Fifth week @ BMP Audio (15.10 - 21.10)

I had my usual Tuesday manual duties of opening the mail and filing the CDs that were used in the previous week, I also had to find contact information for Sun Records as the company would to get some promotional CDs from them. One audio manual jobs I had this week was that I had to check the songs that were being used in this weeks program for FCC regulations. It is a violation of federal law to air obscene programming at any time. It is also a violation of federal law to air indecent programming or profane language during certain hours so this is an important job and if I miss something the company could be fined. All songs followed the FCC regulations so they could be played in the program. I did not know about these regulations and this will be good to know in the future with any career around radio productions.

This week I was given my first major production work, I was told to make a small piece on Michael Burks, who passed away this year, for the companies online website. I was shown previous pieces around the same topic and I was told I would need produce something similar to them. I was first given a ten minutes raw interview with Bruce Iglauer, who was a producer and label head who worked with Michael Burks. I had to cut down the interview to three minutes with leaving the interviewers questions and only leaving the important information to be rearranged in a suitable order. The piece also needed backing tracks behind Iglauer’s interview, I needed to find music from Michael Burks that matched what Iglauer was saying. There was three topics that he spoke about, one was growing up and living around his musical family and I found a song called ‘Little Juke Joint’ which Burks sung about growing up with his dad. The second theme was about his unique style and the song I used included a big guitar solo, which he is known for, called ‘Count On You’. The last topic was about Burns performing and touring and ‘24 Hour Blues’ fit perfectly. Next I plan to finish this piece by arranging all the audio tracks in the right places and should be finalized when I complete some basic engineering edits to the audio so that all the sounds sound richer and more polished.

This week I worked Tuesday and Thursday as normal but I was not avliable to work Wednesday. Erik and I came to an agreement and I came in on Friday and worked the hours I was meant to on Wednesday, which totaled 13 hours.

Total: 67 hours