Radio is the medium that has not gone before the explosion audiovisual media, among other things, to establish a special communication with the listener: a one to one that builds trust and intimacy. The friendship and the naturalness of the radio hardly seen in other media. The proximity of a friendly voice has filled throughout history many solitudes and absences. It was the company of many men and women and has established the magic sound from a close relationship between sender and receiver, making it easy and accessible dialogue intimate, personal and direct, despite the limits of technological mediation.
For the communicator, this innate spontaneity must not mean unplanned improvisation when communicating, but will require pre-preparation time, which we called: radio production. A good radio production will require production of content, including all that is required to issue any space. Realising interviews, contact with respondents, seek documents for reports, prepare the songs, select sound effects ... are part of the production task. According to the size of the product at issue, this process will be more or less complex.
The time spent in production will be in the results reached in the air. Moreover, without the preparation time would be virtually Emission impossible for many of the products that make the programming of the different radio stations. If we are attentive to listen to radio, we can easily perceive how this production lacked emission time, dedication, enthusiasm, teamwork, reflection, shared experiences, particular search of the best to deliver ...
must remember that all this preparatory work is done in the context of personal and group reflection to objectify what it will air. It is time to think what will and will say. Often it will be writing the script radial segments other planning or organization of spaces within the total issue space. Always be an audience to think about who we will go, and what message we want to give. It is the basis of the credibility of the issuer before an audience that will lend the ear and trust in their expression, sharing or disagreeing, but being influenced by the power of the medium. Spending time
production is a sign of responsibility to the wider social responsibility to be in half so influential that condition, in many cases, public opinion, or call into question many times their values \u200b\u200bor thoughts. Aware of this process, communicators, to produce its programs, live in a reflective process introspective contemplation is planning to take that wealth from the inside to communicate.
Catholic Communication (communication of Christian values \u200b\u200band messages) can not dispense with this task that gives meaning and coherence in the exercise of the apostolic mission of evangelization through radio. This process will be experienced as an introspective contemplation tune in to the context and the source of the message to communicate, will come to be known communicator itself that is inside a specific mission, and has, in the medial-world context, an important responsibility and a commitment to God, with himself and with the audience. Is facing the challenge of making a voice that often echoes in the desert. Considered is for the Catholic community, pray. The radio production will then be a teachable by the Master who puts his words into the mouth of his envoys, one may discern between good and evil, between right and best, to ensure product excellence in broadcasting.
Behold the man and woman can know, love and admire. The fruit of contemplation is the joy of the truth known, the well understood and loved and admired beauty. The path of contemplation requires silence, openness to others, listen. Sometimes it's an arduous and difficult path, requiring die, purify, choose. It is a profound relationship personal and fulfilling occurrence and unifies our being in there everyday, because it is the space we live our original vocation of men called to the relationship and union with God. Because communication links us with others. And contemplation is in full communication. It is a moment of contact with something that we in the depths of our being.
For the Catholic community is contemplating gaze of faith fixed on Jesus. "I look at him and he looks at me." This attention to He's resignation to "me." His gaze purifies our heart. The light in the eyes of Jesus illumines the eyes of our heart and teaches us to see everything in the light of his truth and his compassion for all men. Only the mystery of Christ, witnessed and experienced, will answer to the deepest questions of man reveals his own mystery.
"Contemplation is the science of love which is God infused love story that goes along illustrating and falling in love with the soul" (San Juan de la Cruz, N 2,18,5)
All the important work undertaken by pastoral love of God and neighbor, can not be done without a life of contemplation, prayer and study. A Catholic community must provide heeding the word of God before announcing it. Listen to his words is an aspect of contemplation. There will be only their views, the communicator poured into the microphone, if not a spokesman for the word of truth that fell from the lips of Jesus and have the effect of illuminating the lives of men and women of this time, giving the reason for their existence meaning. The truth can not shut up, claiming to be proclaimed on the rooftops.
time radio production process will take its fair value to the extent that it is not limited to a wild search of materials and resources to fill gaps, but in an inner search for meaning to communicate something worthwhile, that builds , build and make life more worthy of those who receive those messages. It will be quiet time and dialogic, wealth deep for communicators, which then enrich the recipients of their communication. The quality of this moment and put the interest to produce a space for communicating values, will depend largely on the "success" of the mission received and the actual response to the vocation of being sent to proclaim the Gospel to all people.
contemplative task of radio production will become more suitable to particular communities to establish the communication situation to perceive spaces without being perceived, to create this world of color is the radio, or what we call the "magic" captivating the radio. Without this generous time, the communicator is empty, not so much of words, but content. You'll enjoy more expressive wealth of radio and its extraordinary potential for exploitation.
inner silence you hear is the heart knows where it germinates and sprouts to the outside word, unless you want to be empty. Every event, every message, every story, each song will require reflection and a look at the light of truth to know when and how it will be optimal your broadcasting. It will be the wisdom gained in prayerful contemplation, which will effectively human speech, which gives content to the divine word, pierce the middle, to give effect to this communication vivid and crisp, rich and rewarding, that doeth good and more good to the receiver that receives and welcome.
Today we live a devaluation of the word. This is due more to their facility, in rising inflation. Manipulate with it and turn it into a mere nominalism. We can therefore say that dialogue can only be silent who knows. It teaches us that silence to think before speaking, and we have to listen and dialogue necessary to reach agreement with the partner enriching.
In a medium par excellence sound like the radio, speaking of silence may seem incongruous. However, the silence is part of radio language, is able to express, tell, describe ... The silence over the radio when a total absence of sound, ie when no voice, no music or sound effects, although its true meaning can only be captured from the relationship the store with no sound the elements that precede or to those that follow it.
Thus, on the radio there are many situations where we can make use of silence, for example to represent the emotional state of a person who chooses to stop intervening in a dialogue, or to stimulate thinking when, before a controversial issue , the communicator performs a silent inviting listeners to think about it. It is possible to evaluate the design space on the radio when was experienced personal experience the richness of silence and has grown in it.
The success of missionary work in radio, the effectiveness of evangelization through the media so close and persuasive, begins with the preparation time, with that personal and group reflective space, this time of silence and prayer , which is the radio production. It is the contemplative space communicator, who brings out of his own good and bad, selecting and managing gifts and talents to serve the hearing. Communicates well with the consciousness of being faced with increasingly demanding listeners and always in need of a word deep, wise, confident, real and warm. Word showing new horizons, and teach the true meaning of life, life that is played in the middle of a complex reality, and that demands to be seen with new eyes, taking on the challenges of today with hope and commitments to make it new. -
Fr. Walter Moschetti
Episcopal Delegate for Social Communications of the Archdiocese of Rosario, member of the Theology and Spirituality Network Communicator OCLACC
