April 29th

Friday, April 29th

Today was the last day working on my project, and I did a ton! It was a very exciting day, because I really got to see all of my hard work come together. I spent a large chunk of my time today writing an introduction and conclusion for the podcast. For the introduction, I wanted to write something that explained my project but also didn't give to much away. The introduction was the easy part. I struggled a lot more with the conclusion. I learned SO much along the way during the making of this podcast, so it was very difficult to summarize the important parts. I wrote a number of different drafts until I finally settled on a few main points that I got out of my interviews.

After I wrote both of these, I recorded them, which took a few takes each. Then, I added them to the full podcast. What I didn't think of earlier was that when I added the introduction, it messed up the timing of ALL of the other clips I had in the podcast already. So, after I added it, I spent a very large amount of time moving clips around and making sure the timing was right. The trickiest part is getting the transitions, but I finally established a good technique to making the transitions effective and clean.

Finally, I did one last run through of the entire podcast, making sure there were no errors. The podcast is an hour and fifteen minutes long, so this took a very considerable amount of time. Even though it took a while, it was so worth it because I love my project! It's informative and also interesting, which is exactly what I was going for.