Wednesday, 28 November 2007

Our first podcast: an interview with the coordinatior of Sandblast Festival 2007

Made by Cecilia Anesi and Modesto García Maldonado





This podcast is an edited interview with Ana Arenas, coordinator of the Sandblast Festival, made to bring the culture, music and art of the Saharawis to London, which took place the weekend of the 2 -4 of November in the RichMix centre, Bethnal Green Rd, Brick Lane.

Steps we took to create the podcast it:

1- We recorded the interview with a recorder. The file was in .amr format so through a program we turned it into mp3.

2- We edited using GarageBand a Mac software. We cut some pieces, and add a shade of Arabic music.

3- We exported the file to iTunes. During the export the file became in a .m4a format, but in order to publish a podcast on the web we had to convert it back into mp3.

We did this through a software we downloaded: Power Audio Converter.
4- Once we obtained the mp3 file we had to change the ID3 label of the file, which is, giving it a title, an artist, some comments and what you have.

5- Once this was done, we had to publish it. So we registered in www.blip.tv.
After the registration the program gives you the RSS, namely the label you have to paste on your blog's html to be able to see the podcast in your post.

6. Now we wish to add an image, thumbail, to our podcast. To add an image to our podcast, first, we have to insert the image in our blog site [insert it as "NONE" layout]. Second, we need to select 'Edit Html' mode of writing and copy the code of the picture. Once our ctrl+c is done we copy this in the label of our podcast. So we go to the podcast code and we have to look for the image label that will we as such: "src="______________.jpg" .
We delete this one, and paste the new one. End.

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