storytelling secrets of the new masters of radio, New York, 2015.

Ahern, Steve. Making Radio. Allen and Unwin: 2011

Alten, Stanley. Audio in Media. Belmont CA: Most recent edition is best. (The bible of audio production for those really serious about sound.)

Barnard, Stephen. Studying Radio. New York: 2000

Beaman, Jim. Programme making for radio. London & NY: 2006

Beaman, Jim. Interviewing for Radio. London & NY: 2011

Biewen, John. Reality radio: telling true stories in sound, Durham, 2017

Burns, Maureen et al. Histories of public Service Broadcasters on the web, New York: 2011

Chantler, Paul & Stewart, Peter. Basic Radio Journalism. 2003

Chignell, Hugh. Key Concepts in Radio Studies.

Sage: 2009 Chignell, Hugh. Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century: 2011

Crisell, Andrew & Guy Starkey. Radio Journalism, London: 2009

Crisell, Andrew. Ed. Radio (3 Vols). London 2009 Crook, Tim. The Sound Handbook. London. Routledge 2012

Dubber, Andrew. Radio in the Digital Age, Polity, London 2013

Emm, Adèle. Researching for the media: television, radio and journalism, London; New York 2014. Online resource.

Fleming, Carole. The Radio Handbook. London: 2010

Frangi, Anthony. Radio toolbox: everything you need to get started in broadcasting. Palgrave Macmillan 2012

Geller, Valerie. Beyond Powerful radio: a communicator's guide to the Internet age. Belmont CA: 2006

Griffen-Foley, Bridget. Changing Stations: The story of Australian Commercial Radio, Sydney: 2009 Hendy, David. Radio in the Global Age. Cambridge: 2000

Hicks, Wynford. English for Journalists. London & New York, 2nd Edition 2003

Keith, Michael. The Radio Station. London: Focal Press, 2000

Keeble, Richard. Ethics for Journalists. London & New York, 2001

Kern, Jonathon. Sound Reporting: the NPR Guide to audio journalism and production, Chicago: 2008

Kramer, Mark & Wendy Call (Eds). Telling True Stories, NY: 2007

Lingren, Mia, and Philips,Gail. Australian Broadcast Journalism. 3rd Ed. South Melbourne, 2013

Loviglio, Jason & Hilmes, Michele (Eds) Radio's New Wave: Global Sound in the Digital Age, Routledge: 2013

McLeish, Robert. Radio Production, 4th Edition, Oxford: 1999

Nuzum, Eric. Make Noise: A Creator's Guide to Podcasting and Great Audio Storytelling. Workman Publishing Company: 2020

Shingler & Wieringa. On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio. London: 1998

Squier, Susan. Ed. Communities of the air. London: 2003

Starkey, Guy. Radio in context. London: 2004

Street, Sean, The Poetry of Radio, the Colour of Sound. London, New York, 2011

Talbot-Smith, Michael. Sound Assistance. London: 1999

Bonini, Tiziano; Monclus, Belen. Eds. Radio audiences and participation in the age of network society, New York, NY, 2015

Turner, Graeme. 'Politics, Radio and Journalism in Australia', in Journalism, Vol 10, no 4, August 2009

 

Journals of relevance (in library/electronic available access via multisearch):

Journal of Radio and Audio Media, (USA)

Australian Journalism Review (articles on all kinds of journalism)

Radiodoc Review online journal reviewing documentary radio/audio (international) https://ro.uo w.edu.au/rdr/

 

Online audio sites of interest

Arte-Radio (in French: radio arm of European cultural channel) https://www.arteradio.com

American Public Media Reports https://www.apmreports.org

Australian Broadcasting Corporation https://www.abc.net.au

ABCEditorial Policies https://edpols.abc.net.au

ABC Double J https://www.abc.net.au/doublej/

ABC Triple J https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/

ABC Radio Eye (Archived features and documentaries) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/pro grams/archived/radioeye/

ABC Correspondents Report https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/correspondentsreport/

ABC 360 Documentaries (ABC features and documentaries program, archived) https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/360/

ABC Earshot (features and documentaries shows from 2015-) https://www.abc.net.au/radionatio nal/programs/earshot/

ABC RN https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/

ABC Local RadioSydney https://www.abc.net.au/radio/sydney/

Australian Communications and Media Authority https://www.acma.gov.au

BBC Sounds (UK) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds

ABC Newsradio https://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/

Commercial Radio Australia http://www.commercialradio.com.au

Community Broadcasting Association of Australia https://www.cbaa.org.au

Community Media Association https://www.commedia.org.uk

All The Best (storytelling features on fbi made by volunteers and students) http://allthebestradio.com

fbi (community radio station Sydney) https://fbiradio.com

2GB (AM talkback news station Sydney) https://www.2gb.com

Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva, award winning producers based in USA) http://www.kitchensisters.org/

Love + Radio (Groundbreaking podcast) http://loveandradio.org/

NOVA https://www.nova969.com.au/nova969

National Public Radio (NPR USA ) https://www.npr.org

Radio Lab (innovative US ideas radio show and podcast) https://www.wnycstudios.org/shows/radiolab

Radio-Locator https://radio-locator.com

Radioinfo (subscribe to keep in touch with latest jobs etc in Australia) https://www.radioinfo.com.au

ABC Radio Australia https://www.abc.net.au/radio-australia/

Radiotopia (USA site for cutting edge and creative audio storytelling) https://www.radiotopia.fm

Resonance FM https://www.resonancefm.com

SBS Radio https://www.sbs.com.au/radio/

2SER https://2ser.com

Serial (breakthrough podcast with season 1 based on re-examination of murder case) https://serialpodcast.org

Sirius satellite radio https://www.siriusxm.com

Story Corps (USA oral history and radio documentary project) https://storycorps.org

STown (Critically acclaimed podcast by the people who make This American Life and Serial) https://stownpodcast.org/

SYN (community station, based in Melbourne, under 25s) http://syn.org.au

The Heart (a podcast about intimacy) https://www.theheartradio.org/

Third Coast Radio Festival https://www.thirdcoastfestival.org

This American Life https://www.thisamericanlife.org

**Transom (a showcase & workshop for new public radio – VERY useful to students) https://transom.org

UBU Web radio http://www.ubu.com/sound/radio_radio/index.html

UN Radio https://news.un.org/en/audio-hub

Hearing Voices USA ‘best of Public radio’ Hearing Voices https://hearingvoices.com and https://exchange.prx.org/series/732-hearing-voices

The Wire http://thewire.org.au

WNYC (New York public radio station with live performance space) https://www.wnyc.org

World Service (BBC) https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio

 

Remember that you can also access LinkedIn Learning online training videos via the library https://libguides.mq.edu.au/linkedinlearning

LinkedIn Learning offers a range of software, creative, and business training including courses on ProTools, AudioSuite plugins, mixing and audio theory.

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Unit information based on version 2022.02 of the Handbook