RadioActive Badges (en)

Bronze Setup Technician

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Know the difference between broadcasting radio and streaming internet radio.
• Give examples of existing broadcast and internet radio shows.
• Identify the different roles and responsibilities available when running an internet radio station.
• Be aware of the basic technical, organisational and journalistic requirements for streaming a show.
• Describe correct behaviour during broadcast
• Demonstrate these behaviours during live broadcasts (Examples include; moving quietly in the room, switching off unused electronic devices in the room, know and correctly use hand signals including "passing the torch", communicating effectively with the sound mixer or moderator.)

Activities to be completed:

• Understanding the who, what, why, when and How of Internet Radio
• Demonstrate general courtesy and responsibility during a live show.

Silver Setup Technician

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Name the components and explain what they do
• Lay out the components in the order in which they are connected / set-up,
• Read and follow a signal plan (if applicable)
• Plug the cables in.
• Connect to streamer
• Test to see if it works

Activities to be completed:

• Set up the equipment and stream something

Gold Setup Technician

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Be able to connect the hardware and software and broadcast an internet radio show unassisted.
• Can modify the setup and signal-line-plan according to needs.
• Successfully demonstrate a variety of set-ups for example, pre-recorded content, live content, multiple speakers. These should include pre-prepared plans regarding a) sound recording and capacities, microfones and monitoring, streaming and replay resources b) energy and power c) internet connection.

Activities to be completed:

• Plan, setup and sucessfully broadcast a variety of internet radio formats.

Recommended for Occupations:

• Broadcasting and Audiovisual Technicians
• Sound Technician

Bronze Audio Editor

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Record a soundfile
• Transfer it from the recorder to the computer
• Save it in an appropriate place on a computer,
• Access the file from iTunes or soundboard ready for broadcasting.

Activities to be completed:

• Technically creating, storing and accessing audio files.

Silver Audio Editor

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Record a sound file, ‘Clean’ the recording to improve the sound
• Edit the recording to remove unwanted sections of audio
• Add a correctly levelled backing track of music or a soundscape.

Activities to be completed:

• Basic post-production editing

Gold Audio Editor

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Knows what a podcast is and understands the need for it in their particular case
• Correctly documents the podcast
• Clean up an archived broadcast in terms of audio quality and content
• Convert file into a podcast or listen again format and upload it to a website where it is accessible by the audience

Activities to be completed:

• Archiving Broadcasts as Podcasts

Bronze Technical Manager

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Approve an internet radio setup checking it against a pre-prepared signal line plan
• Use a signal-line-plan to diagnose a fault in a set-up
• Correct the fault.

Activities to be completed:

• Check for errors by following a signal-line-plan

Silver Technical Manager

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Describe some possible common faults and causes of problems in broadcasting.
• Find solutions to these problems by researching or consulting a more experienced person.
• Prepare your own sinal-line-plan based on your own needs and use your own plan to set-up and to troubleshoot for a broadcast.

Activities to be completed:

• Plan to prevent errors

Gold Technical Manager

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Quickly identify and articulate common problems and solutions.
• Display knowledge and understanding gained from experience of having set up and run an internet radio show many times and in different contexts.
• Quickly provide solutions for technical, hardware and software issues.

Activities to be completed:

• Be experienced in problem solving

Bronze Music Editor

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Know the requirements for using commercial or creative commons licensed or licence free music in your particular case.
• Source, evaluate and choose pod-safe/commercial music appropriate for the show.
• Create an archive, bookmarks list or library of pod safe music (or music appropriate for the show)

Activities to be completed:

• Find Open Source and Creative Commons music

Silver Music Editor

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Explain copyright issues and license requirements relating to your particular case
• Source evaluate and choose suitable music and sound files to be edited to make jingles loops and stings
• Create an archive, bookmark or library of sound effects, jingles, loops and stings.

Activities to be completed:

• Find Open Source and Creative Commons sound files

Gold Music Editor

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Choose music and sounds to suit or enhance a particular piece of content
• Record and edit your own original sounds/music and publish them with a creative commons license of your choice

Activities to be completed:

• Create your own sound files and link appropriate types of music to content (technical)

Bronze Planning and organisation

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Understand that every member of the team is important.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the roles and responsibilities of the whole radio team and how they work together.
• List what jobs have to be done throughout the whole cycle of making a show from conception to broadcast and post-broadcast tasks.

