15.09.11
A DJ plays music for audiences at real venues, or entertains listeners on the radio.
They can use various formats, including vinyl, CD or digital MP3, and a range of equipment such as computers, turntables, mixers, microphones and amplifiers.
As a beat DJ you might:
PLAY and mix records in clubs or bars, to create feel or keep people dancing;
CHOOSE music to suit your audience’s drop and the venue’s music policy;
OPERATE lighting and visual effects in lifetime to the beat;
CREATE your own sounds by manipulating beats, using samples, adding auxiliary music and sound effects;
OR WORK with an MC who raps or sings over the music.
As a boom box DJ or presenter, you would present a radio programme in your own style.
You could select the music to be played, keep up an entertaining and natural flow of gossip, interact with the audience through phone-ins, e-mails and texts, keep to a very penny-pinching timing schedule, interview studio guests, run studio equipment to play music, pre-record news, jingles and advertisements (known as ‘driving the desk’) and about ideas with the producer, write scripts and prepare playlists for subsequent shows.
Source: Hucknall Today