Jackson:

This week I was out of town and used my time to continue working on some of the pages build out aspects and listening to some raw audio of Bill Savage. I hope to turn the Bill Savage one into a rough podcast in these next weeks as I have more free time. As the year comes to a close we continue to look for prospective legacies.

Asa:

This week I was burdened with finishing the Tristan/will podcast by Saturday. I listened to the audio and it has a lot of potential with them talking about surfing and O'Leary being the main dude for inspiration. Their talk of surfing is really fun to listen to because its the same type of jargon you would hear down at Waipio or somewhere with nutz waves brah, which I think will be interesting for people who have never been around that to hear. I have made markings of where the best parts out of the 35 minutes of audio are.

Jackson:

We’re returning to the drawing board on several podcasts which need some further editing although they have some good moments. Asa is generally working on editing some of those podcasts while I'm working on the page build out and writing some of our descriptions and summaries. Looking into the future, we’re hoping to release with four podcasts and release some of our other later on according to a schedule.

Asa:

This week we went through all the podcasts we have that we want to go on the website. We have Kassner, Buki (being edited again by me, cut out the insensitive Africa comment), Bleckle, and Barbash. We have made a google document that has all the descriptions that will go into the written part of the website. We have decided to make a process description and a physical description of our actual interview. We also have a scheduled meeting with a famous man in podcasting named Neil Conan who will judge our audio sound quality and so on and so forth.

Jackson

We’re focusing on consumer reaction in the last months. We’re hoping to release our podcasts on the website in the next few weeks. Part of this will require us to create a page build out with what information we need to present like a project summary and podcast descriptions.

Asa:

This week we are finalizing the podcasts that we have and are getting ready next week to go public with them. Schorn also is pushing us to find people to take over our next project next year as to not lose our footing for the years to come. I have Matt Vasquez in mind and I have approached him and he seems really into our project. We are thinking about 4 people would be the best for this project, as it has proved to be very difficult on two people. I Cant wait for next week when we launch and finally get ourselves out there.

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Jackson:

We interviewed Diane and and Bill Savage. Bill and Diane started a nonprofit that provides clean water sources to communities in africa. Bill is also a former students of HPA who graduated in the 60’s. In our interview we were able to talk about his time at HPA and how it developed in him qualities that fostered a lifetime of service. I also interviewed Will Savage and Tristan Sienkewitz. We were able to talk about their passion of surf photography and artistic energy.

Asa:

This week we recorded Bill and Diane Savage. Bill graduated from HPA in 1961. He described the campus really well, giving us a glimpse into the HPA community’s past. He was interesting to talk to because he really idolized James Taylor and constantly would quote him, according to his life. Jackson later suggested the idea of making the interview into 2 podcasts because of the very different topics of each half, one about africa and their organization, and one about HPA community way back when. This is a good idea because then we can both work on the “same” podcast at the same time which splits up our workload really well.

Jackson:

This week ended with International day which was a great opportunity for us to talk to international students and get good audio “footage”. Going into international day was a great opportunity for asa and I too practice planning. We broke down international day by time slots and decided what would be good workshops to attend and get audio for. Then we look at what angles or themes we wanted to explore which, involved creating a basic questions list. On the day itself I had a great time messing around getting interesting audio. It was a great experience to practice getting audio and interviews done outside of the studio, it made us have to solve problems with environmental factors and interference like wind and acoustics. The audio we got will be great to use in a podcast about international day and beyond.

Asa:

This week I have wrapped up the edit of Mr. Bleckel. I just need to work on adding music into his speech. We were getting ready to record for international day on monday and have set up a google doc on how to approach, by getting white noise of the crowd, the chanting, the classes and many different languages that will be there. I also recorded the tech boys (dillon and jaxon) and that interview didnt go as well as i planned because they were talking basically in bullet points which is opposite of what we want. THE END WORDCOUND YAY

Jackson:

This past week I completed my Shanae and Sebastian Podcast, It took much longer than I anticipated. This second semester has been focused on producing work which, also means showing our work something I struggle with because of a lack of confidence. Going into the next week we will be working on scheduling another talk with another subject and also planning for International coming up.

Asa:

Jackson:

This past week also had some stalling. Moving forward we are beginning to schedule a lot of recording times. We’ve complete ones with Shanae and Sebastian, and Tom Yoo and some other boys. Into these next weeks, we’re looking to fit in times with Jaxon Heitz and Dillon Dupont, Noa Walker, Cassidy?... We continue to grow our list of subjects. As we get into this flow I want to return to documentation on acoustics and editing. We have sufficiently encountered the problem of coordination and are dealing with it.

