Tier C: studio desk, talkback, playout, monitoring, automation, and school-approved distribution.
Complete Production Readiness orientation.
Use a classroom simulation or school-approved online channel. Do not teach unlicensed RF transmission.
Use rights-cleared music and approved contributors.
Required once before any student production course
Production Readiness: Make Media Safely and Hand It Off
A shared orientation for high-school students covering audience, consent, rights, safety, accessibility, roles, files, versions, and handoff before a production begins.
Translate an idea into an audience promise and observable success criteria.
Identify consent, privacy, rights, safety, accessibility, and publication decisions before recording.
Create a folder, naming, version, backup, and handoff system another student can navigate.
Participate in a respectful crew with a clear role, communication path, and stop-work authority.
Solve the production problem of public, commercial, community, school, podcast, live, recorded, linear, and on-demand audio while learning how producer and audience editor contributes to the finished work.
Explain why public, commercial, community, school, podcast, live, recorded, linear, and on-demand audio matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided format comparison using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of topic, angle, research, balance, representation, consent, music rights, and source reliability while learning how researcher, journalist, and producer contributes to the finished work.
Explain why topic, angle, research, balance, representation, consent, music rights, and source reliability matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided programme proposal using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of programme clocks, links, cues, timing, intros, outros, questions, and contingency items while learning how producer, presenter, and script editor contributes to the finished work.
Explain why programme clocks, links, cues, timing, intros, outros, questions, and contingency items matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided timed running order using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of microphone distance, levels, monitoring, room choice, interviewing, wild tracks, and logging while learning how sound recordist, interviewer, and contributor producer contributes to the finished work.
Explain why microphone distance, levels, monitoring, room choice, interviewing, wild tracks, and logging matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided interview package using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of selection, structure, pacing, speech edits, ambience, music, transitions, and loudness awareness while learning how audio editor and sound designer contributes to the finished work.
Explain why selection, structure, pacing, speech edits, ambience, music, transitions, and loudness awareness matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided assembly to revised mix using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of presenter, producer, desk, carts, playout, talkback, timing, recovery, and delay concepts while learning how studio manager and technical operator contributes to the finished work.
Explain why presenter, producer, desk, carts, playout, talkback, timing, recovery, and delay concepts matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided private rehearsal recording using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of final mix, QC, transcript, credits, metadata, artwork, archive, and audience test while learning how producer, QC operator, and archive coordinator contributes to the finished work.
Explain why final mix, QC, transcript, credits, metadata, artwork, archive, and audience test matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided final transmission package using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Standardized practice pack
Radio classroom pack
programme brief, research documents, fictional contributors, raw interview, room tone, music alternatives, station IDs, running order, mistimed script, cue errors, loudness and transcript fixtures Institution distributes large audio media through its licensed storage or learning system.
Rights and media boundary: the generated coursework defines required fixtures and evidence. Large media should be institution-distributed with rights, consent, checksum, and retention records.
Capstone: Radio programme and transmission package
Make a timed audio programme that demonstrates editorial purpose, intelligible recording, thoughtful editing, reliable playout, accessibility, and handoff.
Submit
Programme proposal and research/source log
Timed clock, running order, scripts, and cue sheet
Interview or location recording package
Eight-to-twelve-minute final programme
Transcript, credits, metadata, QC, and reflection
Constraints
Use a private classroom or approved school distribution path.
Do not require students to reveal personal experiences or appear as presenters.
Provide equivalent production, research, engineering, accessibility, and archive roles.
Roles, schedule, handoffs, and contribution are visible
Work depends on undocumented individual effort
Creative and technical craft
20
Intentional image, sound, writing, editing, design, or operation
Choices are accidental or technically uncontrolled
Reliability, organization, and problem solving
15
Files, tests, recovery, revision, and delivery are dependable
The project cannot be opened, checked, or recovered
Ethics, rights, safety, and accessibility
15
People and audiences are respected throughout the workflow
Permissions, safety, access, or representation are incomplete
Delivery, reflection, and career evidence
15
Final package, QC, walkthrough, and next-skill plan are clear
The student cannot explain or hand off the work
Career connection
See where these roles lead
Connect this work to producer and audience editor and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work. Connect this work to researcher, journalist, and producer and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work. Connect this work to producer, presenter, and script editor and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work.
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