Recording the broadcast was more fun than I anticipated it would be. The initial recording session that my partner and I had, went by rather smoothly other than the verbal blunders which came with reading the script and feeling pressured once the recording button was hit. Having someone with you while you were recording made it both easier, and harder, because while you were not forced to speak for fifteen minutes straight, it was a lengthier podcast which made editing take longer. During the editing process a few of those clips were lost and had to be re-recorded, ending up in an all-nighter for myself, which led to an interesting night of cutting and pasting.
If I had more time I would take the opportunity to record and edit as much of the mistakes made on the initial day as possible out of the audio files as soon as they were recorded because they took the most time in the editing process to find, and if one was left by mistake, it took another half an hour to sort the remaining audio files back into the rhythm they had been in before. I would also have practiced saying the transcript more, and recorded in longer segments which would also have made it easier.
One piece of advice that I would offer a student of this course would be to record at least two weeks before it was due, because as what happened with us and the missing audio, things can go wrong, and if you record it earlier it gives you enough time to correct those mistakes to the best of your ability.
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