Flipped Radio

Scope of the blog changes a bit, can be used between shows but this topic has come up before.

We don't know what visual radio is supposed to be. As discussed on Wild Show this Thursday. For Radio 1 it seems to be video. But the other aspect is that it exists as clips, variable length on YouTube and iPlayer. maybe other platforms as well. Maybe this is more significant, it just happens to be video.

It may need to be video to maintain interest as social media, now a very crowded scene.

So what we have been doing as sound clips on YouTube could be a limited project till we get cameras. The lighting tests have shown it is possible to light the Phonic FM studio, but expensive to rent and it gets too hot.

Even more so we will worry about the archive rather than the broadcast. The timing of the clip for later can vary. The Live Lounge ones do include interview so it is some form of radio but not in a fixed time format.

"Flipped Radio" could be like the flipped classroom. As I understand it the idea is for homework to cover listening to the content, then the time in class is for discussion. Actually I hear there are still many cases of phones being confiscated. Not sure the flipped classroom has much reality so far. Anyway, flipped radio is when the show as broadcast is a bit of a ramble out of which there may be two or three 5 -10 minute clips out of a two hour show that are worth adding to the archive. The audience has a choice of listening to the mess on FM or working out a sensible sequence of bits and pieces online. Before flipped radio the convention has been to pick out a sample of an interview for a small part of a broadcast. The other way round may make more sense for our sort of show.

Still worth listening to just in case we reach a conclusion rather than just going round in loops.

More on Tuesday.