My Breakfast Show Segment

Evaluation

1. Did you fulfil all the content requirements; both in terms of including all the correct features and as well as the actual choices made?

We did fulfil the requirements, as the required sections of the segment - music, a caller, a promo for a celebrity who would appear later, the celebrity gamble game, social media responses, and the news section were all included in our Breakfast Show recording. As well as these features of the show itself, we also used jingles to open each section, as done in the real Breakfast Show and as required by the brief.

2. Have you accurately used the conventions of and style of Nick Grimshaw and the Radio 1 Breafkast show?

I think we used the conventions of Nick Grimshaw's Breakfast Show very well, as we included segments of conversation between the host and the person on the phone, and incorporated some 'youth speak' into the host's dialogue (for example, describing an enjoyable music track as 'banging'). The music played is modern pop music, which is exactly the kind that Nick Grimshaw plays on the real Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

3. How well did you manage your running order/timings?

We created a script with the content of our show prepared, and were therefore able to rehearse the segment in advance of the final recording. This helped us to perfect our timings, eliminate pauses and give the different sections the proper amounts of time reserved for them. For example, the Celebrity Gamble section required more time than anything else, and to accomodate this we made sure that the opening section up until the beginning of Celebrity Gamble did not run on for too long.