April
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ITC174 Assessment 3 – Original content: Podcast
.Listen to “ITC Assessment 3” on Spreaker.
This assessment required me to record a podcast, mix it and embed it into this blog. I have learnt a lot along the way of the podcast creating process.
Firstly, coming up with the content for the podcast, to make sure I had a smooth flow to the podcast I wrote a script of what I wanted to say. I did not stick to the script word of word during the recording as I knew that I wouldn’t be able to smoothly read it back.
Secondly mixing the audio, I used Audacity and while the mixing of the audio itself wasn’t too much of a challenge, finding downloadable music was. I spent many hours looking for useable content, finally getting the music from Jamendo. Tweaking the audio with the layers of sound was a nice challenge, though I don’t believe I came close to using the Audacity to its full extent.
Thirdly being able to correctly embed the podcast. That require some googling to do correctly. In the end I found that creating a podcast to be a highly time-consuming task and a lot of searching is involved.
Image from Pixabay
Music sourced from Jamendo
On a Falling Petal by Mattia Vlad Morleo
The Epic Sport by Soundbay
Sound effects from Free Ringtones for Android phone app
April
16
4.3 Podcast recording
Todays study lesson was audio, creating a minute long podcast and uploading it. Seemed simple enough sure or not.
Here are a few hard lessons I learnt on the journey of creating a podcast.
Firstly what to say. The task was fairly simple “Describe the tool you are using for the recording and why you chose it”. I prepared by writing some notes for myself and I played around with the app so I was familiar with the basic workings. I felt ready so hit record, this is where it got interesting, I no long knew what to say. My preplanned notes failed me and my brain turned to mush. Time to stop that recording take a minute, a few deep breaths and start again. Second time was a much better recording.
Secondly I had to mix the recording, try and be a little bit fancy by adding some music. I only had one choice of song as it came with the app and I don’t have anything saved to my phone so picking music was easy. The actual mixing of the audio was tricker, still not sure how trimming works or really how to layer sounds but I did manage some lovely background music.
Thirdly I needed to upload it and I went through 3 storage location til I found one that was free, the only thing I needed for the time being. I’m sure I only managed to upload the audio file out of sear dumb luck but hey whatever works right.
Lastly embedding the code into this blog post. I felt like quite the techie playing around with the coded material and using all those random numbers, symbols and letters. Yep real techno women right here folks. It took some googling to find out how to embed audio code into a blog and even then I failed 4 times before I got it right.
Finally it is done and as proof of my success you will find below my lovely ITC 4.3 podcast.
Enjoy.
Listen to “ITC174 4.3” on Spreaker.
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