SUBJECT: PODCAST 2 EVALUATION

GRADE LEVEL: 2

NFCE Level 2 Award In Podcasting April 2013

1.1 Evaluation of the software & hardware requirements for publishing a podcast.
The software used for creating my podcast is LogicPro and it is an application used for professionals such as musicians and film makers alike. It allows to create music, soundtracks and wild tracks, fine tuning external recording and adding additional sounds or voice recording also known as dubbing. So you can do pretty much everything with this piece of software if you know how to navigate your way around through it, which needs some getting used to as the option menu is loaded with buttons and effects that might intimidate you. A training to use the software is required to deliver good results. Also a mic is need to record a podcast and plugged in directly to a computer, do not worry about the levels and the quality of the sound, all that can be corrected through LogicPro.

1.2 Asses how broadcast laws have the potential impact of a podcast.
Podcasting is legislated through MCPS and PRS,so any material used that belongs to someone else is subject to copyright laws. PRS stands for Performing Rights Society founded in 1914 is a UK copyright collection society undertaking collective rights management for musical works. MCPS stands for Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society and it sits under the broader PRS for Musical brand, and licenses your mechanical (reproduction) rights and pays your royalties. These organisations are in charge of collecting money for artists and podcasters whenever their creations get to be played.

1.3 Subscribe to a selection of existing podcasts.

Here are some examples of podcasts I subscribed to using iTunes and they are categorised as follows: 1. Music 2. Education 3. TV & Film 4. Technology

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1.4 evaluating the content of selected podcast

The podcasts are both downloadable and streamable. iTunes gives you the ability to stream the podcasts and listen to them live or download it to your computer, iPod or iPhone if you wish to listen to them whenever you desire. The podcasts I have subscribed to are well recorded and very audible. the size of the podcasts do not exceed 4 mb and the duration varies from 30 minutes up to one hour. The topic of the podcasts were interesting and engaging, and the podcast was relevant to the topic and the title, so they clearly knew what they were talking about with glibness.

2.1 Identify a subject for a podcast.

The topic for my podcast will be a short biography of Steve Jobs.

2.2 Dene an appropriate target audience.

As the topic of my podcast is a personality that change the world in terms of changing the way phones look and operate, so the target audience would any one that owns a touch screen smart phone and Steve Jobs fan as well, and they count by millions.

2.3 / 2.4 Write a script for a podcast and create a timetable or running order.
Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955 to two university students, Joanne Carole Schieble, of Swiss Catholic descent, and Syrian-born Abdulfattah "John" Jandali, who were both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Steve was born, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriend's family objected to their relationship. ...................................................................................................................(1:20 mn) The baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (19221993) and Clara Jobs (1924 1986), an Armenian American whose maiden name was Hagopian. According to Steve Jobs's commencement address at Stanford, Schieble wanted Jobs to be adopted only by a collegegraduate couple. Schieble learned that Clara Jobs didn't graduate from college and Paul Jobs only attended high school, but signed final adoption papers after they promised her that the child would definitely be encouraged and supported to attend college. Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents", Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents". He stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%". Unknown to him, his biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child, novelist Mona Simpson, in 1957, and divorce in 1962. ....................................................................................(1:32 mn) The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was five years old. The parents later adopted a daughter, Patty. Paul worked as a mechanic and a carpenter, and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. The father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, Steve became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering. ........................................(1:23 mn) Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son's higher education. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."...........(1:05 mn) In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs was among the first to see the
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commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. He also played a role in introducing the LaserWriter, one of the first widely available laser printers, to the market. As the new CEO of the company, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of these products and services provided several years of stable financial returns, and propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011. ...................................................................................................................................................................(1:28 mn) In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumour. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined. On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned in August that year, and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of respiratory arrest related to his metastatic tumor on October 5, 2011. .......................................................................................(1:12 mn)

2.5 Evaluate the planning process.

The planning helped a lot in getting the podcast to run smoothly and organised, there was nothing left out or forgotten to be done, as I sticked to the script and running order. I read the script twice to avoid any stuttering, then recorded the podcast on EDIROL and then imported it to my computer where I edited it using GarageBand. If I was to do it again, I would edit the recording on LogicPro instead of GarageBand. This latter lacks a lot of options that helps fine tuning the sound, such as limiter and compressor.

GarageBand

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Evaluating the process of editing.

3.5 My podcasts is 3.2 MB and in mp3 format at 44.1 kHz sample rate. It is uploaded using SoundCloud and embedded in my website. 3.6 Editing the podcast on GarageBand was easy, I just had to worry about getting the best bits and taking out the bad parts. And the built-in fades, getting the right volume and ducking the background music which means turning the background music when starting speaking have been done automatically for me. Which saved me a lot of time.

Review nal podcast.

4.2 At the end of my podcast, I realised that the most important part of any project is the planning, it helps make the whole process of production run smoothly and flawlessly which I should have done better, in the future if I get the chance to work in a media production project I would plan the whole thing through and every bit of it and document it on paper before I start executing it.

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