For my third Introduction to Digital Literacy for Online Learning assessment, I made a podcast discussing a topic and uploaded it to SoundCloud. I chose to talk about animation as that’s my future career goal.
I wrote a basic script containing the intro, outro and a few notes on what to talk about. I feel I could’ve scripted it a bit more so there wouldn’t be so many pauses and stuttering during the recording. I recorded the audio on Audacity and then found copyright free music on Youtube.
I edited the music so it can be used at both the start and end of the podcast. I also turned my audio up so I’m not so quiet compared to the music. Because of that, my audio came off sounding muffled because I was talking right into the microphone. Next time I do this, I will have the microphone further away from me when I record.
I found the thumbnail on Pixabay so I downloaded it and pasted it as my podcast’s thumbnail after I made my SoundCloud account.
Overall, I’m happy with how my podcast turned out. As I said, in the future I’d script the whole thing out more and place the microphone a bit further away from me when I record.