Audio production timetable and costs?

Tomohawk

Hi,
I'm thinking of making a 1 hour radio documentary, with 4 or 5 talking heads talking about the scooter scene in Ireland. I will have say 5 hours of interviews including music and FX recorded then. How long would it take a production studio to edit these interviews, sequence/mix the program down to an hour and master it ready to hand to a radio station? advice please on the man hours involved would be great.

Thanks, Tom.

tweeky

The more preparation you have done the better. Have the session and all it's parts as .wav files or on Audio cd's, pick your soundbites and script the order you hope to have these playout with the music and FX, etc. If you able to do this roughly at home you will save hours, as to trawl through 5 hours of interviews etc. will all add up. I would say 10 hours.

DamagedTrax

Tomohawk wrote: »

Hi,
I'm thinking of making a 1 hour radio documentary, with 4 or 5 talking heads talking about the scooter scene in Ireland. I will have say 5 hours of interviews including music and FX recorded then. How long would it take a production studio to edit these interviews, sequence/mix the program down to an hour and master it ready to hand to a radio station? advice please on the man hours involved would be great.

Thanks, Tom.

hey tom,

as an ex scooterist (trinity arms sc & good mate of perky) id be willing to help out and keep your costs to a minimum.

have my own studio thats already set-up perfectly for post production.

pm me if you're interested.

barry

Tomohawk

Thanks for the offer of help Barry, but its just an loose idea at the moment. The lads I know with scooters like to keep to themselves and thats fine with me too. Its not about more media exposure really as most of us are getting on in years lets say and like to keep it as a hobby/lifestyle. One of the lads Harry did a video on the Irish scene in 2004 that was rough at the edges but interesting all the same, more like a home video. This idea might be more suited to a visual presentation rather than a radio documentary.

Oh yeah there's no such thing as a ex scooterist, just a scooterist with out a bike! Check out the VCI forum, probably the most active in the country for scooter heads! and have you seen Perkys latest haircut, its back to the '80s I say!!

DamagedTrax

ive not seen perky in a week or two but i remember his old horse-shoe haircut and miami vice tache so i can only imagine!!

much as i love scooters, the day our club lost marie louise duffy to a lunatic motorist it totally killed it for me. shook a lot of us up.

btw do i know you? i was at nearly every rally from late 90's to 2004(ish) had a t5 mk1 addidas racer and a 207 polini that won a fair few trophies. also lived with perky for years in ballyfermot.

Welease

Lets us know if you ever get this done.. Would love to hear it Spent a lot of fun weekends during the 1990's at the NSRA rally's around the UK.. Sadly I got rid of my last scooter (PX125E) with Citizen Fish paint job a couple of months ago..

studiorat

Here's a production company up in norn iron who are into scooters. the Shark Pool

I've an opinion on this...
But first! a poem

I am a mod
I've always been a mod
My father was a mod before me.

My coat is a crombie
My shirt is ben sherman
The jacket on my back was made by a German.

And outside the window lies his broken down Lambretta
I'll fix it one day,
When the Weather gets betta'
jock scott.

I'd think an hour might be a bit long. Magazine programs usually do 15 minute or 30 minute don't they? If you were trying to get it on the radio shorter might be better, no?

I drove a vfr-750, I remember driving timmy bolands scooter out to tunnel studios in clontarrrf back in the day and it scaring the daylights out of me. You let go the gas and the thing goes like it's in neutral. Look cool though.

Tomohawk

Originally Posted by DamagedTrax
ive not seen perky in a week or two but i remember his old horse-shoe haircut and miami vice tache so i can only imagine!!

much as i love scooters, the day our club lost marie louise duffy to a lunatic motorist it totally killed it for me. shook a lot of us up.

btw do i know you? i was at nearly every rally from late 90's to 2004(ish) had a t5 mk1 addidas racer and a 207 polini that won a fair few trophies. also lived with perky for years in ballyfermot.

I got into scooters in the summer of 2003, joined the missing link sc and went to most of the Irish rallies in 2004 so I probably know you to see. Drove to Holiday in Holland that year too which was an experience I'll never forget! I still go on rideouts and the Eggrun and Dublin City Cruise every year but haven't been to a rally since RallyKissAngel in 2006. The scene is still going, same strength as it was and has been revived a good bit in Cork and Waterford throught the VCI and new clubs. Things up north are also as active as ever. I never met actually met marie louise but remember her death that year which shocked all Irish scooterists. Rip. We lost a young lad called stephen from liverpool from the missing link in a RTA at the end of that year too. very sad end to the season that year!


To be honest a 30 minute documentray would be about the right length, just don't have the time to plan it at the moment, working on 2 other projects for broadcast next spring. Oh yeah we're still using Cooledit v1.2, if it aint broke etc etc.