Aka Aurora's Tales

Guys, I have just found this data in my blog :

Oh Hi guys!

I am back after fighting with my thesis proposal and my feature program dummy.I really miss this blog and I miss to write something here.

So the story is from the beginning of this semester 6. I am a final student of University of Indonesia ( UI ). I am taking Diploma degree of Broadcasting there. And semester 6 is our dateline to graduate from UI. So we have to make a thesis proposal and make a program. We can choose whether it's a TV program or Radio program. If we choose TV Program, we have to make a feature or documentary program by a group which is filled maximally 5 peoples. And if you choose to make a radio program, then you're a single fighter that will make your program by yourself ONLY.

Because I'm not feeling comfortable with making TV program, so I chose my own way to decide to make a radio program. I chose to make a culinary feature program. So for it, I have to search what kind of radio station in Indonesia that is suitable with my target audience of my feature program. And there you go, I got KIS FM Radio ( on Frequency 95.1 FM ). KIS FM Radio is a bilingual radio. They use 40 % Indonesian and 60 % English. And I got a challenge to make my own radio feature program in English.

Wow, that's a great challenge. I was a bit worried because I'm not too good in grammar so I'm afraid that I will make a mistake on script writing for the program. But I just believe in myself that I can do it since I can use English as well.

So finally I made my own feature program named FROST. It's an acronym of FOOD RECOMMENDATION ON THE STREET. So here I talked about a unique and an exclusive restaurant or culinary in Jakarta. I took that point because it's suitable with KIS FM Radio's target audience.

And Thank God, all of the process to make this feature was like made to be easy by God. You know what, I tried to call one newbie restaurant in Grand Indonesia Shopping Town in Jakarta. It's a really newbie one. So then the PR called me and refused my proposal to make a feature about their restaurant. Then I remembered that my friend, Monika, is an employee of one big company that handle many exclusive and unique restaurant in Jakarta. I asked for her help and voila, she wants to help me.

Monika searched the permission to Kitchenette ( restaurant that I made a feature about ) Public Relation and also to Operational Chef of Kitchenette. Thank God, we had a great interview then and I'm satisfied with their answers. So helpful. And they also paid for my food. Omo, it's really a great service. So thank you, Monika onnie, Ms. Fina, and Chef Victor! :D

Although I felt so worry because I have to go home so late, but it was paid with my happiness. Then the next step, I had to make a script for my announcing. And another easy way came to me when Ben, my another friend, offered me to use his campus' radio laboratory to record my voice. Yeah, radio laboratory in my campus was still under renovation. So I agreed to his offer. Then he asked for the permission for me and that is FREE. And Ben also wanted to use his voice for my program promo. Really, God helped me A LOT.

Then we were in the Post Production. Surely, I can't do editing! Actually I love to edit voice, but I don't know why every I edit it, I always find the error stuffs and it just made me being stress.  So I don't wanna take a risk and ask my friend, Tika, who is pro in this stuff, to edit my announcing. And as always, she did it so well! I'm proud with her work. But although Tika did the beginning, the final touch was made by me. And I'm proud I can do it without any error ( because of Tika's guidance too hahahahhaa ).

The dateline to collect the proposal and the dummy is on June, 6th 2011. But I decided to collect it on June, 4th 2011. Because I knew if I collect it on the D-Day, it will be so crowded. And everything was going well although I became stress because of collecting the paper. I have to print them out then photocopy them into 4 sets.

But now I'm so relieved. Right now I just wait for my justice. Hope I can graduate from UI soon.

Ciao!