Overall Review

Admittedly my podcast Hasn't quite turned out how I thought it would. The have been a few changes due to circumstance and access difficulties which I mentioned earlier in my blog. However After tweaking a few things and making the final adjustments so that the transitions run smoothly, the podcast gives a short snapshot into the life of and countryman working with the Hunt. It educates the audience about what the responsibilities are of the huntsman and how the ban has affected them.  

Paper Edit

1. Spring day sound
2. Fox Howling
3. Hunting horn
4. Hounds
5. Horses galloping
6. Tally-ho call
7. My Introduction and Introducing Mark
8. Mark command
9. Mark Talking about training the hounds
10. Mark talking about the hunts
11. Hunting Horn
12. My narration of the Point to Point and introduction of Andrew
13. Atmosphere of the Drinking Tent
14. Commentator of the Race
15. Andrew talking about the Point to Point
16. Horses Clearing a hurdle
17. Mark Importance of the Point to Point and the community 
18. Point to point finish line of a race
19. Hunting Horn
20. My experience with working with the hounds
21. Gate opening
22. The hounds
23. Horses walking and women chatting
24. Mark talking about women's roles
25. Andrew Talking about women's roles
26. Hunting horn
27. Mark talking about ignorance
28. Hunting horn
29. My perception of the ban
30. Protesters at a meet
31. News headline - 8 years on...
32. News headline - the ban
33. News headline - Money Spent
34. David Cameron Statement 
35. Protesters shouting
36. Marks experience with Anti's 
37. Protesters Shouting abuse
38. My ending statement

Narration

After listening to Lee's feedback, I went back into the audio booth to record more of my own narration, I decided to talk about my experiences with the different aspects of Hunting life, for example what it was like when I worked at the kennels when I went to interview Mark as well as the point to point.
Also after reviewing my ending I decided it may be more powerful if I ended the podcast myself with a defining statement.
This also help me address the other concerns that Lee raised, by adding more narration I was able to give further insight into women's roles with in hunting and why it is like that.

Review with Lee

List of aspects to think about and improve

• Introduce the Characters and Location - The audience don't know who the characters are or where they are. By introducing them it makes the Podcast easier to follow.
• Marks Comment about a 'Strong girl' may seem sexist
• When talking about women's roles Andrews comments about the 'petticoats' seem dismissive, there needs to to be more on women's roles. 
• There needs to be more of my own voice with in it to give it more direction. Will help with splitting up the male voices.  

Music, or the lack of.

Something that I have been up in the air about with my podcast is the the use of music. When music is used in a podcast, it is there to provoke emotion. My aim for my podcast is not to pull on heart strings it is to reveal realities, so I decided that the use of music within it would take away from what I am attempting to do. After creating soundscapes and sound art, it would sound cluttered with music as well.

Editing - Sound Art

After Attempting sound art as a test at the start of the term, although I was not confident enough to choose it as my topic it was something that I wanted to incorporate within my podcast. A theme that is approached in my podcast is the idea that society have made their choices about fox hunting through the media and the popular choice. I wanted to represent this through sound art by having a short blur of news headlines and protests that have previously been published and seen by the public. By doing this my podcast is making an example of the activists and exposing their hatred.

Editing- Soundscapes

As radio is a blind medium, and my Podcast is made up of interviews, it is important that I create what is happening with sounds. For my hook, I am creating a what seems like a peaceful spring day which is then interrupted with the calling cry of a fox, which is followed by the sounds associated with hunting, to create the picture of a hunting field. This will draw the listener in to the podcast wanting to hear more.

The majority of my interviews with Mark have the background noise of the kennels with the dogs backing, and working machinery in the background. However the interviews with Andrew and my narration are done in a quite office and the audio booths, therefore I need to use the sound that I have sourced to illustrate what is being said.

Editing- High Frequency

When editing the interview I did with mark in his office, there was a high frequency in the background the whole way through the interview, I had to fiddle around a lot with the Graphic Equalizer and the Parametric Equalizer to find a compromise with the noise and alienating his voice. Although the technicality of the sound isn't perfect, by locating it in the kennels the listeners relate the echoing with the sound of the kennels.