Media arts internship March 7 - 8, 2015

March 7

I created and scheduled the post for this weeks podcast recording and refined the show notes. I got permission from one band to use their music for the shows intro and outro. I planning on instituting the new music once the regular season starts.

I also started work on putting together a GIF of Dallas Keuchel frame by frame. I’m about 29 frames through and I’m still not sure if this GIF will work or not. I may be short some frames but I’ll make it work.

March 8

I finished putting together the Dallas Keuchel GIF and will release a post on it later this week. I also updated the bracket for our March Madness tournament which completed it’s first round on Sunday. 

Sunday night I prepared and recorded our podcast for the week.

Media arts internship March 4 - 5, 2015

March 4, 2015

I created the podcast notes for this weeks show and started refining them for this upcoming recording. I also had to schedule another co-host since David was unsure if he’d be available.

March 5, 2015

Spent two hours trimming and putting the Dallas Keuchel video I grabbed into a format that I could import to photoshop for the GIF project. I then reviewed some music from a Houston based band that was willing to allow us to use their music for the podcast.

They can be found here:

http://www.thesoapboxrevolution.com/

Media arts internship catching up February 26, March 1 - 2, 2015

I am a little behind on my journal entries. I've been very busy with family and an assignment from my cinematography course. Those excuses aside, I haven't really had any interesting entries lately.

February 26, 2015

Read several articles looking for content for the upcoming recording and coordinated with a guest to join us on the show. Updated the bracket for our march madness tournament, which we’re about halfway through.

March 1 - 2, 2015

March 1, I prepared for the weekly podcast recording and then recorded the episode. Afterwards we took some time to discuss some projects on the site.

March 2, I edited the podcast and scheduled it to post. This podcast required me to edit a little bit more. Our guest was using wifi for the first part of the interview, but it got so bad with the disconnects that I ended up calling him back on his phone via Skype. The connection was much better, but the quality of the audio suffered. I had to edit it together so it wasn’t so jarring to hear the different audio quality. All the editing did allow me to get some outtakes that I put at the end of the podcast as an extra for podcast listeners who listen past the outro music.

Media arts internship February 24, 2015

I got some nice feedback from someone on the sound of the podcast so I took some time to respond to that. To go along with that I decided to refresh the podcast survey I did last year. I’ll be promoting the survey during the next recording. I found the survey very useful in getting feedback that I can act on to improve the podcast. I then started working on show notes for the upcoming podcast. Here’s what the survey looks like:

http://goo.gl/forms/L2pySSuFuo

Finally, I decided to go ahead and grab video for a GIF project I want to start working on. I’ll have more details on that later, but it took about two hours to grab all the video I needed.

Media arts internship February 23, 2015

I edited the podcast as usual and scheduled it to be released Tuesday morning on the site. I decided to change up the format of the show notes. I was doing bullet style show notes with one liners, but I would like to expand them a bit to take advantage of SEO. Here's the final product, with post.

Screw the Oscars, baseball is back!

During the podcast I asked if anyone was part of a band or musically inclined and wanted to contribute to the music of the show, which I would like to refresh, to contact me via email. I had one band, Glass the Sky, contact me. If they're cool with it, I might do something like play one of their songs at the end of a podcast episode with a plug for them.