As a team we met us regular and began to come up with creative ideas of what we could do for the Halloween show, making sure that our content was strong enough to keep the audience entertain. We wanted to make sure that the show could include information for all ages and interesting facts and fun tips for our listeners to get them into the spirt of Halloween.
We had to began our process with making our multimedia websites e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.
We would then share this information to the other teams that work on headspace to help show the public everything that we would be broadcasting every week between 2pm-3pm on Wednesdays.
we brainstormed ideas of what type of show content we could have, we then thought because of it being halloween we could talk about what people are dressing up as for halloween, and see if they’re are a different types of things people are into at this time of year.
Party Planet is a local costume shop in Lincoln and is open all year around for different event such as Halloween but always do birthdays, hen parties and anniversary. To cover this section we went to Party Planet and asked about what would be the best costume choice for men and women. We asked about a range of different things costume wise, and what could be the most popular over all to help the audience know more about what types of costumes to get and where to go to get a decent style of costume.
we then began to get more interactive with twitter asking our facebook followers that liked our page to keep interacting with our updates and to get sneak peaks of what would be coming up on our show.
After this we thought in the spirt of halloween we should consider putting something paranormal into the show, we then contacted Ghost Tours UK to see if we could conduct and interview, we spoke to lead investergater Adam Spencer Young, he was more than happy to conduct an interview on there work when they are doing paranormal investigations.
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We had to look into different regulations to make sure that we were able to talk about certain things on the radio within this interview. as we could possible have complaints from Ofcom about the content of the show, so we had to make sure that what we were saying about the paranormal was in context for our audience and would not be offensive.
“Exorcism, the occult and the paranormal
2.6 Demonstrations of exorcism, the occult, the paranormal, divination, or practices related to any of these that purport to be real (as opposed to entertainment) must be treated with due objectivity. (See Rule 1.27 in Section One: Protecting the Under-Eighteens, concerning scheduling restrictions.)
2.7 If a demonstration of exorcism, the occult, the paranormal, divination, or practices related to any of these is for entertainment purposes, this must be made clear to viewers and listeners.
2.8 Demonstrations of exorcism, the occult, the paranormal, divination, or practices related to any of these (whether such demonstrations purport to be real or are for entertainment purposes) must not contain life-changing advice directed at individuals. (Religious programmes are exempt from this rule but must, in any event, comply with the provisions in Section Four: Religion. Films, dramas and fiction generally are not bound by this rule.)
Meaning of “life-changing”:
Life-changing advice includes direct advice for individuals upon which they could reasonably act or rely about health, finance, employment or relationships. ” [Ofcom]
we continued to introduce ourselves as a team by uploading pictures of ourselves to our multimedia sites for our listens to get to know us a little more and so they would know what to expect when tuning into our show. we thought this would be a good way to let them keep interacting with headspace if they got to know and understand the team.
we also thought of an idea for people to do something fun and a little bit scare for halloween we thought about the York and London dungeons, and how entertaining and spooky they would be around that time of year. and it would be a good type of family and friend trips for the halloween season.