Kelomat Radio - Schnellkochkurs zum Radiomachen. zusammen kochen NGOs, die aus Ressourcenmangel noch nicht on air sind, und routinierte RadiomacherInnen

From Civilmedia

guide to the kelomat recipe:

- what ingredients do you have? look on your website, think about press releases you had during the last month, about your last newsletter or also about the work you did this week – what was it about? what do you find especially important or interesting? what did you discuss over lunch with your collegues? you never have time for lunch? – that’s also a topic! what was a burning issue during your last internal meeting? what are your concerns as an organization? what does make your work hard? what are your success? did you meet an extraordinary person? were you angry about political developments lately? what are you proud of? collect ingredients and note them.

- what do you want to cook? – what should be the message? and what kind of dish do you want? spicy? sweet? sour? informing? contesting mainstream news? telling people to take action and giving them ideas how? or tell about your work, some success? difficulties? recent budget cuttings? how applications for EU-funding make your life hard? or how you manage to resist? etc. etc. decide on the taste of your dish.

- think about your audience briefly, but don’t restrain yourself. eaters come also with the smell. who are you cooking for? what could they like? what should they try?

- sit together and organize your time: how much time is left? how long should the broadcast be at the end? (possibly 2-5 minutes, try to not exceed the time limit of 5 minutes) how long will you need to prepare, record and edit? plan also time to listen and adjust.

- decide on the steps you want to take to get there: be creative, dare to mix, do something unusual, experiment, express something in another way than you are used to from mainstream formats. they’re not the only ideal to achieve.

- prepare the ingredients, cut them into pieces, season them and mix, under some pressure: record what you have, listen to it, edit it and adjust where necessary. cook, have fun.

- decide that you’re ready at a point.

- be proud of your dish, serve hot.

Judith Purkarthofer und Petra Pfisterer, Austrian Radio Research Group, 2007

http://radio.forschungsraum.net

the complete workshop outline will follow soon.