PoDcasT: Fail to Prepare - Prepare to Fail

Flashback to the beginning of the term when we were tasked with putting together a podcast about a decade. The topics of our podcasts could be absolutely anything so long as it was design related in some way.

My group and I were given the 80’s.

We got together early on and quickly established we didn’t have much to go on and that we would have to research to figure out what we might want to talk about. We eventually settled on three topics which we thought suitably represented the 80’s and the themes we had come up with.

Back to the present and the CDC Debate is over and we are well versed in writing these blogs, but writing a script for a podcast is still very difficult. Writing a script is difficult full stop. When I listen to podcast the hosts themselves often say they don’t have a script but only the bare bones of a plan to follow so they don’t go to far off track. The reason they can do this is because they have a lot of experience in the topics they talk about and are significantly older than us as second year design students.

Take, for example, The Futur Podcast. The host Chis Do has been working in design for longer than I have been alive. He probably wouldn’t be too happy with me aging him like that but it’s true. Along with our lack of experience we have to contend with grading systems.

A 10 minute time-limit so that it can be listened to in class along with everyone else’s, and it should have a static cover graphic.

I decided to put the graphic together and it was a process I really enjoyed. I am still learning the Adobe

Suite and wasn’t sure of how to go about producing something in an 80’s style. I found a couple of tutorials which really helped me out were by two different people, Flow Graphics and Sarah Hubbard I also included flat vectors of the four of us in the group, I felt that it made it a little more personable.

The class we had in week ten, the subject of this blog, was put together to run over the software that was available and recommended for use when producing our podcast. Audacity and Adobe Audition were mentioned along with some other recording things that could be used to record a video call, which we would probably be using seeing as we are all in isolation.

My group and I decided to use Zencatsr to record ours. It is a website that records each individuals audio locally on their own device and then uploads it to a cloud service which the editor, in the case of our podcast me, can then download the individual files and put them together. Once we record I plan to use Adobe Audition to put the clips together into one mp3 file and add our cover graphic.

Check back in on the blog in a couple of weeks when I'll have the Podcast done and uploaded together with a final script.