Brief
- Local significance
- Bring in a new young audience
- Something that could be dissected across a lot of social media platforms
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Ideas mind map
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Roles
Me – Create and mind map ideas, do all research for the pitch, research for and write an article, come up with questions and talk points for the guest interview, be one of two guests on the audio piece.
Elisha – Make mood board, write risk assessment, design pitch and coagulate research into it, write treatment, find statistics for the audio piece, edit the audio piece.
Shauna – Write up research into the pitch, be main presenter/ interview, write scripts.
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Pitch
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Mood board
The following mood board was made by Elisha
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Treatment
Working Title:
‘It’s Okay, Not to Be Okay’
Synopsis / Format:
My Radio show will be hosted by a presenter who will be interviewing guests on the subject of mental health. It will be a Chat show that will explore into how mental health can affect people and how they cope with it. Although, I want the Radio show to have a relaxed environment and less interview and more of just a “Chit-Chat” giving us valuable and truthful answers. The show will be 10 to 15 minutes long including interviews, stories and opinions.
Intended Audience:
Teens – Parents (16-50).
Style:
The show will attempt to be fast paced. It will be serious but interesting to keep the audience engaged, my show influences follow a very similar format as this appeals to my target audience and as for the older audience it will give of the style of how teens/young adults act.
Institution:
The Mid-Day Show will be broadcasted on an OFCOM regulated radio station called Switch Radio, which focus on entertaining and informing the local public in the area the company is located.
Deadlines:
All radio work needs to be complete by the deadline on the 5th of December. I intend to stay by this deadline and complete the project in this time frame.
Written by Elisha
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Risk assessment
The following risk assessments were made by Elisha for the radio room we were planning on recording in.
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Production schedule
Between 27/09/19 and 3/10/19 – Brief and Ideas write up
3/10/19 – Pitch 3 ideas to Switch Radio manager Dean
Between 3/10/19 and 1/11/19 – Production schedule, email and call all contributors
Between 1/11/19 and 28/11/19 – Write article, plan questions and book equiptment
28/11/19 – Final reach out to contributors who haven’t responded. Record interview with insomnia victim as case study.
2/12/19 – Record round table talk
4/12/19 – Deadline day
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Research
These statistics were sourced by Elisha and feature in the audio piece.
Statistics
- At any time, one in six adults has a mental health condition and one in 100 has a severe mental illness.
- It appears that how people cope with mental health problems is getting worse as the number of people who self-harm or have suicidal thoughts is increasing
- One in four adults and one in 10 children experience mental illness, and many more of us know and care for people who do.
- 16 million people in the UK experience a mental illness
- 1 in 8 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder – that’s roughly 3 children in every classroom.
- 1 in 6 young people aged 16-24 has symptoms of a common mental disorder such as depression or an anxiety disorder.
- Half of all mental health problems manifest by the age of 14, with 75% by age 24.
- In 2017, suicide was the most common cause of death for both boys (16.2% of all deaths) and girls (13.3%) aged between 5 and 19.
- Nearly half of 17-19 year old’s with a diagnosable mental health disorder has self-harmed or attempted suicide at some point, rising to 52.7% for young women.
It has a big impact in adulthood…
- 1 in 3 adult mental health conditions relate directly to adverse childhood experiences.
- Adults who experienced four or more adversities in their childhood are four times more likely to have low levels of mental wellbeing and life satisfaction.
Information taken from:
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Questions
- when were you diagnosed?
- what were the symptoms?
- How did you combat it?
- How did it impact your life?
- How did the people around you cope with it/ how it effected them
- Have you ever met with someone struggling with the same issues and how did that make you feel?
- What would you say too those who don’t believe insomnia is a really mental illness
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Scripts
Shauna: Let’s talk about mental health 1 in 8 children have a diagnosable mental health disorder – that’s roughly 3 children in every classroom. I am currently in a room with a lady who suffered with mental issues during her time in secondary school
Abbie: Hi, so yeah, I suffered with … throughout secondary school because of … school wasn’t very good with it because …
Then follow with general conversation and add in statistics where they fit well.
Shauna: thank you for this conversation Abbie, I now have an interview with another individual, Let’s take a listen to that.
Second script
Shauna: introduction to radio, show name and interviewee
Start with some light conversation to ease the interviewee
Start with first question of ‘Questions’
Kahhar: answer with detail
Shauna: follow conversation up with next question until all questions are complete
Kahhar: answer questions with detail
Shauna: close conversation with
Thank you for letting me interview you and answering our questions.
close off radio show.
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Release form
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Article
In 2018 NHS Digital found that around 2,000 under 18s in the West Midlands were being referred for mental health treatments. So why is it that the children of the UK are struggling with their mental health and what can we do about it?
We spoke to Kahhar Miah, an 18-year-old who has been suffering with the symptoms of insomnia since he was 15, about his experience living with the condition. Insomnia is a condition which causes someone difficulty falling and or staying asleep and can cause a lack of concentration, fatigue and mood swings. This condition is 1 of 200 that are officially recognized as mental disorders which are effecting 1 in 4 of the general UK public. When asked if he had ever sought out treatment or support he told us that he felt it was a problem he had to deal with himself and that nobody he could reach out too could do anything to help. This consensus of fighting your battles alone seems to extend back generations and may contribute to only 13% of all people dealing with a mental illness in the UK getting treatment in 2017.
Currently there are many independent locally based charities like Mind and Pause that provide therapy, community hubs and crisis lines for free with an emphasis on easy access for under 25 year olds. There are around 130 Minds in England and Wales whose staff and volunteers help those in need of support, like Kahhar, to face their struggles with someone by their side.
Find your local Mind at https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/local-minds/
Listen to Kahhar’s full interview at _____________
All fact used in this article were sourced and used by me.
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Evaluation
I feel the main strength of our piece was our research as it was relevant, extensive and featured heavily in the final product. The main negative is the sound quality, it is slightly echoey because we had to record in a main classroom due to the radio studio being unavailable. I have learnt that when recording audio someone should have in earphones so that if something is picked up on the recording you will know immediately and be able to work around it as opposed to finding out in post-production when it is too late to change. This radio project gave me great practice in sound recording skills that I had never really done before, specifically in the recording department. I now know how and why to combat things like echoing and background noise. I feel our piece full filled the brief. Our idea appeals to a young audience, is very topical and has local features via the drop-in services mentioned. Compared to a professional standard audio piece mine was echoey and didn’t have an expert guest which would be a must have in a professional environment. Although it wasn’t through not trying my piece didn’t have an expert from the charities mentioned. If I were to do this project again I would start the recording process sooner, so I have time to re-record and improve.
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