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Audio

 

 

All of the three episodes have been created to be listened to in a structured manner: The first episode is Speech which focuses on my story in particular and I explain my story through the narration and speaking to others such as Michelle Baynham a speech and language therapist based in Lincolnshire.

 

 

The second episode was sound, with me speaking to Megan a deaf student at the university of Lincoln,  a group of parents from the Lincoln Deaf Children’s society and  George Tipler from All Hear in Lincoln.

 

Finally was Sight where focused on talking to Ben a visually impaired student at the University of Lincoln, Di from social paws a local guide dog group and volunteers at the Lincoln and Linsey blind society.

 

 

 

 

 

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Our editing process

This post will discuss how we went through the editing process to make it as smooth as possible and make sure that time wasn’t wasted in the process.

First of all we would conduct the interview with either a zoom or a phone in one case, the audio would then be placed onto one of our laptops and put onto the google drive that we had.

 

The next step was for one of us to then transcribe the interview so that we could copy text out of it into the finalised script document. This was a method i learnt from my time at a production company in London and I felt that it sped the process up.

Following on from this we would then write the script either on our own or as a group and then would make relevant changes.

After a finalised script had been agreed I would then record the narration in a varying amount of takes.

Following on from this I would then do a rough edit of everything, meaning that the interviews were in the right place, the levels were okay and music cues were put in, but were still to be agreed.  If needed I would also delete parts of the interviews that I didn’t feel worked.

Finally, we all sat and listened to epsiode and agreed where music needed to be changed or levels needed to be adjusted.

In terms of supporting content, this was done after, with the subtitles being put on to the final version of the episode and the experience videos being made at the same time by Molly.

 

 

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Budget

While not as important for this project as it was for the last one where we pitching a programme, keeping track of the costs is still important and needed.

 

The theoretical budget was a guideline for how much we thought that we would have to pay to do the project, this means it includes things such as equipment rental or studio hire which in reality we didn’t have to pay for.

Theoretical Budget

 

The actual budget was how much we spent on the project, with us only having to pay for our travel to and from different places.

Actual Budget

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Weekly Diary

Week This week we did
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This week we met and finalised our idea. Despite our original idea being based around making a documentary type programme on speech therapy, this was expanded to be a three-part series of podcasts, with each of them focusing on a different sense with none of them having importance over each, leading to the name senses.  Yet because of the time limit we have and issues around getting enough people to talk to us, we focused on three senses these being, speech, blindness and deafness.Each episode will run for around 20 minutes.

This week I started to research different organisations around Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire and started to put contact details in the grid Molly had created
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This week we discussed again what our ideas were and how we were going to implement them , alongside creative ways in which we could go about doing this, such as in the blindness having someone who is blind describing what they can see. I also had a meeting with rose to discuss the learning objectives that i would need to discuss and how I would get a client for the project, from this i started to talk to hospital radio stations locally and charity groups by offering them the podcast.

Me and Molly also discussed a strategy in getting people to interview with me focusing on Nottinghamshire and Molly on Lincolnshire.

 

 
3

This week we continued to contact the groups in and around Lincoln. I received two responses from the previous weeks emails and replied on these and Molly got 2. Molly got in touch with the Lincoln and Lindsey Blind Society in Louth, where she has organised an interview for next week.  I also confirmed my learning objectives with rose, alongside pursuing a client at all costs but with a certain doubt in my mind that i would succeed after receiving no replies and decided that it may be worth looking at putting the project on Siren Radio.

 
4

This week we continued to contact the groups in and around Lincoln. I received two responses from the previous weeks emails and replied on these and Molly got 2. Molly got in touch with the Lincoln and Lindsey Blind Society in Louth, where she has organised an interview for next week.  I also confirmed my learning objectives with rose, alongside pursuing a client at all costs but with a certain doubt in my mind that i would succeed after receiving no replies and decided that it may be worth looking at putting the project on Siren Radio.

 
5

This week started with us interviewing the Lincoln and Lindsey blind society which Molly arranged.  Despite being unsure what to expect from the interview it was very good, as there were 5 members of the society who gave us insight into what they do, what its like to work with blind people and being a young blind adult. We also went and visited the Lincolnshire Children’s Deaf Society in Birchwood, despite their being children both me and Molly felt a bit uneasy interviewing children so we only talked to the parents.

In the meeting with Rose we talk about we still hadn’t got very far with the Deafness episode and she was able to give us some people to contact, of which Molly and Simon are getting in contact with. We again talked about ‘creative content’ this meaning the supporting material that is made to go with the podcasts such as videos and how we can be creative with the programmes themselves. 

 
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This week  Molly had booked an interview with a blind woman, however, due to a mixup on where it was supposed to take place, it was rearranged for another day. In the meeting with Rose, I discussed the chat with Ryan the assistant editor of Siren FM that I had earlier that week about putting the podcasts out as a one-off hour-long programme. This lead to an agreement that they would be aired and all that was needed was a date to be set.

