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.