Background on topic and the first podcast

The topic of my blog is the art and entertainment scene on the Texas Tech campus. The inspiration for this topic came from my experience as a freshman without a car, it was a dull year to say the least. Had I known of all the activities that take place on campus, I would have had a better first year. My hope is that through this blog, people will realize that the Tech campus can be an entertaining place. Although, I am not alone in covering this topic, I will be the only one specifically covering the Tech campus.

My first podcast was an interview with Tech Gaming League president, Daniel Sneed. The time spent with the interviewee totaled an hour, although the audio was roughly 11 minutes long. Due to the casual nature of the interview, the greatest challenge in creating the podcast was editing out all the “ums” and “ahs.” Through trial and error, finding the pauses became easier, but the “ums” and “ahs” that ran directly into other words were still difficult to edit out, if at all possible.

Another problem I encountered was an echo that the finished mp3 file would play back. I never found the solution to this problem, although by exporting the audacity project as a wav file, the echo stopped.

I believe the greatest challenge in creating my podcast series is scripting some dialogue to follow without forcing the conversation. An outline would help avoid a scripted conversation and also keep the interview on course.