Rizzo

Name: Leah Rizzo

Guiding Question:

(optional) Use this space to list possible activities, tasks, experiences. Remember everything you do should help you answer your Guiding Question.

(Required) This plan is a “best guess” as to what you and your mentor think you will be doing. It is not meant to be a hard and fast schedule for your Exploration. The plan should illustrate how you intend to complete a minimum of 80 hours.


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 * = 5/1 ||= Clearchannel Radio ||= 2.5 ||
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 * = 5/18 ||= clearchannel radio ||= 4.5 ||
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Journal:

May 9, 2011 So I began my exploration at Clearchannel Radio on the second of May, where I watched Paul do voice tracks and I had him introduce me to several of the other people who work there. Right now, they are extremely understaffed, like five people work the wdsd station in wilmington, the rest of the feeds come from Dover, or satellites from other stations for things like sports, weather, and news. I'm learning so much here! This guy, Bruce, he works for WILM which another station that comes out of Clearchannel, had me make some music beds for his station. I made one for Sweet Child of Mine, by Guns and Roses, and one for Clocks by Coldplay. I've also been hanging out with the wake-up crew in the mornings, yes that means waking up at 5:45 in the mornings, and then going home at three in the afternoon.... bleh! It's worth it though! Sky Phillips is in charge of the wake-up crew, and he sometimes has me take winner information over the phones. I think that I am well on my way to answering my guiding question: Would I want to be a radio D.J.? and so far the answer is probably yes. I think it's really fun work, and it's a really good foot in the door for voice acting as well. So far, I've also done paperwork for Amanda, who sits at the front desk, music beds for Bruce, help post things on the wake-up crew's page on the website, watched Paul work with their program called Adobe Audition, and do some computer work for Christa Cooper. I'm having such a blast here!

Journal 2

So as of now, I've been a deticated "member" of the morning show, waking up at quarter to six, and working until three in the afternoon. I've been helping Christa make traffic reports, and I've been getting more familiar with the sound editing program Adobe audition. I've been watching Christa Cooper make commercials, and editing them. She sounds great, and making commercials sounds so fun! I've been watching the morning show crew make promos for their radio station. I've been learning how after they edit the promo and save it, and put into their system called NextGen. NextGen allows all d.j.'s to put songs and commercials into and out of the system at any given time at any given location. For example, Kate Daily is on of the afternoon d.j.'s but she works out of Dover, so I've never seen her. When her music block is over loaded, I watch Paul, in Wilmington, log into NextGen, and remove some of the commercials and songs so then he has space for his songs.

[all of this appears very cool, Leah. I look forward to the next posting. –Mr. E]

Journal 3: Well, I'm finished my senior exploration, and I'm gonna miss everybody at the radio station. I've so much fun and I've learned so much. I've made a demo of my own which is essentially just me introducing songs as if I'm on the radio, it also includes a weather report and a commercial by me... it was so fun! I've also made a traffic report from traffic that I gathered from watching the cameras on the deldot website. I've really grown alot during this experience, I really like doing all the radio work, it's a great window into voice acting in the future, or it could open many doors in the world of radio. I think it woudl be really fun to be a D.J. but I would take traffic reporter, or any basic talking position really. I would definately say that this internship has been a very good experience that has created just one more path that my life could follow. If I had to answer my guiding question: would I want to be a radio D.J.? I would definately answer YES!