Briefly outline the content of your podcast and the strategy(s) you adopted in creating it?
My podcast focuses on the people using social media to show their political agender. I also wanted to focus on how not only did it affect the way candidate and politicians use it but how the news media uses it. But due to time restraint I didn’t get to talk about multiple politicians tried to use singular sentences then spicing those together to get a clean yet ‘real speech feel’. I also want the podcast to sound like I was having a conversation with someone, so I used real life terms and examples to ground my statements. My other strategy was to have many different goes at the same sentence not only to get it right but to get the best version of it. I ended up with around 70 recordings around 1min long. This also allowed a lot of different points and examples so I could choose which one worked the best.
How your podcast was informed by your reading/research–i.e. explain how you used your source(s) in your podcast
I tried keep most of the research to an ideas format. So, I searched up what the biggest influences on social media is. I did this as I already toughly know the things that I’m talking about. I just wanted to get some key dot points that I could use my own knowledge and expertise on. But for some of the research I needed to find specific examples, I use key words in google search and twitter feeds of Donald trump and Malcomb Turnbul to find some specific tweets. Although I didn’t include some of this research in the final product.
Reflect on the challenges you faced and what you learnt from the exercises
My biggest challenge was the editing. I use 4 different software to create the product. This was because each program I used was crashing constantly and not behaving properly. But though trial and error multiple updates and several hours trouble shooting. The other problem was the corrupt files. This was a result of my compute bios setting encoding the written data wrong. I was also very nervous when I recorded my parts so I went through multiple take before I got the right one.