Activities to be completed:

• Understanding the Radio Team

Silver Planning and organisation

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Be a regular contributer to the planning and decision making process for each show.
• Clearly articulate well thought out opinions, ideas and strategies relating the the running of the radio-show
• Recognise others good ideas and cooperate with implementing systems and processes (editorial sign off, keeping documentation etc.)

Activities to be completed:

• Understanding the radio processes

Gold Planning and organisation

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Chair an editorial or planning meeting
• Assist others in coming to agreements during the planning and decision making process
• Listen to, understand and evaluate all contributions to a group discussion.
• Summarise the agreements and identify areas where decisions still need to be made.

Activities to be completed:

• Demonstrating leadership in planning and organisation

Bronze Responsible Broadcaster

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Describe correct behaviour during broadcast
• Demonstrate these behaviours during live broadcasts (Examples include; moving quietly in the room, switching off unused electronic devices in the room, know and correctly use hand signals including "passing the torch", communicating effectively with the sound mixer or moderator.)

Activities to be completed:

• Demonstrate general courtesy and responsibility during a live show.

Silver responsible editor

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Recall the key points of the GEM
• Understand the need for the GEM
• Demonstrate due regard for the GEM in planning, creating and broadasting content.

Activities to be completed:

• Applying the GEM at all stages of planning and production

Gold responsible editor

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Identify potential infringements of the GEM before they arise
• Take responsibility for checking others work and advising on GEM issues
• Be the go-to person for advice, queries and issues regarding all aspects of the GEM and legal issues.

Activities to be completed:

• Take overall responsibility for the content of the show in terms of the GEM

Bronze Copyright and record keeping

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Be able to file and retrieve pysical and electronic documents
• recall what creative commons means and know where to find CC licensed materials.

Activities to be completed:

• Being a good administrator

Silver Copyright and record keeping

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Knows what documentation should be kept, why the information is documented
• can manage the completion, organisation and storage of the documentation correctly
• Is able to provide complete source references
• completes the recording protocol, provides a filed archive of meeting minutes and agreements

Activities to be completed:

• Documenting shows, keeping records and providing source references

Gold Copyright and record keeping

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Know the legal requirements for using different types of media content eg creative commons, licence free, commercial, pod-safe, attribution, for your particular case.
• Be able to explain these requirements to your group.
• Take responsibility for management of any legal reporting requirements such as PRS.

Activities to be completed:

• Understanding and explaining licensing

Bronze Key Coordinator

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Demonstrates Bronze in all other organisational areas
• Demonstrates a sense of initiative with regards to finding out about the organisational and administrative requirements of running an internet radio show.

Activities to be completed:

• Finds organisational requirements

Silver Key Coordinator

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Demonstrates Silver in all other organisational areas
• Takes a leading role in organising the running of the radio show from an administrative point of view.

Activities to be completed:

• Administrative lead

Gold Key Coordinator

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Demonstrates all of the Gold level qualities required for Organisational badges
• Group members trust this person to facilitate the smooth, efficient and well organised running of the show on a regular basis.

Activities to be completed:

• Trusted organizer

Bronze Creating Content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Take an active interest in local, regional, global issues which are relevant to the style and branding of your show.
• Know and list different types of content and their uses
• Identify issues which may be of interest to your audience
• Form ideas for potential features and present your ideas to the editorial team.
• Explain copyright issues and license requirements relating to your particular case
• Source evaluate and choose suitable music and sound files to be edited to make jingles loops and stings

Activities to be completed:

• Identifying suitable content for the show (features, current affairs, news, reviews, documentaries, music etc)

Silver Creating Content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Identify interesting, exciting and relevant topics for your show and plan engaging content around those themes.
• Identify and contact relevant people, places, organisations, groups, musicians etc and record/collect their contributions.
• Create a storyboard to plan your content.
• Source, evaluate and choose pod-safe/commercial music appropriate for the show.
• Create an archive, bookmarks list or library of pod safe* music, sound effects, jingles, loops and stings. (*where necessary)

Activities to be completed:

• Creating pre-recorded packages for the show.

Gold Creating Content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Choose music and sounds to suit or enhance a particular piece of content
• Record and edit your own original sounds/music and publish them with a creative commons license of your choice
• Use editing software such as Garageband or Audacity to compile and edit content ready for broadcast.

