digital audio - product

Product - We had 2 end products to create for the digital audio mission, we made a powerpoint presentation and a podcast for our project.

We began by doing primary research for our powerpoint by agreeing to come in early and stay in college late to get work done, we tried using the college library to do our research but found that there were never enough computers available for us to each be working on something simultaneously which slowed down the process of making our presentation. I suggested we use google slides so that we can all be simultaneously  working on the one presentation from separate accounts somewhat speeding up the process. This allowed us to share our findings quickly over the internet rather than sending screenshots and links in the slack channels and snapchat groupchats. This also meant we had easier access to each others information meaning we could use bits and pieces from each other, creating a real collaborative experience, and splitting the workload between the 3 of us. Ultimately we found this to not be beneficial as it made our project feel very separate as if it were 3 individual projects. I was also given the advice while researching to check a websites sources to make sure it was not previously sourced from an unreliable source such as wikipedia where it could be easily changed. We made our presentation, uploaded it on Moodle and presented in front of our group and received a 2/3

We also made a podcast to demonstrate our learning about the digital audio production. I first downloaded audacity onto my laptop as I had previous experience and was able to show my teammates how to make edits themselves so we could each add to the podcast. We used a blue snowball microphone to record our final product although we had tried on multiple occasions to record our podcast, always finding it hard to find a quiet room to record in, an empty room and we had planned to have a guest appear on our podcast so trying to find a time to suit us all proved to be more difficult than we thought. Eventually we found a time and place to suit us all to record but due to one of my team mates and the guest bickering he asked that we delete the recording and do it without him , putting us under unnecessary time pressure as it was very close to the time that we were supposed to present. Luckily we did manage to find a small empty room in the D block in which we could record our podcast just prior to presenting, the room seemed perfectly laid out as there were 3 chairs, and a small round table for us to sit around and record our podcast. We recorded for about half an hour, but after reviewing we cut it down to 25 minutes, we submitted our products and received a 2/3.

link to our podacast - https://soundcloud.com/user-181237947/pocast-1?in=conordiabhal/sets/sannibruh