During the planning stage of my research, I had decided that i would have to think about who I would use for different characters in my radio show, e.g. the presenter, news reader and voices for news reports and adverts. I was very careful when casting people for certain parts as I wanted to portray a realistic, authentic sounding radio show.
For my News presenter I felt it was necessary to cat someone who had a clear serious voice, and who was easy to understand, I came to the conclusion I had to cast someone with these qualities from listening to other news reporters on other similar radio stations like Capital FM.
Other voices I required were for Vox pops. By listening to other news bulletins, in particular focusing my attention on public Vox pops, for my final news story, which was on payment protection insurance, I realised I would need to cast someone who was able to do a kind of common middle class accent.
For my "expert" in a certain field, who in this case was Catherine Delaware from Watchdog Business headquarters. I felt a woman would be appropriate, for a couple of main reasons. Firstly the woman I casted had the ability to talk in a professional,serious voice, and secondly because at that point in time I hadn't had any female characters in my show. Having female characters in my show, felt very necessary as all the other radio shows I had listened to included both genders in there shows.
While recording characters for the radio project I had to direct and instruct my actors to perform and speak in a way that was relevant to there specific character, this was challenging as I had to instruct characters to re-do some of there recordings as their first recordings weren't as authentic as I felt was necessary for the show.
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