Practical Exam Guidelines

Before the next class meeting (4/6), please produce a short segment in which you back-announce one song, engage your audience with an amusing or informative bit, announce the name of your show or station, and introduce the next song song. You are free to use any music you choose. Please "telescope" the song so that only the final 30 seconds of the first song and the first 30 second of the second song can be heard. In between these two segments will be you as a radio DJ. Your spoken segment should be longer than one minute and not more than 2 and a half minutes.

The entire "Practical Exam" will be produced in Audacity. Though the segments won't be recorded as a "live" show, you should be able to make it sound as though everything is happening as we here it.

I will be evaluating this "Practical Exam" in terms of production quality and "on air" delivery. "On air" delivery includes both the sound of your audio and what you say (the sort of information a DJ should mention every time the microphone is open). Try to be entertaining and informative. You don't need to submit a script for this, but it might be a good idea to prepare an outline of things you'd like to cover during your "stop set."

Please place a folder entitled "Yourname_PE" on the X-serve. In that folder include an mp3 of your recording and all of the Audacity project and data files and folders (recall my demonstration of the correct way to store Aucacity project files and folders). Files submitted after the start of class on 4/6 will be considered late and marked down accordingly.