This is my evaluation for our unit 5 product.
For this unit I worked as a team with a classmate (James Reynolds) to create a podcast that we would both enjoy listening to as well as being interactive for everyone that should listen. Our original ideas were to tell stories of real crimes, possibly unsolved or shocking enough to be interesting. We then discussed the idea of producing a podcast surrounding things that we both knew things about but in different ways. This resulted in our final products idea; a podcast about films you should know (How we created the name.)
‘Films you should know’ Is a podcast surrounding the idea of watching different film genres and entirely knew films to the both of us that would allow us to give fresh and unbiased opinions on the movies we asked each other to watch. The movie I had selected for James to watch is an animation named Big hero 6.
Big hero 6 is a film about a smart pre-teen named Hiro Hamada that regularly attends bot fights, his brother Tadashi disagrees with this hobby and says he should attend his school (Otherwise known as the “Nerd Lab.”) Hiro doesn’t want to go until they visit and a life changing event happens… There is an explosion at the school and Tadashi runs in. Hiro then goes on to attend the university and creates a team of superheros.
The film Big hero 6 is a huge contrast to the movie that James had chosen for me to watch and review, True Romance.
The movie True Romance is a film about a nerdy guy named Clarence who falls in love with a call girl named Alabama. Their love story would have been nothing out of sorts if it weren’t for Clarence deciding to go to pick up Alabama’s clothes (He definitely didn’t have just that in mind, though.) and it turns quickly to an interference with the local gangs and Alabama’s pimp. Rather than picking up Alabama’s clothes, Clarence somehow ends up finding that he accidentally had a bag of cocaine worth hundreds of thousands.
The contrast between two films would have made for a podcast that involved all kinds of film fans while opening up opportunities to discover new movies to watch, recommended by someone with similar tastes to them. This idea would have gone well, we had written the script and layout of the podcast but there was one issue… James hadn’t watched my movie suggestion in time for recording.
This was our very first problem with planning and creating our podcast, it was easily fixed with audiences being unknowing to our changes and mistakes however this changed the layout of our entire podcast, throwing off all previous script ideas aside from the few questions we had written out. After everything was organised once again we had to then record.
When recording was to happen we had booked all of the equipment that was necessary (zoom H1) and find a quiet place to record, the studio was fully booked
Pros & Cons: The Podcast. 