- Maker: Mike Lynn
- Genre: Podcast
- Level: Graduate
- Program: Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
- Course: WRIT 5800: Editing, Layout, and Design
- Instructor: Dr. Eric Mason
- Semester Created: Winter 2020
Description:
Directors’ Commentary is a podcast featuring the Assistant Director of Student Media (Mike Lynn) and the Director of Student Media (Adam DeRoss), featuring applied knowledge of sonic composition and musicality. This podcast would be featured as one of many segments at NSU’s student-run radio station, RadioX. This segment would also be an ongoing series to connect with other scholars researching multimodal composition and looking to share their thoughts and experiences with the student population of NSU.
Reflection:
The design thinkin process was similar to that of other podcasts that I’ve helped produce in the past couple of years, starting with the planning phase of considering what questions to keep in mind and ultimately aiming towards a central question to uncover. As opposed to a standard writing assignment, you have to account for other podcast members’ schedules, tone of voice, distracting background elements, and overall production quality. However, you can play these elements to your advantage by researching other podcasts and taking note of patterns for how a podcast is structured.
Overall, I would say that I’m most satisfied with the discourse between Adam and I, I felt that the conversation was fruitful overall. I wish that we could’ve recorded in a professional studio with studio microphones and a soundproof room. Similarly, I wanted to get even deeper into the conversation, but I feel that an additional third guest may have opened an opportunity for the conversation to blossom into deeper concepts. The conventions were followed in a similar fashion to other podcasts that I have produced or have been featured in prior to this assignment, including the design of the episode cover, the usage of background music for an intro/outro, and cutting down some of the empty spaces to maintain the momentum of ideas.
