Skip to main content

Time to reflect

As discussed in my previous blog I chose Digital audio and more specifically to do a podcast. Coming into this it was all new to me and something i've never tried doing before. I learned a lot along the way and would like to reflect on the experience in this blog!
Myself and two other came together to discuss the ideas we had. We all agreed that a podcast was something we would all be interested in making and since we couldn't find a specific topic to talk about that would grasp the listeners attention we decided to do an interview style podcast using story-corp inspired questions which was suggested by our lecturer Sean.

As our group consisted of two girls and one boy we thought that it would be interesting to ask the same questions to each boy and girl and sort of compare their answers and see what differed between them. As a group we decided that I was going to be the interviewer as such. I enjoyed picking out what questions to ask and I was excited to get to know my fellow peers a bit more. 
It was also great to learn how important communication is, especially in a small team everyone needs to be sure of the role they have to play. 

We created a whatsapp group and all decided a day to meet up and record our interview. Kevin and Cliodhna prepared their answers briefly so they wouldn't be thrown off by and of the questions. On our first try recording it we were all a bit nervous and shy when we began to record. None of us had a microphone to record professionally so our only option was to record it using voice memos on my phone which didn't work out too bad. On our third try we finally were happy with the result. We wanted the interview to be lighthearted and easy to listen to which I hope is what we achieved. 

Personally I always found it very interesting how using audio can affect the mood and feel of a movie. I took advantage of studying digital audio and used the opportunity to research techniques directors use when making a film and why they choose certain songs and sound affects etc. I found it very interesting and I definitely learned a lot from researching it. 

Looking back on what I have done I am proud of what we created as it was our first time ever doing anything like this. It has also helped my confidence as I used to hate listening to my own voice but I got used to it! If I was to change anything I probably would have made it a little bit longer and added a few more sound effects during editing but hopefully I will learn them skills overtime!

Write soon,
Leslie 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The making of 'Fake News'

(img vectorstock.com)  Our mission chosen, our group put together and our task decided, our next step was to make the video. To start, as said in my previous blog, we wrote down a list of fake news questions to ask the person we were interviewing. We then had to find people to interview. Since we were in college we decided to go around and see if we could find students or lectures and ask them questions. We wanted to interview people that we didn't know or who weren't in our group as they would have known it was fake news. We were lucky to find five willing people to participate in the video who all fell for our fake news questions. Their answers were all varied, some more shocked about the questions than others. There were also a few funny replies which we found really added to the lightheartedness of the video. We filmed the video using one of our iPhones and the footage came out very well. We all took turns filming and interviewing people.  I will refle...
Post a Comment
Read more

Our first task - Creativity

I have decided to choose digital audio as my first mission. We have chosen to do a podcast as they are very accessible and have become extremely popular over the past two or three years. Over the past year i've discovered podcasts myself and have loved listening to them ever since. For our podcast myself and two others have decided to ask each other fun, relatable questions. Creating a podcast has been something that I have been thinking about doing for a while and i'm excited to have this opportunity to be able to create one. We plan on recording the podcast on the voice memos app on an iPhone. From there we will edit it using software on our laptop. Hopefully through editing we can add intro music and some sound effects. It will be interesting to see and learn how audio can affect a listeners experience and how much it makes an impact on the podcast. After creating what we hope will be a fun podcast episode we will collectively bring together our findings and what we have...
Post a Comment
Read more