Hyder­abad: The Depart­ment of Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hyder­abad, organ­ised a five-day Cre­ative Radio Pro­duc­tion work­shop at the video stu­dio of the depart­ment recent­ly. Two esteemed fac­ul­ty from the Ger­man radio, Radio Mis­ch­poke Ralf Wendt and Jas­mi­na Al-Qaisi, trained the stu­dents in pro­duc­tion of dif­fer­ent con­tent for the radio.

Stu­dents pur­su­ing first and sec­ond years of Master’s in Com­mu­ni­ca­tion took part in the work­shop. They were asked to cre­ative­ly repro­duce a piece from a lit­er­ary text which they could eas­i­ly relate with, by mak­ing use of var­i­ous sounds and sound effects.

Lat­er on, they were also taught lessons on sound edit­ing. At the end of the five-day work­shop, the stu­dents came up with impro­vised ver­sions of the texts that they chose and their works were broad­cast­ed live in the university’s com­mu­ni­ty radio ‘Bol Hyder­abad 90.4’. “It offered a plat­form and guid­ance to pro­duce cre­ative pieces,” says Treesa Reena John, a stu­dent of first-year MA Com­mu­ni­ca­tion who took part in the work­shop.

The cam­pus radio, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with Radio Mis­ch­poke, set up a radio sta­tion in the 10th edi­tion of Hyder­abad Lit­er­ary Fes­ti­val which was held at Vid­yaranya High School, Saifabad from Jan­u­ary 24 to 26. The stu­dent vol­un­teers of the work­shop team record­ed and cre­at­ed var­i­ous con­tents by attend­ing dif­fer­ent ses­sions and inter­act­ing with dif­fer­ent peo­ple. The same was broad­cast in Bol Hyder­abad 90.4 and in Radio Mis­ch­poke.

Apart from this, the stu­dents also got an oppor­tu­ni­ty to do live shows, which was a new expe­ri­ence for most of them. Ananya Mukhopad­hyay, anoth­er par­tic­i­pant, was extreme­ly excit­ed because her work and her friends’ work are going to be broad­cast in Aus­tria, Ger­many and Europe.