Golden+Age+of+Radio+Project

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Step 1: Listen and Analyze
**Instructions:** // Listen to 3 different radio programs (see below) and use the 'Analyzing 1920s Radio' handout to examine each one. //
 * **Sports in Old Time Radio:** A collection of sports broadcasts from the 1920s to the 1930s.
 * **Old Radio World - Serials:** A collection of radio programs from the 1920s through the 1950s. Click on the genre that interests you (i.e. mystery, comedy, SciFi, etc.) and browse until you find recordings from the 1920s and 30s.
 * **Old Radio World - Vintage Commercials:**A collection of vintage commercials from familiar brands, such as Colgate, Pepsi, Campbell's Soup, and Doublemint Gum.
 * **__ News Broadcasts: __**
 * Floyd Gibbons (1936): Flooding in New England
 * Fireside Chat with President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Scroll down the page to listen to broadcasts from the early 1930s)

Step 2: Watch & Take Notes
**Instructions**: // Watch the video 'Back of the Mike (1938).' Make note of the techniques used to enhance the listening experience for the audience. //

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 * Questions to consider: **
 * What techniques were used to create a "visual" experience for the listener?
 * How did the entertainers coordinate their performance?

Step 3: Discuss and Script
**Instructions:** //Get together with your group and decide on the type of radio program you will create. Start typing up a script.//


 * Questions to consider: **
 * 1) Are you creating a sports broadcast, serial, news broadcast, or commercial? ** NOTE: ** Remember to always ask...Who is your primary audience ? What time of day would your program be aired? Check out ** A Day in Radio (Sep. 21th, 1939) ** . Notice the different types of programming throughout the day. Music in the morning, soap operas during the afternoon, news at night.
 * 2) What types of sound effects, songs or jingles will you use? How will you create the sound effects?
 * 3) Assign Roles. Who will do what?
 * 4) Type up the script. The script should follow a similar format to a play (i.e. alternating dialogue with prompts for sound effects).

Step 4: Create
**Instructions:** //Watch the Audacity tutorials and start making your very own radio broadcast!//
 * Audacity Tutorials: A collection of 22 short video tutorials on how to use the program Audacity.

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WHS Student Radio Broadcasts
 * Camel Cigarette Commercial
 * Swanee