Our second week of training has officially come to a close and it looks like us weekday higher's are starting to the get the hang of things. During our Thursday meeting we planned out how our podcasts are going to work. We got everything figured out except the name. So far we're sticking with wepod, but hopefully some creative thinking this weekend will result in a better name. = )
Our homework this weekend promises to bring us some relief from the heat. Hopefully some locally made icecream will offer some respite as we explore stores in the greater seattle area. Working to create our first real vox pop is sure to bring us more experience. Have an awesome rest of the weekend everybody!
For Weekday High, I'm Michelle Dutro = )
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
The One in Which FTP Fails Us
Today: new radio trio is born, ftp foils us, and Bryce coughs up a hairball.
Some highlights:
-- The invention of "B A M". (See previous post.) Translation: "B"ryce, "A"rtur and "M"olly. If they all host a show together, they're going to rock the radio (and acronym) world. BAM! They're stirring up some show ideas... keep them coming, WeHigh!
-- Beno's battle with Audition & ftp. Poor guy. The system kept skipping on him and foiling progress. Tech says the ftp was down. It cost Beno two computers and multiple hours. (And no, he was not blushing.) Once he's done, though, he'll have a great piece on refereeing amongst crazy soccer parents.
-- Keano, besides being super swift on Audition, is bringing back the hat and longboard. (Photos to come.)
-- Bryce comes up with great audio to accompany his essay. It's about his love of pets... and the 17 cats he once lived with. There's also some great audio involving a coughed up hairball, but let Bryce show you that.
-- Molly describes "tacking" and other joys of sailing. Her audio and adjectives make me feel like taking to the high seas....
-- Michelle and Lizzie wrap up their first Audition project. Rock stars!
Some highlights:
-- The invention of "B A M". (See previous post.) Translation: "B"ryce, "A"rtur and "M"olly. If they all host a show together, they're going to rock the radio (and acronym) world. BAM! They're stirring up some show ideas... keep them coming, WeHigh!
-- Beno's battle with Audition & ftp. Poor guy. The system kept skipping on him and foiling progress. Tech says the ftp was down. It cost Beno two computers and multiple hours. (And no, he was not blushing.) Once he's done, though, he'll have a great piece on refereeing amongst crazy soccer parents.
-- Keano, besides being super swift on Audition, is bringing back the hat and longboard. (Photos to come.)
-- Bryce comes up with great audio to accompany his essay. It's about his love of pets... and the 17 cats he once lived with. There's also some great audio involving a coughed up hairball, but let Bryce show you that.
-- Molly describes "tacking" and other joys of sailing. Her audio and adjectives make me feel like taking to the high seas....
-- Michelle and Lizzie wrap up their first Audition project. Rock stars!
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
B A M
The best talk show to never happen.
Apologies to Molly, the bus went over a ditch in the road or something when I was drawing your eyes.
Welcome back, Keano
We're finally starting to feel like a full family here at Weekday High with the return of Keano. He came to our first training session but has since been hoofing it through the North Cascades. He's a radio whiz kid, though, so it's great to have him around. Check out his work on Nathan Hale High School's radio station, C89.5.
Anyway, yesterday we crammed into the small conference room for a session on developing a story idea with Weekday's Steve Scher. We like to think of him as Uncle Steve.
Stay tuned in a few weeks for the story we started piecing together yesterday on budget cuts to high school athletics.
In the meantime, we edited scripts and are almost ready to mix together our first pieces. They'll be featured on Weekday High's KUOW webpage.
Anyway, yesterday we crammed into the small conference room for a session on developing a story idea with Weekday's Steve Scher. We like to think of him as Uncle Steve.
Stay tuned in a few weeks for the story we started piecing together yesterday on budget cuts to high school athletics.
In the meantime, we edited scripts and are almost ready to mix together our first pieces. They'll be featured on Weekday High's KUOW webpage.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Bang!
That's the sound of week two getting off to a great start here at Weekday High.
We spent an hour chatting with KEXP's DJ Shani. She talked about music radio and we explored the overlapping areas of the radio Venn Diagram (Music vs. Talk radio). Turns out the interviewing techniques are the same for a band as they are for a politician (including substance abuse, scandals, and gaffes). And music, like news, is about storytelling. Thanks to DJ Shani for coming in, we look forward to working with her again later in the summer!
I tried my darndest to shake academic writing out of the interns - keep it simple and sharp! Write for the ear, not the eye! Show me, don't tell me!
I leaned heavily on the exercises I learned from the "Host Whisperer," David Candow. We went through this weekend's writing project with the help of Candow's Yellow Flags for Radio Writing. We also started learning how to mouth edit a piece: read two sentences, then look up from the page and say them out loud. Can't do it? The sentences are too long or complicated. Change or move words? That's the order you should stick with. It's basically a way to bypass your eyes and let your mouth and ears do their own editing.
Also, I rambled pointlessly, Bryce ate some pizza, Artur doodled, Beno got sunburned, and the girls just rolled their eyes at us...
We spent an hour chatting with KEXP's DJ Shani. She talked about music radio and we explored the overlapping areas of the radio Venn Diagram (Music vs. Talk radio). Turns out the interviewing techniques are the same for a band as they are for a politician (including substance abuse, scandals, and gaffes). And music, like news, is about storytelling. Thanks to DJ Shani for coming in, we look forward to working with her again later in the summer!
I tried my darndest to shake academic writing out of the interns - keep it simple and sharp! Write for the ear, not the eye! Show me, don't tell me!
I leaned heavily on the exercises I learned from the "Host Whisperer," David Candow. We went through this weekend's writing project with the help of Candow's Yellow Flags for Radio Writing. We also started learning how to mouth edit a piece: read two sentences, then look up from the page and say them out loud. Can't do it? The sentences are too long or complicated. Change or move words? That's the order you should stick with. It's basically a way to bypass your eyes and let your mouth and ears do their own editing.
Also, I rambled pointlessly, Bryce ate some pizza, Artur doodled, Beno got sunburned, and the girls just rolled their eyes at us...
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