I chose to do an
audio podcast. It's the podcast medium I'm most familiar with and Jessica did
suggest Audioboo.fm, so I thought, "That will work."
My first roll of the
dice and I moved four spaces and went up the ladder to 14.
Rolled a 3. Wouldn't
you know it, Audioboo only allows a three minute podcast and my script was
going over that unless I wanted to edit it more than I was willing.
Back to square
7, so I recorded my first version using the Voicememo app on my iPhone and
dubbed in the background music by playing it on my computer. Okay, it sounded
amateurish but was legible and I thought if I was unable to figure out a better
way, I'd go with that.
Read some info at Top 5 Pieces of Free Podcasting Software | Richard Farrar's
Blog recommended to me and decided to download Audacity and
use the Logitech microphone on my desktop. That gave me a roll of 2 and an
advance to 31.
After another
roll, I figured out how to save the recorded in an MP3 format by downloading Lame1, which described how I was feeling.
So far so good,
though, until I tried to copy and paste the MP3 file into my post. I landed on
34 and found myself back at 24. More reading and downloading, first Filezilla -
too complicated - and then FileDen, which was a whole lot easier.
I was stuck on the
bottom half of the gameboard when I couldn't figure out how to embed the link
to the MP3 file into the image of the gameboard, but I figure I'll be on 61
facing two snakes until I've posted this.
The experience of
creating my podcast and its subject matter are eerily similar...
With apologies for the sound quality, but really, it's apt, rather like shooting a movie about the Great Depression in black and white.
With apologies for the sound quality, but really, it's apt, rather like shooting a movie about the Great Depression in black and white.
