Broadcast Media, The Story So Far..

During this semester, our focus has been solely on sound and audio. We have been mainly concentrating on the manipulation, recording and editing and we have done many activities and exercises to practice them. I had never had any experience with sound editing previous to this course, and to be honest, it was the video and film that first interested me to applying for this course. But during this first semester i have enjoyed learning how to edit and manipulate sound and specifically enjoyed doing my Soundscape, which i was able to record some sound for too.
One of the toughest tasks I've had to do so far was editing some sound to go with picture for a short movie entitled Bodil, in which we were given the audio, but scrambled versions, so we had to edit and rearrange according to the video.

I also enjoyed working on the radio project and i am quite interested in taking a more in depth look at radio, for the future. But so far, i feel that the soundscape was the most enjoyable. I believe this is because i was able to complete it completely from scratch and we had larger boundaries for what we were allowed to create.

I have enjoyed visits to both the BBC and Endemol, where we were able to see how two different types of television shows are run from behind the scenes and i found it a great revelation into the workplace and was able to see a huge multitude of different jobs that i might like to be researching or concentrating on.

Previous to the course, i had also never really followed news in the media, only that of films and computer gaming. But i think that this semester i have enjoyed looking deeper into the media stories of today, and enjoyed trying to create predictions for the future which are near impossible, because nobody yet, knows the limits of how advanced we can get.

My experiences from working with audio have gone from literally nothing to having created a short radio program, edited sound to a film and created my own atmospheric piece and i think that i have gained a good start on the technical side of sound, aswell as a much greater knowledge on the media today.