Activities to be completed:

• Create your own sound files and link appropriate types of music to content (journalist)

Bronze Arranging content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Contribute regularly to the editorial decision process,
• give solid well thought out arguments for selection of content, type and style.
• Respect the opinions of others.
• Decide on a running order

Activities to be completed:

• Participating in the decision making process

Silver Arranging content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Create a storyboard to show how content fits together to create a programme
• Analyse the time required or allowed for each component.

Activities to be completed:

• Storyboarding a show

Gold Arranging content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Order the content in a dynamic way which keeps the listener engaged and builds tension or interest throughout the show.

Activities to be completed:

• Using sequencing as a tool to keep listeners engaged

Bronze Methods of Journalism

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Compare the difference between writing for radio and writing for other media
• Practice writing passages in a colloquial manner, write what you would say if you were telling a story to a friend or relative.
• Distinguish between different journalistic ad entertainment show types eg. news, documentary, magazine, and music shows
• Identify the types of content which would fall under these headings.*

Activities to be completed:

• Understanding basic journalistic methods

Silver Methods of Journalism

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Fill in appropriate accompanying documentation to evidence, reference and back up claims in a news story (following the GEM).
• Write short news stories and mark up the copy ready for the presenter.
• Identify interesting interviewees and carry out background research about them.
• Decide on the purpose of an interview
• Know a range of questioning techniques and their uses.
• Decide what information you wish to elicit from an interviewee and design questions accordingly

Activities to be completed:

• Marking up, presenting marked up copy and referencing news claims, interview techniques

Gold Methods of Journalism

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Correctly identify factual and opinion based printed articles.
• Describe the main features of different journalistic genres; news, current affairs, editorial, documentary, review, report, interview, chronicle, column.
• Research and write short news items suitable for your station or show.
• Describe ways to evidence, reference or back up claims in a news story.
• Write a headline for your news item

Activities to be completed:

• Identify different types of media content and understand their purpose

Bronze Performing Content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Describe correct behaviour during broadcast
• Demonstrate these behaviours* during live broadcasts (*Examples include; moving quietly in the room, switching off unused electronic devices in the room, know and correctly use hand signals including "passing the torch", communicating effectively with the sound mixer or moderator.)
• Explain what is meant by Vox-Pops
• Identify and list suitable open questions which will elicit rich responses.
• Prepare information cards for interviewees so that they can listen to the show (see bronze marketing)
• Identify rich environments for interviews
• Carry out and recordvox pop interviews

Activities to be completed:

• Demonstrate general courtesy and responsibility during a live show.
• Basics of performing Grundlagen der Sendungsdurchführung

Silver Performing Content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Use voice appropriately and effectively
• Be aware of maximum and minimum thresholds of voice volume for a given microphone or recording equipment
• Be aware of optimum microphone positioning
• Present an item in a live broadcast.
• Recognise mark up and present a script prepared by another person. (cf. writing for radio)

Activities to be completed:

• Effective use of voice and equipment when presenting

Gold Performing Content

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Read up on your interviewee/guest, be prepared for their answer so that you can engage with or challenge what they say.
• Have a stock of questions prepared
• Know how to deal with a variety of problems and scenarios such as interviewee/guest talking for too long or not talking enough.
• Know how to deal with technical issues such as background noise, accoustics, environmental factors (also applies to vox-pops)
• Carry out, record/broadcast and conclude an interview.

Activities to be completed:

• Carrying out and recording an interview

Bronze Promotion and Reflection

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Identify opportunities for advertising the show (places to display posters, social media networks, etc.)
• Design and create simple logos, leaflets and posters.
• Disseminate promotional materials both on-line and off-line, to interviewees, participants and audience.

Activities to be completed:

• Contributing to the basics of raising awareness by advertising the show.

Silver Promotion and Reflection

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Create appropriate and informative audio or video trailers to advertise the show using garageband, audacity or similar software.
• Share the trailers via social media networks eg. using soundcloud
• Identify highlights from previous shows and edit clips to include in trailers.
• Be a regular contributer to the planning and decision making process for each show.

Activities to be completed:

• Creating online multimedia content for the purpose of advertising the show

Gold Promotion and Reflection

The badge holder has shown the following competencies:

• Plan a social media campaign which whilst adhering to Governance and Editorial models, runs smoothly during a live show and in-between shows,
• communicate through social media announcing information to audience and interested parties
• maintain a two way dialogue with the audience and feed audience responses back into the live show or use it to inform planning for future shows

Activities to be completed:

• Managing an interactive social media marketing campaign