Proposal

Proposal

Subject idea

The subject idea of my podcast is pantomimes. I will be looking at whether people involved in pantomimes find them rewarding and enjoyable and also looking back at the pantomimes they have starred in.

Genre

The genre of my podcast is going to be, like a desert island disc, but a bit less formal. There will be a few different interviews with different people, such as the producer and some of the cast and some of the people who work backstage.

Audience
The audience for my podcast is generally going to be aimed for people aged between 14-56 and aimed at men and women. This is because the topic that is going to be featured is probably going to appeal to both men and women.

Participants
The participants for my podcast are going to be people that I know, so my cast mates, I have already asked if they will take part in my podcast and they have agreed to do so. 

Intended station
The intended station that my podcast would most likely be featured on is Radio 2, like the Elaine Paige on Sunday show, where she goes through songs from the musicals, or on Radio 1, when they interview celebrities when they are promoting a film.




***Not finished yet.

Participants

Some of the people taking part in my podcast:

Nat: who has been in pantomimes for over 10 years, and is the cast and children's dance choreographer. 

Rick: a self employed gardener, first met him in 2011 when we did a production of Sinbad The Sailor and he played Mustafa KitKat. Always plays a comedy part, apart from one year he played a villain and was covering things in blue face paint for a week. 

Brian: the newest cast member to join in 2013, played his first role as a Leprechaun beside Rick. And now he's playing an Ugly Sister in Cinderella. 

Kate: Set designer, who is possibly the greatest set painter. Been painting the sets since before I joined in 2007 in my first pantomime Cinderella.

Participants

This is Rick, I am going to be interviewing him for my radio podcast. I first met him 2010 when we did a production of Sinbad The Sailor. And we became friends right away. He's passionate about taking part in anything and also reading, which is probably why we probably have become close over the past couple of years. 

He's a great joke teller and I'm very fortunate to have him take part in my radio podcast. 

Photo credit: Iana Surch, 2013

SurveyMonkey results

This graph shows the number of females compared to males that take part in pantomimes. 

 This shows that the number of people that take part in pantomimes are mainly aged between 16-19 in this survey.

These results show the occupations of the people who took part in the survey, most of them are either self employed, sale assistants, or working in administrative jobs.

These are the questions that I asked that have provided the above answers.

Secondary quantitive research

This is a review from The Reporter Feb/21/2013 for the Pantomime Jack and Jill.

"Birmingham University has found that watching pantomimes also has the same effect on people as watching Strictly Come Dancing or The X-Factor."- Source

Moral panics, counter cultures, permanent present and hegemony

Moral panic

Moral panics often arise around events that are in fact relatively trivial in terms of the nature of the act and the number of people involved. They often emerge around publics issues, that are taken as symptomatic of general social disorder. 

They are often perpetuated by the media - as they are basically the cultural police and they are saying what's okay and what's not okay. 

Recent examples of moral panics are the mens magazines being on show in supermarkets and Miley Cyrus performing at the VMAs. 

Counter cultures

Counter cultures are sub cultures whose values and norms of behaviour deviate from those of mainstream society. A counter culture is a group of people who behave in a certain way that society disapprove of. For example in the in the 60's there were hippies and everyone who identified with them, emulated them.

Permanent present

The permanent present is a state that focuses on current events/things that are happening right now.

We can keep on top of this at almost any tint on the day with Twitter, Facebook, news channels, radio, news websites.

We may not be aware but we are reading/watching news all day long, from the minute we get up in the morning, till we go to bed at night, we never stop hearing news.

We wake up and watch Daybreak or Breakfast then in the afternoon there's This Morning and Loose Women, then when we get home there's the 6o'clock news, and then the 10o'clock news, and in between we're on Twitter, on the internet, and maybe listening to the radio in the car,  which is where most radio is listened to. 

Hegemony
Hegemony is where some assumes power over something. For example Simon Cowell has power over the X-Factor. Simon Cowell will most likely tell people what to wear, what to sing and what to do in order to sell records, and we will end up buying into this probably without even realising it.

Radio broadcast analysis

In this blog post, I am looking at radio shows that I am going to be doing my factual in the style of. I'm mainly looking at Desert Island Discs as this is the sort of interview that I want to produce. But I want it to be in the less formal style of a Desert Island Disc.

Desert Island Disc - Hugh Laurie

This interview starts off with an introduction to the person, but it doesn't mention their name. Its almost like you have to try and guess who the person is that the presenter is describing. The interviewer uses quotes that have been said by the person, in their description.

Ryan Seacrest, Ian Somerhalder interview

It starts with the presenter, Ryan Seacrest introducing himself - "Ryan Seacrest here," and then he goes on to say something about what has happened before they came on air with the interviewee, Ian Somerhalder, about how all the ladies in the studio are going mad over him.

Factual and Research - Garage Band - editing of podcast

This is the editing process of my podcast. 
I'm still in the process of editing, I still need to edit down my introduction song, so its just the right length, but its just finding the right place to end it, so it doesn't sound as if it been cut off mid song. When the introduction has finished it will fade out and go into a welcome introduction like "hello and welcome to..."

3.3 - Presentation of results

Final Product

This is my finished podcast. The making of this podcast has been relatively easy as I was in the middle of filming the pantomime at the time that we had this assigned to us. But when it came to doing rehearsals there was never any guaranteed quiet space to record an interview, and people were always interrupting and this meant that I had to start the interview over again, I managed to get a good response off one of the the people I was talking too and then we were interrupted and I couldn't use it in the final cut, but the person I was talking to tried their hardest to recreate what they had said previously.

What I like: The thing I like most about my podcast is the interviews that I did, I think that they really show what goes on behind the scenes of a pantomime and how much work actually goes on behind the scenes. I also like that you can hear the cast singing in the background, I think it sets the scene for the podcast, but in some parts you can hear the cast loudly in the background. 

What I don't like and what can be improved: At the end of the podcast one of the interviews goes a bit silent, and I think the editing could have been a bit better here. Also the bit where you can hear the cast over the top of the interview, I think we could recorded the interview in a more quiet place rather than at the side of the stage waiting to go on.