Weekly Broadcasting and Podcasting

For the broadcasting class at AI I had the privilege to lead a team of students to create weekly radio broadcasts.  Each broadcast had a certain amount of advertisements needed as well as new content every week based on our format that we chose.  For my team we chose comedy radio play style piece about a team of audio engineers stuck in space, and the adventures that they went on.  We had to create scripts for the ads and for the play weekly, and the amount of time we had to broadcast grew each week as well.  It took a couple weeks to really get everyone on the team involved and working smoothly, but when we hit our stride we got better and better in all aspects.  It was great to help lead the team in a creative direction, as well as watching us grow together as a team.  We spent a lot of time each week making sure everything was top quality, and at a rapid pace.  There were many strict deadlines which we had to meet, and as we went on it got easier and easier to meet those requirements.  Working with fellow students and voice actors was great to add a unique flair to our piece.  It was probably the most intense 6 weeks of recording that I’ll have at the art institute but it was really important for developing core skills and attention to detail, as well as team work aspects as well.  The use of memory locations within Pro Tools was key for our timing and our success at filling in enough time each week.  While it was highly challenging at times it was also a lot of fun.