Day 3: The Brown Paper Chronicles

Well hey everyone!

Day three is over, and another horribly uncomfortable hot day in London Town!

I do love arriving at London Bridge every morning. There is so much to see, with tower bridge, the shard and the gherkin building all clearly visible from the station. They all look amazing infont of a blue sky!

So today was a tough day. I had to use all my creative skills.... But not in the way you might think. Basically, Whistledown are looking into buying a new desk for this studio, and of course, the best shaped table for a studio? Hexagon of course! This way if gives each studio guest a good amount of room around the desk!

But, there was a problem. The website where the desk was sold had no measurements on it, and they did not have the details on record! So it was up to me to sort it! I was tasked with creating a full scale mock up of the desk top, using brown packing paper (brought from a pleasant post office just down the road) . Of course I had to use all my geometry skills to figure out the sizes... So obviously I completely ballsed it up. After an hour of sellotaping, measuring and scissoring I realised I had done it wrong!

So another trip to the post office for more brown paper, and another go at constructing and I finally made a mock up! So tomorrow we will have to see if the new desk will fit in the studio!

Tomorrow also means I will be sitting in in a recording of feedback (an awesome radio 4 programme!) so I'm excited for that!

Today I also shook the presenters hand which was awesome, and also researched more archive footage for a programme dedicated to the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands during the second world war. I'm learning so much interesting info about the War. This programme will really be one to definitely listen to!

Anyway, tomorrow is a big day, so till then, you stay classy Internet!

Colin

The Return of the Blog

Hi Bloggers,
                     Time goes so fast. I can't believe its been 10 whole months since I began my work experience at Absolute Radio. At this very moment I'm sipping Hot Chocolate from an Absolute Radio mug. Odd.

I wanted to continue my blog after I finished my month at Absolute. But thanks to a little thing called life, days, weeks and months past, and here I am, September 2012, 10 months later with barely a new blog to my name.

I am now in my third year of University, and I am fast approaching the end of my university life. I have learnt a great deal about radio since my interest in the medium first started back when I was 13. Back when I was a young and innocent youth, local commercial stations were more than happy to let me come in and have a look round. Everyone was very welcoming, and at one station, the on air presenter even said, because of my age, i'll have no problem getting into the industry.... I wonder if he's still in work.

Here I am, 20 years old,and the amount of jobs in the industry seems to be decreasing by the day. What made me want to write a new entry into this blog, was me seeing something. Something I've known was true for years now.

"In Radio, its not what you know, its who you know"

 

 

Of course it helps to know how to put a fader up, but when it comes down to it, if you know a producer at a radio station, chances are that you'll be more likely to get a job there.

 

 

I have uped my game with applying for work/work experience, so hopefully so exciting news coming soon.

 

If not, well I'll still have my radio based course to talk about! (Along with my 10,000 work dissertation!)

 

 

Keep it real Bloggers

 

Colin