New experience with our daily broadcasting

Hi everybody in this blog. How are you doing? Now i am starting to be better for my health after i was absent work for a last couple of week. After back from sick leave i dreamed new initiative idea for being active in audio broadcasting. Oh sorry i am jocking. I would like to share our experienced in audio broadcasting in Kep pilot area.

With a beautiful song through loud speaker that we installed in front of the office of Damnak Chang Oeur district, you will hear a sound of a man shouting the program ''Samleng Sahakum Krung Kep'' means Voice of Kep Community. After that presenter say hello to the audience who are listening to the program. This is the program which we are trying to inform our audience in Kep to aware and get daily information.

While we do not have an own station to broadcast the program, it of course is difficult to inform to the audience. Eventhough, we are broadcasting by loud speaker 2 times a week in a pagoda, village, and cafe shop but it is suitable only the topic like feature and it could not for a hot news.

For a new idea but it is not too technical is install the loud speaker system in the office, which include loud speaker, microphone, amplify, and computer with using a program cool edit pro or audacity, and allow us to broadcast daily information to the audience.

The question is that what topic should be broadcast? and where can we get it when we don't produce on time? It exactly get from a newspaper and download from VOA and RFA and some topic we produce by the team. For instance, in the morning we gather information in the target area then write it and in the afternoon we broadcast it. For the topic we broadcast related to health, agriculture, education, and general issues.

How do we do?

First we play the music to attract their attention then play the main sound of the program or OBB call Voice of Kep Community. Then presenter say hello to the audience with announce a topic we are going to broadcast and get it from, then play a song for 10 seconds after that reporter report their news, sometime are getting from newspaper, and then play the topic that we download from the VOA and RFA. In the end of the program the presenter say now it is time to say good bye and thank you for your attention to our program today and will see you again on tomorrow at the same time then play the music, finish. Three or four topic a day is enough.

This is not too technical and allow us to broadcast a daily program to our audience in Kep. They hear our program everyday.

This is a new idea that we have done. You will learn more, if you visit our work here again.

We are welcome to see you and tell you briefly.
With best regards,
Bunthouern, Kep MC

First week resuls of KCM Multimedia Team

Hello from Multimedia Team, Kcm Pilot Project!

These are the results of the activities have been done for the first week of October 2007:

1. Guide line preparation: 3 guide lines (on topics of Brown plan hopper of Agriculture of my community Program, Pregnancy health care of My health My community Program, and Encouraging on School registration in community of Community and Education Program) were adapted in Khmer and English versions.

2. Script writing: Three script writing for three topics were already written in Khmer version and looking forward to seeing all comments and ideas from the project staff, but for the script on topic of Brown plan hopper is being recorded at the end of this week if available pagoda. More over, we had summarized translation on topic of Dengue fever as an English version.

3. Editing and Re-Editing audio: First version of Water sanitation was finished. Due to suggestion/ comment from project staff to replace the song of the girl in community by the public song, so we agreed to edit as a second version of this audio. Now it is finalized already. For other three audios all information/sound related to each topic (community voices, experts voices, music, information/sound recorded from VOA, RFA) were already edited and waiting for mix together with the host's sound.

4. Tap recording and distributing: Seven tapes with Water sanitation topic were recorded and distributed to five pagodas namely: Cho, Tamenh, Toul Roveang, Kamchay Mear, Smong, Keo thom and Prey Thom.

Some difficulties:
1.Difficult and take time to collect information from communities, because they shied to talk and have limited knowledge.
2.Take time for make an appointment with the experts, they are busy with their plans/works.
3.Recorded sounds are noisy with wind and other outside environments.
4.Raining all days, so we could not make voice record on time as planned.
5.Spent much time to reach the pagodas for distributing audio tapes, because of raining and bumping roads.