Lecture 4, as was interrupted by the Ekka, involved a recording of interviews with ABC Local Radio presenters Richard Fidler (Conversations) and Steve Austin (Evenings). The interviews shed light on telling factual stories through sound via radio.
Richard Fidler apparently broke into the field of radio by accident, beginning in a position in T.V. and was offered a stand-in position in radio; an opportunity which he evidently took.
Richard Fidler stated that moving from a career in T.V. was not easy and that Radio is an incredibly different medium.
An interesting point Fidler made was that radio was much more intimate; T.V. is described as high-impact and radio as something that people are involved in whilst multi-tasking. To Fidler, radio is a medium that is not delivered at you, but almost as if the voice comes from inside the listener's head.
On the topic of radio interviews, Fidler stated that conversations can become closed and an emphasis must be made on keeping the listener involved in the conversation.
Radio interviews generally run for 7 minutes, however in Filder's 'conversations' program, interviews can last for an hour in a biography-type discussion as well as a generally ideological discussion.
Towards the end of the interview, Fidler mentioned that the field of radio is not being outdated as we experience huge technological advances in contemporary society and radio is thriving with new social media requirements through interconnection between podcasting, twitter, etc.
Steve Austin makes the main points in his interview:
- enunciation is integral
- radio is the 'theatre of the mind'
- radio is about building a program for an audience
- evening radio has an incredibly diverse audience
- different types of radio techniques: talkback, panels, one on one interviews
- people can smell it a mile away when someone is being fake or lying on the radio
- the success of radio in contemporary society is that people are time poor.
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