Tuesday: January 28, 2014
Because many students hadn't finished their Mock Spot Stories last week, we continued to work on them in class. I helped Briana record, edit and place together her story in the recording studios. Briana and I are familiar with each other from a previous class, and we tend to work really well together. She took such initiative today to take the mouse from my hand and edit herself, which I thought to be amazing. More and more kids seem to be less afraid of this new technology. I remember being afraid of messing my soundtracks and bites up. But that was before I knew of an "undo" button!
After Briana, Hector was ready to record so I helped him as well. I previously helped him focus his story while in class. He sounds like he has a lot of outside knowledge that he'll try to incorporate into his stories this semester. He said he worked at a radio station, or something similar, editing sound bites and things. Maybe that'll give him a leg-up this semester!
I stayed after class with Briana and Hector to have them play their stories and get a small critique from Dr. Petrich. I was so pleased to see the look on both of their faces when their stories came to an end. Briana was smiling from ear to ear, while Hector was doing the same, but made a comment about a slight stutter he made in the recording. Oh, he is a perfectionist and I see that I might have rubbed off on him already! Oh no!
During the time in which Hector was editing his Mock Story, I took some Behind the Scenes footage in the recording studio which I shared on Facebook. To view the video, please visit the Facebook page.
I also added a blurb on Facebook to see who would be our main audience this semester (as far as people who like the content) and noticed it was mostly kids who either are in Broadcast now, or are graduated. I was hoping to see some actual fans of the show outside of the University.
After class, I sent an email to my fellow Social Media Gurus and included a list of our names and tasks for updating social media each day of the week. I also attached the Approved Story Assignments for this week's show, that way we could all update each social media outlet with the most current information.
Thursday: January 30, 2014
WORKSHOP
Today was our final workshop, and it was more of a wrap-up. We discussed what we felt we needed to still learn more about, and that was the billboard. So, in between getting into groups, we tried our hand at creating the billboard.
I wrote and edited a portion of the Co-Host script to include the tag lines for liking and following South Florida Journal on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Vine. I think that will be a vital portion of the show where a listener will recognize that we are becoming more social media friendly, and that soon we will be fully involved in it all.
I also wrote a promo for Facebook to be used the next week, and recorded a similar version for Owl Radio. Nikki and I sent an email to Owl Radio Station Manager, Anastacia. I'm excited to be teaming up with Owl Radio. I think that this will boost listener audiences! If only I could walk through the breezeway where this will be playing and hear my voice. That would be so cool.
I conducted a Social Media Team meeting in class today, and we discussed who would update what media platform each time we meet for class. We decided that we want to split up the roles of updating Facebook, Twitter, Vine and Instagram
I made sure to post a photo of some of the team on the Facebook page (pictured below).
Just for a new fresh vibe on the Facebook page, I uploaded a video that shows that the A-Team really is a family who still is young at heart and likes to joke around. Kadeem transitions his voice for a segment with South Florida Journal. To view the video, go to the South Florida Journal Facebook page.
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