Video Podcast

The podcast part was easy, the editing part was a little difficult for me. Overall, it was a good experience.

Video Podcast

Well, I decided that the video podcast may just need a bit more preparation than I put into it.  Maybe a script, or at least an outline.  Oh well, things I learned for next time.

 

Video Podcasting

Video podcasting has its uses.  In my podcast, I talked to Jake Sandvick, president of SMAC, about what’s going on in Eppley in the month of April.  It was short and simple, and I could definitely see SMAC doing something like that every month if they wanted to.  I don’t think a lot of students see that side of campus very often, and it would give the music department a little more publicity–one of SMAC’s goals.

Video podcasting would be the best way to send a message like that.  Where else could the music department get that kind of publicity and get two or three minutes of uninterrupted time to say whatever they want?  Perhaps I could have sat down with Jake during a basketball game half-time.  But that’s about it.  Video podcasting gave me a lot of control over the finished product and, if this were posted somewhere on Morningside’s website, I think it would be a great way to give students a heads-up about what’s going on.

Video Podcast = Epic Fail

The assignment for the week is to make a video podcast and embed it in this post.  Bright side, to embed will be a breeze thanks to YouTube!  Downside, filming and editing is NOT my specialty.  It’s hard to motivate yourself when you don’t get the purpose.

I don’t understand the purpose of Podcasts.  Why should I, an average person, make a podcast?  It was very difficult to think of something to do a podcast of, not to mention filming a podcast solo proved to be quite the adventure.  Getting lighting to work at all was quite a feat on my location.

I was not a fan of this project.  I think Video Podcasts are useful when they are done by the right people, like Kerrang using them to do interviews with bands.

My editing endeavor was a fiasco. I’ll be taking a Muligan on that one later today.  Nothing would work properly.  Granted, the equipment in the Editing Suites now is different than what I learned on.  I think that is important because it caused a lot of frustration in my morning. I’m not illiterate in video editing, but I’m a novice.  For me to “enjoy” doing Video Podcasts I would have to use a handheld camcorder and iMovie. Using the fancy camera with all the fixings made it way to much.

Here’s a video embedded to show I can do that, but my Video Podcast is temporarily out of commission but shall appear at a later date.  I did upload a Podcast at least.

Podcast

Making this podcast was easy but tedious.  I did realize that you have to know what your gonna say others wise it can sound really choppy.  You just have to have a little bit of time commitment. Other than that it was kinda fun.

Here is my podcast for this week.

I hope this works!  I can help people if they need to embed the file.  It’s quite easy.

Audio Blog

well, this week we tried to figure out how to do an audio blog embedded in wordpress.  It failed miserably.