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If you didn’t hear our last show then you missed out on an awesome show. The past show has definitely raised the standards for future shows, the content was relevant and interesting and the Upstarters have definitely come into their own on air. We had two recorded interviews, which were of professional standard not once did you hear mic rumble or technical glitches.

Anelisa and Sinovuyo did a good job with the interviews, they both stuck to the focus which was Hitchhiking. Anelisa interviewed someone from her community and Sinovuyo interviewed two learners from her school. Am happy to see that they are confident doing interviews with real people, about real issues without someone holding their hand.

                              Anelisa adding her views during the studio discussion

Our joke section got off to a good start, the jokes were funny and suitable for the show. I do think that one of the radio students should be responsible for screening these jokes before they go on air, just to make sure that they aren’t offensive and are appropriate for the show. We havevn’t found a cool name for this section yet, Thobani suggested funny kids, but this doesn’t quite a have that ring to it. I suggested that each Upstarter should come with two possible names for our joke feature on Yung Amplified, hopefully by Saturday we will have a permanent cool and funky name for our jokes feature.

As the last show was such a great success, I think as we should choose a clip of the show that can be played on other shows on RMR, to advertise the Yung Amplified show. After each show during our debrief section the team should decide on which clip can be used as a spot for that week.

I think the success of our past show comes from the planning and structuring that happened in the last workshop. This has become a collective effort, the Upstarters are contributing content and on the management side of things, the fourth years are supervising this process diligently. The star of the team is Nadia, she has seen to it that there is a rooster detailing who will be responsible for what during each work. This has helped in making sure that each person knows what they’ll be contributing for the shows and it means our running order can finally come to life.

I believe we have an audience that listens to the show every Saturday and now we just need to find ways to hear them as much as they hear us. Our Mxit page is up and running and we should be using it as a tool to get audience response and audience interaction. For now I suggested that the Upstarters ask three people from their school or community what they thought about our show. I think audience feedback will be helpful as we try to design a show that will satisfy our audience. This exercise will also get the Upstarters talking about the show to the peers in school and hopefully they will bring it up in their weekly Upstart workshops.