The radio documentary has a flow/Festivals in Salem Competition Square – Mehr News Agency Iran and world’s news
Referring to the importance of radio, which still plays the role of building trust for the audience, Hamidreza Sahragard, director of Tehran Radio Network, told Mehr reporter: Radio, as the oldest media, has a special and intimate relationship with its audience. Despite the entry of video media into people’s lives and the development of virtual media and social networks in the last decade, radio still maintains its warm relationship with the audience.
He added: Radio plays a role as a comprehensive and reliable media, therefore, radio can be effective in promoting social capital by strengthening two-way interaction with the audience and performing its missions in the field of timely and accurate information, providing correct information and following up on people’s demands. .
Referring to the structure of the documentary, Sahragard added: Documentary is one of the most influential structures in program making, and if it has the necessary quality in production, it can be a stream generator in addition to attracting the audience. Therefore, the production of radio documentaries is much more complicated and difficult due to not benefiting from the image element, and in fact, in addition to the necessary knowledge of the features of the documentary structure, the radio documentary maker must also have a high understanding of content production in basic audio media.
He added: For this reason, to strengthen the flow of documentaries on the radio, the first and most important solution is to train radio documentaries by providing academic and experimental training, choosing suitable subjects, holding theme-based festivals to motivate documentaries, and also to financially support radio documentary projects, including Another way is to strengthen the documentation on the radio.
Regarding the role of festivals in radio synergies, the director of Tehran Radio added: Festivals are definitely an important field for healthy and specialized competition of program makers and artists in the media field. Holding festivals, in addition to helping to introduce the great works produced, can create motivation for documentary makers, and the motivation to produce work will be limited to the quantitative and qualitative improvement of programming.
In the end, he stated: Of course, in organizing festivals and judging works, we must follow up on the damage that can lead to the lack of motivation of the programmers. Also, the main nature and one of the most important goals of holding festivals along with the competition is a program to provide the opportunity for managers and program makers and artists to interact and share their views and expert opinions, which can bring synergy between radio networks and the convergence of program makers and audiences. .
The second National Pajhwok Radio Documentary Festival will be held in May 1402 with the aim of identifying and introducing talents in the field of documentary.