Blog Post #6: Wrapping Up

 As I am writing this entry, we have essentially one more work day of the project, and then the presentations. This blog post will serve to detail our last few days of work, while the next will focus on doing some reflecting as we head into the end of the project. Let's hop to it.

Wednesday

Wednesday saw the continuation of our typical formula that has worked so well for us: scheduled recording sessions throughout the day with various tasks and activities interspersed. Wednesday was focused mostly on production of episodes 3 and 4, with nearly all of the episode 3 lines being recorded this day. 

Thursday

Thursday was much the same as Wednesday, with the exception that we had a check in with out mentor in the morning to make sure everything was still on track heading into the end of the project. We also asked a few questions about the best strategies to edit in the most efficient way, as well as scheduling another follow up for the next Tuesday. 

Workin' on the podcast

Friday

Friday was a day of heavy editing. We had acquired all of the audio for episodes 3 and 4, so we spent basically all day working on editing. In addition, Luke and I worked together to finalize the outline of episode 5 so that he could begin writing it and so that we could begin determining how many voices we would need for the episode. 

Tuesday

The big first task on Tuesday was finalizing the script for episode 5. This took basically the whole morning, and then some. We also began recording voices for episode 5, and, most exciting of all, have published the first episode! The podcast can be found on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1EoPBj1XzzNmwpwElkTb5h

Celebrating the publishing of the first episode

All in all, the project has come together quite nicely. It's especially really pleasing to see the podcast actually out on Spotify and to know that we really have made something. Next steps are to figure out how to publish on platforms other than Spotify, to upload episode 2, and continue working on the rest of the episodes. The current release plan is to release the first two episodes this week, and then to release one a week after that, as a once-a-week schedule is very popular for many podcasts. 

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