Asa:

This week we were chasing down possible interviewees. On Saturday we did get to record Shanae and Sebastian on the topic of being a Global Citizen, which went great but did run a little long. This week I was supposed to record Jaxon and Dillon on the topic of computers and youtube trolling, but Jaxon got Mono and couldn’t make it. I have kind of axed that interview for the time being and plan to maybe try Mrs. Humphrey or Noa Walker or both for an interview possibly Thursday.

Jackson:

Last week was spent still getting a feel for the project again. What has taken a lot of time and attention for me this week is focusing on where I want these podcasts to go as far as intention and information and how can I create something that speaks to the interests of the student body. Documentation has gone well and I have worked on furthering our development of sources and information about technical work.

Asa:

This week we planned out future recordings with Jaxon Heitz and Dillon Dupont, scheduled for this Thursday. We also recorded Alec, Jin, and Tom about being a third culture kid. Mainly it turned into Tom talking about the history of Korea, which became a little racial so we can’t use that in a podcast. Also, Noa Walker has contacted me about using the recording space and Tuesday I was supposed to show him how, but he never showed up. I will also try to schedule a podcast with him, which would be very interesting. Also, Noa says he will make songs for us to use for our intro/outro rather than having to use toll-free youtube videos.

Jackson

Asa and I are coming into this semester strong. This semester is focused on just creating content. Wha this takes is a lot of coordination with people who we want to bring on for a discussion about whatever the topic may be. Right now we need to work on editing a recording we did with some kids on being a third culture kid. Next we need to focus on creating a “theme”. One idea is exploring Identity of the students around.

Asa

Last week we got back into the swing of things. We are planning and preparing on recording and producing one podcast a week by next week. Since it is the first week of the semester it will take a little getting used to, so I did not plan any interviews. Next week we plan to follow through with our commitment and interview and edit by the end of the week. Schorn briefed us on a few potential podcast ideas that we could attack(which are written down in our notes section), possibly Thursday. Schorn is also working on putting our podcasts into the website and getting us out there.

Jackson:

These final weeks of the first semester of our project have been very full with nearly full scale production. We have created a fundamental basis in our sound knowledge, editing techniques and interviewing technique. We still have a lot of work to do in all areas though. Preparing our final presentation has show for me where our project has gone and where our project is going. We are excited to continue our work next semester.

Asa:

Jackson has been gone for the last week. We are collaborating by text to prepare for our final in the coming week. Jackson is finalizing the Barbash interview and and the Seinkiwicz interview, and I am testing out our speakers for the presentation. I have contacted Mr Oleary and he sent me a link to this photo shoot that we did early this seme

Jackson:

Last week we had our informal meeting with Mr. Ferrell and Ms. Pettys. The meeting went well I thought but there were a lot of mistakes we made what with being late and not being completely prepared. For our next meeting, we need to have a succinct and poignant pitch. On Thursday I was able to interview Mr. Barbash which went really well, It was a great experience with quality audio recording and interviewing. Going forward we are continuing to tackle editing and processing. Asana tasks:

• Listen to Fred interview

• Editing research

• Elliot Kastner interview (asa)

Week 14:

This past week I tried to finalize the Kastner podcast and schorn keeps sending it back so I will look for more things to cut out. Still playing with the EQ trying to get the AC noise to not interrupt us as much. I learned how to cut a pause out and use it for another part in the recording. Kastner speaks really quickly so this is very important for this specific interview. Jackson is leaving for the next week or so so this is what my main goal is for the break. I think we can have about 3 interviews for the final presentation.

Jackson:

Last week and continuing into this week we are completely focused on the Elliott Kastner interview, which will be submitted today at 12. From doing this interview Asa has learned a lot about GarageBand editing. I have continued to document the language and instructions of editing and equipment. I’m going to be done with that project by the end of the weekend and then it's on to experimenting with GarageBand and the equipment.

Asana:

• Listen to Fred interview

• Editing research

• Elliot Kastner interview (Asa)

Asa:

This week and weekend I pretty much wrapped up the Kassner interview, which is due on Tuesday. It sounds pretty good except we don’t really have an intro for him, like I didn’t get him to say his name so it might be tough trying to figure out what we will do. I’m thinking that maybe we can have a slideshow that can go with it to introduce him and say what’s going on, or we can record an intro on Tuesday where we introduce ourselves and Kassner.