Overall I like the high quality podcasting we have been doing. The production value from last year has really changed and we have made huge leaps in that. we are still working on the podcasting part as that has lost a lot of it's original charm and desire In feel. It seems like not everyone wants to do it and I think i'm the main culprit because I feel like this often. Sadly I think that it is nearly impossible to catch the same enjoyment that we had last year just because of when we do it. Last year we had a great opportunity to record right after lunch where we could have a lot of guests and we had time to go out through our day already having interesting conversations to bring to the podcast. but now we have to record right after everyone either wakes up or goes through there first hour class both being sub optimal conditions to really be an entertaining person. A way I could us try to improve is through preparation for the podcast. There is little to know preparation on the talking topics which worked last year because we were ready to talk but this year its really hard because it's in the morning and hard to come up with things on a tired brain. even when it is a better podcast I still feel unaccomplished afterwards. I'm not sure where this feeling stems from.
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At the end of semester I learned a lot through the podcast. I learned about making it better production value. We added a very nice microphone and also some noise cancelling technology. But, in light of this it takes a little bit out of the whole feel of it. Last year when we did the podcast it felt very natural and allowed everyone to be themselves but the problem now is that it lost some of the novelty. I still enjoy the more effort put into the project but after watching the old podcasts I do miss the feeling of them. I am very happy with our organization though. Before we could barely get over 30 minutes of content but now it's easy to talk for the whole hour just from having a simple plan. overall I am very happy with where we are at but wish to take more out of it personally. I wish it somehow retained the same feeling as the old podcast.
On my last set of goals I'm set out to make the podcast more entertaining and funny. I feel that I failed at this objective. The biggest problem I have is rolling up jokes when none of the topics we talk about are very funny. This is my fault as well because I end up bringing up boring topics to the conversation and not being prepared enough. I did succeed on talking less, this is a thing I really needed to work on and improve which I feel like I did. some things I would like to set as goals would include being more prepared and coming with better and more entertaining topics. I feel like these two goals are very important inn my perspective because if I am not enjoying making the podcast no-one listening will either. I feel like coming prepared will also help with the entertainment part and my overall ability to flow through the podcast and not make it so abrupt and at some points not funny. One mentor text/podcast I have looked at fr inspiration is the Super Mega Cast. If you are Mrs. Anderson I would highly recommend not watching it because I feel as though you would be very disappointed that I look up to their podcast. The reason I use these guys as inspiration is their ability to talk about interesting things and keep their podcasts moving. It's one of the only podcasts to keep my attention all the way through and remain funny as well, two things I wish I could do and are the two goals I set throughout the next couple of weeks.
I personally feel this podcast was very weak. This was mostly my fault because after the fact I realized how much I talked about the new Call of Duty video game even though they talked about it last podcast. My plan was to touch up on it briefly but the next thing I knew was that it was time to wrap it up and all I had done was complain and talk about the game. Next time I will try to shut up more and be more funny. The way I plan to do this is hit the topics I enjoy and can look at from an unbiased perspective. The problem with Call of Duty is that I have a lot of complaints and that is no fun to listen to after a while. One way I can improve is to be more funny the next episode and not sound like I hate everything and that the podcast sucks. I still do think 40 minutes is too long but it went by pretty fast today.
Today we podcasted for the first time and I was home sick for it. What I did to help the podcast was giving topics to talk about. I think some important goals this year is to keep it entertaining and keep the low budget charm of our first rendition. I feel like it is also important to not get too informative or too opinionated over boring topics. I feel like something that could be improved on is the length. Apparently we do 40 minute episodes which I feel like might be too long. It's already hard enough to keep peoples attention for 20 minutes and I feel like 40 is even harder.
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