 
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This week after our meeting with Rose, Molly and Chole went to ask about talking to someone about the guide dogs that where on campus on Friday. Unfortunately this never ended up leading to anything and as result, we were quite panicked about getting someone to talk about guide dogs. We then went to the students union to discuss if we could get a mass email sent out asking for blind/deaf students to get in touch with us.  As well as this Molly got in touch with Social Paws, of which they are visiting on Monday and a partially sighted student on campus who we are talking to on Friday

 

Molly then recorded Vox Pops around campus and in town, asking:

If you had to lose one of your senses, what would it be and why? – we found the majority of students would rather lose their speech.  In terms of the goal I set myself this week it was to work towards getting content for our sight episode and continue with the others.

 

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2018/03/labradorable-guide-dogs-help-lincoln-students-de-stress/
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On Monday we visited Hykeham to meet Di from Social Paws, one of the founders of a local guide dog group. We went to her house and met her guide dog Bridie, who we’d met on Wednesday. I thought the interview went quite well apart from not knowing what to expect, or knowing if Di was sighted or blind.

 

On Friday I interviewed Ben Cheney, a partially sighted student at the University of Lincoln. He was really easy to talk to and we found out that there was not a lot a large amount of support for him at uni. I found that this interview was the best one I had conducted so far because he was very easy to talk to.

 

Unfortunately our meeting with the therapists was cancelled due to the snow, however we are rearrranging this for after easter.

 

My goal this week was to write the script for blindness.

 

 

 
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This week we focused on editing the script for the Blind Podcast Episode, which me and Molly did for a two day period. Later on in the week we then recorded the narration for this episode of the podcast.

I then edited the interviews down into useable chunks following the script, placed my narration and then started to do a rough edit of the episode, without music.

 

My goal this week was to finish the sight episode.
Easter This week we finished doing the blindness episode when we spent a solid day of finding music that fits, and ensuring the levels were okay for everyone.
Easter

On Monday I interviewed Megan, a partially deaf student at the University of Lincoln. This went well apart from me being a tad flustered when I was interviewing Megan and I couldn’t recover. However the content was useable.

 

The next day I interviewed Michelle a sppech therapist based in Lincoln, this interview was good fun and was quite interesting for me being that I had experienced therapy myself.

 

 

 
10 This week we scripted the speech episode and then recorded the narration for this so that it could then be turned into a rough edit into audition. My goal for this week was to finish editing the speech episode so that it could be finished for the following week.
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This week we had received Rose’s feedback on the sight episode so I worked through this and made the changes. Rose also suggested that we use nosie reduction software to remove clicks and whispers that were present in certain interviews and she then showed us how to do this.  On the 19th of April we met with George Tipler, an audiologist at AllHear in Lincoln, our final interview for the project.  Following on from this we then sat down to begin writing the script for sound once this was finished I then recorded the narration and Chloe started to create a rough edit that we would put music in later.

 

The goals this week were to get better at using noise reduction software and finish the entire project!

 

 

 

 
12 On Monday I started doing the editing of the rough mixes, by putting in music, changing levels and at times altering the order in which things were done. I also did basic edits such as cutting out breathes or pauses alongside deleting whole bits that we previously thought worked.  Furthermore, I also made a weebly website which is where our multiplatform content will be placed. This meant that Molly and Chloe worked on doing subtitle videos for each episode so that they could be enjoyed by those who are deaf.  Molly also worked on a ‘360 vision experience’ and I worked on a sound equivalent, these were then all placed on the website along with the audio.  I also spoke to Ryan about getting him the files

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Contributors

Clare Nunn

This interview was probably the most awkward one out of all of them being that I was interviewing my own mum and the topic was about me. I felt this could have gone better if I’d of had one of the other members of the team on Skype etc to help feed me questions to ask.

Michelle Baynham from SpeechLincs

This interview went well, I was nervous though due to Michelle having had experience of working with ‘proper’ journalists, furthermore we also ran out of questions meaning that some of the questions that I asked weren’t relevant. However it turned out alright and we got Michelle to do exercises which we hope the listener will engage with.

Sarah Edwards

-Done over Skype by Molly-

Sam Orr

-Chloe-

Ben Cheney

This was probably one of the best interviews I did and it shows in the audio, as I come across confidently and don’t yabber on like for some of them I did. Alongside this I also found Ben’s story very interesting and as a result was more engrossed in the interviews.

Di Vaughan from SocialPaws

Interviewing Di was interesting, as we had no clue what to expect, we didn’t even know if she was blind or fully sighted. However, the questions that me and Molly asked were relevant and what we discussed was used heavily throughout the sight episode and despite the awkward start, it became easier as I went on.

Lincoln and Lindsey Blind Society

Again we didn’t know what to expect in this interview, it turned out to be a group of people and as a result, we got the best content out of it that we could have done.  As we grew in our confidence we also became more audacious in our questions.

Lincoln Children’s Deaf Society-

For this one, we knew there would be a mixture of children and Adults, something we hadn’t previously experienced and as result, this didn’t go as well as it could have done. Both me and Molly were fine talking to the parents but interviewing the children was something that we struggled with

George from Allhear

George’s interview was very successful and quite productive in terms of content as he talked about a wide variety of topics and was interesting, we did, however, forget the zoom recorder meaning we had to use a phone and this has compromised the quality.

Megan Astill

For Megan’s interview, I was ‘a mess’ as i struggled to think on my feet without Molly feeding questions to me, yet the interview worked out well and what we discussed was used.